List of presidents of the Reichstag
Appearance
President of the Reichstag | |
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Präsident des Reichstags | |
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Presidium of the Reichstag | |
Style | Mr. President |
Type | Presiding officer |
Seat | Reichstag building, Königsplatz, Berlin |
Nominator | Political parties |
Appointer | Reichstag traditionally appointing nominee of the largest party |
Term length | Contemporaneous to legislative period |
Constituting instrument | German Constitution |
Formation | March 1871 |
First holder | Eduard von Simson |
Final holder | Hermann Göring |
Abolished | 23 April 1945 |
Succession |
The president of the Reichstag (German: Präsident des Reichstags) was the presiding officer of the German legislature from 1871 to 1918, under the German Empire and again from 1920 to 1945, under the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany.
List of presidents
[edit]Political party: Independent NLP DKP DRP Zentrum FVP SPD DDP DNVP NSDAP
No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Term of office | Time in office | Political party | |
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Took office | Left office | |||||
Presidents of the Reichstag | ||||||
1 | Eduard von Simson (1810–1899) | March 1871 | February 1874 | 2 years, 11 months | Independent | |
2 | Max von Forckenbeck (1821–1892) | February 1874 | May 1879 | 5 years, 3 months | NlP | |
3 | Otto Theodor von Seydewitz (1818–1898) | May 1879 | February 1880 | 9 months | DKP | |
4 | Adolf von Arnim-Boitzenburg (1832–1887) | February 1880 | February 1881 | 1 year | DRP | |
5 | Gustav von Goßler (1838–1902) | February 1881 | November 1881 | 9 months | DKP | |
6 | Albert von Levetzow (1827–1903) | November 1881 | November 1884 | 3 years | DKP | |
7 | Wilhelm von Wedell-Piesdorf (1837–1915) | November 1884 | November 1888 | 4 years | DKP | |
(6) | (1827–1903) | Albert von LevetzowNovember 1888 | March 1895 | 6 years, 4 months | DKP | |
8 | Rudolf von Buol-Berenberg (1842–1902) | March 1895 | December 1898 | 3 years, 9 months | Centre | |
9 | Franz von Ballestrem (1834–1910) | December 1898 | 20 February 1907 | 8 years, 2 months | Centre | |
10 | Udo zu Stolberg-Wernigerode (1840–1910) | 20 February 1907 | 19 February 1910 † | 2 years, 364 days | DKP | |
11 | Hans von Schwerin-Löwitz (1847–1918) | 1 March 1910 | 7 February 1912 | 1 year, 343 days | DKP | |
12 | Johannes Kaempf (1842–1918) | 7 February 1912 | 25 May 1918 † | 6 years, 107 days | FVp | |
13 | Constantin Fehrenbach (1852–1926) | June 1918 | 9 November 1918 | 5 months | Centre | |
Presidents of the Weimar National Assembly | ||||||
1 | Eduard David (1863–1930) | 7 February 1919 | 13 February 1919 | 6 days | SPD | |
– | Conrad Haußmann (1857–1922) Acting | 13 February 1919 | 14 February 1919 | 1 day | DDP | |
2 | (1852–1926) | Constantin Fehrenbach14 February 1919 | 21 June 1920 | 1 year, 128 days | Centre | |
Presidents of the Reichstag | ||||||
14 | Paul Löbe (1875–1967) | 25 June 1920 | 28 May 1924 | 3 years, 338 days | SPD | |
15 | Max Wallraf (1859–1941) | 28 May 1924 | 7 January 1925 | 224 days | DNVP | |
(14) | (1875–1967) | Paul Löbe7 January 1925 | 30 August 1932 | 7 years, 236 days | SPD | |
16 | Hermann Göring (1893–1946) | 30 August 1932 | 23 April 1945 | 12 years, 236 days | NSDAP |
Timeline
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Presidium
[edit]See also
[edit]- Reichstag (North German Confederation)
- Reichstag (German Empire)
- Reichstag (Weimar Republic)
- Reichstag (Nazi Germany)