Politics of Hesse

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The politics of Hesse takes place within a framework of a federal parliamentary representative democratic republic, where the Federal Government of Germany exercises sovereign rights with certain powers reserved to the states of Germany including Hesse. The state has a multi-party system where, as in most other states of former Western Germany and the federal level, the three main parties are the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), and the centre-left Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).

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Governments of Hesse

The governments and ministers-President (Ministerpräsidenten) of the People's State of Hesse during the time of the Weimar Republic were:

  1. 1919–1928: Center-right government, an SPD–DDP–Zentrum coalition led by Carl Ulrich (SPD) as minister-president
  2. 1928–1933: Center-right government, an SPD–DDP–Zentrum coalition led by Bernhard Adelung (SPD) as minister-president

The governments of the National Socialist era:

  1. 1933: National Socialist government with Ferdinand Werner (NSDAP) as minister-president
  2. 1933–1935: National Socialist government with Philipp Wilhelm Jung (NSDAP) as minister-president
  3. 1935–1945: National Socialist government with Jakob Sprenger (NSDAP) as minister-president

The governments and minister-Presidents of Hesse since the establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany:

  1. 1945: Military occupation provisional government led by Ludwig Bergsträsser(SPD), appointed by the U.S. Military
  2. 1945–1946: Military occupation provisional government led by Karl Geiler (no party), appointed by the U.S. military
  3. 1946–1950: Theoretically a CDU–SPD grand coalition with Christian Stock (SPD) as minister-president, though U.S. Military Occupation remained through 1949.
  4. 1950–1969: First truly non-military government of the Federal Republic, led by Georg-August Zinn (SPD), whose SPD ruled in coalition with the All-German Bloc/League of Expellees and Deprived of Rights, a party of expelled eastern Germans whose political goal was to retrieve their homelands (heimatlaender); and also with the League of Expellees' successors party the Gesamtdeutsche Partei.
  5. 1969–1976: Center-left government of the SPD-FDP, with Albert Osswald (SPD) as minister-president
  6. 1976–1982: Center-left government of the SPD-FDP continued with Holger Börner (SPD) as minister-president.
  7. 1982–1984: Center-left government of the SPD (single party rule) with Holger Börner (SPD) as minister-president.
  8. 1984–1987: Center-left government of the SPD–Greens with Holger Börner (SPD) as minister-president.
  9. 1987–1991: Center-right government of the CDU–FDP with Walter Wallmann (CDU) as minister-president.
  10. 1991–1999: Center-left government of the SPD–Greens with Hans Eichel (SPD) as minister-president.
  11. 1999–2003: Center-right government of the CDU–FDP with Roland Koch (CDU) as minister-president.
  12. 2003–2009: Center-right government of the CDU (single party rule) with Roland Koch (CDU) as minister-president.
  13. 2009–2010: Center-right government of the CDU-FDP with Roland Koch (CDU) as minister-president.
  14. 2010–2014: Center-right government of the CDU–FDP with Volker Bouffier (CDU) as minister-president.
  15. 2014–2019: Center-right government of the CDU–Greens with Volker Bouffier (CDU) as minister-president.
  16. 2019–2022: Center-right government of the CDU–Greens with Volker Bouffier (CDU) as minister-president. Bouffier resigned in 2022, thus prematurely ending his third term serving as minister-president.
  17. 2022–present: Center-right government of the CDU–Greens with Boris Rhein (CDU) as minister-president. [1]

Since 1950, the SPD has been in the Hesse government 45 years, the CDU for 28 years; the FDP acted as coalition partners with either CDU or SPD for 21 years (13 with SPD, 8 with CDU).

Landtag of Hesse

Party strength in the Landtag

Election yearTotal
seats		Seats won [2]
SPD CDU FDP GB/BHE Grüne Linke AfD Other
Dec 1946 9038281410 [a]
1950 80471221A90
1954 964424217
1958 96483297
1962 965128116
1966 965226108 [b]
1970 110534611
1974 11049538
1978 11050537
1982 11049529
1983 110514487
1987 1104447910
1991 1104646810
1995 1104445813
1999 110465068
2003 1103356912
2008 11042421196
2009 118294620176
2013 11037476146
2018 13729401129919
2023 133235282228

Legislative compositions

State election results maps

Constituencies in the Landtag

Constituencies in the Bundestag

NoConstituencyMember2021Voters20172013200920052002199819941990
166 Waldeck Esther Dilcher SPD184,073SPD CDU SPDSPDSPDSPDSPD SPD
167 Kassel Timon Gremmels SPD218,474SPDSPDSPDSPDSPDSPDSPD SPD
168 Werra-Meißner – Hersfeld-Rotenburg Michael Roth SPD171,886SPDSPDSPDSPD SPD Created for 2002 election
169 Schwalm-Eder Edgar Franke SPD185,944SPDSPDSPDSPDSPDSPDSPD SPD
170 Marburg Sören Bartol SPD181,588SPDSPDSPDSPDSPDSPD SPD CDU
171 Lahn-Dill Dagmar Schmidt SPD206,532CDUCDU CDU SPDSPDSPDSPD SPD
172 Gießen Felix Döring SPD217,514CDUCDU CDU SPDSPDSPDSPD SPD
173 Fulda Michael Brand CDU208,542CDUCDUCDUCDUCDUCDUCDU CDU
174 Main-Kinzig – Wetterau II – Schotten Bettina Müller SPD 178,307CDU CDU Created for 2013 election
175 Hochtaunus Markus Koob CDU179,842CDUCDUCDUCDUCDUCDUCDU CDU
176 Wetterau I Natalie Pawlik SPD176,897CDUCDUCDUSPDSPD SPD CDU CDU
177 Rheingau-Taunus – Limburg Klaus-Peter Willsch CDU220,466CDUCDUCDUCDUCDUCDUCDU CDU
178 Wiesbaden Ingmar Jung CDU186,735CDUCDUCDUSPDSPD SPD CDU CDU
179 Hanau Lennard Oehl SPD176,271CDUCDUCDUSPDSPD SPD CDU CDU
180 Main-Taunus Norbert Altenkamp CDU195,514CDUCDUCDUCDU CDU Created for 2002 election
181 Frankfurt am Main I Armand Zorn SPD201,216CDUCDUCDUSPD SPD CDUCDU CDU
182 Frankfurt am Main II Omid Nouripour Grüne 227,207CDUCDUCDUCDUSPD SPD CDU CDU
183 Groß-Gerau Melanie Wegling SPD174,082CDUCDUCDUSPDSPDSPD CDU SPD
184 Offenbach Björn Simon CDU219,511CDUCDUCDUCDUSPD SPD CDU CDU
185 Darmstadt Andreas Larem SPD240,763CDUSPDSPDSPDSPD CDU SPD
186 Odenwald Jens Zimmermann SPD233,901CDUCDUCDUCDUSPD SPD CDU CDU
187 Bergstraße Michael Meister CDU197,782CDUCDUCDUCDUSPD SPD CDU CDU

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Landtag – Wechsel an Regierungsspitze: Boris Rhein Ministerpräsident". www.zeit.de. 31 May 2022. Archived from the original on 2023-03-17. Retrieved 2023-08-14.
  2. ↑ "Landtagswahlen | Hessischer Landtag".


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