Landtag elections in the Free People's State of Württemberg (Freie Volksstaat Württemberg) during the Weimar Republic were held on five occasions between 1919 and 1932. Results with regard to the percentage of the vote won and the number of seats allocated to each party are presented in the table below.[1][2] The table is an important indicator of the swings in political opinion in this part of Germany between the second and third Reichs, a period when parliamentary democracy came to have real political meaning in Germany.[3] On 31 March 1933, the sitting Landtag was dissolved by the Nazi-controlled central government and reconstituted to reflect the distribution of seats in the national Reichstag. The Landtag subsequently was formally abolished as a result of the "Law on the Reconstruction of the Reich" of 30 January 1934 which replaced the German federal system with a unitary state.[4] Württemberg is now a part of the modern land (federal state) of Baden-Württemberg.
| Year | SPD | Demokra- tische Volks- partei |
Zentrum | WBP ab 1924: DNVP/WBP 1932: DNVP |
WBB | USPD | WBWB | Deutsche Volks- partei |
KPD | VSB | CSVD | NSDAP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 January 1919 | 34.5 % 52 Seats |
25.0 % 38 Seats |
20.8 % 31 Seats |
7.4 % 11 Seats |
5.8 % 10 Seats |
3.1 % 4 Seats |
2.7 % 4 Seats |
- | - | - | - | - |
| 6 June 1920 | 16.1 % 17 Seats |
14.7 % 15 Seats |
22.5 % 23 Seats |
9.3 % 10 Seats |
17.7 % 18 Seats |
13.3 % 14 Seats |
- | 3.4 % 4 Seats |
- | - | - | - |
| 4 May 1924 |
16.0 % 13 Seats |
10.6 % 9 Seats |
20.9 % 17 Seats |
10.4 % 8 Seats |
- | - | 20.2 % 17 Seats |
4.6 % 3 Seats |
11.7 % 10 Seats |
4.0 % 3 Seats |
- | - |
| 20 May 1928 | 23.8 % 22 Seats |
10.1 % 8 Seats |
19.6 % 17 Seats |
5.7 % 4 Seats |
- | - | 18.1 % 16 Seats |
5.2 % 4 Seats |
7.4 % 6 Seats |
- | 3.9 % 3 Seats |
- |
| 24 April 1932 | 16.6 % 14 Seats |
4.8 % 4 Seats |
20.5 % 17 Seats |
4.3 % 3 Seats |
- | - | 10.7 % 9 Seats |
- | 9.4 % 7 Seats |
- | 4.2 % 3 Seats |
26.4 % 23 Seats |
See also
editNotes
edit- ^ "Landtagswahlen Volksstaat Württemberg 1919–1933".
- ^ "Freie Volksstaat Württemberg Landtagswahlen 1919–1933". Retrieved 28 January 2023.
- ^ Mittag, Jürgen (1997). "The Social Democratic Party of Württemberg during the Republic of Weimar An Analysis of the Members of Parliament". Historical Social Research. 22, No. 3/4 (83) (3/4 (83)). GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences: 128–145. JSTOR 20756161.
- ^ Wells, Roger H. (April 1936). "The Liquidation of the German Länder". The American Political Science Review. 30 (2). American Political Science Association: 351–352. doi:10.2307/1947263. JSTOR 1947263.