Reichstag constituency district of Königsberg 5

The constituency of the German Reich.

The Reichstag constituency province of East Prussia - administrative district Königsberg 5 (constituency 5; constituency Heiligenbeil-Preußisch Eylau ) was a constituency for the Reichstag elections in the German Empire and in the North German Confederation from 1867 to 1918.

Constituency layout

The constituency comprised the district of Heiligenbeil and the district of Preußisch Eylau .

Population development

year	Residents
1890	97,659
1895	98.191
1900	94.903
1905	93,416
1910	92.015

Professional men

	Agriculture	Industry and commerce	Trade and services
1895	77.7	14.8	7.5
1907	75.0	15.9	9.2

Denomination

	Evangelical	Catholic
1890	96.9	1.7
1905	96.2	2.2
1910	95.5	2.8

MPs

choice	MP	Political party	image
Reichstag election February 1867 to 1874	Willibald von Kalckstein	Conservative Party	0
Reichstag election 1874 to 1877	Otto Lobach	NLP	0
Reichstag election 1877 to 1881	Alfred von Tettau	Conservative	0
Reichstag elections 1881 to 1884	Heinrich von Schirmeister	Liberal Association
Reichstag election 1884 to 1893	Alfred von Tettau	Conservative	0
Reichstag election 1893 to 1903	Louis von der Groeben	German Conservative Party	0
Reichstag election 1903 to 1912	Carl von Elern	German Conservative Party	0
Reichstag election 1912 to 1918	Georg Frommer	German Conservative Party

elections

1867 (February)

There was only one ballot.

candidate	Political party	be right	in %	Remarks
Willibald von Kalckstein	Conservative	9837	0	0

1867 (August)

There was only one ballot.

candidate	Political party	be right	in %	Remarks
Willibald von Kalckstein	Conservative	6517	0	0

1871

There was only one ballot.

candidate	Political party	be right	in %	Remarks
Willibald von Kalckstein	Conservative	4683	0	0
	NLP	2159	0	0
Others	0	46	0	0

1874

There was only one ballot.

candidate	Political party	be right	in %	Remarks
	Conservative	3466	0	0
Otto Lobach	NLP	4177	0	0
Others	0	38	0	0

1877

There was only one ballot.

candidate	Political party	be right	in %	Remarks
Alfred von Tettau	Conservative	4019	0	0
	NLP	220	0	0
	F.	3158	0	0
Others	0	72	0	0

1878

There was only one ballot.

candidate	Political party	be right	in %	Remarks
Alfred von Tettau	Conservative	5232	0	0
	NLP	123	0	0
	F.	3755	0	0
Others	0	74	0	0

1881

There was only one ballot.

candidate	Political party	be right	in %	Remarks
	Conservative	4614	0	0
Heinrich von Schirmeister	Liberal Association	5324	0	0
	Z	126	0	0
Others	0	86	0	0

1884

There was only one ballot. The number of eligible voters was 19,132 and the number of votes cast was 10,797, of which 24 were invalid. The turnout was 56.5%.

candidate	Political party	be right	in %	Remarks
Alfred von Tettau	Conservative	6787	0	0
	F.	3995	0	0
Others	0	15th	0	0

1887

There was only one ballot. The number of eligible voters was 19,343 and the number of votes cast 110,744, of which 38 were invalid. The turnout was 60.9%.

candidate	Political party	be right	in %	Remarks
Alfred von Tettau	Conservative	9359	0	0
	F.	2359	0	0
Others	0	26th	0	0

1890

The cartel parties agreed on a conservative candidate. There was only one ballot. The number of eligible voters was 18,877 and the number of votes cast in the first ballot was 9597, of which 75 were invalid. The turnout was 50.8%.

candidate	Political party	be right	in %	Remarks
Dulz	DF	2028	21.3	0
Alfred von Tettau	conservative	6974	73.2	0
Carl Schultze	SPD	461	4.9	0
Others	0	59	0.6	0

1893

The conservative candidate Groebe was also supported by the BdL. There was only one ballot. The number of eligible voters was 18,893 and the number of votes cast in the first ballot 11,145, of which 94 were invalid. The turnout was 59.0%.

candidate	Political party	be right	in %	Remarks
Dulz	DF	1730	15.6	0
Louis von der Groeben	conservative	8664	78.4	0
Carl Schultze	SPD	583	5.3	0
Others	0	74	0.7	0

1898

The conservative candidate Groebe was also supported by the BdL. NLP FVP and FVg support the national liberal candidate. There was only one ballot. The number of eligible voters was 18,999 and the number of votes cast in the first ballot 9,420, of which 70 were invalid. The turnout was 49.6%.

candidate	Political party	be right	in %	Remarks
Louis von der Groben	conservative	5836	62.4	0
Leweck	NLP	1715	18.3	0
Hugo Haase	SPD	1654	17.7	0
Fast	SPD	57	0.6	0
brown	SPD	30th	0.3	0
Others	0	74	0.7	0

1903

The conservative candidate Carl von Elern was also supported by the BdL. There was only one ballot. The number of eligible voters was 18,771 and the number of votes cast in the first ballot 12,392, of which 88 were invalid. The turnout was 66.0%.

candidate	Political party	be right	in %	Remarks
Zielke	FVP	1873	15.2	0
Carl von Elern	conservative	8252	67.1	0
Leweck	NLP	1715	18.3	0
Hugo Haase	SPD	2090	17.0	0
brown	SPD	28	0.2	0
Others	0	41	0.3	0

1907

The conservative candidate Elern was also supported by the BdL. NLP and FVP agreed on a free-thinking candidate. There was only one ballot. The number of eligible voters was 18,823 and the number of votes cast in the first ballot 14,940, of which 54 were invalid. The turnout was 79.4%.

candidate	Political party	be right	in %	Remarks
Zielke	FVP	1897	12.8	0
Carl von Elern	conservative	12,148	81.6	0
Hugo Haase	SPD	773	5.2	0
cancer	center	61	0.4	0
Others	0	7th	0.0	0

1912

The conservative candidate Georg Frommer was also supported by the BdL. NLP, FVg and FoVP agreed on a free-thinking candidate. There was only one ballot. The number of eligible voters was 18,988 and the number of votes cast in the first ballot 15,434, of which 24 were invalid. The turnout was 81.3%.

candidate	Political party	be right	in %	Remarks
Zielke	FoVP	6748	43.8	0
Georg Frommer	conservative	7941	51.5	0
Theodor Hartwig	SPD	694	4.5	0
Others	0	27	0.2	0

literature

• Carl-Wilhelm Reibel: Handbook of the Reichstag elections 1890-1918, 1st half volume, 2007, ISBN 978-3-7700-5284-4 , pp. 20-22.
• Fritz Specht: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903: statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives, 2nd edition 1904, p. 4.