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. 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. 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 PartyFebruary 1867*Christian Riedel(DFP)August 1867Christian Riedel(DFP)Reichstag of the German Empire1871Julius Pfeiffer(NLP)1874Julius Pfeiffer(NLP)1877Julius Pfeiffer(NLP)1878Hermann Rentzsch(NLP)1881Louis Heinrich Buddeberg(DFP)1884Louis Heinrich Buddeberg(DFP)1887Louis Heinrich Buddeberg(DFP)1890Louis Heinrich Buddeberg(DFP)1893Louis Heinrich Buddeberg(FVg)1898Edmond H. Fischer(SDP)1903Edmond H. Fischer(SDP)1907Louis Heinrich Buddeberg(FVg)1912Edmond H. Fischer(SDP)Key to political partiesDeutsche 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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