Biographies of the representatives of the constituent Prussian Landesversammlung and the Prussian Landtag 1919-1933
Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut (FMI)
Koserstr. 20
14195 Berlin
(Academic Staff)
bwedding@zedat.fu-berlin.de
Stefanie Schrader
(Former Student Assistant)
stefanie.schrader@fu-berlin.de
Biographies of the representatives of the constituent Prussian Landesversammlung and the Prussian Landtag 1919-1933
After their move into the building of the former Prussian Landesparlament in the middle of the 1990s a decision of the Berlin House of Representatives prompted the initiative of this research project. It was decided to commemorate those representatives of the Prussian Landesparlament who were victims of the national socialist or of the communist regime. However, after the decision was made it was found out that no list of the members of the Prussian Landtag from 1919-1933 existed. Neither was there a monograph that illustrated the circa 1400 corresponding biographies. The people who should be commemorated remained unidentifiable for the Berlin House of Representatives.
Consequently, the aim of this research project is the creation of a database, part of which was compiled by students in a main seminar. The resulting research project sets as its goal the creation of a detailed biographic handbook that continues the existing account of the Prussian parliament from the end of the Kaiserreich and that pays especial attention the persecution of representatives after 1933. After all, this also should be a contribution to the History of parliamentarianism in democratic Prussia, since the Prussian Landtag was known as democratic stronghold in the times of the Weimar Republic. Its Weimar coalition made up the government almost constantly from 1919 until the Prussian coup (“Preußenschlag”) in the year 1932.Funded by the German Research Foundation and by the Berlin House of Reprensentatives (Abgeordnetenhaus Berlin).
