Constitutional Commission of the Saarland

The Saarland Constitutional Commission existed between May and September 1947 and worked out the Saarland constitution . The president of the commission was Johannes Hoffmann , Minister- President of the Saarland between December 1947 and 1955.

History and members

In order to achieve the independence of the Saarland , which required a democratic legitimation in the form of a state constitution , the French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault commissioned the governor of the Saar region Gilbert Grandval on February 13, 1947 to set up a constitutional commission to draw up a Saarland constitution. The preparations for this should be made by Erwin Müller , the chairman of the Saarland administrative commission . With the “Legal Order on the Establishment of the Constitutional Commission of the Saarland of May 23, 1947”, the Administrative Commission appointed a 20-person body whose members had been selected on the basis of proposals from the parties. The constitutional commission consisted of ten members of the CVP , five members of the SPS , two members each of the KPS and two members of the DPS as well as the non-party lawyer Alfred Levy as an expert of the military government and was supposed to draft a constitution by September 15, 1947. The draft was presented on September 20, and the administrative commission announced it to the public on September 25, a few days before the state elections .

A total of 20 seats

CP : 2
PLC : 5
DPS : 2
Otherwise: 1
CVP : 10

The constitutional commission consisted of twenty members. On July 24, 1947 Angelika Braun was appointed as the only female member of the commission in place of Willi Lawall.

Louis Arend , Saarbrücken (MP 1947)
Heinz Braun , Saarbrücken (MP 1947)
Alfons Diwo , Fremersdorf
Johannes Hoffmann , Saarbrücken (MP 1947)
Karl Hoppe , Saarbrücken (MdL 1947)
Richard Kirn , Sulzbach (MdL 1947)
Bartholomäus Koßmann , Saarbrücken (MdL 1947)
Josef Kurtz , Ritthof (MdL 1947)
Willi Lawall , Dudweiler (resigned July 24, 1947)
- replaced by Angelika Braun , Saarbrücken (MdL 1947)
Alfred Levy , Saarbrücken
Gustav Levy , Saarbrücken (MdL 1947)
Peter Michely , Güdingen
Edmund Müller , Schwalbach
Erwin Müller , Saarbrücken (MP 1947)
Hermann Neu , St. Ingbert (MdL 1947)
Fritz Nickolay , Dudweiler
Hans Ruffing , Saarlouis (MdL 1947)
Paul Schütz , St. Wendel (MdL 1947)
Albert Werle , Saarbrücken
Peter Zimmer , Saarbrücken (MdL 1947)

Web links

The creation of the Saarland constitution. In: saarland.de (accessed on July 16, 2019).

Individual evidence

↑ Rudolph Brosig: Part I. Constitution and constitutional jurisdiction in the Saarland - an outline. In: Rudolf Wendt , Roland Rixecker : Constitution of the Saarland. Comment. Alma Mater publishing house, Saarbrücken 2009, pp. 19-20.
^ Legal order on the establishment of the Saarland Constitutional Commission of May 23, 1947. In: Official Journal of the Saarland Administrative Commission of May 24, 1947, No. 26/47.
^ Legal order on the establishment of the Saarland Constitutional Commission of July 24, 1947. In: Official Journal of the Saarland Administrative Commission of August 16, 1947, No. 38/47.

[1] Rudolph Brosig: Part I. Constitution and constitutional jurisdiction in the Saarland - an outline. In: Rudolf Wendt , Roland Rixecker : Constitution of the Saarland. Comment. Alma Mater publishing house, Saarbrücken 2009, pp. 19-20.

[2] Legal order on the establishment of the Saarland Constitutional Commission of May 23, 1947. In: Official Journal of the Saarland Administrative Commission of May 24, 1947, No. 26/47.

[3] Legal order on the establishment of the Saarland Constitutional Commission of July 24, 1947. In: Official Journal of the Saarland Administrative Commission of August 16, 1947, No. 38/47.