Mitau voter association

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The Mitau Voters' Association ( WV Mitau ) was a party of the German minority in Latvia between 1924 and 1934.

WV Mitau was founded in September 1924. It was the oldest of a total of twelve local German voters' associations in Latvia. He saw himself as a unified German organization in Mitau.

The party, which represented bourgeois positions in the center, appeared in elections to the Saeima as part of the committee of the Baltic German parties . With Werner Westermann, it provided a member of parliament.

After a coup d'état on May 15, 1934 , the parties, including the Mitau voters' association, were banned by Kārlis Ulmanis and the Saeima dissolved.

literature

Mads Ole Balling: From Reval to Bucharest - Statistical-Biographical Handbook of the Parliamentarians of the German Minorities in East Central and Southeastern Europe 1919-1945, Volume 1, 2nd Edition . Copenhagen 1991, ISBN 87-983829-3-4 , pp. 137 .