Presidium of the 3rd German Bundestag
The Presidium of the 3rd German Bundestag was elected in its constituent session on October 15, 1957. The Bundestag elected the CDU member and previous incumbent Eugen Gerstenmaier as its president and Carlo Schmid ( SPD ), Richard Jaeger ( CSU ) and Max Becker ( FDP ) as its vice-presidents.
Election of the President of the Bundestag
As four years earlier, 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 the latter waived this privilege, which is why Lüders was given this honor as the second oldest member. The Gerstenmaier proposed by the CDU parliamentary group chairman Heinrich Krone received 437 of the 494 votes cast, which corresponded to 88.46%. 3 years earlier, Gerstenmaier was only elected with a relative majority in the third ballot.
Election of the vice-presidents
The MPs Carlo Schmid ( SPD ), Richard Jaeger ( CSU ) and Max Becker ( FDP ) were proposed. All three had already held the office of Vice-President in the previous legislative period. The three candidates were unanimously elected in a joint ballot with two abstentions. On April 23, 1958, a fourth vice president was elected. Originally only Victor-Emanuel Preusker , who was nominated by the DP and the CDU, stood as a candidate, after two ballots in which Preusker did not receive a majority, the SPD proposed Erwin Schoettle . In the third ballot, in which the relative majority was sufficient, Preusker received 233 votes, while Schoettle was able to unite only 167 votes. Thus Preusker was elected Vice President of the Bundestag. However, he resigned his office on October 4, 1960, because he switched to the CDU. Since the DP had lost its parliamentary group status through the transfer of a large number of its MPs and was only a parliamentary group , no successor was elected. After Max Becker's death on July 29, 1960, Thomas Dehler was elected as his successor by acclamation .
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- 3. German Bundestag - 1st session (PDF; 466 kB) on the website of the German Bundestag
- 3. German Bundestag - 24th session (PDF; 2.5 MB) on the website of the German Bundestag
- 3rd German Bundestag - 124th session on the website of the German Bundestag
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