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unusual facts about German federal election, November 1932



Agricultural League

Through their leading member, Martin Schiele, the National Rural League was involved in the government of Heinrich Brüning, which led to the expulsion of the Schiele group from the DNVP and helped the German Country People's Party (CNBLP) to make large gains in the German federal election, 1930.

Anarchist Pogo Party of Germany

The party took part in the German federal election, 2005 with their chancellor candidate Wolfgang Wendland, who is also the lead singer of the German punk-band "Die Kassierer" ("The Cashiers").

Blaubach

In the 1933 Reichstag elections, the people of Blaubach voted 70.1% for Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party (NSDAP).

Bosenbach

In the 1933 Reichstag elections, the people of Bosenbach voted 86.3% for Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party (NSDAP).

Dennweiler-Frohnbach

In the 1930 Reichstag elections, 7.7% of the local votes went to Adolf Hitler’s party.

By the time of the 1933 Reichstag elections, after Hitler had already seized power, local support for the Nazis had swollen to 82.4%.

Eckart von Klaeden

Eckart Peter Hans von Klaeden (born 18 November 1965 in Hanover, Lower Saxony) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union, serving as Minister of State at the German Chancellery since 28 October 2009 (after the German federal election, September 2009, Angela Merkel formed a black-yellow coalition and her Cabinet Merkel II).

Erich Ollenhauer

Ollenhauer entered the Bundestag after the 1949 German federal elections.

Free-minded Union

In 1907, the three parties drafted a common electoral program for the elections to the Reichstag.

German federal election, 2009

One of the lighter moments in the campaign came when CDU candidate Vera Lengsfeld released a campaign poster featuring herself and Merkel in a way that emphasised their cleavage.

German federal election, 2013

Germany's major polling agencies are Allensbach, Emnid, Forsa, Forschungsgruppe Wahlen, GMS, Infratest dimap and INSA/YouGov.

Merkel-Raute: Described by The Guardian as "probably one of the most recognisable hand gestures in the world", Angela Merkel's trademark has become a political symbol used by both her supporters and opponents.

German Free-minded Party

Under party chairman Franz August Schenk von Stauffenberg with his deputies Albert Hänel and Rudolf Virchow however, the Free-minded Party received disappointing 17.6% of the votes in the 1884 election, representing a drop of 3.6% from the combined parties' results in the previous 1881 election.

Hans-Christian Ströbele

Given his local reputation, other parties tried to counter him with creative campaigns (notably Vera Lengsfeld "we have more to offer") for the federal elections of 2009 but again Ströbele won the direct mandate, now by 46.8% of the vote and again with 39.9% in 2013.

Helmut Brandt

In the 2009 federal elections, he won a seat for the district of Aachen (which includes the communities around Aachen, but not the city itself) with 40.2 percent of the primary vote.

Hermann Ude

Prior to the German federal election, 2013 in summer, German press reported that Hermann Ude allegedly tried to blackmail Peer Steinbrück, the social-democratic candidate for the German chancellorship.

Herta Däubler-Gmelin

On September 18, 2002, four days before Schröder's re-election, she attended a meeting at a restaurant in Derendingen (near Tübingen) with about 30 trade unionists from two local factories (the topic was "Globalization and Labor").

Horschbach

In the 1928 Reichstag elections, none of the local votes went to Adolf Hitler’s party, but by the 1930 Reichstag elections, this had grown to 23.9%.

By the time of the 1933 Reichstag elections, after Hitler had already seized power, local support for the Nazis had swollen to 92.5%.

Katrin Göring-Eckardt

In 2009, she sought again to win a constituency seat in her state, this time Gotha – Ilm-Kreis; she still could not gain a constituency-based seat but once again got re-elected on the state list.

Klaus Uwe Benneter

He contested the Steglitz-Zehlendorf seat again at the 2009 election.

Martin Hohmann

He kept his seat as an independent member of parliament until the next Bundestag election of 2005.

Max Mannheimer

During campaigning for the German federal election, 2013, he invited Chancellor Angela Merkel to visit Dachau, making her the first chancellor to visit a former concentration camp.

North Rhine-Westphalia state election, 2005

Further, SPD party leader Franz Müntefering and German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder unexpectedly announced preliminary plans to call an early federal election in autumn 2005, saying that the current federal coalition needed a fresh mandate to continue with reforms.

Otto Wels

Even after the Preußenschlag of July 1932 against Otto Braun's government in the Free State of Prussia, he spoke against a general strike; however after the Reichstag election of November 1932 he rejected any negotiations with the new Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher.

Recognition of same-sex unions in Germany

Federal elections were held on 22 September 2013, after which a new government coalition needs to be formed.

Rutsweiler an der Lauter

By the time of the 1933 Reichstag elections, after Hitler had already seized power, local support for the Nazis had swollen to 89.6%.

In the 1928 Reichstag elections, 17.8% of the local votes went to Adolf Hitler’s party, but by the 1930 Reichstag elections, this had grown to 60.6%.

The Left North Rhine-Westphalia

In 2009, the Left Party participated in its first municipal and federal elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, and after the state elections in May 2010, they entered the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia with 5.6% of the vote.

Ulrich Kienzle

In the 2000s (decade), Kienzle hosted a ZDF program on the German political party's campaigns in the run up to the German federal election, 2002, and is contributing to a ZDF magazine on the economy (WISO) since 2003.

Wahnwegen

In the 1930 Reichstag elections, 3% of the local votes went to Adolf Hitler’s party, but by the time of the 1933 Reichstag elections, after Hitler had already seized power, local support for the Nazis had swollen to 36.1%.

Wolfgang Wodarg

He was a representative for the directly elected Bundestag seat for the Flensburg-Schleswig constituency from 1994 but lost his mandate in the 2009 German federal election.


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