Česká Lípa 5th electoral district (Czechoslovakia)

The Česká Lípa 5th electoral district (German: Wahlkreise V. Böhmisch-Leipa) was a parliamentary constituency in Czechoslovakia.

It was one of two parliamentary constituencies with an overwhelming ethnic German majority amongst the voters (the other being the Karlsbad district).

[1] The Česká Lípa 5th electoral district elected 13 members of the Chamber of Deputies.

[3] The constituency covered Benešov nad Ploučnicí, Česká Kamenice, Česká Lípa, Chabařovice, Chrastava, Cvikov, Děčín, Dubá, Jablonné v Podještědí, Lipová, Litoměřice, Mimoň, Nový Bor, Rumburk, Šluknov, Štětí, Úštěk, Ústí nad Labem and Varnsdorf.

[5] Amongst the deputies elected from the 5th electoral district in the Czechoslovak parliamentary election, 1920 were Franz Beutel (DSAP, elected to the Senate from the 3rd district in 1925 and 1929), Karl Čermak (DSAP, died in October 1924, replaced by Rudolf Schiller), Rudolf Fischer (DSAP, contested the Senate election in 1925), Ernst Grünzner (DSAP, re-elected in 1925 and 1929, elected to the Senate in 1935 from the 3rd district), Eduard Hausmann (DSAP, resigned his seat in February 1925), Irene Kirpal (DSAP, re-elected in 1925, 1929 and 1935), Josef Schweichhart (DSAP, re-elected in 1925 and 1929), Josef Böhr (DCSVP, elected to the Senate from the 3rd district in 1925 and 1929), Franz Seraphim Heller (BdL, re-elected in 1925 and 1930), Franz Krepek (BdL, elected to the Senate from the 3rd district in 1925), Josef Kleibl (DNP, re-elected in 1925 and 1929, resigned from DNP October 10, 1933 and remained an independent), Vinzenz Kraus (DNP, re-elected in 1925, died in March 1926), Leo Wenzel (DNSAP, re-elected in 1925, elected to the Senate from the 3rd district in 1929).