List of members of the 3rd Bundestag

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3rd Bundestag
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Overview
Legislative bodyBundestag
Meeting place
3
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TermOctober 15, 1957 (1957-10-15) – October 15, 1961 (1961-10-15)
Election1957 West German federal election
GovernmentThird Adenauer cabinet
President of the BundestagEugen Gerstenmaier

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.

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)[a] yes votes, 193 (+13)[a] no votes and nine abstentions.[5]

Presidium of the Bundestag[edit]

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[edit]

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.

Changes[edit]

Changes in the numbers of the four caucuses (CDU/CSU, SPD, FDP, German Party)
Date Reason for change CDU/CSU SPD FDP DP Others Total
number
1961 First meeting 277 181 43 17 1 519
9 October 1957 Karl Hübner becomes a guest member[clarification needed] of the CDU/CSU caucus 278
3 June 1958 Otto Eisenmann leaves the DP caucus and joins the FDP caucus 44 16
20 June 1958 Alexander Elbrächter leaves the DP caucus and becomes unaffiliated 15 1
24 June 1958 Alexander Elbrächter joins the CDU/CSU caucus 279
1 July 1960 Georg Ripken, Heinrich Schild, Hans-Christoph Seebohm, Willy Steinmetz, Margot Kalinke, Hans-Joachim von Merkatz, Ludwig Preiß, Victor-Emanuel Preusker, Wilhelm Probst leave the DP caucus and become unaffiliated 6 9
20 September 1960 The same nine former DP members join the CDU/CSU caucus 288
8 November 1960 Peter Nellen leaves the CDU/CSU caucus and joins the SPD caucus 287 182
24 February 1961 Arno Behrisch leaves the SPD caucus and becomes unaffiliated 181 1
25 April 1961 Fritz Logemann leaves the DP caucus and joins the FDP caucus 45 5
3 May 1961 Herbert Schneider, Helmuth Schranz, Heinz Matthes leave the DP caucus and become unaffiliated 2 4
3 May 1961 Peter Tobaben, Ludwig Schneider leave the DP caucus and join the CDU/CSU caucus 289
18 August 1961 Georg Richard Kinat leaves the SPD caucus and becomes unaffiliated 180 5

Members[edit]

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

A[edit]

B[edit]

C[edit]

D[edit]

E[edit]

F[edit]

G[edit]

H[edit]

I[edit]

J[edit]

K[edit]

L[edit]

M[edit]

N[edit]

O[edit]

P[edit]

R[edit]

S[edit]

T[edit]

U[edit]

V[edit]

W[edit]

Z[edit]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ a b 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[edit]

  1. ^ "Reichstagsgebäude im geteilten Deutschland" (in German). Deutscher Bundestag. 3 July 2023. Retrieved 3 July 2023.
  2. ^ "Bundestagswahl 1957 - Die Bundeswahlleiterin". www.bundeswahlleiterin.de. Retrieved 2023-07-03.
  3. ^ tagesschau.de. "tagesschau.de". www.tagesschau.de (in German). Retrieved 2023-07-03.
  4. ^ tagesschau.de. "tagesschau.de". www.tagesschau.de (in German). Retrieved 2023-07-03.
  5. ^ "Transcript of the 2nd Session of the 3. Bundestag" (PDF). 2023-07-03.
  6. ^ a b c "Transcript of the 1st Session of the Bundestag" (PDF).
  7. ^ Harder, Lydia. "Deutscher Bundestag - Stabilität und Teilung (1957 bis 1961)". Deutscher Bundestag (in German). Retrieved 2023-07-03.
  8. ^ "Deutscher Bundestag - Prof. D. Dr. Eugen Gerstenmaier (CDU/CSU) 1954 - 1969". Deutscher Bundestag (in German). Retrieved 2023-07-03.
  9. ^ Harder, Lydia. "Deutscher Bundestag - Stabilität und Teilung (1957 bis 1961)". Deutscher Bundestag (in German). Retrieved 2023-07-03.
  10. ^ 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.
  11. ^ "RESPEKT VOR DEM, DER AUTOBAHNEN BAUT". Der Spiegel (in German). 1964-11-10. ISSN 2195-1349. Retrieved 2023-07-03.
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