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Rigsdagen
Denmark
Type
Type
Bicameral
Houses
Folketing Landsting
History
Founded
5 June 1849 (1849-06-05)
Disbanded
5 June 1953 (1953-06-05)
Succeeded by
Folketing
Seats
225 voting members
76 Landsting
149 Folketing
Elections
First Landsting election
Danish Landsting election, 1849
First Folketing election
1849 Danish Folketing election
Last Landsting election
Danish Landsting election, 1953
Last Folketing election
1953 Danish Folketing election
Meeting place
Copenhagen, Denmark
The Rigsdag (Danish: Rigsdagen) was the name of the national legislature of Denmark from 1849 to 1953.
The Rigsdag was Denmark's first parliament, and it was incorporated in the Constitution of 1849. It was a bicameral legislature, consisting of two houses, the Folketing and the Landsting. The distinction between the two houses was not always clear, as they had equal power. In 1953, a new constitution was approved by referendum and adopted, with the result that the Rigsdag and the Landsting were eliminated in favor of a unicameral legislature under the name of the Folketing. The Rigsdag, like today's Folketing, sat in Christiansborg Palace in the centre of Copenhagen.
Membership in the Rigsdag was limited to certain sectors of society – women were not allowed to join, and neither were about a quarter of all men over 30, mostly due to their condition as servants or welfare recipients.
The name is a cognate of the names of several legislatures in other Germanic countries, such as the Reichstag in Germany, the Riksdag in Sweden, or the Riksdag in Finland. (For a discussion of the traditional Germanic councils that gave root to bodies such as these, see the article on ting-style councils.)
The Rigsdag (Danish: Rigsdagen) was the name of the national legislature of Denmark from 1849 to 1953. The Rigsdag was Denmark's first parliament, and...
the Folketing. They were the last elections to the upper house of the Rigsdagen, as the Landsting was abolished later in the year following the introduction...
Folketinget (the lower house of Rigsdagen). However, they only had 34 out of 76 seats in Landstinget (the upper house of Rigsdagen), and thus needed the support...
Denmark Rigsdagen Under the 1849 constitution Rigsdagen was created, with two houses, an upper and a lower house. However, after the 1953 referendum...
Sweden and Finland, the latter called eduskunta in the Finnish language Rigsdagen, the parliament of Denmark from 1849 to 1953, Riksråd, generic name in...
Riigikogu, as well as the historical German Reichstag and the Danish Rigsdagen. In Swedish use, riksdagen is usually not capitalised. Riksdag derives...
established a parliamentary system by creating a new bicameral parliament (Rigsdagen) and a Council Presidium, headed by a council president. The Council Presidium...
derived its authority from powers delegated to it from Rigsdagen. With regards to the extend Rigsdagen was allowed to delegate its legislative power under...
Archived from the original on 21 October 2020. Steining, Jørgen (1953). "Rigsdagen og Færøerne". In Bomholt, Jul.; Fabricius, Knud; Hjelholt, Holger; Mackeprang...
member of the Landsting (one of two chambers of the Danish Parliament, the Rigsdagen); but it is as a teacher at the university that he won his reputation...
the meeting place of the two houses of the first Danish Parliament (the Rigsdagen). The second Christiansborg burned down in 1884. The showgrounds, including...
upon a rupture with Sweden at the first convenient opportunity. When Rigsdagen assembled on 23 February 1657, it willingly granted considerable subsidies...
Adam Wilhelm Moltke (first) • 1950–1953 Erik Eriksen (last) Legislature Rigsdagen • Upper house Landstinget • Lower house Folketing History • Established...
(disambiguation), the cognate of Reichstag in Scandinavian countries Rigsdagen, Parliament of Denmark (1849–1953) In modern Germany, the Bundestag and...
air traffic control provided by Naviair. In 1935, representatives of Rigsdagen, Rønne municipality and Det Danske Luftfartsselskab (DDL) − later a part...
handbook, p524 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7 Nordengaard, J. P. (1949). Valgene til Rigsdagen gennem 100 Aar (in Danish). Roskilde Dagbladstrykkeri. pp. chapter III...
handbook, p524 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7 Wendt. "Rigsdagen 1915-40". Den Danske Rigsdag 1849-1949 bind II - Rigsdagens histore 1866-1949. p. 392. Nohlen & Stöver...
II – Rigsdagens histore 1866–1949 (in Danish). Copenhagen: J. H. Schultz Forlag, pp. 516–517. Nordengaard, J. P. (1949). Valgene til Rigsdagen gennem...
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