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Franz-Josef Röder
Röder in 1972
Minister-President of Saarland
In office 23 April 1959 – 26 June 1979
Preceded by	Egon Reinert
Succeeded by	Werner Zeyer
Personal details
Born	22 July 1909 Merzig, German Empire
Died	26 June 1979 (1979-06-27) (aged 69) Saarbrücken, West Germany
Political party	NSDAP (1933–1945) CDU (from 1945)

Franz-Josef Röder (22 July 1909 in Merzig – 26 June 1979 in Saarbrücken) was a German politician of the CDU and from 1959 to 1979 Minister President of Saarland. He had been a member of the Nazi Party from 1933 to 1945.

Affiliation to various branches of the Nazi Party

Röder was closely associated with the seven branches of the NSDAP (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei), the NSKK (Nationalsozialistisches Kraftfahrcorps), the NS (Nationalsozialistischer Lehrerbund), DF (Deutsche Front), Ordnungsdienst (Nazi street-fighter unit under SS leadership), and the SA (Sturmabteilung, forbidden at that time by the League of Nations). According to his father, he also held an unspecified leadership function with the Hitler Youth. He became a member of these militant organizations in 1933 and 1934, prior to the official Nazi takeover of the Saar region of Germany in 1935, when the Saarlanders made their decision to join with Hitler's terror regime, a decision in which Röder played an important part by luring his fellow Saarlanders to neglect any reticence against the abolition of human rights. As such, his militancy in these groups was a personal choice rather than an acquiescence to political pressure. This is further evident in an archived letter from his father dating to 1937, which described his personal and family merits in promoting Nazionalsozialismus in the Saar region. Further, there is a notice on Röder's NSDAP membership card showing his transfer from his hometown Neunkirchen NSDAP to The Hague underground branch of the NSDAP, which was illegal under international law at the time. When Röder died in 1979, the Dutch ambassador in Bonn, Baron Diederic van Lynden, wrote an official letter of condolence which excluded the period of time between 1940 and 1944, during which Röder was working as an occupation official under the orders of convicted war criminal (at the Nuremberg trials) Arthur Seyss-Inquart, demonstrating that Röder then was a well known negative element in the Dutch-German relations. Still, in 1944, he was decorated by Nazi authorities with the Kriegsverdienstkreuz ohne Schwerter for "special merits", an "honour" which he never explained. In his denazification procedures, he was found in the first instance to be guilty, then in a later general amnesty reduced to "less guilty". During his years in power after 1955, he largely favoured the return of old NSDAP members in all government cultural and political functions of all levels and made sure that none of the group of the former opponents to Hitler could ever take an influential office again.

References

1. Archived 23 October 2009 at the Wayback Machine
2. Personal denazification file, Landesarchives des Saarlanders: section: "Denazification" 1948.
3. Personal Letter, Franz Röder (father of Franz-Joseph Röder), Schulrat (Educational Inspector) to Nazi authorities, Saarbrucken, Landesarchives des Saarlanders: section: "Restitution Claims", 23 January 1937.
4. Erich Voltmer, Franz-Joseph Röder: Ein Leben fuer die Saar, Dillingen, 1979.

External links

• Media related to Franz-Josef Röder at Wikimedia Commons
• Saarland biography Archived 9 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine (in German)

v t e Minister-presidents of the Saarland
Saar Protectorate (1947–57)	Johannes Hoffmann Heinrich Welsch Hubert Ney
Saarland (since 1957)	Hubert Ney Egon Reinert Franz-Josef Röder Werner Zeyer Oskar Lafontaine Reinhard Klimmt Peter Müller Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer Tobias Hans Anke Rehlinger

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v t e Members of the 2nd Bundestag (1953–1957)
President: Eugen Gerstenmaier (CDU)
CDU/CSU	v t e CDU and CSU Speaker: Heinrich von Brentano until 7 June 1955; Heinrich Krone from 15 June 1955]] CDU: Ackermann Adenauer Albers Albrecht (from 11 May 1956) Arndgen Baier (from 26 June 1956) Barlage Bartram Bauknecht Bausch Becker Berendsen Bergmeyer Bismarck Blank Bleyler Blöcker (from 8 November 1954) Bock Bodelschwingh Böhm Brand Brauksiepe Brenner (from 5 May 1957) Brentano Brese Brökelschen Brönner Brookmann (until 31 August 1957) Brück (until 17 September 1957) Bucerius Buchka Burgemeister Bürkel Caspers Cillien Conring Czaja Diedrichsen Dietz Dresbach Eckstein Ehlers (until 29 October 1954) Ehren Engelbrecht-Greve Erhard Etzenbach Even Farny (until 11 November 1953) Feldmann Finckh Franzen Friedensburg Friese Furler Ganswindt (from 9 November 1955) Gantenberg (from 8 October 1956) Gedat Gengler Gerns Gerstenmaier Gibbert Giencke Glasmeyer Glüsing Gockeln Goldhagen Gontrum Götz Grantze (from 17 November 1955) Griem (until 7 November 1955) Günther Hahn Harnischfeger Hassel (until 4 November 1954) Häussler Hellwig Hesberg Heye Hilbert Höck Höfler Holla Hoogen Horn Huth Illerhaus Jahn Jochmus Josten Kaiser (from 17 September 1956) Kaiser Kather (from 15 June 1954 GB/BHE) Kemper Kiesinger Kirchhoff Kliesing Knapp Knobloch Köhler Kolbe (until 25 December 1953) Koops Kopf Kortmann Krammig Kratz (from 4 January 1957, until 11 April 1957) Kroll Krone Kühlthau Kuntscher Kunze Leibfried (until 21 June 1956) Leibing (from 8 August 1955) Leiske Lemmer Lenz (until 2 May 1957) Lenz Lenze Leonhard Leverkuehn Lindenberg Lindrath Löhr Lotze (from 1 November 1954) Lübke Lücke Lulay Majonica Massoth Maucher (until 16 September 1956) Maxsein Mayer (from 20 November 1953) Mayer Menke Mensing Moerchel Morgenthaler Muckermann Mühlenberg Müller (until 11 November 1953) Müller Müller-Hermann Müser Naegel (until 24 May 1956) Nellen Neuburger Niggemeyer Oetzel Orth (until 7 October 1956) Pelster Pferdmenges Pitz-Savelsberg Platner (from 12 December 1956 DP, from 14 March 1957 DP/FVP) Pohle Praetorius Pünder Raestrup Rasner Rehling Richarts Röder (from 4 January 1957) Rösch Ruf Rümmele Sabel Schäfer (from 4 January 1957) Scharnberg Scheppmann Schill Schlick Schmidt-Wittmack (from 22 April 1954 Non-attached, Loss of mandate 23 February 1956) Schmücker Schneider Schrader Schröder Schuler (until 30 July 1955) Schulze-Pellengahr Schüttler Schwarz Schwarzhaupt Seffrin Serres Sfromaß Sfromel (until 16 September 1957) Siebel Siemer Solke Spies Stauch Steinbiß Steinhauer (from 12 April 1957) Stingl Storch Storm Struve Teriete Thies (from 30 May 1956) Tillmanns (until 12 November 1955) Varelmann Vietje Vogel Voß Wacker Wahl Walz Weber Weber Wehking Welskop Welter (from 4 January 1954) Werber Wiedeck Willeke Windelen (from 28 September 1957) Winkelheide Wolf (from 13 November 1953) Wuermeling Wullenhaupt CSU: Bauer Bauereisen Demmelmeier Dittrich Dollinger Donhauser Franz Fuchs Funk Geiger Geisendörfer Gleissner Graf (from 26 October 1956 FVP, from 14 March 1957 DP/FVP) Gumrum (from 26 October 1956 FVP, from 14 March 1957 DP/FVP) Henckel Höcherl Horlacher Jaeger Kahn Karpf Kemmer Kihn Klausner Kleindinst Kramel Kuchtner Lang Lermer Leukert Lücker Manteuffel-Szoege Meyer Miller Niederalt Oesterle Probst Riederer Rinke Schäffer Schuberth Schütz Seidl Spies Spörl Spreti (until 5 March 1956) Stiller Strauss Stücklen Unertl Wacher Wieninger Winter (from 6 March 1956) Wittmann CVP: Ruland (from 4 January 1957, from 23 May 1957 Guest of CDU/CSU-Fraktion) Schneider (from 4 January 1957, Non-attached, from 23 May 1957 Guest of CDU/CSU-Fraktion)
SPD	v t e SPD Speaker: Erich Ollenhauer Members: Albertz Albrecht Altmaier Arndt Arnholz Baade Bals Banse Bärsch Bauer Baur Bazille Behrisch Bennemann Bergmann Berlin Bettgenhäuser Beyer Birkelbach Blachstein Bleiß Böhm (until 18 July 1957) Brandt Bruse Corterier Dannebom Daum Deist Dewald Diekmann Diel Döhring Dopatka (from 21 November 1955) Erler Eschmann Faller Franke Frehsee Freidhof Frenzel Gefeller Geiger (from 1 January 1954) Geritzmann Gleisner Görlinger (until 10 February 1954) Greve Grunner (from 11 June 1957, until 21 June 1957) Gülich Hansen Hansing Hauffe Heide Heiland Heinrich Heise Hellenbrock Herklotz (from 24 September 1956) Hermsdorf Herold Höcker Höhne Hörauf Hubert Hufnagel Jacobi Jacobs Jahn Jaksch Kahn-Ackermann Kalbitzer Keilhack Kettig Keuning Kinat Kipp-Kaule Klingelhöfer Koenen Könen Königswarter Korspeter Kreyssig Kriedemann Kühn Kurlbaum Ladebeck Lange Leitow (from 3 August 1956) Lockmann Ludwig Lütkens (until 17 November 1955) Marx Mattick Matzner Mayer Meitmann Mellies Menzel Merten Metzger Meyer Meyer Meyer-Laule Missmahl (from 1 September 1954) Moll Mommer Müller Müller Nadig Neubauer Neumann Odenthal Ohlig Ollenhauer Op Paul Peter (from 24 July 1957) Peters Pohle Pöhler Preller Prennel (from 9 November 1955) Priebe Pusch Putzig (from 13 February 1954) Rasch Ratzel (from 15 September 1955) Regling Rehs Reitz Reitzner Renger Richter Ritzel Rudoll Ruhnke Runge Sassnick (until 6 November 1955) Schanzenbach Schellenberg Scheuren Schmid Schmidt Schmidt Schmitt Schoettle Schöne Schreiner (from 4 January 1957) Schroeder (until 4 June 1957) Schröter Seidel Seither Seuffert Stierle Sträter Strobel Stümer (from 30 March 1954) Tausch-Treml (from 25 June 1957) Tenhagen (until 22 August 1954) Thieme Traub [de] (until 8 September 1955) Trittelvitz (until 12 September 1956) Veit (until 10 December 1953) Wagner Wagner Wehner Wehr Welke Weltner Wenzel Wienand Will (from 4 January 1957) Winter (until 7 March 1954) Wittrock Wolff Ziegler (until 27 July 1956) Zühlke
FDP	v t e FDP Speaker: Erich Mende Members: Atzenroth Becker Berg (from 27 June 1955, from 23 February 1956 Non-attached, from 15 March 1956 Demokratische Arbeitsgemeinschaft (DA), from 26 June 1956 FVP, from 14 March 1957 DP/FVP) Blank (from 23 February 1956 Non-attached, from 15 March 1956 Demokratische Arbeitsgemeinschaft (DA), from 26 June 1956 FVP, from 14 March 1957 DP/FVP) Blücher (from 23 February 1956 Non-attached, from 15 March 1956 Demokratische Arbeitsgemeinschaft (DA), from 26 June 1956 FVP, from 14 March 1957 DP/FVP) Bucher Dannemann (until 1 July 1955) Dehler Drechsel Eberhard Euler (from 23 February 1956 Non-attached, from 15 March 1956 Demokratische Arbeitsgemeinschaft (DA), from 26 June 1956 FVP, from 14 March 1957 DP/FVP) Fassbender (from 18 November 1955 DP, from 14 March 1957 DP/FVP) Friese-Korn Frühwald Gaul Golitschek (from 18 April 1956) Graaff (from 4 July 1955) Hammer Held (from 13 September 1954) Henn (from 23 February 1956 Non-attached, from 15 March 1956 Demokratische Arbeitsgemeinschaft (DA), from 26 June 1956 FVP, from 14 March 1957 DP/FVP) Hepp (from 23 February 1956 Non-attached, from 15 March 1956 Demokratische Arbeitsgemeinschaft (DA), from 26 June 1956 FVP, from 14 March 1957 DP/FVP) Hoffmann Hübner (from 23 February 1956 Non-attached, from 15 March 1956 Demokratische Arbeitsgemeinschaft (DA), from 26 June 1956 FVP, from 14 March 1957 DP/FVP) Hütter (from 29 September 1955) Ilk Jentzsch Kühn Lahr (from 23 February 1956 Non-attached, from 15 March 1956 Demokratische Arbeitsgemeinschaft (DA), from 26 June 1956 FVP, from 14 March 1957 DP/FVP) Lenz Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg (from 6 June 1957 Non-attached, from 25 June 1957 DP/FVP) Luchtenberg (from 18 September 1954, until 9 April 1956) Lüders Manteuffel (from 23 February 1956 Non-attached, from 15 March 1956 Demokratische Arbeitsgemeinschaft (DA), from 26 June 1956 FVP, from 14 March 1957 DP/FVP) Margulies Mauk Mayer (until 14 May 1956) Mende Middelhauve (until 10 September 1954) Miessner Neumayer (from 23 February 1956 Non-attached, from 15 March 1956 Demokratische Arbeitsgemeinschaft (DA), from 26 June 1956 FVP, from 14 March 1957 DP/FVP) Onnen Pfleiderer (until 20 September 1955) Preiß (from 23 February 1956 Non-attached, from 15 March 1956 Demokratische Arbeitsgemeinschaft (DA), from 26 June 1956 FVP, from 14 March 1957 DP/FVP) Preusker (from 23 February 1956 Non-attached, from 15 March 1956 Demokratische Arbeitsgemeinschaft (DA), from 26 June 1956 FVP, from 14 March 1957 DP/FVP) Rademacher Reif Schäfer (from 23 February 1956 Non-attached, from 15 March 1956 Demokratische Arbeitsgemeinschaft (DA), from 26 June 1956 FVP, from 14 March 1957 DP/FVP) Scheel Schloß Schneider (from 23 February 1956 Non-attached, from 15 March 1956 Demokratische Arbeitsgemeinschaft (DA), from 26 June 1956 FVP, from 14 March 1957 DP/FVP) Schwann Stahl Stammberger Starke Stegner (from 13 January 1954 Non-attached, from 6 February 1957 GB/BHE) Weber (from 15 May 1956) Wellhausen (from 23 February 1956 Non-attached, from 15 March 1956 Demokratische Arbeitsgemeinschaft (DA), from 23 June 1956 CDU/CSU) Weyer (until 17 September 1954) Will Wirths (until 16 June 1955) DPS: Schneider (from 4 January 1957, Guest of FDP-Fraktion) Schwertner (from 4 January 1957, from 8 January 1957 Guest of FDP-Fraktion) Wedel (from 4 January 1957, Non-attached, from 8 January 1957 Guest of FDP-Fraktion)
GB/BHE	v t e GB/BHE Speaker: Horst Haasler until 15 March 1955; Karl Mocker 15 March 1955 till 26 April 1956; Erwin Feller from 26 April 1956]] Members: Bender (from 12 July 1955 Non-attached, from 14 July 1955 Group Kraft/Oberländer, from 15 July 1955 Guest of CDU/CSU-Fraktion, from 20 March 1956 CDU/CSU) Czermak (from 14 July 1955 FDP) Eckhardt (from 12 July 1955 Non-attached, from 14 July 1955 Group Kraft/Oberländer, from 15 July 1955 Guest of CDU/CSU-Fraktion, from 20 March 1956 CDU/CSU) Elsner Engell Feller Fiedler (until 13 October 1953) Finck (from 12 July 1955 Non-attached, from 14 July 1955 Group Kraft/Oberländer, from 15 July 1955 Guest of CDU/CSU-Fraktion, from 20 March 1956 CDU/CSU) Finselberger Gemein Gille Haasler (from 12 July 1955 Non-attached, from 14 July 1955 Group Kraft/Oberländer, from 15 July 1955 Guest of CDU/CSU-Fraktion, from 20 March 1956 CDU/CSU) Keller Klötzer Körner (from 12 July 1955 Non-attached, from 14 July 1955 FDP, from 23 February 1956 Non-attached, from 15 March 1956 Demokratische Arbeitsgemeinschaft (DA), from 26 June 1956 FVP, from 14 March 1957 DP/FVP) Kraft (from 12 July 1955 Non-attached, from 14 July 1955 Group Kraft/Oberländer, from 15 July 1955 Guest of CDU/CSU-Fraktion, from 20 March 1956 CDU/CSU) Kunz Kutschera Meyer-Ronnenberg (from 20 August 1954 CDU/CSU) Mocker Oberländer (from 12 July 1955 Non-attached, from 14 July 1955 Group Kraft/Oberländer, from 15 July 1955 Guest of CDU/CSU-Fraktion, from 20 March 1956 CDU/CSU) Petersen Reichstein Samwer (from 15 October 1953, from 12 July 1955 Non-attached, from 14 July 1955 Group Kraft/Oberländer, from 15 July 1955 Guest of CDU/CSU-Fraktion, from 20 March 1956 CDU/CSU) Seiboth Sornik Srock Strosche
DP	v t e DP Speaker: Hans-Joachim von Merkatz until 11 September 1955; Ernst-Christoph Brühler from 11 September 1955]] Members: Becker (from 14 March 1957 DP/FVP) Brühler (from 14 March 1957 DP/FVP) Eickhoff (from 14 March 1957 DP/FVP) Elbrächter (from 14 March 1957 DP/FVP) Hellwege (until 27 May 1955) Kalinke (from 3 June 1955, from 14 March 1957 DP/FVP) Matthes (from 14 March 1957 DP/FVP) Merkatz (from 14 March 1957 DP/FVP) Müller (from 14 March 1957 DP/FVP) Schild (from 14 March 1957 DP/FVP) Schneider (from 14 March 1957 DP/FVP) Schranz (from 14 March 1957 DP/FVP) Seebohm (from 14 March 1957 DP/FVP) Walter (from 14 March 1957 DP/FVP) Wittenburg (from 14 March 1957 DP/FVP) Zimmermann (from 14 March 1957 DP/FVP)
OTHER	v t e Independent Members: Böhner (Non-attached, until 8 January 1954) Brockmann (Non-attached) Heix (from 23 September 1953 CDU/CSU) Rösing (from 14 January 1954, Non-attached, from 25 June 1954 Guest of CDU/CSU-Fraktion, from 6 June 1955 CDU/CSU)
List of members of the 2nd Bundestag

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