1949 West German presidential election

1949 West German presidential election

← 1932 (Weimar Republic) 12 September 1949 1954 →
 
Nominee Theodor Heuss Kurt Schumacher Rudolf Amelunxen
Party FDP
(supported by): CDU/CSU, DP
SPD Centre
Electoral vote 377 (1st round)
416 (2nd round)
311 (1st round)
312 (2nd round)
28 (1st round)
30 (2nd round)
Percentage 51.7% 38.8 3.7

President before election

Karl Dönitz (as President of the German Reich at the end of World War II)
NSDAP

Elected President

Theodor Heuss
FDP

An indirect presidential election (officially the 1st Federal Convention) was held on 12 September 1949, following the first Bundestag election of 14 August 1949 and coalition negotiations between the CDU/CSU, FDP, and German Party (DP).

The FDP leader Theodor Heuss was elected the first federal president of West Germany with the support of the CDU/CSU.[1] He was elected by the Federal Convention (composed of all members of the Bundestag and an equal number of delegates selected by the state legislatures).

  1. ^ Turner, Henry (1982). "4. Two Decades of Christian Democratic Leadership in the Federal Republic". Germany from Partition to Reunification. Yale University Press. pp. 104–147. doi:10.12987/9780300191301-006.

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