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Encyclopedia > German election, 1930
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Politics of Germany Image File history File links De_wappen. ... The Federal Republic of Germany (in German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland) is a federal representative democracy. ...

Basic Law (constitution)
Bundestag

Bundesrat
Federal Convention
Constitutional Court Preamble of the Grundgesetz The Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany (German: Grundgesetz für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland) is the constitution of modern Germany. ... The Bundestag (Federal Diet) is the parliament of Germany. ... The Bundesrat (federal council) is the representation of the 16 Federal States (Länder) of Germany at the federal level. ... The Federal Convention (Bundesversammlung) is a special body in the institutional system of Germany, convoked only for the purpose of selecting the Bundespräsident every five years. ... The Federal Constitutional Court (in German: Bundesverfassungsgericht, BVerfG) is a special court established by the German Constitution, the Grundgesetz (Basic Law). ...

President

Chancellor
Cabinet The Federal President (German: Bundespräsident, formerly Reichspräsident) is Germanys head of state. ... The German title Bundeskanzler is also the title of the Chancellor of Austria, and the title of a Swiss federal official (List of Federal Chancellors of Switzerland). ... The Cabinet of Germany (German: Bundeskabinett) is the chief executive body of the Federal Republic of Germany. ...

States of Germany

Districts of Germany Germany is a federal republic made up of 16 states formally known in German as Bundesländer (Federal States; singular Bundesland), or more commonly, Länder (singular Land). ... There are 439 German districts, administrative units in Germany. ...

Elections

Political Parties
Pre-1945 parties
Former GDR parties Elections in Germany gives information on election and election results in Germany, including elections to the Federal Diet (the lower house of the federal parliament), the Landtage of the various states, and local elections. ... This is a list of political parties in Germany. ...

The German election of 1930, under the Weimar Republic. The number of seats increased from the last election in 1928 (491) to 577 seats, however, the SDP, who remained the largest party saw their share decrease. The Nazi Party on the other hand increased their seats from 12 to 107. 1930 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... The period of German history from 1919 to 1933 is known as the Weimar Republic IPA (German Weimarer Republik). ... 1928 was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Nazi swastika symbol The National Socialist German Workers Party ( German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei), better known as the NSDAP or the Nazi Party was a political party that was led to power in Germany by Adolf Hitler in 1933. ...

Party Seats
Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 143
Nazi Party (NSDAP) 107
Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 77
Centre Party 68
DNVP (Conservatives) 41
DVP (Nationalists) 30
RPDM (Business Party) 23
DDP (Liberals) 20
Bavarian People's Party (BVP) 19
DBP (Farmers) 6
CSVD (Protestants) 4
KVP (Conservatives) 4
BL (Farmers) 3
DHP (Hanover regionalists) 3
Totals 577


SPD redirects here. ... The National Socialist German Workers Party (German:   Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei?), better known as the NSDAP or the Nazi Party was a political party that was led to power in Germany by Adolf Hitler in 1933. ... The Communist Party of Germany (in German, Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands – KPD) was formed in December of 1918 from the Spartacist League, which originated as a small factional grouping within the Social Democratic Party (SPD), and the International Communists of Germany (IKD). ... The German Centre Party (Deutsche Zentrumspartei or merely Zentrum), often called the Catholic Centre Party, was a Catholic political party in Germany during the Kaiserreich and the Weimar Republic. ... The German National Peoples Party (German: Deutschnationale Volkspartei) (DNVP) was a right wing national_conservative party in Germany during the time of the Weimar Republic. ... The German Peoples Party (Deutsche Volkspartei, or DVP) was founded by the more right-wing elements of the old National Liberal Party in the early days of the Weimar Republic, led by Gustav Stresemann. ... The German Democratic Party, or Deutsche Demokratische Partei (DDP), was founded by leaders of the former Progressive Peoples Party (Fortschrittliche Volkspartei) and the left wing of the National Liberal Party (Nationalliberale Partei) in the early days of the Weimar Republic. ... The Bavarian Peoples Party (Bayerische Volkspartei) was the Bavarian branch of the Centre Party, which broke off from the rest of the party in 1919 to pursue a more conservative, Bavarian particularist, course. ...

Preceded by:
1928
German elections Followed by:
1932 (July)


The German election of 1928, under the Weimar Republic. ... Elections in Germany gives information on election and election results in Germany, including elections to the Federal Diet (the lower house of the federal parliament), the Landtage of the various states, and local elections. ... The German election of July 1932, under the Weimar Republic, saw the Nazis become the biggest party in the Reichstag, although without a majority of the seats. ...


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Elections in Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (628 words)
Elections in Germany gives information on election and election results in Germany, including elections to the Federal Diet (the lower house of the federal parliament), the Landtage of the various states, and local elections.
German nationals over the age of 18 are eligible to vote, including most Germans resident outside Germany, and eligibility for candidacy is essentially the same as eligibility to vote.
On 18 March 1990 the first and only free elections in the history of the GDR were held, producing a government whose major mandate was to negotiate an end to itself and its state.
Germans (2549 words)
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Germans who allegedly wandered through the streets on Sundays, shouting, singing, and intimidating churchgoers and other pious citizens, were a thorn in the flesh of temperance advocates and church officials.
German working men and women, who could meet with friends and fellow workers only on Saturday afternoons and on Sundays for leisure and pleasure, regarded the Sunday closing laws as an attack on their culturally specific habits and an infringement on their personal liberties and constitutional rights.
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