Election to the Waldeck-Pyrmont constitution-making state representation

The election for the Waldeck-Pyrmont constitutional representation took place on March 9, 1919.

History and right to vote

As part of the November Revolution , Prince Friedrich was deposed and Waldeck- Pyrmont was declared a Free State . This gave rise to the need to create a new state election law. On February 14, 1919, the new election regulations were published. The Landtag, now known as the Waldeck-Pyrmont Constituent Representation, should be elected in two constituencies (Waldeck and Pyrmont). It consisted of 21 members (17 from Waldeck, 4 from Pyrmont). It was elected by proportional representation in direct and secret ballot. The women's suffrage was first introduced in Waldeck. The election regulations were based on the Prussian state election law and referred to it.

Candidates

The candidates of the parties were in the Waldeck constituency (front list places)

• DVP
  1. Oskar Varnhagen , lawyer, Korbach
  2. Friedrich Boettcher , Mengeringhausen
  3. Karl Kliffmüller, teacher, Bad Wildungen
  4. Heinrich Böttchert, farmer, Bergheim

• DDP
  1. Paul Winkhaus , doctor, Bad Wildungen
  2. Heinrich Küttler , master coppersmith, Korbach
  3. Christian Stremme, farmer, Willingen
  4. Otto Hufnagel , teacher, Arolsen
  5. Jakob Euler , teacher, Berndorf
  6. Louis Ulrich, Mayor and Farmer, Frebershausen

Antonie Pflücker from Arolsen was the first woman in 9th place

• Waldeckischer Volksbund
  1. Karl Rabe , teacher, Rattlar
  2. Karl Reins , farmer, Wrexen
  3. Curt Beyer
  4. Wilhelm Schmidt , carpenter, Rhena

• center
  1. Dean Franz Ellendorf, Arolsen

In the constituency of Pyrmont there were only 4 seats available. Therefore a list connection of DDP, DVP and DNVP was discussed. The DDP decided against a list connection, so that only DVP and DNVP were connected. As a result, this cost the bourgeois parties one mandate and resulted in the SPD receiving two Pyrmont mandates.

Election result

Political party	Voices Waldeck	Voices Pyrmont	Together in %	Seats (mandates Waldeck)
SPD	6436	1660	30.4%	7 seats (5)
DNVP	5252	996	23.2%	6 seats (5)
DDP	4613	1133	21.2%	4 seats (3)
Waldeckischer Volksbund	3663	0	13.6%	3 seats (3)
DVP	1930	436	7.1%	1 seat (1)
center	768	0	2.85%	./.
List Garschagen	436	1.62%	./.

For the elected MPs see the list of members of the Waldeck-Pyrmont constitution-making state representation .

On April 8, 1919, the Waldeck-Pyrmont constitutional representation met for the first time.

literature

• Ludwig Luckemeyer: Liberales Waldeck and Pyrmont and Waldeck-Frankenberg 1821–1981, 1984, pp. 263–265.
• Reinhard König: The members of the Waldeck Landtag from 1848 to 1929. Hessisches Staatsarchiv, 1985, p. 8.
• Election results

Individual evidence

1. ↑ forest. Reg. P. 29