1936 German parliamentary election and referendum

none September 2022 Nazi Germany 1936 legislative November 1933 German parliamentary election Nov 1933 yes 1936 03 29 1938 German parliamentary election and referendum 1938 List of Reichstag deputies in the Third Reich (2nd electoral term) List of Reichstag deputies in the Third Reich (3rd electoral term) All 741 seats in the Reichstag 371 45,455,217 ( 0.6%) 99.0% ( 3.7pp) Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1987-0703-506, Adolf Hitler vor Rundfunk-Mikrofon retouched.jpg 170 170 200 0 0 Adolf Hitler Nazi Party 92.1%, 661 seats 741 80 44,462,458 98.8% 6.7 pp Government Hitler cabinet Nazi Party Government after election Hitler cabinet Nazi Party Parliamentary elections were held in Germany on 29 March 1936.Nohlen Dieter Dieter Nohlen Stöver Philip 2010 Elections in Europe: A data handbook 762 Nomos 978-3-8329-5609-7 They took the form of a single-question referendum, asking voters whether they approved of the military occupation of the Rhineland and a single party list for the new Reichstag composed exclusively of Nazis and 19 nominally independent "guests" of the party. The election was effectively rigged, with no political opponents of Hitler allowed to participateRichard J. Evans The Third Reich in Power, 1933 - 1939: How the Nazis Won Over the Hearts and Minds of a Nation 26 July 2012 Penguin Books Limited 978-0-7181-9681-3 637 with a claimed turnout of 99% and 98.8% voting in favour. In a publicity stunt, a number of voters were packed aboard the airships Graf Zeppelin and Hindenburg, which flew above the Rhineland as those aboard cast their ballots.Associated Press Germans for Hitler 99 Per Cent Strong: All Ballots Against Nazi Held Invalid Fairbanks Daily News-Miner 30 March 1936 1 Despite the electoral irregularities, historian Ian Kershaw writes that the vote nonetheless accurately reflected widespread popular support for Hitler following the remilitarization of the Rhineland.Kershaw Ian Hitler: 1889-1936: Hubris 2000 W. W. Norton & Company 978-0-393-32035-0 590-591 This was the first German election held after enactment of the 1935 Nuremberg Laws, which had removed citizenship rights (including the right to vote) from Jews and other ethnic minorities. In the previous elections and referendums under Nazi rule, Jews, Poles and other ethnic minorities had been allowed to vote without much interference, and even tacitly encouraged to vote against the Nazis (especially in districts that were known to have large populations of ethnic minorities). On 7 March 1936, Jews and Romani lost their right to vote.Robert Gellately Nathan Stoltzfus Social Outsiders in Nazi Germany 27 May 2001 Princeton University Press 0-691-08684-2 216 This also was the first election since the Saar was incorporated into Germany on 1 March 1935, following the Saar plebiscite of 13 January 1935. The new territory was merged with electoral constituency 27, Palatinate, which was now renamed Palatinate–Saar.Zentner Christian Bedürftig Friedemann 1997 1991 The Encyclopedia of the Third Reich Da Capo Press New York 825–826 978-0-306-80793-0 300px|thumb|Electoral slip from the constituency of Upper Bavaria–Swabia, Hitler's home constituency, with seven prearranged candidates.Hitler, Rudolf Hess, Wilhelm Frick, Hermann Göring, Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Wagner, Karl Wahl. Voters only had to accept or dismiss this option, as no other lists were available. Results 275pxPartyVotes%Seats Nazi Party and guests44,462,45898.80741Against540,2441.20–Invalid/blank votes–Total votes45,002,702100741Registered voters/turnout45,455,21799.00–Source: Nohlen & Stöver Aftermath The new Reichstag convened for formulary procedures on 30 January 1937 to re-elect its Presidium and Hermann Göring as President of the Reichstag. It convened again to renew the Enabling Act of 1933 for additional four years. The subsequent election in 1938 was held both in Germany and Austria, alongside a referendum that ratified the annexation of Austria to the German Reich. See also Guests of the Nazi Party Faction in the Reichstag List of Reichstag deputies in the Third Reich (3rd electoral term) Notes lower-alpha References External links Electoral propaganda posters from the Nazi era, including from the 1936 election and referendum https://web.archive.org/web/20190410131947/http://bytwerk.com/gpa/posters2.htm 10 April 2019 Parliamentary Germany Category:Elections in Nazi Germany Category:Federal elections in Germany Germany Category:One-party elections Category:Referendums in Germany Category:Single-candidate elections