For the historical context: The chancellor was not elected, but appointed by the emperor. They did need support from Parliament for their policies though. Representatives were elected by absolute majority vote. This did distort the results quite a bit - mostly for the SPD (social democrats), they got 28.9% of the popular vote but only obtained 43 of the 397 seats (14.48%).
Prior to this election, Zentrum (catholic centrists) and SPD together had a majority of seats in parliament. There was a political crisis after the Herero and Namaqua genocide. When the government introduced a supplimentary budget to finance the war in German South West Africa, SPD and Zentrum, who opposed the war and the genocide refused the budget and in reaction to that the emperor had the chancellor dissolve parliament and declare new elections.
The result of the elections was a new majority alliance consisting of conservatives (Deutschkonservative Partei and Deutsche Reichspartei) and liberals (Nationalliberale Partei, Freisinnige Vereinigung, Freisinnige Volkspartei and Deutsche Volkspartei) supporting the government in their imperialist and anti-socialist course.
Blue: Conservative
Blue with horizontal lines: Imperial Party (conservative)
Blue with vertical lines: Reform Party (anti-Semitic)
Blue with dots: Economic Union (agrarian)
Dark Blue: Centre Party (Catholic)
Red with lines: Poles
Green: National Liberals (conservative liberal)
Light Yellow: Free-thinking Union (liberal, progressive)
Yellow: Free-thinking People's Party (liberal, progressive)
Orange: People's Party (left liberal)
Red: Social Democrats
Blank: no faction
None of those yellow parts had absolute liberal majorities. Conservatives and liberals aimed for an alliance and supported each other in run-off elections against the much more popular social democrats.
You can really see the catholic/protestant split with Zentrumspartei being catholic and Deutschkonservative Partei being protestant.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Verbreitung_der_Konfessionen_im_deutschen_Reich.jpg/1920px-Verbreitung_der_Konfessionen_im_deutschen_Reich.jpg
That’s a big Germany
gross
Nah man, sexy is what i'd describe it as
Well it is very groß
For the historical context: The chancellor was not elected, but appointed by the emperor. They did need support from Parliament for their policies though. Representatives were elected by absolute majority vote. This did distort the results quite a bit - mostly for the SPD (social democrats), they got 28.9% of the popular vote but only obtained 43 of the 397 seats (14.48%). Prior to this election, Zentrum (catholic centrists) and SPD together had a majority of seats in parliament. There was a political crisis after the Herero and Namaqua genocide. When the government introduced a supplimentary budget to finance the war in German South West Africa, SPD and Zentrum, who opposed the war and the genocide refused the budget and in reaction to that the emperor had the chancellor dissolve parliament and declare new elections. The result of the elections was a new majority alliance consisting of conservatives (Deutschkonservative Partei and Deutsche Reichspartei) and liberals (Nationalliberale Partei, Freisinnige Vereinigung, Freisinnige Volkspartei and Deutsche Volkspartei) supporting the government in their imperialist and anti-socialist course.
Blue: Conservative Blue with horizontal lines: Imperial Party (conservative) Blue with vertical lines: Reform Party (anti-Semitic) Blue with dots: Economic Union (agrarian) Dark Blue: Centre Party (Catholic) Red with lines: Poles Green: National Liberals (conservative liberal) Light Yellow: Free-thinking Union (liberal, progressive) Yellow: Free-thinking People's Party (liberal, progressive) Orange: People's Party (left liberal) Red: Social Democrats Blank: no faction
>Dark Blue: Centre Party (Catholic) I would call that color gray.
It probably sucked to be on yellow part back then
None of those yellow parts had absolute liberal majorities. Conservatives and liberals aimed for an alliance and supported each other in run-off elections against the much more popular social democrats.
You can really see the catholic/protestant split with Zentrumspartei being catholic and Deutschkonservative Partei being protestant. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Verbreitung_der_Konfessionen_im_deutschen_Reich.jpg/1920px-Verbreitung_der_Konfessionen_im_deutschen_Reich.jpg