List of members of the 3rd Bundestag

__TOC__ 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. Carlo Schmid (SPD), Richard Jeager (CSU) and Max Becker (FDP) were elected as vice presidents of the Bundestag. They were elected almost unanimously, with only two abstentions. == Composition of the Bundestag ==

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. 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.) The SPD won new seats as well. The FDP was the only party in the election that lost seats. == Changes ==

This is a list of members of the 3rd Bundestag, whose members were in office from 1957 until 1961: A • Ernst Achenbach, FDP • Annemarie Ackermann, CDU • Raban Adelmann, CDU • Konrad Adenauer, CDU • Heinrich Aigner, CSU • Luise Albertz, SPD • Lisa Albrecht, SPD (until 16 May 1958) • Jakob Altmaier, SPD • Wilhelm Altvater, SPD (from 22 September 1960) • Josef Arndgen, CDU • Adolf Arndt, SPD • Karl Arnold, CDU (until 29 June 1958) • Karl Atzenroth, FDP • Heinrich Auge, SPD B C • Johannes Caspers, CDU • Adolf Cillien, CDU (until 29 April 1960) • Kurt Conrad, SPD (until 20 July 1959) • Hermann Conring, CDU • Fritz Corterier, SPD • Johann Cramer, SPD • Herbert Czaja, CDU D • Rolf Dahlgrün, FDP • Thomas Dehler, FDP • Heinrich Deist, SPD • Hans Demmelmeier, CSU • Arved Deringer, CDU • Georg Dewald, SPD • Hermann Diebäcker, CDU • Bruno Diekmann, SPD • Anton Diel, SPD (until 6 April 1959) • Jakob Diel, CDU • Emmy Diemer-Nicolaus, FDP • Stefan Dittrich, CSU • Clara Döhring, SPD • Werner Dollinger, CSU • Wilhelm Dopatka, SPD • Wolfgang Döring, FDP • Otto Dowidat, FDP • Hans Drachsler, CSU • Heinrich Draeger, CDU • August Dresbach, CDU • Wilhelm Dröscher, SPD • Hermann Dürr, FDP E • Anton Eberhard, FDP (from 4 November 1959) • Walter Eckhardt, CSU (from 27 December 1957) • Hermann Ehren, CDU • Ernst Theodor Eichelbaum, CDU • Elfriede Eilers, SPD • Jan Eilers, FDP • Otto Eisenmann, FDP • Alexander Elbrächter, CDU • Ernst Engelbrecht-Greve, CDU • Margarete Engländer, CDU • Arthur Enk, CDU • Hermann A. Eplée, CDU (from 8 September 1958) • Ludwig Erhard, CDU • Fritz Erler, SPD • Fritz Eschmann, SPD • Franz Etzel, CDU • Peter Etzenbach, CDU • August-Martin Euler, DP (until 10 September 1958) • Bert Even, CDU • Johannes Even, CDU F • Walter Faller, SPD • Josef Felder, SPD • Otto Freiherr von Feury, CSU (until 10 December 1957) • Hermann Finckh, CDU • Erwin Folger, SPD (from 19 May 1958) • Egon Franke, SPD • Ludwig Franz, CSU • Jakob Franzen, CDU • Günter Frede, SPD • Heinz Frehsee, SPD • Alfred Frenzel, SPD (until 4 November 1960) • Martin Frey, CDU • Ferdinand Friedensburg, CDU • Lotte Friese-Korn, FDP • Gerhard Fritz, CDU • Friedrich Fritz, CDU • Gustav Fuchs, CSU • Friedrich Funk, CSU • Hans Furler, CDU G H I • Joseph Illerhaus, CDU • Wolfgang Imle, FDP (from 29 June 1960) • Hans Iven, SPD J • Werner Jacobi, SPD • Peter Jacobs, SPD • Richard Jaeger, CSU • Hans Jahn, SPD (until 10 July 1960) • Artur Jahn, CDU • Gerhard Jahn, SPD • Wenzel Jaksch, SPD • Pascual Jordan, CDU • Johann Peter Josten, CDU • Hans-Jürgen Junghans, SPD • Hubert Jungherz, SPD (from 19 January 1960) • Nikolaus Jürgensen, SPD K L M N • Friederike Nadig, SPD • Peter Nellen, SPD • Kurt Neubauer, SPD • August Neuburger, CDU • Franz Neumann, SPD • Wilhelm Nieberg, CDU • Alois Niederalt, CSU • Maria Niggemeyer, CDU O • Theodor Oberländer, CDU • Willy Odenthal, SPD • Josef Oesterle, CSU (until 31 August 1959) • Richard Oetzel, CDU • Erich Ollenhauer, SPD P • Maria Pannhoff, CDU • Ernst Paul, SPD • Georg Pelster, CDU • Ernst Pernoll, CDU (until 15 July 1959) • Georg Peters, SPD • Robert Pferdmenges, CDU • Walter Pflaumbaum, CDU • Gerhard Philipp, CDU • Carl Pietscher, CDU • Elisabeth Pitz-Savelsberg, CDU • Kurt Pohle, SPD • Heinz Pöhler, SPD • Ludwig Preiß, CDU • Carl Prennel, SPD • Victor-Emanuel Preusker, CDU • Moritz-Ernst Priebe, SPD • Wilhelm Probst, CDU • Maria Probst, CSU • Werner Pusch, SPD • Severin Fritz Pütz, SPD R S T • Richard Tamblé, SPD (from 25 April 1960) • Theodor Teriete, CDU • Emil Theil, SPD (from 6 March 1960) • Hanns Theis, SPD • Peter Tobaben, CDU • Hans Toussaint, CDU U • Franz Xaver Unertl, CSU V • Franz Varelmann, CDU • Max Vehar, CDU • Elisabeth Vietje, CDU (from 6 May 1960) • Rudolf Vogel, CDU • Karl-Heinz Vogt, CSU W Z • Alois Zimmer, CDU • Friedrich Zimmermann, CSU • Siegfried Zoglmann, FDP • Ernst Zühlke, SPD == Notes ==