Schleswig-Holstein Community

The Schleswig-Holstein Community (SHG) was a political association that was founded in 1950 and, together with the German Party, formed the Schleswig-Holstein Block (SHB), which won 5.1 percent of the vote in the 1954 state elections in Schleswig-Holstein moved into the state parliament, but received only 2.8 percent of the vote in the 1958 election . After that, the SHG gradually dissolved.

history

The creation of the Schleswig-Holstein Community was a reaction to the extraordinarily strong influence of the refugee party Bund der Heimatgeweiterigen und Disrechteten (BHE) in the state, which had achieved 23.4 percent of the vote in the state elections in 1950 and, together with the CDU and the with the parties that were allied in this ballot, the FDP and DP, formed the state government. Schleswig-Holstein was the federal state with the highest proportion of refugees. In 1939 it had a population of 1.6 million, in 1949 it was 2.7 million. Political observers had predicted that after a refugee party was founded, a local party would be formed. The founding of the SHG, however, was also directed against the strengthening of the Danish-oriented South Schleswig voter association (SSW) in the northern part of the country .

The impetus for founding the SHG was provided by the former leader of the rural people movement , Wilhelm Hamkens , who on October 29, 1950 at an old Thingstätte together with 36 Eiderstedtern founded the Eiderstedter Community , of which he became the spokesman. As a result, action committees were formed in several circles for the establishment of a local association. On November 18, 1950, 500 people finally founded the Schleswig-Holstein Community at a meeting in Rendsburg . Richard Schenck became chairman , Hamkens became his deputy.

For the state elections in 1954, the DP ended its cooperation with the CDU and came together with the SHG. After internal organizational disputes, Wilhelm Jürgensen became SHG chairman in 1954 and also moved into the Kiel state parliament for the Schleswig-Holstein block (SHB). The second member of the SHG state parliament was Detlef Hartz , the other two members of the SHB parliamentary group, Peter Ludwig Petersen and Otto Eisenmann , came from the German party. The Eiderstedter community did not participate in the formation of the electoral bloc.

literature

• Thomas Schäfer: The Schleswig-Holstein Community 1950–1958, Neumünster 1987, ISBN 3-52-90219-2-X

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cf. Thomas Schäfer: Die Schleswig-Holsteinische Gemeinschaft 1950–1958, Neumünster 1987, p. 95.
2. ↑ When he became a member of the Bundestag in 1957, Heinrich Matzen moved up on the SHB list .