Elected to the constituent state assembly in Baden-Württemberg in 1952

The election for the state constituent assembly took place on March 9, 1952. At this point in time, the newly created “south-west state” had no name; in terms of size, it comprised the remaining states of Württemberg-Baden , Baden (southern Baden) and Württemberg-Hohenzollern .

The state of Baden-Württemberg was founded on April 25, 1952. The state constituent assembly thus became the first state parliament.

Result

A threshold clause of 5% per country applied to the election .

Result of the election of March 9, 1952
Political party	be right	proportion of	Seats	Direct mandates
CDU	982.727	35.99%	50	42
SPD	765.032	28.01%	38	26th
FDP / DVP	491.711	18.01%	23	6th
BHE	170,751	6.25%	6th
KPD	119,604	4.38%	4th
DG-BHE / DG	89,459	3.28%
SRP	65,787	2.41%
center	23,356	0.85%
UWG	22,393	0.82%
valid votes	2,730,820	100.00% 97.88%	121	74
invalid votes	59.052	2.12%
Voter turnout	2,789,872	100.00% 63.66%
Non-voters	1,592,245	36.34%
Eligible voters	4,382,117	100.00%

Result by country

Political party	to bathe		Württemberg- Baden		Württemberg- Hohenzollern
Political party	%	Seats	%	Seats	%	Seats
CDU	43.6	13	29.2	24	51.4	13 ^*
SPD	26.6	8th	30.3	25th	21.6	5
FDP / DVP	FDP 15.9	4th	DVP 19.2	15th	FDP / DVP 16.1	4th
BHE	4.96	-	6.7	5	6.2	1
KPD	03.1	-	5.1	4th	3.3	-
DG			DG-BHE 4.9	-	DG 1.1	-
SRP			3.9	-
center	4.4	-
UWG	1.5	-	0.8	-	0.3	-
total	25th		73		23 ^*

^*An overhang mandate for CDU. Therefore 23 instead of 22 seats were allocated in (South) Baden.

Election of the first state parliament

This election also indirectly determined the first state parliament of the new state of Baden-Württemberg. Article 93 of the state constitution stipulated this:

“(1) The members of the constituent assembly elected according to § 13 of the second law on the reorganization in the states of Baden, Württemberg-Baden and Württemberg-Hohenzollern of May 4, 1951 ( Federal Law Gazette I p. 283 ) form the first state parliament.
(2) The electoral term of this state parliament ends on March 31, 1956. "

- Article 93

Education of the state and first state governments

The state of Baden-Württemberg was founded on April 25, 1952, barely seven weeks after the election of the state constituent assembly. The founding act was a declaration by the Prime Minister Reinhold Maier (FDP / DVP), who was elected directly before . He said: “My honorable Members. According to Section 14, Paragraph 4, Clause 2, the date of formation of the provisional government is hereby established for the present moment, namely Friday, April 25, 1952, 12:30 p.m. With this declaration, in accordance with Section 11 of the second restructuring law, the states of Baden, Württemberg-Baden and Württemberg-Hohenzollern are (are) united into one federal state. (…) “This moment was overshadowed by tumultuous unrest in the assembly, because Reinhold Maier had ignored the largest parliamentary group, the CDU, when forming a coalition.

In the new federal state, the FDP / DVP , SPD and BHE initially formed a government coalition under Reinhold Maier, who had previously been Prime Minister of Württemberg-Baden. On October 7, 1953, an all-party coalition (without the participation of the KPD) was formed under Gebhard Müller ( CDU ) . Müller had been the head of government of Württemberg-Hohenzollern (with the official title "State President") until 1952.

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Baden-Württemberg 1952-2006 . In: Lexicon History Baden-Württemberg . Retrieved April 25, 2013.
^ Baden-Württemberg / Landesrecht BW Citizen Service
^ Political topics> History dossiers at the state center for political education BW

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