Greuningia

Greuningia Greuningen
Flag Seal
Greuningia located in Besmenia
Country	Besmenia
Capital	Richtersberg
Government
• Type	Parliamentary republic, partially sovereign member state of a federal state
• Body	State Chamber of Greuningia
• Governor	Linda Seidenbach (NBP)
• Governing parties	NBP/BVP
• Federal Senate votes	5 (of 64)
Population  (2021)
• Total	5,754,660

Greuningia (Besmenian: Greuningen) is a federal state located in Besmenia.

Geography

Greuningia is located in western Besmenia. The state borders Sedakania to the north, Jakartaburg to the northeast, Maurenmark to the southeast, Zollingia to the south, Frankenburg to the southwest and Xevus to the northwest.

History

Since 1967

With the Besmenian reunification on September 14, 1967, the state of Greuningia was re-established. It originated from the West Besmenian districts of Richtenberg and Köstritz, as well as parts of the districts of Ochsenbeinfurt and Halsholm. Richtersberg became the state capital. On September 24, 1967, state elections were held for the first time in Greuningia and in the other federal states in the area of the former West Besmenia. After the 1967 state election, an SDU-BRP government was formed.

Economically, like the other West Besmenian states, Greuningia fared less well in the late 1960s and early 1970s, with Greuningia experiencing the highest unemployment rate in West Besmenia, resulting to the development of the BVP and BRP as the two dominated parties in Greuningia in the 1970s. On November 1, 1969, the Greuningian Constitution came into force.

Politics

Executive

The executive is led by the state government of Greuningia, which consists of the Greuningian governors and the state ministers. The governor is elected by the state chamber with a majority of its members without debate in a secret ballot for the entire legislative period. The governor appoints and dismisses state ministers. He also appoints a state minister as his deputy. The state chamber can only depose the governor through a constructive vote of no confidence.

Legislature

The legislature is the State Chamber of Greuningia, which is elected every five years using the proportional representation. The Greuningian parliament consists of 107 members. All voters who have reached the age of 18 have the right to vote. All parties with more than five percent of the votes are represented in the state parliament.

Greuningian state government

Governors of Greuningia since 1967
No.	Portrait	Name	Term of office		Political party	Election
1	File:Wilhelm Schröder.png	Wilhelm Schröder (1900-1970)	1 November 1967	22 February 1970 †	SDU	1967
2	File:Holger Spahnmann.png	Holger Spahnmann (1913-1995)	22 February 1970	23 November 1971	SDU	-
3	File:Günther Hauknecht.png	Günther Hauknecht (1919-2006)	23 November 1971	7 March 1978	BVP	1971 1975
4		Ulrich Klinker (1930-)	7 March 1978	14 October 1990	BVP	1978 1983 1988
5		Bernhard Weber (1941-)	14 October 1990	12 November 1998	BVP	1993
6		Alexander Wiest (1947-2011)	12 November 1998	28 November 2008	NBP	1998 2003
7		Albrecht Jungmann (1949-)	28 November 2008	20 June 2022	BVP	2008 2013 2018
8		Markus Krüger (1970-)	20 June 2022	10 November 2023	BVP	-
9		Linda Seidenbach (1992-)	10 November 2023	Incumbent	NBP	2023

List of Greuningian state governments

Overview of Greuningian state governments since 1967

No.	State government	Tenure	Governor	Involved Parties
1.	Schröder	1967–1970	Wilhelm Schröder (SDU)	SDU,   BRP
2.	Spahnmann	1970–1971	Holger Spahnmann (SDU)
3.	Hauknecht I	1971–1975	Günther Hauknecht (BVP)	BVP,   BRP
4.	Hauknecht II	1975–1978
5.	Klinker I	1978–1983	Ulrich Heberwein (BVP)	BVP
6.	Heberwein II	1983-1988		BVP,   FBBP
7.	Klinker III	1988-1990
8.	Weber I	1990-1993	Bernhard Weber (BVP)
9.	Weber II	1993-1998		BVP,   FBBP,   GPB
10.	Wiest I	1998-2003	Alexander von Wiest (NBP)	NBP,   BVP
11.	Wiest II	2003-2008
12.	Jungmann I	2008-2013	Albrecht Jungmann (BVP)	BVP,   SDU
13.	Jungmann II	2013-2018		BVP,   FBBP
14.	Jungmann III	2018-2022
15.	Krüger	2022-2023	Markus Krüger (BVP)
16.	Seidenbach	2023-	Linda Seidenbach (NBP)	NBP,   BVP

Legislature

The legislature is the State Chamber of Greuningia, which is elected every five years using the proportional representation. The Greuningian parliament consists of 107 members. All voters who have reached the age of 18 have the right to vote. All parties with more than five percent of the votes are represented in the state parliament.

Local government

The 29 Greuningian discricts

Greuningia is divided into 29 districts (Landbezirk).

Political development

Greuningia is considered to be a rather conservative state, especially in rural areas, and has been dominated by the BVP at the state political level since the 1970s. From 1971, the BVP was involved in every state government in Greuningia.

The right-wing populist BRP also succeeded in influencing regional politics in the first decades after Greuningia joined the Besmenian Federal Republic. The BRP was involved from 1967 to 1978 as a junior partner in the Greuningian state government. When the BRP formed into the NBP in 1990, the NBP, like its predecessor, continued to win numerous voters in Greuningia, especially through the then NBP chairman and native Greuningian Alexander Wiest, who was also chairman of the regional association of the NBP in Greuningia. In the 1998 and 2003 state elections, the NBP even became the strongest party. Between 1998 and 2008 Alexander Wiest served as governor of Greuningia.

Economy

Greuningia processed the economic structural change after 1967 with success and setbacks at the same time. The large combines had serious structural difficulties in the transition to the social market economy, since their technical systems were mostly completely outdated, were characterized by a high use of labor and caused serious environmental damage. In particular, the mechanical engineering, chemical triangle, and mining combines collapsed rapidly after the West Besmenian Revolution, resulting in the loss of tens of thousands of jobs. Unemployment rose from 10.3% in 1968 to 15.1% in 1970, peaking at 18.7% in 1972 and staying there until 1976.