West Berlin state election, 1950

Early elections to the Berlin House of Representatives were held on 3 December 1950. In October 1950 Germany’s new constitution went into force in West Berlin which made the election required. This is the first election to the new Berlin House of Representatives as opposed to the City Council.

The top candidate of the SPD was the popular mayor Ernst Reuter , but Franz Neumann; The CDU nominated Walther Schreiber . The SPD had considerable losses, dropping 19.8 percentage points in just two years, however they still received 44.7% of the vote and were far from the largest party. The main reason for the SPD has been lost because of the tension in the state of the world. The CDU gained 5.3 percentage points to win 24.7% of the vote. The FDP won surprisingly high 23.0% of the vote. Read More…

Stahlhelm-Fraktion

Stahlhelm-Fraktion Gold Steel Helmet-Faction is the hard-line or right-wing faction of a political party , most notably the German CDU . [1] [2] [3] [4] The term refers to the hawkish, ie pro-military positions often taken by such groups and comes from the Stahlhelm , the steel helmet historically used by German soldiers. It was originally used of pro-military extremist politicians in Weimar Republic who were members of the Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten . [5] Read More…

Stadtbezirk

Stadtbezirk is a form of German city ​​district , an administrative unit within a larger city. In Germany Stadtbezirke usually only has a metropolis with more than 150,000 inhabitants.

For example, Wattenscheid , which was a town in its own right until 1974, is now a Stadtbezirk within the city of Bochum in the Ruhr area of North Rhine-Westphalia . Read More…

Shame of Gaeta

Shame of Gaeta (‚Schande von Gaeta‘) was the name given by the Nazi propaganda to the outcome of an extraterritorial vote during the referendum on the annexation of Austria ( Anschluss ) in 1938. In historical literature, the expression is sometimes used with quotation marks. In stark contrast to the overall result, the unhindered vote to a strong rejection of the Anschluss. Read More…

Prussian Secret Police

The Prussian Secret Police ( German : Preußische Geheimpolizei ) was the political police agency of the German state of Prussia in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

In 1851 Police Union of German States Was set up by the Police Forces of Austria , Prussia, Bavaria , Saxony , Hanover , Baden , and Württemberg . It has been specifically organized in the wake of the 1848 revolutions which spread across Germany. For the next fifteen years the Union is holding annual meetings to exchange information. Karl Ludwig Friedrich von Hinckeldey , the Police Commissioner of Berlin , was appointed by King Friedrich Wilhelm IV on November 16, 1848. He was a key figure in the development of thesecret police in Prussia as well as the whole union. By 1854, thanks to his close relationship with the king he was appointed Generalpolizeidirektor (General Director of Police). Effectively he was a minister of police independence from the minister of the interior. Von Hinckeldey founded the Berlin political police in Berlin and developed a Prussian information catalog on political opponents, focusing on the revolutionaries involved in the 1848 uprisings. But as he saw Paris and London as the center of political intrigue he was keen to organize the policing of political opponents outside borders of national jurisdictions. Read More…

Political culture of Germany

The political culture of Germany as of the early 21st century is known for the popular expectation of governments and social responsibility , business and labor corporatism and a multiparty system dominated by conservative and social democratic forces, with a strong influence of smaller Green , liberal and socialist parties. Coalition gouvernements are predominant on Both the federal and the state level exemplifying the German desire for consensus politics INSTEAD of one party majority rule as in Democracies That follow the Westminster model. Although this consensus is in favor of political participation and political decision making. Political decision making is more complicated by the powers held by the German states and the presence of a judicial branch with the power to review and dismiss legislation. Therefore political power in Germany is not concentrated in the hands of one or a small number of individuals but spread thinly. Even the Chancellor can only set the general guidelines for federal policies ( Richtlinienkompetenz ) and has to negotiate with many other politicians and interest groups when there is a need to take concrete measures. Read More…

Germany-Kazakhstan relations

Overview

Diplomatic relations between the Federal Republic of Germany and the Republic of Kazakhstan were established in 1991 after Kazakhstan gained independence from the Soviet Union . [1] Ethnic Germans and ethnic Kazakhs have a shared history dating back to World War II when ethnic Germans living in the Volga region of Russia were relocated or imprisoned in the eastern steppe of the Soviet Union in what is now the territory of Kazakhstan. [2] At the collapse of the Soviet Union, about one million ethnic Germans lived in Kazakhstan. [3] Read More…

Germany-Kosovo relations

German-Kosovan relations are foreign relations between Germany and Kosovo . Kosovo Declared icts independence from Serbia is 17 February 2008 and Germany Recognized it on 20 February 2008. [1] Germany HAS year embassy in Pristina since 27 February 2008. [2] Kosovo HAS year embassy in Berlin [3] and consulates in Frankfurt and Stuttgart . [4] Read More…

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