3. German Bundestag

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The 3rd  German Bundestag existed between October 15, 1957 and October 15, 1961. The 3rd German Bundestag held a total of 168 sessions, with the last session taking place on August 22, 1961. The 3rd Bundestag was constituted by the 1957 Bundestag election , which took place on September 15, 1957.

The senior president was Marie Elisabeth Lüders from the FDP for the MP Konrad Adenauer ( CDU ), who as Federal Chancellor did not want to exercise the dignity of the senior president.

On October 22, 1957, the 3rd Bundestag elected Konrad Adenauer with 274 (+8) yes-votes, 193 (+13) no-votes, and 9 abstentions in the first ballot for Federal Chancellor.

Members of the Bundestag


Parliamentary groups in the plenary session of the 3rd parliamentary term
(until October 17, 1961)

    
A total of 519 seats

The 3rd Bundestag had a total of 497 MPs at the beginning and at the end of the legislative period (+22 Berlin Bundestag MPs ). The CDU / CSU had the highest share of seats with 270 (+7) seats (end: 289), followed by the SPD with 169 (+12) seats (end: 180). In addition, the FDP (41 + 2 seats, 45 seats at the end), the DP (17 seats, 0 seats at the end) and the FDV were represented in the 3rd Bundestag with a Berlin representative (without voting rights). Due to the resignation of MPs, there were at times a total of 5 non-attached MPs .

Presidium of the Bundestag

In the first session, Eugen Gerstenmaier was re-elected President of the Bundestag with 437 votes in favor, 54 abstentions and 3 invalid votes.

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Laws

A total of 613 legislative initiatives were introduced in the Bundestag, 401 of which were based on government proposals, 5 on initiatives by the Bundesrat and 207 on initiatives by the Bundestag. A total of 424 laws were passed by the Bundestag during the 3rd legislative period.

Committees

The 3rd Bundestag had 26 standing committees.

Parliamentary control

Inquiries, current hours and surveys

In total, there were 49 major inquiries and 411 minor inquiries during the legislative period of the 3rd Bundestag . There were also 96 question hours.

Conference locations

The constituent session of the Bundestag on October 15, 1957 took place in the Berlin Congress Hall. In the plenary week from October 1st to 3rd, 1958, the Bundestag met again for its 41st, 42nd and 43rd sessions in Berlin, as it did in 1955 and 1956 in the large lecture hall of the Physics Institute of the Technical University . Otherwise, the Bundestag met in this electoral term in Bonn's Bundeshaus , whose plenary hall was demolished in 1987.

Special sessions

A special session was held during the 3rd electoral term, the 167th session on August 18, 1961.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b German Bundestag: Plenary Protocol 03/1 (PDF file)
  2. ↑ German Bundestag: Plenary Protocol 04/1 (PDF file)
  3. ↑ German Bundestag: Plenary Protocol 03/168 (PDF file)
  4. ↑ German Bundestag: Plenary Protocol 03/2 (PDF file)
  5. ↑ German Bundestag: Plenary Protocol 03/41 (PDF file)
  6. ↑ German Bundestag: Plenary Protocol 03/42 (PDF file)
  7. ↑ German Bundestag: Plenary Protocol 03/43 (PDF file)
  8. ^ German Bundestag: Reichstag building in divided Germany