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List of members of the 3rd Bundestag

List of members of the 3rd Bundestag

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The 3rd German Bundestag, the lower house of parliament of the Federal Republic of Germany, was elected on 15 September 1957,[2][3][4] and existed[clarification needed] from 15 October 1957 to 15 October 1961. It held a total of 168 parliamentary sittings; the last sitting was on 22 August 1961.

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On 22 October 1957 the Bundestag elected Konrad Adenauer as federal chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany on the fourth ballot, with 274 (+8)[lower-alpha 1] yes votes, 193 (+13)[lower-alpha 1] no votes and nine abstentions.[5]

Presidium of the Bundestag

Main article: President of the Bundestag

Marie-Elisabeth Lüders (FDP) served as Alterspräsidentin (Mother of the House), after Konrad Adenauer (CDU) who should have had this role, had rejected it, because he considered it inappropriate for the incumbent federal chancellor to serve as Alterspräsident. She presided over the first session of the 3rd Bundestag until Eugen Gerstenmaier was elected President of the Bundestag.[6]

Carlo Schmid (SPD),[7] Richard Jeager (CSU) and Max Becker (FDP) were elected as vice presidents of the Bundestag. They were elected almost unanimously, with only two abstentions.[6]

Eugen Gerstenmaier was elected President of the Bundestag on the first ballot with 437 votes in favor, 54 abstentions and 3 invalid votes.[8][6]

Composition of the Bundestag

The CDU/CSU (Christian Democratic Union of Germany/Christian Social Union in Bavaria) party gained the first — and to date, only — absolute majority for a single German parliamentary group in a free election. However the CDU/CDU still formed a coalition with the German Party (DP) until 1960 when nine of their 17 Bundestag members left the DP and joined the CDU.[9] After that, the DP left the governing coalition. (Hans-Joachim von Merkatz, the Federal Minister of the Bundesrat and State Affairs, and Hans-Christoph Seebohm, the Federal Ministry for Transport, the DP members in the governing cabinet, had left in July 1960 and joined the CDU in September 1960.)[10][11] The SPD won new seats as well. The FDP was the only party in the election that lost seats.

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Members

This is a list of members of the 3rd Bundestag, whose members were in office from 1957 until 1961:

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

  • Hermann Haage, SPD
  • Karl Hackethal, CDU
  • Karl Hahn, CDU
  • Dietrich Hahne, CDU (from 7 December 1959)
  • Heinrich Hamacher, SPD
  • Fritz von Haniel-Niethammer, CSU
  • Hermann Hansing, SPD
  • Walter Harm, SPD (until 22 September 1961)
  • Johann Harnischfeger, CDU
  • Herbert Hauffe, SPD
  • Hugo Hauser, CDU (from 11 March 1960)
  • Erwin Häussler, CDU
  • Bruno Heck, CDU
  • Johann Karl Heide, SPD
  • Rudolf-Ernst Heiland, SPD
  • Gustav Heinemann, SPD
  • Fritz Heinrich, SPD (until 7 March 1959)
  • Martin Heix, CDU
  • Josef Hellenbrock, SPD
  • Fritz Hellwig, CDU (until 30 November 1959)
  • Georg Graf Henckel von Donnersmarck, CSU (from 5 September 1959)
  • Luise Herklotz, SPD
  • Hans Hermsdorf, SPD
  • Karl Herold, SPD
  • Carl Hesberg, CDU
  • Clemens Hesemann, CDU
  • Hellmuth Heye, CDU
  • Anton Hilbert, CDU
  • Hermann Höcherl, CSU
  • Wilhelm Höck, CDU
  • Heinrich Höcker, SPD
  • Heinrich Höfler, CDU
  • Egon Höhmann, SPD
  • Franz Höhne, SPD
  • Ernst Holla, CDU
  • Matthias Hoogen, CDU
  • Fritz Wilhelm Hörauf, SPD
  • Peter Horn, CDU
  • Viktor Hoven, FDP
  • Elinor Hubert, SPD
  • Karl Hübner, FDV (Gast der CDU/CSU-Fraktion, ab 1 January 1959 CDU)
  • Josef Hufnagel, SPD
  • Eugen Huth, CDU
  • Lambert Huys, CDU

I

  • Joseph Illerhaus, CDU
  • Wolfgang Imle, FDP (from 29 June 1960)
  • Hans Iven, SPD

J

K

  • Hellmut Kalbitzer, SPD
  • Margot Kalinke, CDU
  • Karl Kanka, CDU
  • Hans Katzer, CDU
  • Irma Keilhack, SPD
  • Ernst Keller, FDP
  • Emil Kemmer, CSU
  • Friedrich Kempfler, CSU
  • Alma Kettig, SPD
  • Dietrich Keuning, SPD
  • Kurt Georg Kiesinger, CDU (until 19 February 1959)
  • Arthur Killat, SPD (from 19 March 1959)
  • Georg Richard Kinat, Other
  • Liesel Kipp-Kaule, SPD
  • Peterheinrich Kirchhoff, CDU
  • Gerhard Kisters, CDU (from 21 September 1959)
  • Wolfgang Klausner, CSU (until 17 April 1958)
  • Elfriede Klemmert, CDU
  • Georg Kliesing, CDU
  • Ludwig Knobloch, CDU
  • Friedrich Knorr, CSU
  • Hermann Koch [de], CDU
  • Jakob Koenen, SPD
  • Otto Köhler, FDP (until 27 June 1960)
  • Oswald Adolph Kohut, FDP
  • Willy Könen, SPD
  • Wilhelm Königswarter, SPD
  • Hermann Kopf, CDU
  • Lisa Korspeter, SPD
  • Waldemar Kraft, CDU
  • Angelo Kramel, CSU
  • Karl Krammig, CDU
  • Edith Krappe, SPD
  • Friedrich Kraus, SPD
  • Reinhold Kreitmeyer, FDP
  • Gerhard Kreyssig, SPD
  • Herbert Kriedemann, SPD
  • Ludwig Kroll, CDU
  • Heinrich Krone, CDU
  • Georg Krug, CSU
  • Caspar Krüger, CDU (from 15 December 1958)
  • Hans Krüger, CDU
  • Edeltraud Kuchtner, CSU
  • Knut von Kühlmann-Stumm, FDP (from 8 August 1960)
  • Walter Kühlthau, CDU
  • Heinz Kühn, SPD
  • Walther Kühn, FDP
  • August Kunst, CDU
  • Ernst Kuntscher, CDU
  • Johannes Kunze, CDU (until 11 October 1959)
  • Georg Kurlbaum, SPD

L

  • Georg Lang, CSU
  • Erwin Lange, SPD
  • Wilhelm Lantermann, SPD
  • Hans Lautenschlager, SPD (from 9 November 1960)
  • Georg Leber, SPD
  • Albert Leicht, CDU
  • Walter Leiske, CDU
  • Ernst Lemmer, CDU
  • Aloys Lenz, CDU
  • Hans Lenz, FDP
  • Franz Lenze, CDU
  • Gottfried Leonhard, CDU
  • Josef Lermer, CSU
  • Edmund Leukert, CSU (from 21 April 1958)
  • Paul Leverkuehn, CDU (until 1 March 1960)
  • Hanns-Gero von Lindeiner, CDU (from 8 September 1959)
  • Heinrich Lindenberg, CDU
  • Hermann Lindrath, CDU (until 27 February 1960)
  • Fritz Logemann, FDP
  • Ulrich Lohmar, SPD
  • Walter Löhr, CDU
  • Heinrich Lübke, CDU (until 2 September 1959)
  • Johannes Lücke, SPD
  • Paul Lücke, CDU
  • Hans August Lücker, CSU
  • Marie-Elisabeth Lüders, FDP
  • Adolf Ludwig, SPD
  • Wilhelm Adam Lulay, CDU (from 23 February 1959)
  • Karl-Heinz Lünenstraß, SPD

M

  • Ernst Majonica, CDU
  • Georg Baron Manteuffel-Szoege, CSU
  • Robert Margulies, FDP
  • Berthold Martin, CDU
  • Franz Marx, SPD
  • Heinz Matthes, Other (GDP)
  • Kurt Mattick, SPD
  • Oskar Matzner, SPD
  • Eugen Maucher, CDU (from 30 January 1958)
  • Adolf Mauk, FDP
  • Agnes Katharina Maxsein, CDU
  • Reinhold Mayer, FDP (until 30 September 1959)
  • Friedrich Mayer, SPD (until 14 December 1960)
  • Josef Mayer, CDU
  • Hans Meis, CDU (from 2 July 1958)
  • Karl Meitmann, SPD
  • Wilhelm Mellies, SPD (until 19 May 1958)
  • Linus Memmel, CSU
  • Erich Mende, FDP
  • Theodor Mengelkamp, CDU
  • Josef Menke, CDU
  • Fritz Mensing, CDU
  • Walter Menzel, SPD
  • Hans-Joachim von Merkatz, CDU
  • Hans Merten, SPD
  • Rudolf Metter, SPD
  • Ludwig Metzger, SPD
  • Erich Meyer, SPD
  • Ernst Wilhelm Meyer, SPD
  • Philipp Meyer, CSU
  • Emmy Meyer-Laule, SPD
  • Franz Meyers, CDU (until 4 September 1958)
  • Josef Mick, CDU
  • Herwart Miessner, FDP (from 21 May 1959)
  • Wolfgang Mischnick, FDP
  • Karl Mommer, SPD
  • Richard Muckermann, CDU
  • Klaus Freiherr von Mühlen, FDP (from 6 October 1959)
  • Franz Mühlenberg, CDU
  • Hans Müller, SPD
  • Karl Müller, SPD
  • Willy Müller, SPD
  • Ernst Müller-Hermann, CDU
  • Oskar Munzinger, SPD (from 20 April 1959 until 1 October 1959)
  • Leonhard Murr, FDP
  • Franzjosef Müser, CDU

N

O

P

  • Maria Pannhoff, CDU
  • Ernst Paul, SPD
  • Georg Pelster, CDU
  • Ernst Pernoll, CDU (until 15 July 1959)
  • Georg Peters, SPD
  • Robert Pferdmenges, CDU
  • Walter Pflaumbaum, CDU
  • Gerhard Philipp, CDU
  • Carl Pietscher, CDU
  • Elisabeth Pitz-Savelsberg, CDU
  • Kurt Pohle, SPD
  • Heinz Pöhler, SPD
  • Ludwig Preiß, CDU
  • Carl Prennel, SPD
  • Victor-Emanuel Preusker, CDU
  • Moritz-Ernst Priebe, SPD
  • Wilhelm Probst, CDU
  • Maria Probst, CSU
  • Werner Pusch, SPD
  • Severin Fritz Pütz, SPD

R

  • Willy Max Rademacher, FDP
  • Egon Wilhelm Ramms, FDP
  • Hugo Rasch, SPD (until 15 September 1960)
  • Will Rasner, CDU
  • Ludwig Ratzel, SPD (until 21 June 1960)
  • Rudolf Recktenwald, SPD (from 11 August 1959 until 20 October 1959)
  • Karl Regling, SPD
  • Luise Rehling, CDU
  • Reinhold Rehs, SPD
  • Carl Reinhard, CDU
  • Eckhard Reith, CDU
  • Wilhelm Reitz, SPD
  • Richard Reitzner, SPD
  • Annemarie Renger, SPD
  • Hans Richarts, CDU
  • Clemens Riedel, CDU
  • Hugo Rimmelspacher, SPD (from 27 June 1960)
  • Georg Ripken, CDU (from 10 March 1958)
  • Heinrich Georg Ritzel, SPD
  • Ernst Rodiek, SPD (from 15 July 1960)
  • Helmut Rohde, SPD
  • Dietrich Rollmann, CDU (from 7 March 1960)
  • Josef Rommerskirchen, CDU (from 12 December 1960)
  • Julie Rösch, CDU
  • Josef Rösing, CDU
  • Hans-Carl Rüdel, CDU
  • Margarete Rudoll, SPD
  • Thomas Ruf, CDU
  • Heinrich-Wilhelm Ruhnke, SPD
  • Franz Ruland, CSU
  • Wolfgang Rutschke, FDP

S

T

  • Richard Tamblé, SPD (from 25 April 1960)
  • Theodor Teriete, CDU
  • Emil Theil, SPD (from 6 March 1960)
  • Hanns Theis, SPD
  • Peter Tobaben, CDU
  • Hans Toussaint, CDU

U

  • Franz Xaver Unertl, CSU

V

  • Franz Varelmann, CDU
  • Max Vehar, CDU
  • Elisabeth Vietje, CDU (from 6 May 1960)
  • Rudolf Vogel, CDU
  • Karl-Heinz Vogt, CSU

W

Z

Notes

  1. During the existence of West Germany the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin elected representitves to the Bundestag for West Berlin. But since they were prohibited by an international treaty to participate in Germanys legislative process, their votes were trivial.

See also

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    "Reichstagsgebäude im geteilten Deutschland" (in German). Deutscher Bundestag. 3 July 2023. Retrieved 3 July 2023.
  2. [2]
    "Bundestagswahl 1957 - Die Bundeswahlleiterin". www.bundeswahlleiterin.de. Retrieved 2023-07-03.
  3. [3]
    tagesschau.de. "tagesschau.de". www.tagesschau.de (in German). Retrieved 2023-07-03.
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    tagesschau.de. "tagesschau.de". www.tagesschau.de (in German). Retrieved 2023-07-03.
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    "Transcript of the 2nd Session of the 3. Bundestag" (PDF). 2023-07-03.
  6. [6]
    "Transcript of the 1st Session of the Bundestag" (PDF).
  7. [7]
    Harder, Lydia. "Deutscher Bundestag - Stabilität und Teilung (1957 bis 1961)". Deutscher Bundestag (in German). Retrieved 2023-07-03.
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    "Deutscher Bundestag - Prof. D. Dr. Eugen Gerstenmaier (CDU/CSU) 1954 - 1969". Deutscher Bundestag (in German). Retrieved 2023-07-03.
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    Harder, Lydia. "Deutscher Bundestag - Stabilität und Teilung (1957 bis 1961)". Deutscher Bundestag (in German). Retrieved 2023-07-03.
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    Conze, Vanessa (2005). Das Europa der Deutschen: Ideen von Europa in Deutschland zwischen Reichstradition und Westorientierung (1920-1970) (in German). Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag. p. 12. ISBN 3-486-57757-3.
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    "RESPEKT VOR DEM, DER AUTOBAHNEN BAUT". Der Spiegel (in German). 1964-11-10. ISSN 2195-1349. Retrieved 2023-07-03.
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