Jump to content

1st Saeima

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

First Saeima of the Republic of Latvia

1. Latvijas Republikas Saeima
History
Preceded byConstitutional Assembly of Latvia
Succeeded by2nd Saeima
Leadership
Frīdrihs Vesmanis (until 17 March 1925)
Pauls Kalniņš (from 20 March 1925)
Structure

The 1st Saeima was the parliament of Latvia from 7 November 1922 until 2 November 1925. It was the first Saeima to be elected after the Constitutional Assembly of Latvia had created the Constitution of Latvia and the Elections Law.

Social-Democrat Frīdrihs Vesmanis was Speaker of the Saeima until 17 March 1925 followed by Social Democrat Pauls Kalniņš.

The 1st Saeima gave confidence to the 1st cabinet of Zigfrīds Anna Meierovics (20 July 1922 – 26 January 1923), cabinet of Jānis Pauļuks (27 January 1923 – 27 June 1923), 2nd cabinet of Meierovics (28 June 1923 – 26 January 1924), cabinet of Voldemārs Zāmuēls (25 January 1924 – 17 December 1924) and the 1st cabinet of Hugo Celmiņš (19 December 1924 – 23 December 1925).

Elections and parties

[edit]

1st Saeima elections were held on 7–8 October 1922 and 82,2% (800,840 people) of eligible voters participated. Due to the liberal Elections law, 20 parties were elected to the 100 seats, representing all the political and ethnic interest groups of Latvia. Of the 100 MPs, 84 were Latvians, 62 had a higher education, 22 had a secondary education, 7 had graduated from teacher training colleges and 9 had a primary education.[1]

List of Saeima deputies

[edit]

First Saeima deputies list.[2]

  1. Arturs Alberings
  2. Kristaps Bahmanis
  3. Viktors Barkāns
  4. Voldemārs Bastjānis
  5. Ernests Bauers
  6. Arveds Bergs
  7. Pēteris Berģis
  8. Ernests Birkhāns
  9. Alfrēds Birznieks
  10. Roberts Bīlmanis
  11. Aleksandrs Bočagovs
  12. Augusts Briedis
  13. Kristaps Bungšs
  14. Ansis Buševics
  15. Kārlis Būmeisters
  16. Hugo Celmiņš
  17. Jūlijs Celms
  18. Fēlikss Cielēns
  19. Jānis Čakste
  20. Kārlis Dēķens
  21. Morduhs Dubins
  22. Jānis Ducens
  23. Roberts Dukurs
  24. Antons Dzenis
  25. Kristaps Eliass
  26. Ernests Felsbergs
  27. Manfrēds Fēgezaks
  28. Vilhelms Firkss
  29. Leopolds Fišmanis
  30. Pauls Gailīts
  31. Jānis Goldmanis
  32. Eduards Grantskalns
  33. Teodors Grīnbergs
  34. Ernests Gulbis
  35. Kārlis Gulbis
  36. Jons Hāns
  37. Vilis Holcmanis
  38. Kārlis Irbe
  39. Roberts Ivanovs
  40. Eduards Jaunzems
  41. Staņislavs Jubuls
  42. Jānis Kalējs
  43. Meletijs Kallistratovs
  44. Ringolds Kalnings
  45. Arvīds Kalniņš
  46. Augusts Kalniņš
  47. Bruno Kalniņš
  48. Nikolajs Kalniņš
  49. Pauls Kalniņš
  50. Kārlis Kasparsons
  51. Karls Kellers
  52. Francis Kemps
  53. Ādolfs Klīve
  54. Egons Knops
  55. Pēteris Koreckis
  56. Pēteris Kotans
  57. Bernards Kublinskis
  58. Alberts Kviesis
  59. Jēkabs Ķullīts
  60. Maksis Lazersons
  61. Pauls Lejiņš
  62. Rūdolfs Lindiņš
  63. Klāvs Lorencs
  64. Noijs Maizels
  65. Jānis Mazvērsīts
  66. Zigfrīds Meierovics
  67. Fricis Menders
  68. Ernests Morics
  69. Oto Nonācs
  70. Markus Nuroks
  71. Kārlis Ozoliņš
  72. Kārlis Pauļuks
  73. Andrejs Petrevics
  74. Jānis Purgalis
  75. Eduards Radziņš
  76. Rainis-Jānis Pliekšāns
  77. Jezups Rancāns
  78. Gustavs Reinhards
  79. Jezups Roskošs
  80. Miķelis Rozentāls
  81. Jezups Rubulis
  82. Vladislavs Rubulis
  83. Ansis Rudevics
  84. Jānis Rudzis
  85. Teofils Rudzītis
  86. Voldemārs Salnājs
  87. Hermanis Salnis
  88. Visvaldis Sanders
  89. Pēteris Siecenieks
  90. Andrejs Sīmanis
  91. Kārlis Skalbe
  92. Marģers Skujenieks
  93. Pauls Šīmanis
  94. Francis Trasuns
  95. Jezups Trasuns
  96. Kārlis Ulmanis
  97. Pēteris Ulpe
  98. Andrejs Veckalns
  99. Antons Velkme
  100. Jānis Veržbickis
  101. Fridrihs Vesmanis
  102. Jānis Vesmanis
  103. Jānis Višņa
  104. Ruvins Vitenbergs
  105. Pēteris Zeibolts
  106. Gustavs Zemgals

References

[edit]
  1. ^ History of the legislature
  2. ^ "Saeimas Stenogrammas, Nr.1 (07.11.1922)". Latvian National Digital Library (LNDL). Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 20 March 2021.