Dates of Session

• Election for the first Bundestag occurred on 14 August 1949.
• The Bundestag convened for the first time in Bonn
  Bonn
  Bonn is the 19th largest city in Germany. Located in the Cologne/Bonn Region, about 25 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, it was the capital of West Germany from 1949 to 1990 and the official seat of government of united Germany from 1990 to 1999....
  
   on 7 September 1949.
• The session ended on September 7, 1953.

Coalitions

• CDU
  Christian Democratic Union (Germany)
  The Christian Democratic Union of Germany is a Christian democratic and conservative political party in Germany. It is regarded as on the centre-right of the German political spectrum...
  
  /CSU
  Christian Social Union of Bavaria
  The Christian Social Union in Bavaria is a Christian democratic and conservative political party in Germany. It operates only in the state of Bavaria, while its sister party, the Christian Democratic Union , operates in the other 15 states of Germany...
  
  , FDP and DP
  German Party
  The German Party is a name used by a number of German political parties in the country's history. The current incarnation is represented only at the local level in Germany. However, from 1949 to 1961, a German Party was part of the ruling coalition in the Bundestag...
  
   form coalition (208 seats, 51.7%) to elect Konrad Adenauer
  Konrad Adenauer
  Konrad Hermann Joseph Adenauer was a German statesman. He was the chancellor of the West Germany from 1949 to 1963. He is widely recognised as a person who led his country from the ruins of World War II to a powerful and prosperous nation that had forged close relations with old enemies France,...
  
   as the first Chancellor of Germany

Major political events

• Bundestag meets with quorum
  Quorum
  A quorum is the minimum number of members of a deliberative assembly necessary to conduct the business of that group...
  
   of members to elect Erich Köhler
  Erich Köhler
  Erich Köhler was a German politician. He was President of the Bundestag from 7 September 1949 to 18 October 1950.During the Weimar Republic he was active within the German People's Party. In West Germany he was a member of the Christian Democratic Union....
  
   first President of the Bundestag
  President of the Bundestag
  The President of the Bundestag presides over the sessions of the Bundestag, the parliament of Germany, with functions similar to that of a speaker in other countries. In the German order of precedence, his office is ranked second after the President and before the Chancellor...
  
  , 7 September 1949.
• Federal Convention
  Bundesversammlung (Germany)
  The Federal Convention is a special body in the institutional system of Germany, convened solely for the purpose of electing the German Federal President , either every five years or within 30 days of a president's resignation, death or removal from office.The Bundesversammlung includes the entire...
  
   elects Theodor Heuss
  Theodor Heuss
  Theodor Heuss was a liberal German politician who served as the first President of the Federal Republic of Germany after World War II from 1949 to 1959...
  
   first President of Germany
  President of Germany
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• Bundestag elects Konrad Adenauer
  Konrad Adenauer
  Konrad Hermann Joseph Adenauer was a German statesman. He was the chancellor of the West Germany from 1949 to 1963. He is widely recognised as a person who led his country from the ruins of World War II to a powerful and prosperous nation that had forged close relations with old enemies France,...
  
   first Chancellor of Germany, 12 September 1949.
• Köhler loses support within his own party, Hermann Ehlers
  Hermann Ehlers
  Hermann Ehlers was a German politician. He was President of the Bundestag from 19 October 1950 - 29 October 1954.He was a member of the Christian Democratic Union.- Early life :...
  
   elected second President of the Bundestag.
• Kurt Schumacher
  Kurt Schumacher
  Dr. Kurt Schumacher , was chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Germany from 1946 and first Leader of the Opposition in the West German Bundestag parliament from 1949 until his death...
  
   is temporarily removed from the Bundestag after calling Adenauer "the Allied Forces' Chancellor"
• Bundestag passes laws concerning restitution and recovery of damages due to World War II (Lastenausgleichsgesetz), corporate governance
  Corporate governance
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  , and antitrust
  Antitrust
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   regulation
• Bundestag ratifies treaty for the European Coal and Steel Community
  European Coal and Steel Community
  The European Coal and Steel Community was a six-nation international organisation serving to unify Western Europe during the Cold War and create the foundation for the modern-day developments of the European Union...
  
  

Seats by Party