President of the Reichstag (Weimar Republic)

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Paul Löbe was President of the Reichstag for eleven years with an interruption.

The President of the Reichstag was a political office in the Weimar Republic . The office was created in accordance with Art. 26 S2 of the Weimar Constitution of the Reichstag . The President was elected by the Members of the House on the proposal of the largest political group. The president remained in office until a successor was elected. An office with the same name already existed in the North German Confederation and in the German Empire .

tasks

One of the tasks was to organize the right of self-government of the Reichstag. At the request of the Reich President or a third of the deputies, the Reichstag President had to convene the plenary session. The office was supported by three vice-presidents, the secretary and the council of elders.

Public officials

Period Surname Political party
1920 to 1924 Paul Löbe SPD
1924 to 1925 Max Wallraf DNVP
1925 to 1932 Paul Löbe SPD
1932 to 1933/1945 Hermann Goering NSDAP

The social democrat Paul Löbe was the first president of the Reichstag. On June 25, 1920, he was elected for the first time with 397 of 420 votes and remained in office until the election of the German national Max Wallraf on May 28, 1924. Wallraf was only briefly in office until he was replaced on January 7, 1925 by his predecessor Paul Löbe. In his second election, Löbe received 231 votes. In 1932 Hermann Göring succeeded Paul Löbe. Löbe remained in the office of Vice President until 1933.

Official seat

The official and residence was the Reichstag President's Palace , which is on the east side of the Reichstag building on the banks of the Spree in Berlin . Since the Weimar Republic, the building has also served as a forum for political debates. The palace remained the official seat until the end of the Weimar Republic, so that Göring was the last President of Parliament to live there.

literature

  • Paul Löbe: Memories of a Reichstag President . Arani 1949

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christoph Gusy: The Weimar Imperial Constitution . Mohr Siebeck, 1997, ISBN 978-3-16-146818-6 .
  2. ↑ http://www.fes.de/archiv/adsd_neu/inhalt/stichwort/loebe.htm