Global InformationZittau Reichstag constituency information
The Zittau Reichstag constituency was constituency No. 1 in the Kingdom of Saxony which returned a deputy to the German Reichstag. It is based upon the town of Zittau.
Following the North German Confederation Treaty the Kingdom of Saxon entered the North German Confederation in 1866.[1] As a consequence, the Kingdom returned Deputies to the Reichstag. After the founding of the German Empire on 18 January 1871, the deputies were returned to the Reichstag of the German Empire.[2] Following this Saxony participated in Reichstag elections from February 1867. Zittau returned a series of Reichstag Deputies until 1919 when the existing constituencies were scrapped.
The deputies elected for Zittau were as follows:
| North German Federation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Election | Reichstag Deputy | Party |
| February 1867* | Christian Riedel | (DFP) |
| August 1867 | Christian Riedel | (DFP) |
| Reichstag of the German Empire | ||
| 1871 | Julius Pfeiffer | (NLP) |
| 1874 | Julius Pfeiffer | (NLP) |
| 1877 | Julius Pfeiffer | (NLP) |
| 1878 | Hermann Rentzsch | (NLP) |
| 1881 | Louis Heinrich Buddeberg | (DFP) |
| 1884 | Louis Heinrich Buddeberg | (DFP) |
| 1887 | Louis Heinrich Buddeberg | (DFP) |
| 1890 | Louis Heinrich Buddeberg | (DFP) |
| 1893 | Louis Heinrich Buddeberg | (FVg) |
| 1898 | Edmond H. Fischer | (SDP) |
| 1903 | Edmond H. Fischer | (SDP) |
| 1907 | Louis Heinrich Buddeberg | (FVg) |
| 1912 | Edmond H. Fischer | (SDP) |
| Key to political parties | ||
| Deutsche Fortschrittspartei – German Progress Party | (DFP) | |
| Nationalliberale Partei – National Liberal Party | (NLP) | |
| Freisinnige Vereinigung (FVg) – Free-minded People's Party (Germany) | (FVg) | |
| Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands – Social Democratic Party of Germany | (SDP) | |
| *In this election the constituency included Herrnhut and Reichenau | ||
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