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Schleswig party
Schleswig party logo
Party leader Carsten Leth Schmidt
founding 1920
Place of foundation Tinglev
Headquarters Aabenraa
Youth association Young tips
Electoral list S.
Sit in the Folketing 0
European party European Free Alliance (EFA)
www.schleswigsche-partei.dk
VW Beetle with the logo of the party

The Schleswigsche Party (SP) ( Danish Slesvigsk Parti ) is the political representation of the German minority in Northern Schleswig .

The Schleswig party takes on as a regional party in North Schleswig . It is committed to promoting the German ethnic group as well as strengthening the entire Schleswig / South Jutland region. Another focus is the deepening of cross-border and European cooperation. Officially, the party cannot be classified on any left-right scale ; but it could be described as bourgeois - socially liberal . The core electorate includes farmers and medium-sized entrepreneurs.

The youth federation of the Schleswig party are the young top .

Local elections

After the regional reform came into force on January 1, 2007, North Schleswig is divided into only four large municipalities. Larger municipal units could make electoral success more difficult, it was initially said.

local community 2005 2009 2013 2017
Aabenraa 5.9% 6.8% 8.5% 6.1%
Hadersleben 1.4% 2.1% 2.7% 2.2%
Sonderburg 2.0% 3.8% 7.8% 13.3%
Tondern 4.4% 4.9% 7.5% 5.8%

After the municipal elections in 2013, the SP was represented in the municipal councils of Tondern and Sønderborg with three seats each, in Aabenraa with two seats and in Hadersleben with one seat. All four councils each have a total of 31 seats. The 2017 election brought significant gains in Sønderborg and losses in the other three municipalities.

Before 2009

In the election to the Council of the Office of South Jutland (Sønderjyllands Amtsråd) 2001, the party achieved 4,417 votes and one mandate.

In the 2001-2005 electoral term, the SP was represented in five of the 23 municipalities in North Schleswig: Tinglev (Tingleff) , Tønder (Tondern) , Højer Sogn (Hojer) , Aabenraa (Aabenraa) and Løgumkloster (Lügumkloster) .

In Sønderborg the mandate was secured in 2005 through a list connection with the social-liberal radical Venstre and the Centrum-Demokraterne . The SP deputy Stephan Kleinschmidt was later elected chairman of the culture committee, which attracted a certain amount of attention, as no member of the German minority has held such an office.

In Hadersleben, the SP achieved 443 votes (1.4%) in 2005, which was not enough for a regular mandate. However, the party achieved an extraordinary mandate because of the minority suffrage. Such an extra mandate is granted if the representative of the German minority receives at least a quarter of the number of votes of the last normal mandate (through the D'Hondt procedure ). The extra mandate is officially called an "associate member" ( tilforendet medlem ). It does not have the right to vote, but has full speaking rights and is entitled to the usual allowance. It also has a seat on a committee of its own choosing. For comparison, the radical Venstre was not represented with 502 votes (1.6%) in Hadersleben municipal council.

Region elections

The SP did not take part in elections for the regional representation of the region of Southern Denmark in 2005, 2009 and 2013 because it assessed its voter potential as too low.

2013 2017
percent n / A 0.8
Seats n / A 0

National Parliament

From 1920 to 1943 and again from 1953 to 1964 the party was represented by a member of the Danish Folketing Parliament. The following results were achieved in the Folketing elections:

choice be right Voting share MP
September 21, 1920 7,505 0.6% Johannes Schmidt-Wodder
April 11, 1924 7,715 0.6% Johannes Schmidt-Wodder
December 2, 1926 10,222 0.8% Johannes Schmidt-Wodder
April 24, 1929 9,787 0.7% Johannes Schmidt-Wodder
November 16, 1932 9,868 0.6% Johannes Schmidt-Wodder
October 22, 1935 12,617 0.8% Johannes Schmidt-Wodder
April 3, 1939 15,016 0.9% Jens Möller
1943, not started in 1945
October 28, 1947 7,464 0.4%
5th September 1950 6,406 0.3%
April 21, 1953 8,348 0.4%
September 22, 1953 9,721 0.5% Hans Schmidt-Oxbüll
May 14, 1957 9,202 0.4% Hans Schmidt-Oxbüll
November 15, 1960 9,058 0.4% Hans Schmidt-Oxbüll
September 22, 1964 9,274 0.4%
Not started in 1966
January 23, 1968 6,831 0.2%
September 21, 1971 6,743 0.2%

From 1971, the party no longer ran for parliamentary elections. From 1973 to 1979, however, one could send a member ( Jes Schmidt ) to the Folketing who was elected from the list of the Centrum-Demokraterne party. This collaboration ended when Centrum-Demokraterne rejected a new candidate because of his past in the Waffen SS .

Status as a representative of the German minority

Since the SP's number of votes was no longer sufficient for representation in the Folketing from the 1960s onwards, the Contact Committee for the German minority was set up in the Folketing in 1965 . Since 1983 there has also been a government-sponsored secretariat for the German minority in Copenhagen.

In order to enable the SP's counterpart in southern Schleswig , the SSW , to enter the state parliament of Schleswig-Holstein , the SSW was exempted from the five percent threshold in state elections after the negotiations on the Bonn-Copenhagen declarations . For a mandate in the Kiel state parliament, the SSW must unite around 25,000 votes today. Formally, the SP is not exempted in the same way from the two percent threshold clause in folk elections. Such a special regulation could be dispensed with because the Danish electoral system distinguishes between electoral district mandates and (nationwide) supplementary mandates. The threshold clause only applies to the granting of the latter; in the 2011 election it was equivalent to around 70,000 votes. However, North Schleswig is united in its own constituency. To obtain a district mandate here, only about 12,000 votes would be required. This would correspond to a share of the vote of 8 percent in North Schleswig or 0.35% nationwide.

In order to be allowed to run in a Folketing election, a party not represented in parliament has to submit as many declarations of support from eligible voters as would be necessary on average for a list mandate (currently around 20,000). The Schleswig party is exempt from this regulation.

See also minority voting rights

history

After Northern Schleswig was handed over to Denmark, the Schleswig voters' association was founded in the summer of 1920 . Pastor Johannes Schmidt-Wodder was elected chairman . On August 18, 1920, the policy was published. Central demands were a renewed border revision and the self-administration of the German part of the population in church, school and "all national affairs".

In the first Folketing election after the referendum on September 21, 1920, the electoral association took part in the election under the name of the Schleswig Party and obtained a mandate.

In 1935 the organization of the German minority was brought into line by the National Socialists . As NSDAP-Nordschleswig the SP became a foreign department of the NSDAP . In the Folketing election in 1939 it continued to be called the Schleswig Party for electoral considerations, but the party apparatus was identical to the NSDAP-N until 1945.

After the Second World War and the end of the German occupation , the SP was reorganized. She publicly expressed her appreciation of the border line and her loyalty to the Danish state.

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  1. ↑ Tysk mindretal mister indflydelse Information.dk (Danish), March 29, 2005, accessed on December 26, 2011
  2. ↑ Local election results 2005
  3. ↑ Local election results 2009
  4. ↑ Local election results 2013
  5. ↑ Local election results 2017
  6. ↑ Regionsrådsvalg 2017
  7. ↑ History of North and South Schleswig since 1945 (Danish) ( Memento from March 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ Henning Schmaltz-Jørgensen (Red.): Valg og vælgere , Chr. Erichsens Forlag, Copenhagen 1970. ISBN 87-555-0045-5 , p. 51

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