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19-652: Hannover-Land II was created for the inaugural 1949 federal election . Since 2005, it has been represented by Matthias Miersch of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). Hannover-Land II is located in central Lower Saxony . As of the 2021 federal election, it comprises the northern part of the Hanover Region, specifically the municipalities of Barsinghausen , Gehrden , Hemmingen , Laatzen , Lehrte , Pattensen , Ronnenberg , Seelze , Sehnde , Springe , Uetze , and Wennigsen . Hannover-Land II

38-621: A list member, or other incumbent. A [REDACTED] Y or [REDACTED] N denotes status of any incumbent , win or lose respectively. 1949 West German federal election First Adenauer cabinet CDU/CSU – FDP – DP Federal elections were held in West Germany on 14 August 1949 to elect the members of the first Bundestag , with a further eight seats elected in West Berlin between 1949 and January 1952 and another eleven between February 1952 and 1953. They were

57-496: A list member, or other incumbent. A [REDACTED] Y or [REDACTED] N denotes status of any incumbent , win or lose respectively. Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list. Yellow background denotes an electorate win by a list member, or other incumbent. A [REDACTED] Y or [REDACTED] N denotes status of any incumbent , win or lose respectively. Blue background denotes

76-756: A united, democratic and socialist Germany. Schumacher had heavily agitated against the forced merger of the Communist Party (KPD) and SPD (both in the Soviet occupation zone ) into the Socialist Unity Party of Germany and he had also turned the party's course away from the working class advocacy group of the Weimar Republic towards a left-wing big tent party with distinct patriotic features. He constantly accused Adenauer of betraying national interests, culminating in his heckling at

95-745: The German presidential election , defeated by FDP chairman Theodor Heuss in the second ballot. Schumacher died on 20 August 1952 of the long-term consequences of his concentration camp imprisonment during the Nazi years. Adenauer had favoured the formation of a smaller centre-right coalition from the beginning. Nominated by the CDU/CSU faction, he was elected the first Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany on 15 September 1949 by an absolute majority of 202 of 402 votes. Adenauer had ensured that

114-450: The West Berlin legislature ( Stadtverordnetenversammlung ) are included below in parentheses. The French Saar Protectorate did not participate in this election. Schumacher had explicitly refused a grand coalition and led his party into opposition, where it would remain until December 1966 , assuming the chair of the SPD parliamentary group as minority leader. On 12 September 1949, he lost

133-684: The British Zone since March 1946, believed in moderate, non-denominational and Christian democracy, social market economy and integration with the West. In 1948 he had become president of the Parlamentarischer Rat , an office that added to his popularity as protagonist of a "state-to-be". He attacked social democracy and the British, especially, dismantling of industry. The Social Democratic (SPD) leader, Kurt Schumacher , wanted

152-662: The Bundestag session of 25 September 1949: "The Chancellor of the Allies!". Schumacher criticized the Catholic Church, calling it the fifth occupying power and criticized denominational education. In the end and to the great disappointment of the Social Democrats, the CDU/CSU outnumbered them by 31.0% to 29.2% of the votes cast. Enough participating West Germans favoured Adenauer's and his coalition partners' –

171-539: The Social Democratic Party (SPD) during all but three Bundestag terms since its creation. Its first representative was Hans Jahn of the SPD, who served from 1949 to 1961. He was succeeded by fellow SPD member Werner Marquardt , who served until 1976. The SPD's Günter Kiehm served a single term before the constituency was won by Herbert Lattmann of the CDU in 1983. Kiehm regained it in 1987, but Lattmann

190-586: The first free federal elections in West Germany since 1933 and the first after the division of the country. The CDU/CSU formed a centre-right coalition government with the FDP and the DP. After World War II , the German Instrument of Surrender and the country's division into four Allied occupation zones , the elections were held in the Federal Republic of Germany, established under occupation statute in

209-484: The independent city of Hanover . After administrative boundaries were redrawn, from the 1980 election the constituency comprised the municipalities of Barsinghausen, Gehrden, Hemmingen, Laatzen, Pattensen, Ronnenberg, Seelze, Sehnde, Springe, Wennigsen, and Wunstorf from the Landkreis Hannover district. In the 2002 election, it lost Wunstorf while gaining Uetze und Lehrte. The constituency has been held by

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228-583: The liberal Free Democrats ' (FDP) and the conservative German Party 's (DP) – policies and promises over Schumacher's and the other left-wingers' policies to give the centre-right parties a slight majority of deputies. To enter the Bundestag, a party had to surmount a threshold of 5% at least in one of the states or to win at least one electoral district; ten parties succeeded. A number of non-voting members (elected in 1949:2 CDU, 5 SPD, 1 FDP; joined in February 1952 by: 3 CDU, 4 SPD, 4 FDP) indirectly elected by

247-572: The three Western zones with the proclamation of its Basic Law by the Parlamentarischer Rat assembly of the West German states on 23 May 1949. Most West German parties at the time of the 1949 Bundestag election were committed to democracy, but they disagreed on what kind of democracy West Germany should become. The Christian Democratic (CDU) leader, 73-year-old Konrad Adenauer , former mayor of Cologne and party chairman in

266-538: The votes of the predominantly Social Democrat West Berlin deputies did not count and later stated that he "naturally" had voted for himself. On 20 September, he formed the Cabinet Adenauer I of CDU/CSU, FDP, and DP ministers. Chosen as an interim Chancellor, he held the office until 1963, being re-elected three times ( in 1953 , in 1957 and in 1961 ). First Adenauer cabinet The First Adenauer cabinet ( German : Kabinett Adenauer I )

285-480: The winner of the electorate vote. Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list. Yellow background denotes an electorate win by a list member, or other incumbent. A [REDACTED] Y or [REDACTED] N denotes status of any incumbent , win or lose respectively. Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list. Yellow background denotes an electorate win by

304-426: Was created in 1949, then known as Hannover-Land . In the 1965 through 1976 elections, it was named Hannover III . It acquired its current name in the 1980 election. In the inaugural Bundestag election, it was Lower Saxony constituency 20 in the numbering system. From 1953 through 1961, it was number 42. From 1965 through 1976, it was number 38. From 1980 through 1998, it was number 42. In the 2002 and 2005 elections, it

323-413: Was elected in 1990 and again in 1994. In 1998, Horst Schild of the SPD won the constituency and served two terms as representative. He was succeeded in 2005 by Matthias Miersch, who was re-elected in 2009, 2013, 2017, and 2021. Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list. Yellow background denotes an electorate win by

342-499: Was number 47. In the 2009 election, it was number 48. Since the 2013 election, it has been number 47. Originally, the constituency comprised the entirety of the now-abolished Landkreis Hannover district, as well as the municipalities of Lehrte and Sehnde from the Burgdorf district. In the 1965 through 1976 elections, it comprised the Landkreis Hannover district and the quarters of Döhren, Wülfel, Kirchrode, Bemerode, and Wülferode from

361-554: Was the 1st Government of Federal Republic of Germany in office from 20 September 1949 until 20 October 1953. It was the first democratically-elected German cabinet after World War II . The cabinet was formed after the 1949 elections . Konrad Adenauer reached an agreement on a coalition with the Free Democratic Party (FDP), German Party (DP) and his Christian Democratic Union (CDU) together with their Bavarian sister party Christian Social Union (CSU), setting

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