Provincial Estates (Denmark)

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The four Provincial Estates Assemblies ( Danish : Provinsialstænderforsamlinger ) of the entire Danish state were arranged as an advisory body as a result of the July Revolution of 1830 on May 28, 1831 . The introduction of a state constitution was anchored in Article 13 of the German Federal Act of 1815. The Danish king, who as a Holstein duke was also a member of the German Confederation , finally complied with this request in 1831. However, not only an assembly of estates was established for the national Holstein (including Lauenburg ), but also one each for the Danish fiefdom of Schleswig, North Jutland and the Danish islands. The model was the Prussian provincial estates .

Structure of the meetings of the estates

Two provincial estates were formed in the Kingdom of Denmark itself, two more in the duchies , which were in personal union with the Danish royal family.

Royal Danish Estates Assemblies:

Ducal assemblies of estates:

Only landowners had the right of representation , with leaseholders being treated on an equal footing with the owners. The age for the active right to vote was 25, for the passive right to vote 30 years. About 32,000 people had the right to vote. The state assemblies represented about 2.8% of the total population.

The provincial estates should advise on legislative procedures. They should be heard, especially in the event of interference with personal or property rights. However, their practical influence was limited. The absolutist rights of the king ( Kongeloven ) were not curtailed.

In 1846 the assemblies of the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein , which were dominated by German national liberals , dissolved in protest against Christian VIII's admission of female succession .

In Holstein and Lauenburg as a German fiefdom, male succession was valid. In the absence of male descendants of the king, Holstein would have fallen to the German-minded Christian August von Augustenburg . In order not to endanger the existence of the entire Danish state, the London Protocol of 1852 legitimized female succession in all three duchies.

In the course of the Schleswig-Holstein survey of 1848, the provincial estates were effectively abolished by the Schleswig-Holstein constitution of June 5, 1849.

The provincial estates from the period from 1835/36 to 1846 were restored by the king after the collapse of the Schleswig-Holstein uprising against Denmark in 1848–1851 and came together again from 1853 to 1863.

See also

literature

  • Friederike Hagemeyer: Prussian provincial estates as a model for Denmark . Comparison of Prussian class legislation from 1823/24 with the provincial class laws for the Kingdom of Denmark from 1831/34. In: JGMODtl . No. 38 , 1989, pp. 199 .
  • SHG: History of Schleswig-Holstein. From the beginning to the present . Ed .: Ulrich Lange. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1996, ISBN 3-529-02440-6 .
  • Ulrich Lange: On the 150th anniversary of the Holstein meeting of the estates . Ed .: President of the Schleswig-Holstein State Parliament. 1985.
  • Klaus Volquartz: On the 150th anniversary of the Schleswig Assembly of Estates . April 11, 1836 - Schleswig - April 11, 1986. Husum 1986, ISBN 3-88042-319-9 .
  • Stand meetings in Schleswig and Itzehoe
  • Ceremony for 175 years of the Schleswig State Assembly ( Memento from February 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Verassungen.eu Royal Decree, the arrangement of provincial estates in the Kingdom of Denmark from 1831
  2. ↑ verfassungen.de General law on the arrangement of provincial estates in the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein from 1831
  3. ^ Verassungen.eu § 1 of the Royal Decree on the arrangement of provincial estates in the Kingdom of Denmark
  4. ↑ verfassungen.de § 1 of the general law on the arrangement of provincial estates in the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein