1929 Baden state election

Weimar Republic parliamentary 1925 Baden state election 1925 yes 1929 10 27 All 88 seats in the Landtag 45 1,537,962 61.4%Faris 1975 147 Centre Party (Germany) 36.8%, 28 seats 34 6 341,754 36.7% 0.1pp Social Democratic Party of Germany 20.8%, 16 seats 18 2 187,087 20.1% 0.7pp German People's Party 9.5%, 7 seats 7 74,340 8.0% 1.5pp Nazi Party 1.2%, 0 seats 6 6 65,121 7.0% 5.8pp German Democratic Party 8.7%, 6 seats 6 62,344 6.7% 2.0pp Communist Party of Germany 6.1%, 4 seats 5 1 55,143 5.9% 0.2pp Government Josef Schmitt Z–SPD Government after election Josef Schmitt Z–SPD The 1929 Baden state election was held on 27 October 1929 to elect the 88 members of the Landtag of the Republic of Baden.Schröder Valentin Landtagswahlen Republik Baden https://www.wahlen-in-deutschland.de/wlBaden.htm live 14 May 2021 Wahlen in Deutschland https://web.archive.org/web/20050222183358/http://www.wahlen-in-deutschland.de:80/wlBaden.htm 2005-02-22 Campaign The Rechtsblock coalition formed by the German National People's Party (DNVP) and Agricultural League broke apart in 1928. Many of the Agricultural League members joined the Nazi Party.Grill 1983 26Grill 1983 139-141 The Nazis launched their election campaign in March 1929.Grill 1983 171 The Nazis won six seats in the election and Walter Köhler was selected to serve as their delegation chairman.Grill 1983 174 This granted the party members that could not be arrested due to parliamentary immunity.Grill 1983 178 The Nazi's best Amtsbezirke performance was in Kehl with 32%.Faris 1975 148 42.2% of the new votes for the Nazis came from Heidelberg, Karlsruhe, Mannheim, Pforzheim, and Weinheim.Grill 1983 175 The Bezirk Tauberbischofsheim, which was 81.8% Catholic,Faris 1975 148 gave 70.3% of its vote to the Centre.Faris 1975 145 Results #F8F9FA 34 Centre Party (Germany) 18 Social Democratic Party of Germany 7 German People's Party 6 Nazi Party 6 German Democratic Party 5 Communist Party of Germany 3 Reich Party of the German Middle Class 3 Evangelical People's Service 3 German National People's Party 3 Baden Farmers' Party Centre Party 341754 34 +6 Social Democratic Party 187087 18 +2 German People's Party 74340 7 0 Nazi Party 65121 6 +6 German Democratic Party 62344 6 0 Communist Party of Germany 55143 5 +1 Reich Party of the German Middle Class 35605 3 0 Evangelical People's Service 35317 3 New German National People's Party 34079 3 –5 Baden Farmers' Party 28267 3 New People's Justice Party 6680 0 New Christian Social Reich Party 5086 0 New Left Communists 1530 0 New 11888 +16 1538690 Schröder, GonschiorGonschior Andreas Der Freistaat Baden Landtagswahl 1929 https://gonschior.de/weimar/Baden/LT3.html Wahlen in der Weimarer Republik Aftermath This was the last democratic election in Baden before the Nazi seizure of power.Exner 2016 297 The SDP and Centre coalition government dissolved on 30 November 1932, due to disagreements over a concordat between the Catholic Church and Baden. The Centre and DVP attempted to form a coalition with the Nazis without dissolving the landtag, but the Nazis rejected it and wanted new elections. A Centre and DVP minority government was formed on 10 January 1933.Grill 1983 240-242 Robert Heinrich Wagner was appointed Reichkomissar of Baden on 9 March 1933, replacing the position of president. A new landtag consisting of 30 Nazis, 17 Centre, 8 SPD, and 2 DNVP convened once on 9 June 1933 to give the executive legislative powers. Wagner appointed Köhler as president on 6 May.Exner 2016 299 1933 seat reallocation On 31 March 1933, the Provisional Law on the Coordination of the States with the Reich was enacted, leading to the reallocation of the Landtag seats based on the results of the March 1933 German federal election in Württemberg. #F8F9FA 30 Nazi Party 17 Centre Party (Germany) 8 Social Democratic Party of Germany 6 Communist Party of Germany 2 German National People's Party Nazi Party 30 +24 Centre Party 17 –17 Social Democratic Party 8 –10 Communist Party 6 +1 Black-White-Red Struggle Front 2 –1 –25 Schröder, GonschiorGonschior Andreas Der Freistaat Baden Landtagsneubildung 1933 https://gonschior.de/weimar/Baden/LT4.html Wahlen in der Weimarer Republik References Works cited Exner Konrad Die politischen und wirtschaftlichen Ereignisse der Republik Baden in der Zeit der Weimarer Republik Badische Heimat Landesverein Badische Heimat 2016 96 2 291–300 Faris Ellsworth Takeoff Point for the National Socialist Party: The Landtag Election in Baden, 1929 Central European History Cambridge University Press 1975 8 2 140–71 10.2307/4545738 4545738 https://www.jstor.org/stable/4545738 Grill Johnpeter The Nazi Movement in Baden, 1920-1945 University of North Carolina Press 1983 0807814725 Category:1929 elections in Germany 1929