Provincial Parliament of the Province of East Prussia

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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

Country house

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.

Chair of the Provincial Parliament

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

  1. ↑ 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
  2. ^ Law on the elections to the provincial and district parliaments of December 3, 1920
  3. ↑ GS p. 443
  4. ^ Election law for the provincial and district assemblies of October 7, 1925
  5. ↑ GS. P. 257
  6. ↑ GS, p. 477, Art. II (3)
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ 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