16) Chemnitz Reichstag Constituency 1867-1918

The Chemnitz Reichstag constituency was constituency No. 16 in the

Kingdom of Saxony The Kingdom of Saxony (german: Königreich Sachsen), lasting from 1806 to 1918, was an independent member of a number of historical confederacies in Napoleonic through post-Napoleonic Germany. The kingdom was formed from the Electorate of Saxo ...

which returned a deputy to the German Reichstag. It was based upon what was the town of Chemnitz. Following the

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the

entered the

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in 1866. As a consequence, the Kingdom returned Deputies to the

Reichstag of the North German Confederation The Reichstag () of the North German Confederation was the federal state's lower house of parliament. The popularly elected Reichstag was responsible for federal legislation together with the Bundesrat, the upper house whose members were appoi ...

. After the founding of the German Empire on 18 January 1871, the deputies were returned to the

Reichstag of the German Empire The Reichstag () of the German Empire was Germany's lower house of parliament from 1871 to 1918. Within the governmental structure of the Reich, it represented the national and democratic element alongside the federalism of the Bundesrat and the ...

. Following this Saxony participated in Reichstag elections from February 1867. Glauchau-Meerane returned a series of Reichstag Deputies until 1919 when the existing constituencies were scrapped. The deputies elected for the Glauchau-Meerane Reichstag constituency were as follows:

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Chemnitz Reichstag constituency Reichstag constituencies in the Kingdom of Saxony