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Helene Wessel (6 July 1898 - 13 October 1969) was a German politician. From October 1949 to January 1952 she was chairwoman of the Centre Party and a founding member of the All-German People's Party, which eventually joined the SPD. She was elected to the Parlamentarischer Rat, the West German constitutional convention.

Early life

Helene Wessel was born on 6 July 1898 in Hörde (now in Dortmund) and was the youngest of four children of the Reichsbahn officials Henry Wessel and his wife, Helene Wessel, born in Linz. Her parents were deeply influenced by their Catholic faith, her father being a member of the German Centre Party. He died in 1905 from the consequences of an unknown accident.

She completed a commercial apprenticeship in November 1915 and worked as a secretary in the office of the Centre Party Horder. In March 1923, she began a one-year course at the State Welfare School in Munster for youth and social welfare. In 1919, she became involved in the Centre Party, and was elected in May 1928 in the Prussian Parliament. She managed two professions on as party secretary and another as a social worker of the Catholic Church. In October 1929, she settled at the Berlin Academy of German social and educational women's work to educate graduate welfare workers. After the Nazi seizure of power in 1933, Wessel was classified as "politically unreliable".

Political career

After the Second World War she was active politically again. In 1949 she was one of the Center part's representatives in the Bundestag and also was elected chairwoman of the party, the first woman ever to lead a German party. A Lutheran pacifist, the left-wing Catholic vocally opposed in 1951. Adenauer's policy of German rearmament and joined forces with the CDU's Gustav Heinemann, the former Minister of the Interior. Both formed the "Notgemeinschaft zur Rettung des Friedens in Europa" ("Emergency Community to Save Peace in Europe"), an initiative intended to prevent rearmament.

Wessel resigned from her post and in November 1952 and left the party. Immediately afterwards, Wessel and Heinemann turned the "Notgemeinschaft" into a political party, the "Gesamtdeutsche Volkspartei" ("Whole-German People's Party" aka GVP), which failed badly in the elections of 1953. In 1957, the GVP dissolved and most members joined the SPD.

References

1. "Der Parlamentarische Rat 1948 / 49" (in German). Retrieved 2012-01-07.
2. Cooper, Alice Holmes (1996). Paradoxes of Peace: German Peace Movements Since 1945. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 0472106244.
3. Klein, Michael (2005). Westdeutscher Protestantismus und politische Parteien: Anti-Parteien-Mentalität und parteipolitisches Engagement von 1945 bis 1963. Mohr Siebeck. ISBN 9783161484933.

v t e Members of the 1st Bundestag (1949–1953)
President: Erich Köhler until 18 October 1950; Hermann Ehlers from 19 October 1950 (CDU)
CDU/CSU	v t e CDU and CSU Speaker: Konrad Adenauer until 21 September 1949; Heinrich von Brentano from 30 September 1949 CDU: Adenauer Albers Arndgen Bartram (from 13 May 1952) Bauknecht Baur Bausch Becker Blank Brauksiepe Brentano Brese Brökelschen Brönner Brookmann Bucerius Degener (until 31 December 1951) Dietz Dresbach Eckstein Ehlers Ehren Eplée (from 16 January 1953) Erhard Etzel (until 4 January 1953) Etzenbach Even Feldmann Frey Friedensburg (from 1 February 1952) Gengler Gerns Gerstenmaier Gibbert Giencke Glüsing Gockeln Götz Gröwel Günther Hagge (from 24 June 1953 FDP) Handschumacher (from 21 January 1953) Heiler Heix Henle Hilbert Hilpert (until 10 October 1949) Höfler Hohl (from 3 November 1949) Holzapfel (until 20 January 1953) Hoogen Hoppe Horn (from 10 June 1950) Huth Junglas Kaiser Kather Kemper Kern Kiesinger Köhler Kopf Krone Kühling Kuntscher Kunze Lehr Leibfried Lemmer (from 1 February 1952) Lenz Leonhard Lübke (until 30 September 1950) Lücke Majonica (from 19 November 1950) Massoth Maxsein (from 1 February 1952) Mayer Mehs Mensing Morgenthaler Muckermann Mühlenberg Müller Müller-Hermann (from 1 January 1952) Naegel Neber Nellen Neuburger Niggemeyer Oetzel (from 24 January 1953) Orth Pelster Pfender Pferdmenges (from 12 January 1950) Povel (until 21 October 1952) Pünder Raestrup Rehling Rösch Rümmele Sabel Scharnberg Schill Schlange-Schöningen (until 9 June 1950) Schmitt Schmitz Schmücker Schröder Schröter (until 25 February 1952) Schuler Schulze-Pellengahr Schüttler Serres Sewald (until 25 November 1949) Siebel Stauch Steinbiß Storch Struve Tillmanns Vogel Wacker Wackerzapp Wahl Weber Weber Weiß Winkelheide Wuermeling CSU: Bauereisen Bodensteiner (from 14 November 1952 Non-attached (GVP)) Fuchs Fugger Funk Horlacher Jaeger Kahn Karpf Kemmer Kleindinst Laforet Loibl (until 16 April 1951) Nickl Niklas (from 30 May 1951) Oesterle Probst Schäffer Schatz Schütz Semler (from 14 May 1950) Solleder Spies Spreti Strauss Stücklen
SPD	v t e SPD Speaker: Kurt Schumacher until 20 August 1952; Erich Ollenhauer from 7 October 1952 Members: Albertz Albrecht Altmaier Ansorge (from 17 November 1951) Arndt Arnholz Baade Bärsch Baur Bazille Behrisch Bergmann Bergsträsser Berlin Bettgenhäuser Bielig Birkelbach Blachstein Bleiß Böhm Brandt Brill Bromme Brünen Brunner (until 13 November 1951) Cramer Dannebom Diel Döhring Eichler Ekstrand Erler Faller (from 4 December 1951) Fischer (until 21 October 1951) Franke (from 17 May 1951) Freidhof Freitag Geritzmann Gleisner Görlinger Graf Greve Gülich Happe Heiland Heinen (from 24 July 1953) Hennig Henßler Herbig (until 1 December 1951) Herrmann Höcker Höhne Hubert Imig Jacobi Jacobs Jahn Kalbfell Kalbitzer Keilhack Keuning Kinat Kipp-Kaule Klabunde (until 21 November 1950) Knoeringen (until 3 April 1951) Knothe (until 20 February 1952) Koch Königswarter (from 1 February 1952) Korspeter Krahnstöver Kreyssig (from 4 April 1951) Kriedemann Kurlbaum Lange Lausen Leddin (until 25 March 1951) Löbe Lockmann (from 28 November 1950) Lohmüller (until 2 March 1952) Ludwig Lütkens Marx Matzner Mayer Meitmann Mellies Menzel Merten (from 23 April 1951) Mertins Meyer Meyer Meyer-Laule Missmahl Mommer Moosdorf (from 4 May 1952) Mücke Müller Müller Nadig Neubauer (from 1 February 1952) Neumann Nölting (until 15 July 1953) Nowack Odenthal (from 28 September 1951) Ohlig Ollenhauer Paul Peters Pohle Preller (from 16 March 1951) Priebe Reitzner Richter Ritzel Roth (until 14 May 1951) Ruhnke Runge Sander Sassnick Schanzenbach Schellenberg (from 1 February 1952) Schmid Schmidt Schoettle Schönauer (until 2 April 1950) Schöne Schroeder Schröter (from 1 February 1952) Schumacher (until 20 August 1952) Segitz (from 4 December 1951) Seuffert Stech Steinhörster Stierle Stopperich (until 6 January 1952) Striebeck Strobel Suhr (until 31 January 1952) Temmen Tenhagen Troppenz Veit Wagner Wehner Wehr (from 21 May 1952) Weinhold Welke Weltner Wenzel Winter (from 9 November 1952) Wolff (from 1 February 1952) Wönner Zinn (until 21 January 1951) Zühlke
FDP	v t e FDP Speaker: Theodor Heuss until 12 September 1949; Hermann Schäfer until 10 January 1951; August-Martin Euler until 6 May 1952; Hermann Schäfer from 6 May 1952 Members: Atzenroth Becker Blank Blücher Dannemann Dehler Dirscherl Eberhard (from 3 October 1952) Euler Fassbender Friedrich (from 5 October 1950 Non-attached, from 16 November 1950 BHE/DG, from 2 April 1952 FDP-Gast) Frühwald Funcke (from 14 September 1951) Gaul Golitschek Grundmann Hammer Hasemann Henn (from 1 February 1952) Heuss (until 15 September 1949) Hoffmann (from 15 June 1951) Hoffmann Höpker-Aschoff (until 9 September 1951) Hübner (from 1 February 1952) Hütter (from 15 September 1949) Ilk (from 3 November 1949) Jaeger (from 22 January 1953) Juncker Kneipp Kohl (until 31 January 1952) Kühn Langer (from 10 June 1952 Non-attached, from 29 March 1953 WAV) Leuchtgens (from 21 January 1950 DRP, from 5 October 1950 Non-attached (DRP), from 6 December 1950 DP, from 27 July 1953 partei- und Non-attached) Leuze (from 21 March 1952) Linnert (until 27 October 1949) Luchtenberg (from 30 October 1950) Margulies Mauk (from 7 April 1952) Mayer (until 18 December 1952) Mende Middelhauve (until 17 October 1950) Mulert (from 1 February 1952) Neumayer Nöll Nowack (until 30 September 1952) Oellers (until 5 June 1951) Onnen Pfleiderer Preiß Preusker Rademacher Rath Rechenberg (until 19 January 1953) Reif Revenstorff Rüdiger (until 20 February 1951) Schäfer Schneider Stahl Stegner Trischler Vries (from 5 January 1953) Wellhausen Wildermuth (until 9 March 1952) Will (from 1 February 1952) Wirths Zawadil (from 26 November 1952 DP)
DP	v t e DP Speaker: Heinrich Hellwege until 2 November 1949; Friedrich Klinge until 21 December 1949; Hans Mühlenfeld until 15 March 1953; Hans-Joachim von Merkatz from 17 March 1953 Members: Ahrens Bahlburg (from 13 September 1951 Non-attached, from 24 January 1952 DP-Gast, from 10 September 1952 Non-attached) Campe (from 23 January 1950, until 8 January 1952) Eickhoff Ewers Farke Fricke (from 22 March 1952) Hedler (from 19 January 1950 Non-attached, from 28 March 1950 DRP-Gast, from 16 September 1950 Non-attached, from 29 April 1953 WAV) Hellwege Jaffé (from 9 January 1952) Kalinke Klinge (until 21 December 1949) Kuhlemann Matthes Merkatz Mühlenfeld (until 15 May 1953) Seebohm Tobaben Walter Wittenburg Woltje (from 30 May 1953)
BP	v t e BP Speaker: Gebhard Seelos until 25 September 1951; Hugo Decker from 25 September 1951 Members: Aretin (from 14 December 1951 FU) Aumer (from 8 September 1950 Non-attached) Baumgartner (until 1 January 1951) Besold (from 14 December 1951 FU) Decker Donhauser (from 8 September 1950 Non-attached, from 17 September 1952 CSU) Eichner (from 14 December 1951 FU) Etzel (from 14 December 1951 FU, from 3 December 1952 Non-attached (GVP)) Falkner (until 27 October 1950) Fink (from 14 December 1951 FU, from 5 January 1952 CSU) Fürstenberg (from 7 November 1950 Non-attached, from 19 January 1951 CSU) Lampl (from 10 November 1950, from 14 December 1951 FU) Maerkl (from 1 September 1952) Mayerhofer (from 14 December 1951 FU) Meitinger (from 26 September 1951, from 14 December 1951 FU) Oettingen-Wallerstein (from 8 January 1951, from 14 December 1951 FU, until 1 September 1952) Parzinger (from 14 December 1951 FU) Rahn (from 14 January 1950, from 8 September 1950 Non-attached, from 17 October 1950 WAV-Gast, from 14 February 1951 CSU) Seelos (until 25 September 1951) Volkholz (from 14 December 1951 FU) Wartner (from 14 December 1951 FU) Ziegler (until 30 December 1949)
KPD	v t e KPD Speaker: Max Reimann Members: Agatz Fisch Gundelach Harig Kohl (from 26 January 1950) Leibbrand (until 26 January 1950) Müller (from 10 May 1950 Non-attached) Müller Niebergall Niebes (from 10 July 1952) Nuding (until 20 April 1951) Paul Reimann Renner Rische Strohbach (from 16 May 1951) Thiele Vesper (until 30 June 1952)
WAV	v t e WAV Speaker: Alfred Loritz Members: Bieganowski (from 21 March 1952, from 23 April 1952 DP/DPB, from 9 December 1952 Non-attached) Fröhlich (from 13 October 1950 BHE/DG, from 21 March 1952 Non-attached) Goetzendorff (from 29 March 1950 DRP-Gast, from 5 October 1950 Non-attached (DRP), from 29 April 1953 WAV) Keller (from 24 April 1952, from 6 December 1951 DP, Non-attached) Löfflad (from 6 December 1951 DP) Loritz (from 6 December 1951 Non-attached, from 29 April 1953 WAV) Paschek (from 29 March 1950 DRP-Gast, from 5 October 1950 Non-attached, from 30 January 1951 WAV, from 6 December 1951 DP, until 22 April 1952) Reindl (from 6 December 1951 DP/DPB, from 9 December 1952 Non-attached, from 29 April 1953 WAV) Schmidt (from 6 December 1951 DP/DPB, from 9 December 1952 Non-attached) Schuster (from 6 December 1951 DP) Tichi (from 13 October 1950 BHE/DG, from 21 March 1952 Non-attached) Wallner (from 6 December 1951 DP/DPB, from 9 December 1952 Non-attached) Weickert (from 13 October 1950 BHE/DG, until 16 March 1952) Wittmann (from 6 December 1951 DP, from 9 May 1952 Non-attached, from 5 July 1952 CDU/CSU-Gast)
ZENTRUM	v t e ZENTRUM Speaker: Helene Wessel Members: Amelunxen (until 7 October 1949) Arnold (from 14 December 1951 FU, from 9 December 1952 Non-attached (GVP)) Bertram (from 3 November 1949, from 14 December 1951 FU) Determann (from 14 December 1951 FU) Glasmeyer (from 23 November 1951 CDU) Hamacher (until 29 July 1951) Hoffmann (, from 14 December 1951 FU) Krause (until 18 October 1950) Pannenbecker (from 14 December 1951 FU) Reismann (from 14 December 1951 FU) Ribbeheger (from 14 December 1951 FU) Wessel (from 14 December 1951 FU, from 13 November 1952 Non-attached (GVP)) Willenberg (from 26 October 1950, from 14 December 1951 FU)
DRP	v t e DRP Members: Dorls (from 13 December 1950 WAV-Gast, from 17 January 1951 WAV, from 26 September 1951 Non-attached, am 23 October 1952 Mandatsaberkennung) Frommhold (from 7 September 1949 Nationale Rechte, from 5 October 1950 Non-attached (DRP), from 26 March 1952 DP-Gast, from 11 February 1953 Non-attached) Jaeger (from 29 February 1952) Miessner (from 5 October 1950 FDP-Gast, from 20 December 1950 FDP) Rößler (from 15 September 1949 Nationale Rechte, from 6 September 1950 Non-attached, from 13 December 1950 WAV-Gast, from 17 January 1951 WAV, from 26 September 1951 Non-attached, until 21 February 1952) Thadden (from 15 September 1949 Nationale Rechte; 1950 DRP, from 20 April 1950 Non-attached)
OTHER	v t e OTHER Members: Clausen (from 23 January 1952 FU-Gast, from 3 July 1953 Non-attached) Edert (CDU/CSU-Gast) Freudenberg (from 5 December 1952 Non-attached) Ott (Non-attached, from 4 May 1950 WAV-Gast, from 13 October 1950 BHE/DG, from 21 March 1952 Non-attached, from 26 March 1952 DP/DPB-Gast, from 26 June 1952 Non-attached)
List of members of the 1st Bundestag

v t e Members of the 4th Bundestag (1961–1965)
President: Eugen Gerstenmaier (CDU)
CDU/CSU	v t e CDU and CSU Speaker: Heinrich von Brentano until 14 November 1964; Rainer Barzel from 1 December 1964 CDU: Ackermann (from 16 January 1965) Adenauer Adorno Arndgen Arnold Artzinger Baier Baldauf Balkenhol Barzel Bauknecht Bausch Becker (from 11 June 1964) Becker Benda Berberich Berger (from 22 December 1964) Bewerunge Biechele Bieringer Birrenbach Bismarck Blank Bleyler Blöcker Blohm Blumenfeld Bodelschwingh Böhm Böhme Brand Brauksiepe Brentano (until 14 November 1964) Brese Brück Bucerius (until 22 March 1962) Bühler Burgbacher Burgemeister Conring Czaja Delden Deringer Dichgans Diebäcker Draeger Dresbach Ehren (from 4 October 1962 until 30 November 1964) Eichelbaum Elbrächter Engelbrecht-Greve (until 7 December 1962) Engländer (from 1 August 1962) Erhard Etzel Even (until 24 November 1964) Even Exner (from 30 November 1964) Falke Finckh (until 28 April 1962) Franzen (until 8 October 1965) Frey Friedensburg Fritz (until 5 January 1965) Furler Gaßmann Gedat Gehring Gerlich (from 24 August 1963) Gerns (until 20 August 1963) Gerstenmaier Gewandt Gibbert Giencke Glüsing Goldhagen (until 7 January 1964) Gossel Gottesleben Götz Gradl Griesinger (from 23 November 1964) Güde Günther Haase Hagen (from 20 January 1964) Hahn (from 9 May 1962 until 16 November 1964) Hahn Harnischfeger Härzschel (from 28 October 1963) Hauser Häussler (from 20 April 1964) Heck Heix Hesberg Hesemann Hilbert Höchst Höfler (until 21 October 1963) Holkenbrink Hoogen (until 11 December 1964) Horn Hörnemann Hübner Huthmacher (until 13 February 1962) Huys Illerhaus Jacobi Josten Jungmann Kalinke Kanka Katzer Klee Klein Kliesing Klinker (from 10 December 1962) Knobloch Kopf Krone Krüger Kühn Kuntscher Kurtz (from 12 October 1964) Leicht Lemmer Lenz Lenze Leonhard Löhr Lücke Luda Majonica Martin Maucher Maxsein Mayer Meis Mengelkamp Menke Merkatz Mick Missbach Müller Müller Müller Müller-Hermann Müser Neumann Nieberg Oberländer (from 9 May 1963) Oetzel Pannhoff Pferdmenges (until 28 September 1962) Pflaumbaum Philipp Pitz-Savelsberg Poepke Porten Preiß (from 24 November 1964) Rasner Rauhaus Rehling (until 29 May 1964) Reinhard Richarts Riedel Rollmann Rommerskirchen Rösing (from 30 June 1965) Ruf Ruland (from 19 February 1962 until 28 September 1964) Scheppmann Schlick Schmidt Schmücker Schneider (from 27 March 1962) Schröder Schroeder Schulhoff Schwarz Schwarzhaupt Schwörer Seebohm Seffrin Serres Siemer Sinn Stauch Stecker Stein Steinmetz Stingl Stoltenberg Stommel (from 4 December 1964) Stooß Storch Storm Struve Süsterhenn Teriete Tobaben Toussaint Varelmann Verhoeven Vietje (until 2 May 1963) Vittinghoff-Schell Vogel (until 15 April 1964) Wahl Weber (until 25 July 1962) Weber Wehking Welter Wendelborn Werner Wilhelmi Willeke (until 24 June 1965) Windelen Winkelheide Wittmer-Eigenbrodt Wuermeling Wullenhaupt Zimmer CSU: Aigner Althammer Balke Bauer Besold Brenck Dittrich Dollinger Drachsler Eckhardt (from 21 July 1964) Ehnes Franz Funk (until 5 August 1963) Geiger (from 8 June 1965) Geisendörfer Gleissner Guttenberg Haas (from 9 August 1963) Haniel-Niethammer Höcherl Hösl Jaeger Kemmer (until 7 October 1964) Kempfler Knorr Krug Kuchtner Lang (until 1 June 1965) Lemmrich Lermer (until 15 July 1964) Leukert (from 27 June 1962) Lücker Manteuffel-Szoege (until 8 June 1962) Memmel Meyer (until 29 January 1962) Niederalt Probst Ramminger Schlee (from 15 February 1963) Schütz (until 5 February 1963) Seidl Spies Stiller Strauss Stücklen Sühler Unertl Vogt Wacher (until 26 March 1963) Wagner Weigl Weinkamm Weinzierl Wieninger Winter (from 2 February 1962) Wittmann (from 26 October 1964) Ziegler (from 1 April 1963) Zimmermann
SPD	v t e SPD Speaker: Erich Ollenhauer until 14 December 1963; Fritz Erler from 3 March 1964 Members: Albertz Altmaier (until 8 February 1963) Anders (from 17 April 1963) Arendt Arndt Auge Baade Bading Bals Bartsch (from 23 October 1963) Bauer Bäuerle (from 31 May 1963) Bäumer Bazille Bechert Behrendt Berger-Heise Bergmann Berkhan Berlin Beuster Beyer Biegler Biermann Birkelbach (until 30 September 1964) Blachstein Bleiß Börner Brandt (until 27 December 1961) Brauer Braun Brecht (until 10 July 1962) Brünen Bruse (from 16 July 1962) Buchstaller Busch (from 26 January 1962) Büttner Corterier Cramer Deist (until 7 March 1964) Diekmann Döhring Dopatka Dröscher Eilers Elsner Eppler Erler Eschmann Faller Felder Figgen Flämig (from 15 February 1963) Folger Franke Frede Frehsee Freyh (from 22 December 1961) Fritsch Geiger Gerlach Glombig (from 25 January 1962) Gscheidle Haage Haase (from 10 November 1961) Hamacher Hansing Harm (until 10 August 1964) Hauffe Heide Heiland (until 6 May 1965) Heinemann Hellenbrock Herberts (from 12 March 1964) Herklotz Hermsdorf Herold Hirsch Hoegner (until 4 January 1962) Höhmann Höhne Hörauf Hörmann Hubert Hübner (from 13 May 1965) Hufnagel Hussong Iven Jacobi Jacobs Jahn Jaksch Junghans Junker Jürgensen Kaffka Kahn-Ackermann (from 10 January 1962) Kalbitzer Keilhack (until 19 January 1962) Kettig Killat Kipp-Kaule Klein (until 22 October 1963) Kleinert (from 13 November 1964) Koch Koenen Kohlberger Könen Korspeter Krappe Kraus Kreyssig Kriedemann Kübler Kühn (until 9 April 1963) Kulawig Kurlbaum Lange Langebeck Lautenschlager Leber Lemper Lenz Liehr (from 11 January 1962) Lohmar Lösche (from 18 April 1963) Lücke Ludwig (from 6 January 1962 until 18 February 1962) Lünenstraß (until 16 May 1963) Marquardt Marx Matthöfer Mattick Matzner Maybaum (from 22 May 1963) Meermann Menzel (until 24 September 1963) Merten Metter Metzger Meyer Meyer Michels Möller Mommer Morgenstern Müller Müller Müller Müller Müller-Emmert Nellen Neubauer (until 16 April 1963) Neumann Nissen (until 1 October 1964) Ohlemeyer (from 14 June 1965) Ollenhauer (until 14 December 1963) Paul Peiter (from 22 February 1962) Peters Pohle (until 3 November 1961) Pohlenz (from 30 September 1963 until 10 June 1965) Pöhler Porzner (from 21 May 1962) Priebe Ravens Regling Rehs Reichhardt (from 5 October 1964) Reischl Reitz Reitzner (until 11 May 1962) Renger Riegel Rinderspacher Ritzel Roesch Rohde Ross (from 18 August 1964) Rudoll Sänger Saxowski Schäfer Schanzenbach Schellenberg Scheuren Schlüter (from 11 September 1964) Schmid Schmidt (until 19 January 1962) Schmidt Schmidt Schmidt Schmidt Schmitt-Vockenhausen Schoettle Schröder (until 6 September 1964) Schütz (until 9 January 1962) Schwabe Seibert Seidel Seifriz Seither Seppi Seuffert Seume Stammberger Steinhoff Stephan Striebeck Strobel Strohmayr Tamblé Theis Urban Wagner (until 19 December 1961) Wegener Wehner Welke Wellmann (from 1 January 1962) Welslau Weltner Wessel Wienand Wilhelm Winterstein (from 26 October 1964 until 2 November 1964) Wischnewski Wittrock (until 8 May 1963) Wolf (from 19 December 1963) Zimmermann Zinn (until 13 December 1961) Zühlke
FDP	v t e FDP Speaker: Erich Mende until 17 October 1963; Knut von Kühlmann-Stumm from 5 November 1963 Members: Achenbach Aschoff Atzenroth Bucher Burckardt Busse Dahlgrün Danz Dehler Deneke (from 26 July 1963) Diemer-Nicolaus Döring (until 17 January 1963) Dörinkel Dorn Dürr Effertz Eisenmann Emde Ertl Flitz Funcke Hamm Hammersen Hellige Heuser (from 6 December 1962) Hoven Imle Keller (until 21 July 1963) Kiep-Altenloh Kohut Kreitmeyer Krümmer (from 24 January 1963) Kubitza Kühlmann-Stumm Kühn (until 4 December 1962) Lenz Löbe Logemann Mälzig Margulies (until 27 August 1964) Mauk Mende Menne Mertes Miessner Mischnick Moersch (from 1 September 1964) Mühlen Murr Ollesch Opitz Peters Rademacher Ramms Reichmann Rieger Rutschke Sander Scheel Schmidt Schneider Schultz Soetebier Spitzmüller Starke Supf Wächter Walter Weber Zoglmann
OTHER	v t e Independent Members: Gontrum
List of members of the 4th Bundestag

v t e Members of the 5th Bundestag (1965–1969)
President: Eugen Gerstenmaier (CDU) until 31 January 1969; Kai-Uwe von Hassel (CDU) from 5 February 1969
CDU/CSU	v t e CDU and CSU Speaker: Rainer Barzel CDU: Abelein Adenauer (until 19 April 1967) Adorno Arnold Artzinger Baier Balkenhol Barzel Bauknecht Becker Benda Berberich Berendsen Berger Bewerunge Biechele Birrenbach Blank Blöcker Blohm Blumenfeld Brand Brauksiepe Bremer Brese Brück Budde Bühler Burgbacher Burgemeister Burger Conring Czaja Damm Delden Deringer Dichgans Diebäcker Draeger Eckardt Elbrächter Enk Enseling (from 28 April 1966) Erhard Erhard Ernesti (from 9 July 1967) Erpenbeck Even Exner Falke (from 27 July 1967) Franke Franzen Freiwald Frerichs Frey Frieler Fritz Furler Geißler (until 11 October 1967) Gerstenmaier Gewandt Gibbert (until 30 December 1967) Giulini Glüsing Gottesleben Götz Gradl Griesinger Güde Haase Häfele Hahn Hammans Hanz Härzschel (from 19 October 1967) Hassel Hauser Hauser Häussler Heck Hesberg Hilbert Hofmann Holkenbrink (until 17 July 1967) Holzmeister (from 5 February 1968) Hörnemann Horstmeier Horten Huys Illerhaus Jacobi Jahn Josten Jungmann Kalinke Katzer Kiep Klee Klein Klepsch Kliesing Klinker Knobloch (from 24 July 1967) Kopf Köppler Krammig Krampe (from 11 October 1966) Kraske Krone Kühn Kuntscher Lampersbach Leicht Lemmer Lenz Lenz Lenze Lindenberg (from 29 September 1967) Löhr Lücke Luda Majonica Martin Marx Maucher Maxsein Meis Meister Mengelkamp (until 21 July 1967) Merkatz Mick Missbach Mönikes (from 12 October 1967) Müller Müller Müller Müller-Hermann Müser Nordenskjöld Orgaß Petersen Philipp (until 20 April 1966) Picard Pieser (from 26 June 1968) Pitz-Savelsberg Porten Prassler Preiß Rasner Rawe Reinhard Reinholz (from 24 July 1967) Richarts (until 16 September 1969) Riedel Rinsche Ritgen Ritz Rock Rollmann Rommerskirchen Rösing Rösler (from 24 September 1969) Ruf Russe Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein Schmid-Burgk Schmidt Schmitt Schmücker Schober Schröder Schröder Schroeder Schulhoff Schwarzhaupt Schwörer Seebohm (until 17 September 1967) Serres Siemer Sinn Springorum Stahlberg Stark Stecker Stein Steinmetz Stingl (until 15 June 1968) Stoltenberg Stommel Stooß Storm Struve Süsterhenn Teriete Tobaben Toussaint Varelmann Verbeek (until 13 December 1966) Vittinghoff-Schell Vogel (until 6 October 1966) Vogel (until 17 July 1967) Wahl Weiland (from 14 December 1966) Weimer Wendelborn Wex (from 28 April 1967) Wilhelmi Wilper (until 3 July 1967) Windelen Winkelheide Wolf Wörner Wrangel Wuermeling Wullenhaupt Zink CSU: Aigner Althammer Balke Bauer Besold Brenck Dittrich Dollinger Eckhardt Ehnes Franz Geisendörfer Geisenhofer (from 3 May 1967) Gierenstein Gleissner Guttenberg Höcherl Hösl Hudak Jaeger Kempfler Krug Kuchtner Lemmrich Leukert Lücker Memmel Niederalt Ott Pohle Prinz (until 30 July 1969) Probst (until 1 May 1967) Rainer Röhner Schlager Schlee Schmidhuber Schulze-Vorberg Spies (from 4 August 1969) Stiller Strauss Stücklen Unertl Vogt Wagner Weigl Wieninger Ziegler Zimmermann (until 15 October 1969) CSU (GDP): Becher Prochazka
SPD	v t e SPD Speaker: Fritz Erler until 22 February 1967; Helmut Schmidt from 14 March 1967 Members: Adams (from 8 December 1966) Albertz Apel Arendt Arndt (from 4 June 1968) Arndt Arndt Auge Bading Bals Baltes (from 15 December 1967) Barche (from 14 April 1967) Bardens Bartsch Bauer Bäuerle Bayerl (from 27 October 1967) Bazille Bechert Behrendt Berger-Heise Bergmann Berkhan Berlin Beuster Biermann Blachstein (until 31 May 1968) Blume Böhm Börner Braun (until 17 July 1966) Brück Brünen Buchstaller Bühling Buschfort Büttner Collet Corterier Cramer Diekmann Dortans (from 30 June 1969) Dröscher Eckerland Eilers Elsner Enders (from 9 May 1967) Eppler Erler (until 22 February 1967) Eschmann Esters (from 15 January 1969) Faller Felder FellerMayer Feuring (from 2 January 1967) Figgen (until 6 December 1966) Flämig Folger Franke Frede (until 23 November 1967) Frehsee Freyh Fritsch Fritz Geiger Gerlach Gertzen Glombig Gscheidle Haage Haar Haase Haehser Hamacher Hansing Hauck Hauffe Hein (until 22 December 1966) Heinemann (until 24 June 1969) Hellenbrock Herberts Herklotz Hermsdorf Herold Hirsch Hofmann Höhmann Höhne Hölzle (from 20 February 1967) Hörauf Hörmann Hubert Hübner (from 6 December 1966 until 14 January 1969) Hufnagel Hussong (until 10 December 1967) Ils Iven Jacobi Jahn Jaksch (until 27 November 1966) Jaschke Josef Junghans Junker Jürgensen Kaffka Kahn-Ackermann Karius (from 18 August 1969) Kern (from 27 February 1967) Killat Kleinert (from 14 December 1967) Koch Koenen Kohlberger Könen Korspeter Krappe Kriedemann Krips (until 31 January 1969) Kübler (until 9 August 1969) Kulawig Kunze Kurlbaum Kurlbaum-Beyer Lange Langebeck Lautenschlager Leber Lemp (from 29 November 1967) Lemper Lenders Liedtke Liehr Löbbert Lohmar Lösche (from 29 July 1966) Lotze Marquardt Marx Matthes Matthöfer Mattick Maybaum Meermann Meinecke Merten (until 12 December 1967) Metzger Michels Möller Mommer Morgenstern (until 14 September 1966) Müller Müller Müller Müller Müller-Emmert Müthling Nann (from 17 February 1969) Neemann Nellen Neumann Neumann Paul Peiter (from 19 September 1967) Peters Pöhler Porzner Raffert Rau Ravens Regling Rehs Reischl Reitz Renger Richter Riegel Rinderspacher Rohde Ross (from 21 September 1966) Rudoll Sänger Saxowski Schäfer (until 14 February 1967) Schanzenbach Schellenberg Schiller Schimschok Schlüter (until 7 April 1967) Schmid Schmidt Schmidt Schmidt Schmidt Schmidt Schmitt-Vockenhausen Schoettle Schonhofen Schulte Schulz Schwabe Seibert Seidel Seifriz Seither Seppi Seuffert (until 18 October 1967) Seume Sieglerschmidt (from 4 June 1969) Spillecke Stammberger Stein (until 14 September 1967) Steinhoff Stephan Strobel Strohmayr Tallert Tamblé Tönjes Urban Vit Wehner Welke Wellmann (until 30 May 1969) Welslau Wendt Wessel (until 13 October 1969) Westphal Wiefel Wienand Wilhelm Wischnewski Wolf Wuwer Zerbe (until 2 May 1967) SPD (GDP): Ahrens Kreutzmann
FDP	v t e FDP Speaker: Knut von Kühlmann-Stumm until 23 January 1968; Wolfgang Mischnick from 23 January 1968 Members: Achenbach Borm Bucher Busse Dahlgrün Dehler (until 21 July 1967) Diemer-Nicolaus Dorn Effertz (until 4 July 1968) Eisenmann (until 1 June 1967) Emde Ertl Friderichs Funcke Geldner Gemmingen-Hornberg (from 11 October 1967) Genscher Graaff Haas Hamm (until 12 May 1966) Hellige Heuser (from 11 July 1968) Imle (from 2 June 1967) Jung (from 17 May 1966) Kubitza Kühlmann-Stumm Lenz (until 5 October 1967) Logemann Mauk Mende Menne Mertes Miessner Mischnick Moersch Mühlhan Ollesch Opitz Peters Porsch (from 27 July 1967) Ramms Reichmann Rutschke Saam Sander Scheel Schmidt Schultz Spitzmüller Staratzke Starke Wächter Walter Wurbs Zoglmann
List of members of the 5th Bundestag

• 1898 births
• 1969 deaths
• German social democrats
• Lutheran pacifists
• Commanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 20th-century Lutherans
• Members of Parlamentarischer Rat
• Leaders of political parties in Germany