Otto Eduard Leopold Furst von Bismarck-Schonhausen1847
Bismarck is elected to the Vereinigter Landtag
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Bismarck is elected to the Vereinigter Landtag
Presides over new elections to the Diet, results in a liberal victory
Vinckes moderates a landslide election victory to the Diet with 210 seats
Elected Member of Erfurt Parliament, a Prussian representitive
Bismarck is elected to the Landtag
The House makes repeated calls to the King to dismiss Bismarck, but the King supports him as he feared that if he dismissed him, a liberal ministry would follow. Bismarck's supporters do poorly in the elections in which a liberal coalition (whose primary member was the Progress Party) win over two-thirds of the seats in the House
Bismarck retains power because he had the support of Wilhelm who fears a liberal ministry. A liberal coalition led by the Progressive Party, Fortschrittspartei, wins 2/3 of the votes to the House of Deputies
Bismarck's supporters do poorly in the elections in which a liberal coalition (whose primary member was the Progress Party) win over two-thirds of the seats in the House.
The House makes repeated calls to the King to dismiss Bismarck, but the King supports him as he feared that if he dismissed him, a liberal ministry would follow.
The new, largely conservative House is on much better terms with Bismarck than previous bodies; at the Minister Presidents request, it retroactively approved the budgets of the past four years, which had been implemented without Parliamentary conse. In the elections to the House of Deputies the liberals suffer a major defeat, losing their large majority
The election is held during the Battle of Konigratz. Has a sufficient majority to raise an army reform budget for the 1st time in 5 yrs. Conservative victory in the chamber of 142
Elections take place for the new Reichstag
The Centre Party win 57 seats, their new popularity shocks Bismarck into action
The Tariff Law increased food prices & the Social Democrats gain 25 seats. The Centre Party holds the balance of power
Wins a working majority without dependence on the Centre Party. The parties of the Bulow Bloc win 216 seats
The main benificiaries are the Socialists who now have 110 Deputies
Begins preparations for elections to the new National Constitutional Assembly
Elections yield 33.1% for the Nazis, dropping 2 million voters, Franz von Papen steps down, and is succeeded by General Kurt von Schleicher as Reichskanzler
Wins elections to the 1st Bundestag, lower House of the Federal Assembly. CDU 139 seats, SPD 131 seats
Wins the 1st post war election for the CDU & heads a coalition Government
The CDU wins a majority in the elections to the Federal Parliament
The FDR & DDR agree to send reresentatives to the United Nations to discuss free elections. Russia opposes free elections in Germany
Helmut Schmidts coalition Government is returned with a reduced majority
The Social Democrats sustain heavy losses in West Berlin
Increases support in the general election
Elected President of Germany
West German Chancellor Helmut Kohls Christian Democratic Union suffers a major setback in West Berlin municipal elections
The SPD win the election
German Chancellor Angela Merkel re-elected to 2nd term at head of new, centre-right coalition
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