Presidium of the 2nd German Bundestag

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The Presidium of the 2nd German Bundestag was elected in its constituent session on October 6, 1953. The Bundestag elected the CDU -Abgeordneten Hermann Ehlers to his president and Carlo Schmid ( SPD ), Richard Jaeger ( CSU ) and Hermann Schäfer ( FDP ) to his vice president. Since Ehlers died during the legislative period, Eugen Gerstenmaier (CDU) was elected as his successor.

First election of the President of the Bundestag

The electoral process was led by the senior president Marie-Elisabeth Lüders (FDP). Actually, Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer would have been the oldest member of parliament, but he waived this privilege, which is why Lüders, the second oldest member, was given this honor. Only one candidate was proposed for the office of President, namely the CDU MP Hermann Ehlers, who had already been President of the Bundestag in the first legislative period. He received 466 of the 500 votes cast (93.2%). 30 ballot papers were white, 4 votes were invalid. Hermann Ehlers was thus elected President of the 2nd German Bundestag.

Election of the vice-presidents

The MPs Carlo Schmid ( SPD ), Richard Jaeger ( CSU ) and Hermann Schäfer ( FDP ) were proposed. Carlo Schmid had already been Vice President of the 1st Bundestag. The choice was made by acclamation . The candidates were elected unanimously, abstaining from themselves.

Two weeks later, on October 20, the Adenauer II cabinet was appointed and Hermann Schäfer changed to the post of Federal Minister for Special Tasks. On October 28, the Bundestag elected Ludwig Schneider as his successor , again by acclamation .

Since Ludwig Schneider left the FDP from the FDP parliamentary group on February 23, 1956 in order to co-found the FVP , Max Becker (FDP) was elected to the presidium on July 4, 1956 without dissenting votes. Since Ludwig Schneider did not resign, the number of Vice Presidents increased to four. All parliamentary groups except the GB / BHE parliamentary group agreed to the increase in the number of vice-presidents . However, the GB / BHE agreed to Becker's election.

Second election of the President of the Bundestag

Since Hermann Ehlers suddenly died on October 29, 1954 at the age of 50 as a result of almond suppuration , a new President of the Bundestag had to be elected. This happened on November 16. The election was chaired by Bundestag Vice President Carlo Schmid. Only Eugen Gerstenmaier had been suggested. In the first ballot, however, he received only 208 of the 426 votes cast (48.83). Other MPs received a total of 49 votes, including 41 from the Berlin CDU MP Ernst Lemmer . Thereupon the FDP MP Hans Wellhausen applied to postpone the election. However, this request was rejected in a mutton jump. For the second ballot, the Berlin Free Democratic Party MP Hans Reif proposed Ernst Lemmer. In this ballot, 207 of the 414 votes cast went to Gerstenmaier (50%), 191 to Lemmer (46.14%) and one vote to Carlo Schmid, who was not proposed. 15 MPs abstained. Since no candidate received an absolute majority, a third ballot had to be held. In the third ballot, in which the relative majority was sufficient, Gerstenmaier received 204 of the 409 votes cast (49.88%). 190 went to Lemmer (46.45%), 15 members abstained. Eugen Gerstenmaier was thus elected President of the Bundestag. He was to keep this office until 1969.

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