Dates of Session

• The 2nd Bundestag convened 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 6 October 1953.
• The session ended on 6 October 1957.

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...
  
   and FDP form coalition (311 seats, 63.9%) to reelect 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 Chancellor of Germany

Major political events

• Bundestag reelects 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 :...
  
   as the second 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...
  
  , 6 October 1953
• Bundestag reelects 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,...
  
   Chancellor of Germany, 6 October 1953.
• Upon Ehlers' death, Bundestag elects Eugen Gerstenmaier
  Eugen Gerstenmaier
  Eugen Karl Albrecht Gerstenmaier was a German Evangelical theologian, resistance fighter in the Third Reich, and a CDU politician...
  
   third President of the Bundestag, 16 November 1954
• Bundestag passes first reform of state-funded pension system
• Bundestag ratifies Treaty of Rome
  Treaty of Rome
  The Treaty of Rome, officially the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, was an international agreement that led to the founding of the European Economic Community on 1 January 1958. It was signed on 25 March 1957 by Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and West Germany...
  
  
• In 1955, constitution is amended to allow for defensive military and conscription
  Conscription
  Conscription is the compulsory enlistment of people in some sort of national service, most often military service. Conscription dates back to antiquity and continues in some countries to the present day under various names...
  
   over the strong opposition of the SPD
  Social Democratic Party of Germany
  The Social Democratic Party of Germany is a social-democratic political party in Germany...
  
   minority
• Germany joins the NATO

Seats by Party