* Bundestag reelects Hermann Ehlers as the second President of the Bundestag, 6 October 1953

He became a member of the first Bundestag ( Federal Parliament ) in 1949 and, in 1953, Federal Minister for Special Affairs in the second cabinet of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, in 1955 Federal Minister of Nuclear Energy, and in 1956 defence minister, charged with the build-up of the new Bundeswehrthe youngest man to hold this office at the time.

In the 12th Bundestag election on 2 December 1990, the first after the German reunification, 6. 1 % of voters in the Eastern electoral area ( 1. 2 % across Germany ) cast their Zweitstimme ( the vote for a party, as opposed to for a person ) for the group Bündnis 90 / Grüne – BürgerInnenbewegung (“ Alliance ’ 90 / Greens – Populist Movement ”), that entered into the German Bundestag with eight East German electees: Klaus-Dieter Feige, Ingrid Köppe, Gerd Poppe, Christina Schenk, Werner Schulz, Wolfgang Ullmann, Konrad Weiß und Vera Wollenberger.

* Vote for Christo's Wrapping of the Reichstag Speech in the German Bundestag, 1994 by Konrad Weiß ( Berlin )

* Bundestag elects Konrad Adenauer first Chancellor of Germany, 12 September 1949.

From 1955 to 1961 he served as the chairman of the CDU faction in the Bundestag, and was a trusted colleague of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer.

He remained in the Bundestag until 1969, serving several times as a minister under Chancellors Konrad Adenauer and Ludwig Erhard.

Konrad, who became after the war a deputy of the Bundestag from 1969 to 1980 as a member of Willy Brandt's SPD, had already been indicted by the Italian justice in 1967 and 1972, but the complaints had been classified

Adenauer speaking in the Bundestag, 1955.

Adenauer could have governed alone without the support of other parties, but retained the support of nearly all of the parties in the Bundestag that were to the right of the SPD.

After the resignation of Adenauer in 1963, Erhard was elected Chancellor with 279 against 180 votes in the Bundestag on 16 October.

Strauss initially denied all involvement, even before the Bundestag: Adenauer, in another speech, famously complained about an " abyss of treason " (" Abgrund von Landesverrat ").

Adenauer managed to convince clearly more West German voters of his leadership abilities and economic and political success to easily win a second term, although he had to form a coalition government with the Free Democrats to gain a majority in the Bundestag.

He constantly accused Adenauer of betraying national interests ( see, for example, Bjöl, Grimberg's History of the Nations ), culminating in his heckle at the Bundestag session of 25 September 1949: " The Chancellor of the Allies!

The rest were divided between those ( some two-fifths of respondents ) who thought that only people ‘ who really committed something ’ were responsible and should pay, and those ( 21 percent ) who thought ‘ that the Jews themselves were partly responsible for what happened to them during the Third Reich .’ When the restitution agreement was debated in the Bundestag on March 18th 1953, the Communists voted against, the Free Democrats abstained and both the Christian Social Union and Adenauer ’ s own CDU were divided, with many voting against any Wiedergutmachung ( reparations ).

* Kurt Schumacher is temporarily removed from the Bundestag after calling Adenauer " the Allied Forces ' Chancellor "

Chancellor Adenauer's Christian Democratic Party slipped only a little in the voting but it was enough to lose the absolute Bundestag majority it has enjoyed since 1957.

The Bundestag members are the only federal officials directly elected by the public ; the Bundestag in turn elects the Chancellor and, in addition, exercises oversight of the executive branch on issues of both substantive policy and routine administration.

The President has a rather ceremonial role in creating a new Chancellor and a theoretically more significant role in sending the Bundestag home.

The Chancellor cannot be removed from office during a four year term unless the Bundestag has agreed on a successor.

In his first speech before the Bundestag as the Chancellor, Brandt set forth his political course of reforms ending the speech with his famous words, " Wir wollen mehr Demokratie wagen " ( literally: " We want to take a chance on more Democracy ", or more figuratively, " Let's dare more democracy ").

After his term as the Chancellor, Brandt retained his seat in the Bundestag, and he remained the Chairman of the Social Democratic Party through 1987.

The president proposes an individual as Federal Chancellor and then, provided he or she is subsequently elected by the Bundestag, appoints him or her to the office.

" The president can dismiss the Chancellor, but only in the event that the Bundestag passes a Constructive Vote of No Confidence.

Merkel was confirmed as the first female Chancellor of Germany by the majority of delegates ( 397 to 217 ) in the newly assembled Bundestag on 22 November.

The executive branch consists of the largely ceremonial Federal President as head of state and the Federal Chancellor, the head of government, normally ( but not necessarily ) the leader of the largest grouping in the Bundestag.

The Chancellor is elected for a full term of the Bundestag and can only be dismissed by parliament electing a successor in a vote of no confidence.

The Bundestag also elects the Chancellor, the head of government, usually ( but not necessarily ) the leader of the majority party or the party with a plurality of seats in the Bundestag, and takes part in the election of the Federal President.

In 1972, Chancellor Willy Brandt's coalition had lost its majority in the Bundestag, so that the opposition CDU / CSU tried to do a constructive vote of no confidence, thus electing Rainer Barzel as new chancellor.

In 1982, Chancellor Helmut Kohl intentionally lost a confidence vote in order to call an early election to strengthen his position in the Bundestag.

In July 2005, he suspended the Bundestag at Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's request, after the latter had lost a motion of confidence in the Bundestag.

In particular, he cannot rule by decree and he can only dissolve the Bundestag ( parliament ) if the Chancellor loses a motion of confidence and asks the President to do so.

President Gustav Heinemann dissolved the Bundestag at the request of Chancellor Willy Brandt in 1972, and in 1982 President Karl Carstens did so at the request of Chancellor Helmut Kohl.

Most recently, on 1 July 2005, President Horst Köhler dissolved the Bundestag at the request of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder.

The German President nominates the first candidate for Chancellor put to vote in the Bundestag.

( 1 ) The Bundestag can express its lack of confidence in the Federal Chancellor only by electing a successor with the majority of its members and by requesting the Federal President to dismiss the Federal Chancellor.

Articles 20 to 146 GG regulate the organization of Germany and legitimize and rule its bodies such as German Bundestag, Bundesrat of Germany or the government and the legislation based on the constitution.

The Bundestag ( Federal Diet ; ) is a legislative body in Germany.

In practice Germany is governed by a bicameral legislature, of which the Bundestag serves as the lower house and the Bundesrat the upper house.

One striking difference when comparing the Bundestag with the British Parliament is the lack of time spent on serving constituents in Germany.

** The Federal Diet ( In German: Deutscher Bundestag ), federal parliament of Germany

Executive power is vested in the Federal Cabinet ( Bundesregierung ), and federal legislative power is vested in the Bundestag ( the parliament of Germany ) and the Bundesrat ( the representative body of the Länder, Germany's regional states ).

The first Bundestag elections were held in the Federal Republic of Germany (" West Germany ") on 14 August 1949.

In the 1990 federal elections, taking place post-reunified Germany, the Greens in the West did not pass the 5 % limit required to win seats in the Bundestag.

This was partly due to the perception that the internal debate over the war in Afghanistan had been more honest and open than in other parties, and one of the MPs who had voted against the Afghanistan deployment, Hans-Christian Ströbele, was directly elected to the Bundestag as a district representative for the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg-Prenzlauer Berg East constituency in Berlin, becoming the first Green to ever gain a first-past-the-post seat in Germany.

The first election to the Bundestag of West Germany was held on 15 August 1949, with the Christian Democrats emerging as the strongest party.

This started a process that led to the Bundestag approving a pact between Israel and Germany in 1953 outlining the reparations Germany would pay to Israel.

* Bundestag ( Federal Assembly of Germany )

* Parliament of Germany – The Bundestag

* In modern Germany, the Bundestag and Bundesrat are the two chambers of parliament

Germany, as mentioned earlier, has a " regular " threshold of 5 %, but a party winning three constituency seats in the Bundestag can gain additional representation even if it has achieved under 5 % of the total vote.

* June 20 – In Germany, the Bundestag votes to move the capital from Bonn to Berlin.

The Social Democratic politician Carlo Schmid read out in the Bundestag the anti-Semitic lines from Raeder's Heroes ' Day Speech of 1939 ; noted that Raeder had not only refused to apologise for that speech, but testified at Nuremberg that he believed that Germany was threatened by " International Jewry "; and argued that Germans to have a better future meant Raeder could not be a role model or seen as a hero as Zenker and Heye wanted.

It is an element of both the parliamentary system and presidential system of government and is typically used in a lower chamber such as the House of Commons ( UK ) or Bundestag ( Germany ), and is generally curtailed by constitutional constraints such as an upper chamber.

* Bundestag ( Federal Assembly of Germany )

The PDS survived the reunification of Germany and eventually started growing again, managing to get representatives elected to the Bundestag.

Rather than adopting a constitution under Article 146 of West Germany's Basic Law, the Bundestag ( Paliamentary diet of West Germany ) used Article 23 of the Basic Law to allow the accession of East Germany territories to West Germany, therefore, placing East German territories under the fundamental authority of West Germany's Basic Law.