Reich election proposal
The Reich election proposal was a special feature of the Weimar Republic's electoral law ; its name was retained in the time of National Socialism . This is a list of candidates from a party. This Reich-wide list was linked to the lists of the constituencies (district election proposals).
Weimar Republic
At the beginning of the Weimar Republic , the empire was divided into 35 constituencies . As a rule, one party submitted a list (“district election proposal”) in each constituency. A shop steward and his deputy had to be named in each constituency nomination. The shop steward or his deputy could declare that the remaining votes in the district election proposal were to be attributed to a Reich election proposal ("declaration of affiliation"). Usually each party put forward a national election proposal and all district election proposals of the party were attached to this. But it was also possible to join district election proposals from different parties to the same Reich election proposal. So were z. For example, in the Reichstag election on March 5, 1933, the district election proposals of the German State Party (DStP) joined the Reich election proposal of the SPD, which in return placed DStP applicants on its Reich election proposal .
During the Weimar Republic there was no five percent hurdle . As a result, up to 17 parties had a seat in the Reichstag .
The 35 constituencies were grouped into 16 constituency associations, which with one exception each comprised two or three constituencies. District election proposals for constituencies of the same constituency association could be linked by mutual declarations by the confidants ("declaration of association"). A connection was only possible between district election proposals that were either none or all of the same Reich election proposal.
time of the nationalsocialism
Shortly after the Socialist Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick was banned from operating the SPD as a “party hostile to the state and the people” (June 22, 1933) , all parties disbanded themselves. On July 14, 1933, the law against the formation of new parties followed .
In the three other “elections” for the Reichstag carried out during the Nazi era , only members of the NSDAP and a few non-party members who were referred to as “guests” took part. At the end of 1938 there was a supplementary election for the Sudetenland to the Reichstag election in April .
On January 25, 1943, Hitler extended the electoral term of the Reichstag by law until January 30, 1947. Therefore, there were no further polls before the end of the war .
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Individual evidence
- ^ Alfred Schulze: The right to vote in the Reichstag . 2nd edition, published by Reimar Hobbing, Berlin 1924, pp. 123/124.