List of guest speakers in the German Bundestag

The right to speak in the German Bundestag is limited to the members of the Bundestag and the members of the Bundesrat and Federal Government as well as their agents. In exceptional cases, however, guest speakers in the Bundestag had their say, particularly on January 27, International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust . Other exceptions are foreign guests and speakers at memorial meetings and ceremonial acts. There is no legal basis according to which non-parliamentarians are granted the right to speak. According to the minutes, these speeches were given outside the regular plenary sessions or agenda. The first guest speaker was Arthur Woodburn in 1951 as head of a British parliamentary delegation.

List of guest speakers

date	guest	nationality	comment
Sep 18 1951	Arthur Woodburn	United Kingdom	Head of a delegation of UK MPs
Nov 14, 1951	Theodore F. Green	United States	Speaker of a delegation of US Congressmen and Senate member
Dec 12, 1951	Muhlis Tümay	Turkey	Spokesman for a delegation of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey and First Vice-President of the Turkish Parliament
Oct 29, 1953	Joseph William Martin	United States	Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
Feb 14, 1962	By spring game	Denmark	President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
Feb. 26, 1969	Richard Nixon	United States	37th President of the United States
0June 9, 1982	Ronald Reagan	United States	40th President of the United States
Jan. 20, 1983	François Mitterrand	France	French President
June 17, 1987	Fritz Stern	United States Germany	American historian and professor of Jewish descent to commemorate June 17 ,
Apr 28, 1995	Wladyslaw Bartoszewski	Poland	Polish Foreign Minister
Jan. 16, 1996	Ezer Weizmann	Israel	Israeli President
May 22, 1996	Nelson Mandela	South Africa	South African President
Apr 24, 1997	Vaclav Havel	Czech Republic	Czech President
Jan. 27, 1998	Yehuda Bauer	Israel	Israeli Holocaust researcher
0Sep 7 1999	Najma Heptulla	India	President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union
0Nov 9, 1999	Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev	Russia	Speech by the former Soviet President on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall
	George HW Bush	United States	41st President of the United States
Jan. 27, 2000	Elie Wiesel	United States Romania	American writer and professor and Holocaust survivor
June 27, 2000	Jacques Chirac	France	French President
25 Sep 2001	Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin	Russia	Russian President
Jan. 28, 2002	Bronislaw Geremek	Poland	Former Polish Foreign Minister and Holocaust survivor
Feb. 28, 2002	Kofi Annan	Ghana	Secretary General of the United Nations
May 23, 2002	George W. Bush	United States	43rd President of the United States
Jan. 27, 2003	Jorge Semprún	Spain	Spanish writer and resistance fighter in the French Resistance and against Franquism
Jan. 27, 2004	Simone Veil	France	Former President of the European Parliament as well as Holocaust survivor and resistance fighter in the Résistance
09 Mar 2005	Viktor Yushchenko	Ukraine	Ukrainian President
May 31, 2005	Moshe Katzav	Israel	Israeli President
Jan. 29, 2007	Imre Kertész	Hungary	Hungarian writer of Jewish descent
Jan. 25, 2008	Lenka Reinerová	Czech Republic	Czech writer, speech on the occasion of the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp. Represented by Angela Winkler for health reasons .
Jan. 27, 2010	Feliks Tych	Poland	Polish historian and victim of National Socialism, speech at a memorial hour for the victims of National Socialism
	Shimon Peres	Israel	President of Israel
Jan. 27, 2011	Zoni Weisz	Netherlands	Dutch Sinto , Holocaust survivor
22 Sep 2011	Benedict XVI.	Vatican City Germany	Pope , monarch of the Vatican City State (Vatican German citizen) See also : "Papal speech in the Bundestag" in the article Papal visit in Germany 2011
Jan. 27, 2012	Marcel Reich-Ranicki	Poland Germany	Literary critic, survivor of the Holocaust (Polish and German citizen, oldest speaker in the Bundestag so far)
Jan. 22, 2013	François Hollande	France	President of France
	Claude Bartolone	France	President of the French National Assembly
	Bruno Le Roux	France	Chairman of the SRC Group in the French National Assembly
	Christian Jacob	France	Chairman of the UMP Group in the French National Assembly
	Jean-Louis Borloo	France	Chairman of the UDI Group in the French National Assembly
	François de Rugy	France	Chairman of the Ecological Group in the French National Assembly
	Joël Giraud	France	Chairman of the RRDP Group in the French National Assembly
	André Chassaigne	France	Chairman of the GDR group in the French National Assembly
Jan. 27, 2014	Daniil Alexandrovich Granin	Russia	Soviet writer
03rd July 2014	Alfred Grosser	Germany France	Publicist and Sociologist
Sep 10 2014	Bronislaw Komorowski	Poland	President of Poland
Jan. 27, 2016	Ruth Klüger	Austria United States	Forced laborer in a concentration camp, writer

See also

• Memorial hour on the day of commemoration of the victims of National Socialism

Web links

• Guest speaker , in: bundestag.de , accessed on March 28, 2016.
• Speeches by foreign guests in the plenary session of the German Bundestag (identical content)