Misplaced Pages

#660339

76-634: In 2020, two-time member of the Bundestag Christoph Ploß had been elected as chairman of the party . Ploß stepped down in April 2023 and passed the chairmanship to Dennis Thering . In the early state elections in 2011 , former First Mayor Christoph Ahlhaus (CDU) had to admit defeat to his challenger Olaf Scholz (SPD). Compared to the 2008 elections , the CDU Hamburg had lost almost half their voters and received their worst result of all time, while

152-993: A government employee until the National Socialists came to power. Dismissed by the Nazi regime , he changed fields to work in the private sector . After the 20 July plot , Beyrich was arrested and imprisoned in the Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp . There are 15 members in the CDU parliamentary group in the Hamburg Parliament . The board of the CDU parliamentary group consists of nine members: Birgit Stöver, Eckard H. Graage, Andreas Grutzeck, Sandro Kappe, Ralf Niedmers, Stephan A. Gamm, Anna-Elisabeth von Treuenfels-Frowein Bundestag Opposition (408) The Bundestag ( German: [ˈbʊndəstaːk] , "Federal Diet ")

228-457: A mixed-member proportional representation system which combines first-past-the-post elected seats with a proportional party list to ensure its composition mirrors the national popular vote . Germany's parliament can only be dissolved by the President of Germany , and only after the chancellor failed to maintain the confidence of the parliament in a vote called for either by him or a majority of

304-735: A conference center. The Reichstag building was also occasionally used as a venue for sittings of the Bundestag and its committees and the Federal Convention , the body which elects the German federal president. However, the Soviets harshly protested against the use of the Reichstag building by institutions of the Federal Republic of Germany and tried to disturb the sittings by flying supersonic jets close to

380-474: A constituency vote (first vote) and a party list vote (second vote). Based solely on the first votes, 299 members are elected in single-member constituencies by first-past-the-post voting. The second votes are used to produce a proportional number of seats for parties, first in the states, and then on the federal level. Seats are allocated using the Sainte-Laguë method . If a party wins fewer constituency seats in

456-615: A former waterworks facility. In addition, owing to the city's legal status, citizens of West Berlin were unable to vote in elections to the Bundestag, and were instead represented by 22 non-voting delegates chosen by the House of Representatives , the city's legislature. The Bundeshaus in Bonn is the former parliament building of Germany. The sessions of the German Bundestag were held there from 1949 until its move to Berlin in 1999. Today it houses

532-543: A free and democratic institution ceased to exist following the passage of the Enabling Act of 1933 which granted Chancellor Adolf Hitler the power to draft and enforce laws as he pleased. The main rights, duties and responsibilities of the Reichstag were defined in the Weimar Constitution . (All references to constitutional articles can be found in the footnoted English translation). Each voter had one vote, which

608-464: A full 60,000 votes, there was one seat from the district list that had contributed the most residual votes. Any additional remaining votes were carried over to the national level where a party again received one seat (from the national list) per 60,000 votes. A number of additional rules were added to this basic procedure. The most important was that a party could win seats only if it had received 30,000 or more votes in at least one district. Furthermore,

684-457: A group if those parties did not run against each other in any German state during the election. Normally, all parties that surpassed the 5%-threshold build a fraction. The CDU and CSU have always formed a single united Fraktion (called CDU/CSU or 'Union'), which is possible, as the CSU only runs in the state of Bavaria and the CDU only runs in the other 15 states. The size of a fraction determines

760-480: A list of candidates at the Reich level. A district received one seat for every 60,000 votes cast for a list, with the first 60,000 votes going to the first candidate on the list (as ranked by the party), the second 60,000 to the second candidate, and so on. Residual votes were transferred to the level of the electoral association. There, the remaining votes from the districts making up the association were added together; for

836-408: A national list could deliver only as many seats as the party had already received in total at the lower levels. These provisions disadvantaged small parties without a regional focus. They nevertheless also resulted in a large number of parties being represented in the Reichstag. Beyond the 30,000 vote hurdle there was no minimum threshold (such as the 5% threshold of second votes in modern Germany) for

SECTION 10

#1732856159661

912-459: A party to enter the Reichstag. The following is a list of constituencies as they existed from 1924 onwards. The Reichstag president and his deputies (the Presidium ) were elected by Reichstag members at the beginning of the legislative period. According to parliamentary custom, a representative of the strongest party in the Reichstag was usually elected president. The Presidium was supported by

988-408: A pilot of the potential of internet petitions , a version of e-petitioner was produced for the Bundestag. This was a collaborative project involving The Scottish Parliament , International Teledemocracy Centre and the Bundestag 'Online Services Department'. The system was formally launched on 1 September 2005, and in 2008 the Bundestag moved to a new system based on its evaluation. The Bundestag

1064-527: A state than its second votes would entitle it to, it receives additional seats from the relevant state list . Parties can file lists in every single state under certain conditions – for example, a fixed number of supporting signatures. Parties can receive second votes only in those states in which they have filed a state list. If a party, by winning single-member constituencies in one state, receives more seats than it would be entitled to according to its second vote share in that state (so-called overhang seats ),

1140-414: A system of party-list proportional representation . All citizens who had reached the age of 20 were allowed to vote, including women for the first time, but excluding soldiers on active duty. The Reichstag voted on the laws of the Reich and was responsible for the budget, questions of war and peace, and confirmation of state treaties. Oversight of the Reich government (the ministers responsible for executing

1216-434: Is being considered. The Bundestag members are the only federal officials directly elected by the public; the Bundestag in turn elects the chancellor and, in addition, exercises oversight of the executive branch on issues of both substantive policy and routine administration. This check on executive power can be employed through binding legislation, public debates on government policy, investigations, and direct questioning of

1292-416: Is elected for four years, and new elections must be held between 46 and 48 months after the beginning of its electoral term , unless the Bundestag is dissolved prematurely. Its term ends when the next Bundestag convenes, which must occur within 30 days of the election. Prior to 1976, there could be a period where one Bundestag had been dissolved and the next Bundestag could not be convened; during this period,

1368-518: Is headed by the Director, that reports to the President of the Bundestag. The Bundestag Administrations four departments are Parliament Service, Research, Information / Documentation and Central Affairs. The Bundestag Administration employs around 3,000 employees. Following the tradition of German diets , the Bundestag is subject to the principle of discontinuation , meaning that a newly elected Bundestag

1444-473: Is legally regarded to be a body and entity completely different from the previous Bundestag. This leads to the result that any motion, application or action submitted to the previous Bundestag, e.g. a bill referred to the Bundestag by the Federal Government, is regarded as void by non-decision (German terminology: " Die Sache fällt der Diskontinuität anheim "). Thus any bill that has not been decided upon by

1520-434: Is responsible for the routine administration of the Bundestag, including its clerical and research activities. It consists of the chamber's president (usually elected from the largest Fraktion ) and vice presidents (one from each Fraktion ). Most of the legislative work in the Bundestag is the product of standing committees, which exist largely unchanged throughout one legislative period. The number of committees approximates

1596-602: Is the German federal parliament alongside the legally distinct body of the Bundesrat , which together function similar to a bicameral legislature while technically being two separate unicameral legislative entities. It is the only federal representative body directly elected by the German people. The Bundestag was established by Title III of the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany ( German : Grundgesetz , pronounced [ˈɡʁʊntɡəˌzɛt͡s] ) in 1949 as one of

SECTION 20

#1732856159661

1672-425: Is therefore the second-highest ranking administrator of Germany. The chancellor , albeit head of government , is only the third-highest ranking administrator and has to petition both the presidents he is subordinated to for certain procedures. The 20th German Bundestag is the most visited parliament in the world, as well as the largest elected legislative body in the world . The first body to be called Bundestag

1748-469: The 1949 election . If a voter cast a first vote for a successful independent candidate or a successful candidate whose party failed to qualify for proportional representation, their second vote does not count toward proportional representation. However, it does count toward whether the elected party exceeds the 5% threshold. Parties representing recognized national minorities (currently Danes , Frisians , Sorbs , and Romani people ) are exempt from both

1824-578: The Communist Party of Germany , which together had a majority in the Reichstag following the Reichstag election of 31 July 1932 . In 1933 the National Socialists used the two constitutional articles, along with the ability to transfer the legislative function from the Reichstag to the government through an Enabling Act , to establish a dictatorship . Following the banning of the left-wing parties and

1900-464: The Fraktion , enforce party discipline and orchestrate the party's parliamentary activities. The members of each Fraktion are distributed among working groups focused on specific policy-related topics such as social policy, economics, and foreign policy. The Fraktion meets every Tuesday afternoon in the weeks in which the Bundestag is in session to consider legislation before the Bundestag and formulate

1976-650: The Hamburg Young Union Philipp Heißner also missed the entry into the Hamburg Parliament. Since 15 direct mandates were won in both the constituencies as well as for the party itself, only 15 seats in the Hamburg Parliament were given to the CDU. On October 1, 1945, Franz Beyrich was elected as the party's first chairman. Beyrich, who belonged to the Roman Catholic minority in Hamburg, had been

2052-589: The Presidium . The council consists of the Bundestag leadership, together with the most senior representatives of each Fraktion , with the number of these representatives tied to the strength of the Parliamentary groups in the chamber. The council is the coordination hub, determining the daily legislative agenda and assigning committee chairpersons based on Parliamentary group representation. The council also serves as an important forum for interparty negotiations on specific legislation and procedural issues. The Presidium

2128-647: The Reichstag building in Berlin. The Bundestag also operates in multiple new government buildings in Berlin around the neo-renaissance house and has its own police force (the Bundestagspolizei ), directly subordinated to the Bundestag Presidency . Since 2021, Bärbel Bas of the SPD is the president of the Bundestag , with as many as five vice presidents, one from each faction. The presidents and vice presidents of

2204-613: The Reichstag fire . After World War II, the Bundestag did not have own facilities to call home and had to convene in the Bundeshaus in Bonn together with the Bundesrat . 1953, the plenary chambers in the Bundeshaus had to be expanded and the Bundestag assembled in a radio building in Cologne. Until 1965, the Bundestag assembled in West Berlin for nine sessions. Seven sessions have been held in

2280-623: The SPD five, the AfD and the FDP three each, The Left and the Greens two each. Members of the opposition party can chair a significant number of standing committees (e.g. the budget committee is by tradition chaired by the biggest opposition party). These committees have either a small staff or no staff at all. The members of Bundestag and the presidium are supported by the Bundestag Administration. It

2356-652: The Technische Universität Berlin and two sessions in Berlin's Congress Hall in Tiergarten . The assemblies met severe protest from the communist side, the last session even interrupted by Soviet aircraft in supersonic low-altitude flight. 1971, the four occupying powers agree to not accept Bundestag assemblies in West Berlin anymore. The Bundestag assembled in the Old Waterworks Building in Bonn when

CDU Hamburg - Misplaced Pages Continue

2432-492: The 20th Bundestag. Any Bundestag (even after a snap election) is considered dissolved only once a newly elected Bundestag has actually gathered in order to constitute itself (Article 39 sec. 1 sentence 2 of the Basic Law), which has to happen within 30 days of its election (Article 39 sec. 2 of the Basic Law). Thus, it may happen (and has happened) that the old Bundestag gathers and makes decisions even after

2508-559: The 21st Hamburg Parliament . The CDU won at least one direct mandate in all 17 constituencies, as well as two in the Alstertal-Walddorfer constituency. Just like in the 2011 federal elections, the Alstertal-Walddörfer, Süderelbe and Bergedorf constituencies remained the strongholds of the CDU Hamburg. After the state elections, Marcus Weinberg announced his resignation as state chairman. On March 31 of 2015, Roland Heintze

2584-557: The 5% threshold and the basic mandate clause, but normally only run in state elections. The only party that has been able to benefit from this provision so far on the federal level is the South Schleswig Voters' Association , which represents the minorities of Danes and Frisians in Schleswig-Holstein and managed to win a seat in 1949 and 2021 . The latest federal election was held on Sunday, 26 September 2021, to elect

2660-423: The Bundestag considers the legislative function its most important responsibility, concentrating much of its energy on assessing and amending the government's legislative program. The committees (see below) play a prominent role in this process. Plenary sessions provide a forum for members to engage in public debate on legislative issues before them, but they tend to be well attended only when significant legislation

2736-458: The Bundestag decided to move from Bonn back to Berlin by a law which sets only the city of Berlin to be the home of the Bundestag, not the building. Informational notes Citations 52°31′07″N 13°22′34″E  /  52.51861°N 13.37611°E  / 52.51861; 13.37611 Reichstag (Weimar Republic) The Reichstag of the Weimar Republic (1919–1933) was

2812-458: The Bundestag presidency, failing to do so in 17 votes of the house. The denial to affirm a vice president from the AfD is seen as a vote of no confidence and distrust of the house in the only faction observed by Germany's domestic intelligence agency . As the President of Germany is the head of state , while the Bundestag produces, oversees, and controls the government, the president of the Bundestag

2888-572: The Confederation and the empire). Two decades later, the current parliament building was erected. The Reichstag delegates were elected by direct and equal male suffrage (and not the three-class electoral system prevailing in Prussia until 1918). The Reichstag did not participate in the appointment of the chancellor until the parliamentary reforms of October 1918 . After the Revolution of November 1918 and

2964-548: The Council of Elders ( Ältestenrat ). The body consisted of the Reichstag president, the deputy presidents and a total of twenty-one members appointed by the Reichstag parties. Those appointed usually included the party chairmen. The Council of Elders was chaired and convened by the president or his deputies. The body was responsible for reaching agreement among the parties on agendas and work plans. These agreements were not, however, legally binding. The Council of Elders also determined

3040-593: The International Congress Centre Bundeshaus Bonn and in the northern areas the branch office of the Bundesrat ("Federal Council"), which represents the Länder – the federated states. The southern areas became part of German offices for the United Nations in 2008. The former Reichstag building housed a history exhibition ( Fragen an die deutsche Geschichte ) and served occasionally as

3116-407: The Reich president in constitutional articles 48 and 25 (emergency decrees and dissolution of parliament) made possible the so-called presidential cabinets ( Präsidialkabinette ) from 1930 onward, when the Reich president and the Reich government largely did the legislative work instead of the Reichstag. The practice was reinforced by the electoral successes of the anti-republican Nazi Party and

CDU Hamburg - Misplaced Pages Continue

3192-582: The Reichstag building: the Jakob-Kaiser-Haus, Paul-Löbe-Haus and Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Haus . In 2005, a small aircraft crashed close to the German Parliament. It was then decided to ban private air traffic over Central Berlin. Together with the Bundesrat , the Bundestag is the legislative branch of the German political system . Although most legislation is initiated by the executive branch,

3268-619: The Reichstag met only rarely, usually at the Kroll Opera House to unanimously rubber-stamp the decisions of the government. It last convened on 26 April 1942. With the new constitution of 1949 , the Bundestag was established as the new West German parliament. Because West Berlin was not officially under the jurisdiction of the constitution, a legacy of the Cold War , the Bundestag met in Bonn in several different buildings, including (provisionally)

3344-595: The Reichstag. While parties of the political center dominated in 1919 (the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), Centre Party and German Democratic Party (DDP)), the party spectrum of the Weimar Republic was characterized by fragmentation and, towards the end, increasing radicalization (the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and the Nazi Party (NSDAP)). % of votes / # of members The powers given to

3420-505: The Social Democrats achieved the absolute majority of the parliamentary mandates. After the election results, then chairman Frank Schira announced his resignation. Marcus Weinberg succeeded him as chairman in 2011. The front runner for the 2015 Hamburg state elections was parliamentary group leader Dietrich Wersich. With 15.9% of the state vote lists, the CDU Hamburg fell to a new historic low and thus only appointed 20 of 121 members of

3496-400: The beginning of the new electoral period must be brought up by the government again if it aims to uphold the motion, this procedure in effect delaying the passage of the bill. Furthermore, any newly elected Bundestag will have to freshly decide on the rules of procedure ( Geschäftsordnung ), which is done by a formal decision of taking over such rules from the preceding Bundestag by reference. If

3572-498: The building. Since 19 April 1999, the German parliament has again assembled in Berlin in its original Reichstag building, which was built in 1888 based on the plans of German architect Paul Wallot and underwent a significant renovation under the lead of British architect Lord Norman Foster . Parliamentary committees and subcommittees, public hearings and parliamentary group meetings take place in three auxiliary buildings, which surround

3648-417: The chairmen of the committees and their deputies as well as certain other organizational issues. In spite of its limited powers, the Council of Elders had considerable importance for the functioning of parliament. In essence, its tasks were comparable to those of the Ältestenrat in the modern German Bundestag . Between 1919 and 1933 there was one election to the constituent National Assembly and eight to

3724-419: The chancellor and their ministers, to each of which the parliament constituted mirroring committees for oversight ( Ausschüsse ). Setting the government budget is the parliament's primary privilege, for which to execute it assembles the largest and most important committee of the house. Opposed to most debates in the Bundestag focussing on a specific topic, budget bills from the committee are heavily debated in

3800-424: The chancellor or cabinet officials. For example, the Bundestag can conduct a question hour ( Fragestunde ), in which a government representative responds to a written question previously submitted by a member. Members can ask related questions during the question hour. The questions can concern anything from a major policy issue to a specific constituent's problem. Use of the question hour has increased markedly over

3876-421: The election of a new Bundestag that has not gathered in order to constitute itself. For example, elections to the 16th Bundestag took place on 18 September 2005, but the 15th Bundestag still convened after election day to make some decisions on German military engagement abroad, and was entitled to do so, as the newly elected 16th Bundestag did not convene for the first time until 18 October 2005. Also following

SECTION 50

#1732856159661

3952-501: The establishment of the Weimar Constitution , women were given the right to vote for (and serve in) the Reichstag, and the parliament could use the no-confidence vote to force the chancellor or any cabinet member to resign. In 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor and through the Reichstag Fire Decree , the Enabling Act of 1933 and the death of President Paul von Hindenburg in 1934, gained unlimited power. After this,

4028-493: The extent of its representation on committees, the time slots allotted for speaking, the number of committee chairs it can hold, and its representation in executive bodies of the Bundestag. The fractions, not the members, receive the bulk of government funding for legislative and administrative activities. The leadership of each fraction consists of a parliamentary party leader, several deputy leaders, and an executive committee. The leadership's major responsibilities are to represent

4104-562: The group of eligible voters expanded considerably, from 14,441,400 in 1912 (the last Reichstag election under the Empire ) to 37,362,100 in 1919, primarily because women had been given the right to vote and the voting age was lowered from 25 to 20. Those who could not exercise the right to vote were active duty soldiers, people living in a sanatorium or nursing home and those in criminal or pre-trial detention. Citizenship had to have been obtained at least one year before election day. The election date

4180-489: The house. The Bundestag has several functions, among which a few are shared with the Bundesrat . It is the chief legislative body on the federal level, producing the federal government and its presiding chancellor . The individual states ( Bundesländer ) of Germany participate in the legislative process through the Bundesrat, a separate assembly sharing several privileges with the house. The Bundestag elects and oversees

4256-451: The laws) also resided with the Reichstag. It could force individual ministers or the entire government to resign by means of a vote of no confidence, and under Article 48 of the constitution it could rescind emergency decrees issued by the Reich president . The Reich president could dissolve the Reichstag under Article 25 of the constitution, but only once for the same reason. The Reichstag as

4332-415: The legislative bodies of Germany. It is thus the historical successor to the earlier Reichstag . The members of the Bundestag are representatives of the German people as a whole, are not bound by any orders or instructions and are only accountable to their electorate and their conscience. The minimum legal number of members of the Bundestag ( German : Mitglieder des Bundestages ) is 598; however, due to

4408-685: The lower house of Germany's parliament; the upper house was the Reichsrat , which represented the states. The Reichstag convened for the first time on 24 June 1920, taking over from the Weimar National Assembly , which had served as an interim parliament following the collapse of the German Empire in November 1918. Under the Weimar Constitution of 1919, the Reichstag was elected every four years by universal, equal, secret and direct suffrage, using

4484-608: The members of the 20th Bundestag. In several districts of Berlin the 2021 election was repeated due to irregularities. This changed the number of additional mandates of the Bundestag from 138 to 137, resulting in the FDP losing a seat. Parties that were only present between 1949 and 1957 The most important organisational structures within the Bundestag are 'fractions' ( Fraktionen ; sing. Fraktion ). A parliamentary fraction must consist of at least 5% of all members of parliament. Members of parliament from different parties may only join in

4560-400: The national level in order to avoid negative vote weight . To qualify for seats based on the party-list vote share, a party must either win three single-member constituencies via first votes (basic mandate clause) or exceed a threshold of 5% of the second votes nationwide. If a party only wins one or two single-member constituencies and fails to get at least 5% of the second votes, it keeps

4636-472: The number of federal ministries, and the titles of each are roughly similar (e.g., defense, agriculture, and labor). There are, as of the current nineteenth Bundestag, 24 standing committees. The distribution of committee chairs and the membership of each committee reflect the relative strength of the various Parliamentary groups in the chamber. In the current nineteenth Bundestag, the CDU/CSU chaired ten committees,

SECTION 60

#1732856159661

4712-456: The old plenary chamber had to get broken down, and in the new plenary chamber for only a few years after Germany's reunification. The most distinctive assembly of the Bundestag outsite its regular chambers was on 4 October 1990, the day after German reunification . The Bundestag assembled inside the Reichstag building in Berlin for the first time after 57 years, and remote from its then-regular home in Bonn. Soon after this most memorable assembly,

4788-434: The other parties receive compensation seats. Owing to this provision, the Bundestag usually has more than 598 members. The 20th and current Bundestag, for example, has 735 seats: 598 regular seats and 137 overhang and compensation seats. Overhang seats are calculated at the state level, so many more seats are added to balance this out among the different states, adding more seats than would be needed to compensate for overhang at

4864-421: The parliament are elected by the members of the parliament from among their midst. Usually each faction's proposed candidate gets a simple affirmation for the office by a vote of the whole house, no matter whether the faction is governing or in opposition and regularly without distinction of person. The radical-right AfD is the first and only faction in the history of reunited Germany not being able to take seat in

4940-521: The party's position on it. Parties that do not hold 5% of the Bundestag-seats may be granted the status of a Gruppe ('group') in the Bundestag; this is decided case by case, as the rules of procedure do not state a fixed number of seats for this. This status entails some privileges which are in general less than those of a Fraktion . The Bundestag's executive bodies include the Council of Elders and

5016-495: The past forty years, with more than 20,000 questions being posed during the 1987–90 term. The opposition parties actively exercise their parliamentary right to scrutinize government actions. Constituent services also take place via the Petition Committee. In 2004, the Petition Committee received over 18,000 complaints from citizens and was able to negotiate a mutually satisfactory solution to more than half of them. In 2005, as

5092-471: The rights of the Bundestag were exercised by a so-called "Permanent Committee". Germany uses the mixed-member proportional representation system, a system of proportional representation combined with elements of first-past-the-post voting . The Bundestag has 598 nominal members, elected for a four-year term; these seats are distributed between the sixteen German states in proportion to the states' population eligible to vote. Every elector has two votes:

5168-463: The single-member seat(s), but other parties that accomplish at least one of the two threshold conditions receive compensation seats. In the most recent example of this, during the 2002 election , the PDS won only 4.0% of the second votes nationwide, but won two constituencies in the state of Berlin . The same applies if an independent candidate wins a single-member constituency, which has not happened since

5244-458: The style of a review and general criticism on the government for the past year ( Generaldebatte ). The Bundestag also exclusively mandates about deployment, dispatch and assignments of the Bundeswehr , Germany's military. The commander-in-chief , which is the federal minister of defence , is obliged to and acting on behalf of the parliament ( Parlamentsarmee ). Since 1999, the Bundestag has met in

5320-406: The succeeding Bundestag convents with same or similar majorities like its predecessor, the parliament can decide to take over earlier initiatives of legislation in the same fashion to abbreviate the process, thus effectively breaking the principle of discontinuation by a pull. The discontinuation of the parliament is the reason why the four-year-long convent is numbered. The current convent is numbered

5396-400: The system of overhang and leveling seats the current 20th Bundestag has a total of 735 members, making it the largest Bundestag to date and the largest freely elected national parliamentary chamber in the world. The members of the Bundestag refer to their workplace as Hohes Haus, august house. The Bundestag is elected every four years by German citizens aged 18 and older. Elections use

5472-466: The tradition of German diets , the German Bundestag can legally convene on any location, domestic and foreign. The Reichstag plenary chamber is not determined by law as the location of the assembly, making it a facility of convenience. Bundestag's predecessor, the German Reichstag , convened in the Kroll Opera House in Berlin, after the Reichstag with its then wooden interior and walls burned down in

5548-469: Was cast on an electoral district ballot. The number of seats was determined by proportional representation . The number of Reichstag seats fluctuated because they depended on the total number of votes cast, with one seat allocated for 60,000 votes. In 1919 the Weimar National Assembly consisted of 421 members; in 1933 the last Reichstag had 647. In the election to the Weimar National Assembly,

5624-529: Was elected as his successor. In the 2020 Hamburg state election , the CDU lost around a third of its share of votes and, at 11.2%, had to accept its second-lowest result in a state election since the party's founding 68 years prior - the worst result being 9,0% in the 1951 Bremen state elections . The then front runner and member of the Bundestag Marcus Weinberg, the former front runner Dietrich Wersich , then chairman Roland Heintze and chairman of

5700-700: Was in the German Confederation (called Deutscher Bund in German). It convened in Frankfurt am Main from 1816 to 1866. In English it is referred to as Federal Convention . With the dissolution of the German Confederation in 1866 and the founding of the German Empire ( German Reich ) in 1871, the Reichstag was established as the German parliament in Berlin, which was the capital of the then Kingdom of Prussia (the largest and most influential state in both

5776-418: Was set by the Reich president. After November 1918 it had to be a Sunday or a public holiday, in accordance with a long-standing social democratic demand. The Reich was divided into 35 electoral districts (sg. Wahlkreis ) that were combined into 16 electoral associations (sg. Wahlkreisverband ). The parties drew up a list of candidates for each electoral district in which they were participating and also

#660339