Federal Senate (Besmenia)

Besmenian Federal Senate Besmenischer Bundessenat
Type
Type	Upper house
History
Founded	2 July 1920
Leadership
President of the Federal Senate	Linda Seidenbach (Greuningia, NBP)
Vice President of the Federal Senate	Holger Grauber (Jakartaburg, FBBP)
Structure
Seats	64
Political groups	(As of April 2024)   Besmenian People's Party: 20 seats   Free Besmenian Citizen's Party: 15 seats   Green Party of Besmenia: 11 seats   Social Democratic Union: 8 seats   National Besmenian Party: 6 seats   Party of the Besmenian Left: 2 seat   Centre Alliance of Besmenia: 1 seat
Meeting place

The Federal Senate (Besmenian: Bundessenat) is the upper house of the Federal Republic of Besmenia. Through the Federal Senate, the states participate in federal legislation and administration as well as in international affairs. Each state is represented by members of its state government. In this way, the interests of the federal states are taken into account in the formation of the political will of the state as a whole.

From 1920 to 1940, the members of the Federal Senate were directly elected by the population. In January 1945, through an amendment to the Basic Law, a new composition was introduced, whereby the members of the Federal Senate are now appointed by the respective state parliaments and each federal state takes over the presidency for one year.

History

First seat distribution (1920-1924)

Total 52 seats

• SDU: 14
• FPB: 1
• BDP: 25
• BKP: 7
• BNVP: 3
• Ind.: 2

Tasks

• Representation of a federal state at the federal level
• Opinion on government drafts
• Participation in foreign affairs
• Right to information the federal government

Composition

The distribution of seats in the Federal Senate is based on the governing coalitions of the Besmenian states.

The parties that are involved in the state government in the respective state are represented in the Federal Senate. The individual members of the Federal Senate are sent to the Federal Senate by their individual state chambers. The prerequisite is that the members of the Federal Senate must have a seat in their state chambers. The distribution of seats changes after a state election and the subsequent formation of a new government in the respective state.

If a state is represented with 4 seats, if there are two parties in the regional state government, both parties will receive 2 seats. In a state government with three parties, the leading party receives 2 seats, while the other two parties receives one seat.

If there are 5 seats, with a coalition of two parties in the state government, the strongest party receives 3 seats and the second strongest 2 seats. In coalitions with three parties, the first and second strongest party receives 2 seats, while the third strongest receives one seat.

Number of seats

Between 1920 until 1944 the number of seats was 52. On the occasion of the the new composition law of 1945 the Federal Senate agreed on the following number of seats:

• Each state receives at least four seats

- if there are fewer than five million inhabitants, four seats
- if there are more than five million inhabitants, five seats
- with more than 10 million inhabitants six seats

State	MPs	BVP	SDU	FBBP	GPB	PBL	NBP	ZAB
Frankenburg	4	-	1	2	1	-	-	-
Gablitz	4	2	-	1	-	-	-	1
Greuningia	5	2	-	-	-	-	3	-
Jakartaburg	4	-	-	2	2	-	-	-
Laitstadt	5	-	2	-	2	1	-	-
Lemberland	5	2	-	2	1	-	-	-
Maurenmark	5	-	2	-	2	1	-	-
Metakumburg	4	-	1	2	1	-	-	-
Neidenstein-Sulzburg	4	2	-	2	-	-	-	-
Palingia	4	4	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sedakania	6	3	-	-	-	-	3	-
Summingia	5	2	-	2	-	-	-	1
Tergau	5	1	2	2	-	-	-	-
Zollingia	4	2	-	-	2	-	-	-
Overall	64	20	8	15	11	2	6	2

List of members of the Besmenian Federal Senate

Key	Besmenian People's Party (BVP)   Free Besmenian Citizen's Party (FBBP)   Social Democratic Union (SDU)   Green Party of Besmenia (GPB)   National Besmenian Party (NBP)   Party of the Besmenian Left (PBL)   Centre Alliance of Besmenia (ZAB)

Frankenburg

  Alexander Schlesinger (FBBP)

  Karin Kneifmann (FBBP)

  Helmut Pohl (SDU)

  Joachim Holter (GPB)

Gablitz

  Viktor Sauer (BVP)

  Martina Stäbler (BVP)

  Gregor Zimmer (FBBP)

  Martin Freier (ZAB)

Greuningia

  Linda Seidenbach (NBP)

  Thomas Bleimann (NBP)

  Kerstin Schönau (NBP)

  Markus Krüger (BVP)

  Peter Trümmer (BVP)

Jakartaburg

  Holger Grauber (FBBP)

  Christopher Springer (FBBP)

  Martin Landsteiner (GPB)

  Paula Becken (GPB)

Laitstadt

  Tanja Balzer-Künert (GPB)

  Lukas Kellermann (GPB)

  Armin Rutter (SDU)

  Peter Ziehbock (SDU)

  Sarah Heinecke (PBL)

Lemberland

  Peter Blanke (FBBP)

  Klara Weitzmann (FBBP)

  Michael Kreimer (BVP)

  Jörg Baader (BVP)

  Tristan Pilz (GPB)

Maurenmark

  Teresa Bà'oapàjaváta (SDU)

  Erik Strohmann (SDU)

  Karin Bendtmann (GPB)

  Beate Schlessinger-Brühl (GPB)

  Jürgen Weitzer (PBL)

Metakumburg

  Michael Tausend (FBBP)

  Boris Richter (FBBP)

  Lisa Faymann-Richter (SDU)

  Paula Frömbach (GPB)

Neidenstein-Sulzburg

  Gregor Zöller (BVP)

  Dieter Brandt (BVP)

  Peter Kocher (FBBP)

  Michael Butz (FBBP)

Palingia

  Arnold Morgenthau (BVP)

  Christian Berger (BVP)

  Elisabeth Turmherr (BVP)

  Karsten Kützer (BVP)

Sedakania

  Vanessa Halm (BVP)

  Franz Pröll (BVP)

  Georg Mittelbach (BVP)

  Walter Heutzer (NBP)

  Katherina Winkel-Holzmann (NBP)

  Arnold Schmitt (NBP)

Summingia

  Georg Stuck (BVP)

  Johanna Liesinger-Baum (BVP)

  Norbert Kessler (FBBP)

  Nadine Heidenbach (FBBP)

  Marcus Schnabel (ZAB)

Tergau

  Marie Ledermann (SDU)

  Thorsten Helfrich (SDU)

  Daniel Seifer (FBBP)

  Ursula König (FBBP)

  Birgitt Hodermann (BVP)

Zollingia

  Franz Blauweim (BVP)

  Werner Kulitzer (BVP)

  Svenja Fenger (GPB)

  Moritz Schlössing (GPB)

Presidency

The executive committee consists of the president and a vice president. With the new composition act of 1945, agreement was reached on an order in which these representative offices should be filled: the governors of the federal states assume the presidency of the Federal Senate in alphabetical order of their federal states. The term of the presidency is one year. Zollingia was the first western Besmenian state to assume the presidency in 1969.

The current president is the Greuningian governor Linda Seidenbach, who took office on January 1, 2024.

List of presidents of the Besmenian Federal Senate (1945-present)

President	State	Took office	Left office	Party
	Gablitz	1 January 1945	31 December 1945
	Laitstadt	1 January 1946	31 December 1946
	Metakumburg	1 January 1947	31 December 1947
	Neidenstein-Sulzburg	1 January 1948	31 December 1948
Walter Etzenbach	Summingia	1 January 1949	31 December 1949	LBB
	Tergau	1 January 1950	31 December 1950
	Gablitz	1 January 1951	31 December 1951
	Laitstadt	1 January 1952	31 December 1952
	Metakumburg	1 January 1953	31 December 1953
	Neidenstein-Sulzburg	1 January 1954	31 December 1954
Walter Etzenbach	Summingia	1 January 1955	31 December 1955	LBB
	Tergau	1 January 1956	31 December 1956
	Gablitz	1 January 1957	31 December 1957
	Laitstadt	1 January 1958	31 December 1958
	Metakumburg	1 January 1959	31 December 1959
	Neidenstein-Sulzburg	1 January 1960	31 December 1960
Manfred Krause	Summingia	1 January 1961	31 December 1961	BVP
	Tergau	1 January 1962	31 December 1962
	Gablitz	1 January 1963	31 December 1963
Robert Gleitzmann	Laitstadt	1 January 1964	31 December 1964	BVP
	Metakumburg	1 January 1965	31 December 1965
	Neidenstein-Sulzburg	1 January 1966	31 December 1966
Kurt Weimer	Summingia	1 January 1967	31 December 1967	BVP
	Tergau	1 January 1968	31 December 1968
Horst Lommberg	Zollingia	1 January 1969	31 December 1969	BVP
Ulf Engelbert	Frankenburg	1 January 1970	31 December 1970	BVP
	Gablitz	1 January 1971	31 December 1971
Günther Hauknecht	Greuningia	1 January 1972	31 December 1972	BVP
Richard Brühl	Jakartaburg	1 January 1973	31 December 1973	BVP
Rainer Fischer	Laitstadt	1 January 1974	31 December 1974	BVP
Herbert Dollinger	Lemberland	1 January 1975	31 December 1975	BVP
Manfred von Hagen	Maurenmark	1 January 1976	5 July 1976	BVP
Norbert Schröder		5 July 1976	31 December 1976	FBBP
	Metakumburg	1 January 1977	31 December 1977
	Neidenstein-Sulzburg	1 January 1978	31 December 1978
Rudolf Volksmann	Sedakania	1 January 1979	31 December 1979	BVP
Werner Texinger senior	Summingia	1 January 1980	31 December 1980	BVP
	Tergau	1 January 1981	31 December 1981
Waldemar Fendt	Zollingia	1 January 1982	31 December 1982	BVP
Alois Steigerwald	Frankenburg	1 January 1983	31 December 1983	FBBP
	Gablitz	1 January 1984	31 December 1984
Ulrich Klinker	Greuningia	1 January 1985	31 December 1985	BVP
Roland Fernthal	Jakartaburg	1 January 1986	31 December 1986	FBBP
Wilfried Kuschke	Laitstadt	1 January 1987	31 December 1987	SDU
Manfred Gruber	Lemberland	1 January 1988	31 December 1988	SDU
Helmut Borner	Maurenmark	1 January 1989	31 December 1989	FBBP
	Metakumburg	1 January 1990	31 December 1990
	Neidenstein-Sulzburg	1 January 1991	31 December 1991	FBBP
Rainer Spindler	Sedakania	1 January 1992	31 December 1992	BVP
Dieter Limbach	Summingia	1 January 1993	31 December 1993	BVP
	Tergau	1 January 1994	31 December 1994
	Zollingia	1 January 1995	31 December 1995
Alois Steigerwald	Frankenburg	1 January 1996	31 December 1996	FBBP
	Gablitz	1 January 1997	31 December 1997
Bernhart Weber	Greuningia	1 January 1998	12 November 1998	BVP
Alexander von Wiest		12 November 1998	31 December 1998	NBP
Alfred Bienert	Jakartaburg	1 January 1999	31 December 1999	BVP
Fred Meulenbeck	Laitstadt	1 January 2000	31 December 2000	SDU
Hans Müller	Lemberland	1 January 2001	31 December 2001	SDU
Rita Reisinger-Berger	Maurenmark	1 January 2002	31 December 2002	FBBP
	Metakumburg	1 January 2003	31 December 2003
	Neidenstein-Sulzburg	1 January 2004	31 December 2004	FBBP
Arnold Keßler	Sedakania	1 January 2005	31 December 2005	BVP
Josef Simmert	Summingia	1 January 2006	10 September 2006	FBBP
Werner Texinger junior		10 September 2006	31 December 2006	BVP
	Tergau	1 January 2007	31 December 2007
	Zollingia	1 January 2008	31 December 2008
Jörg Hofstadt	Frankenburg	1 January 2009	31 December 2009
	Gablitz	1 January 2010	31 December 2010
Albrecht Jungmann	Greuningia	1 January 2011	31 December 2011	BVP
Alfred Bienert	Jakartaburg	1 January 2012	31 December 2012	BVP
Fred Meulenbeck	Laitstadt	1 January 2013	31 December 2013	SDU
Erich Tetzler	Lemberland	1 January 2014	31 December 2014	FBBP
Konrad Mann	Maurenmark	1 January 2015	31 December 2015	BVP
Gerald Ziehmann	Metakumburg	1 January 2016	3 July 2016	FBBP
Michael Tausend		3 July 2016	31 December 2016	FBBP
Gregor Zöller	Neidenstein-Sulzburg	1 January 2017	31 December 2017	BVP
Michael Stämper	Sedakania	1 January 2018	31 December 2018	BVP
Georg Stuck	Summingia	1 January 2019	31 December 2019	BVP
Marie Ledermann	Tergau	1 January 2020	31 December 2020	SDU
Oskar Steinbock	Zollingia	1 January 2021	31 December 2021	BVP
Christina Liebetrau	Frankenburg	1 January 2022	31 December 2022	BVP
Viktor Sauer	Gablitz	1 January 2023	31 December 2023	BVP
Linda Seidenbach	Greuningia	1 January 2024	Incumbent	NBP