Provincial Parliament of the Province of East Prussia
The provincial parliament of the province of East Prussia was the representative body of East Prussia from 1878 to 1933. Its seat was Königsberg .
history
The Province of Prussia existed until 1878 with the Provincial Parliament of the Province of Prussia . In 1878 the province was divided into West and East Prussia. The Provincial Parliament of the Province of East Prussia and the Provincial Administration of East Prussia were therefore set up for East Prussia . On June 13, 1877, the delegates from West and East Prussia agreed on the modalities of the division. The first purely East Prussian provincial assembly met from April 2 to 6, 1878. Subsequently, it met annually, although according to the law it only had to meet every two years. A provincial committee was elected for the time between the state parliaments and met about 12 times a year.
In the Weimar Republic
After the November Revolution, local elections were held for the first time in February 1919 in free and equal elections. From these elections, the SPD emerged as the strongest force. In accordance with the due by-elections in the provincial parliament, its composition changed significantly. The representatives of Memel and Memel-Land lost their seats as a result of the Treaty of Versailles.
The "Law on the Elections to the District Councils and Provincial Parliaments" of December 3, 1920 introduced direct election of the members of the Provincial Parliament. The initially 86 then 87 seats were distributed according to the number of inhabitants to the three administrative districts of Gumbinnen, Königsberg and Allenstein. The elections were conducted as free and equal elections according to proportional representation. The parties submitted district lists. In the evaluation, these were added together at the administrative district level and the seats per party and administrative district were distributed according to proportional representation. The seats of each party in the administrative district were then given to the candidates who received the highest number of votes on their constituency list. This led to a disadvantage for the small circles and to the fact that the representative of the circle did not have to come from the ranks of the strongest parties there.
After the establishment of the Polish corridor , the former West Prussian administrative district of Marienwerder was partially annexed to the province of East Prussia on July 1, 1922 , together with some districts from the former administrative district of Danzig ( Elbing and Marienburg ) as the administrative district of West Prussia with its headquarters in Marienwerder. Correspondingly, the provincial parliament of the province of East Prussia was supplemented by the law on the voting rights of the provincial parliament members of West Prussian circles in the provincial parliament of the province of East Prussia of 23 July 1921 to include the members of these areas. The electoral law for the provincial and district assemblies of October 7, 1925 only led to minor changes. From 1925 the provincial parliament had 87 members.
Seizure of power and end of the provincial assembly
The seizure of power by the National Socialists in 1933 also meant the end of the Provincial Parliament. With the law on the transfer of competences of the provincial (municipal) state parliaments, ... to the provincial (state) committees, .. of July 17, 1933, the provincial parliament lost its tasks, with the law on the expansion of Powers of the Upper President (Upper President Law) of December 15, 1933 were regulated: "The Provincial Parliament, Provincial Committees and Provincial Commissions will be dissolved. A new formation will not take place."
elections
Results of the provincial state elections in Prussia # East Prussia
Seat
The provincial parliament of East Prussia had its seat in Königsberg in the state house, which the state building officer Krah built in 1878 in the park of the Dönhoffschen Grund. The building was destroyed in the British air raids on Königsberg in late August 1944.
Personalities
MPs
For the MPs see the category: Member of the Provincial Parliament of East Prussia and the lists of MPs.
- List of members of the Provincial Parliament of the Province of East Prussia (1919–1920)
- List of members of the Provincial Parliament of the Province of East Prussia (1921–1925)
- List of members of the Provincial Parliament of the Province of East Prussia (1925–1929)
- List of members of the Provincial Parliament of the Province of East Prussia (1929–1933)
- List of the members of the Provincial Parliament of the Province of East Prussia (1933)
Chair of the Provincial Parliament
- Kurt von Saucken-Tarputschen 1877–1878 (chairman of the representatives of East Prussia in the still common state parliament)
- Friedrich von Berg (1919–1932)
- Erich Koch (1933)
Prussian State Council
The Provincial Parliament of the Province of Pomerania elected five members of the Prussian State Council in the Weimar Republic . These were:
No. | MP | Political party | Term of office | Representative | Political party | Term of office |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Baron Wilhelm von Gayl | AG | May 1921 to April 1933 |
Gerhard von Negenborn Paul Firley Erich Berneick |
AG AG WP |
May 1921 to February 1926 February 1926 to January 1930 January 1930 to April 1933 |
1 | Hans Schreiber | NSDAP | April to July 10, 1933 | Adolf Kuhlemann | NSDAP | April to July 10, 1933 |
2 | Felix Heumann | AG | May 1921 to January 1930 | Dr. Ernst Hoffmann Max von Ruperti |
AG AG |
May 1921 to February 1926 February 1926 to January 1930 |
2 | Erich Fuss | AG | January 1930 to April 1933 | Horst von Restorff | AG | January 1930 to April 1933 |
2 | Dr. Hans-Bernhard von Grünberg | NSDAP | April to July 10, 1933 | Count Bogislav von Dönhoff | NSDAP | April to July 10, 1933 |
3 | Paul Küßner | center | May 1921 to February 1926 | Hubert Hönnekes | center | May 1921 to February 1926 |
3 | Horst von Restorff | AG | February 1926 to January 1930 | Gerhard von Negenborn | AG | February 1926 to January 1930 |
3 | Felix Heumann | AG | January 1930 to June 9, 1932 † | Dr. Paul Stettiner | AG | January 1930 to June 23, 1932 |
3 | Dr. Paul Stettiner | AG | June 23, 1932 to April 1933 | Max von Ruperti | AG | June 23, 1932 to April 1933 |
3 | Hans Krause | NSDAP | April to July 10, 1933 | Ernst Speidel | NSDAP | April to July 10, 1933 |
4th | Gustav Neumann | SPD | May 1921 to February 1926 | Willy Scholz | SPD | May 1921 to February 1926 |
4th | Albert Borowski | SPD | February 1926 to January 1930 | Curt Immisch | DDP | February 1926 to January 1930 |
4th | Friedrich Larßen | SPD | January 1930 to March 20, 1932 | August Quallo | SPD | January 1930 to May 20, 1932 |
4th | August Quallo | SPD | May 20, 1932 to April 1933 | Max Wardin | SPD | May 20, 1932 to April 1933 |
4th | Erich Fuchs | NSDAP | April to July 10, 1933 | Waldemar Braun | NSDAP | April to July 10, 1933 |
5 | Friedrich Seemann | SPD | February 1926 to January 23, 1928 | Gustav Sauf | KPD | February 1926 to January 26, 1928 |
5 | Gustav Sauf | KPD | January 26, 1928 to January 1930 | kN | ||
5 | Albert Borowski | SPD | January 1930 to April 1933 |
Curt Immisch Franz Donalies |
DStP SPD |
January 1930 to March 31, 1931 † April 27, 1931 to April 1933 |
5 | Erich Zerahn | NSDAP | April to July 10, 1933 | Anton Lingk | center | April to July 10, 1933 |
Reichsrat
Not the Provincial Parliament of the Province of East Prussia directly, but the Provincial Committee elected by it elected a member of the Reichsrat in the Weimar Republic . This was Wilhelm von Gayl (DNVP) from 1921 to 1933 .
literature
- Peter Baumgart, Gerd Heinrich (Ed.): Administrative history of East Germany 1815 - 1945: Organization - Tasks - Services of the administration, 1993, ISBN 3170113380 , p. 168 ff.
- Norbert Korfmache: Provisional list of members of the East Prussian Provincial Parliament 1919 to 1933, 2018, digitized
Web link
Individual evidence
- ↑ Agreement between the representatives of East and West Prussia concern the division of the Province of Prussia of June 13, 1877; Extra supplement to the Official Gazette No. 49, digitized version
- ^ Law on the elections to the provincial and district parliaments of December 3, 1920
- ↑ GS p. 443
- ^ Election law for the provincial and district assemblies of October 7, 1925
- ↑ GS. P. 257
- ↑ GS, p. 477, Art. II (3)
- ^ Joachim Lilla : The Prussian State Council 1921-1933. A biographical manual. With a documentation of the State Councilors appointed in the “Third Reich” (= manuals on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 13). Droste, Düsseldorf 2005, ISBN 3-7700-5271-4 , p. 273.
- ^ Helmut Klaus: The dualism of Prussia versus Reich in the Weimar Republic in politics and administration; Volume 3 of studies on cultural and legal history, ISSN 1861-5929, 2006, ISBN 9783936999235 , p. 74, digitized