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The first election of the Saxon state parliament took place on October 20, 1946, where in Saxony the SED won 49.11% of the vote and 59 seats, the LDPD won 24.71% of the vote and 30 seats, the CDU won 23.30% of the vote and 28 seats, and the VdgB won 1.74% of the vote and 2 seats. Other political party's won 1.14% of the vote and 1 seat.
The Free State of Saxony (Upper Sorbian Swobodny stat Sakska), is a state in the east of the Federal Republic of Germany. The state, which was newly founded in 1990, is known as the "Free State" ( Freistaat ) of Saxony, free state being an older term for republic, as it was from 1919 to 1933 as a member of the Weimar Republic .
The Free State of Saxony was reconstituted with slightly altered borders in 1990, following German reunification. Besides the formerly Silesian area of Saxony, which was mostly included in the territory of the new Saxony, the free state gained further areas north of Leipzig that had belonged to Saxony-Anhalt until 1952.
Saxony (1949–1952) State of the German Democratic Republic (1949–1952) Max Seydewitz (1892–1987) 7 October 1949 23 July 1952 2 years, 290 days Socialist Unity Party: Seydewitz II SED–CDU–LDP–DBD–NDPD–FDGB: 2 Oct. 1950: From 23 July 1952 until 3 October 1990, Free State of Saxony was abolished.
In 1871, Saxony was incorporated into the German Empire and more voting rights were gradually extended. By the early 1900s, Saxony's local politics had settled into a niche in which Social Democrats, Conservatives, and National Liberals were splitting the share of votes and Landtag seats three ways. (In 1909: Social Democrats won 27% of seats ...
Free Saxons - Monarchist and regionalist political party operating in the German state of Saxony. Sovereign citizen movement – a similar movement which is primarily active in the United States and Anglosphere countries. Freeman on the land movement – an offshoot of the sovereign citizen movement, it is active in Canada and other Anglosphere ...
The State Office for the Protection of the Constitution of Saxony classified the alliance as right-wing extremists in June 2021. [6] Since January 2022, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution has classified the Free Saxons as a suspected case of anti-constitutional activity and observed them nationwide. [7]
Coat of arms of the Ernestines. The Ernestine duchies (German: Ernestinische Herzogtümer), also known as the Saxon duchies (Sächsische Herzogtümer, although the Albertine appanage duchies of Weissenfels, Merseburg and Zeitz were also "Saxon duchies" and adjacent to several Ernestine ones), were a group of small states whose number varied, which were largely located in the present-day German ...