• Prospective Alterspräsident state the number of years served in the Bundestag and asks if anyone has served more years.) The Alterspräsident then delivers...
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    The President by right of age (Alterspräsident) is the longest-serving member of the German Bundestag (until 2017 the oldest by age). The role of the...
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  • Parliament. Retrieved 12 June 2007. Brunner, Benedikt (2012). Der Alterspräsident: Ein Konstituierungsreglement und seine Alternativen (in German). Wiesbaden:...
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    Willy Brandt (category Alterspräsidents of the Bundestag)
    Willy Brandt (German: [ˈvɪliː ˈbʁant] ; born Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm; 18 December 1913 – 8 October 1992) was a German politician and statesman who was...
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    the session is chaired by the father of the House, the so-called Alterspräsident. Since 2017, this has been the longest serving member of the Bundestag;...
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    Konrad Adenauer (category Alterspräsidents of the Bundestag)
    the British zone in his role as doyen (the oldest man in attendance, Alterspräsident) and was informally confirmed as its leader. During the Weimar Republic...
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    Ludwig Erhard (category Alterspräsidents of the Bundestag)
    Ludwig Wilhelm Erhard (German: [ˈluːtvɪç ˈʔeːɐ̯haʁt]; 4 February 1897 – 5 May 1977) was a German politician and economist affiliated with the Christian...
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    he was its most senior member, also known as Father of the House or Alterspräsident. In the election of 5 March 1933, he was re-elected to the Reichstag...
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    Ferdinand Adolph Schönfelder (1875–1966) was a German politician, Alterspräsident (President by right of age, Father of the House) of the Federal German...
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    opens the first sitting of the newly elected Landtag. The so-called Alterspräsident presides over the session until the newly elected president or one...
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    Stefan Heym (category Alterspräsidents of the Bundestag)
    Helmut Flieg was a German writer, known by his pseudonym Stefan Heym (pronounced [ˈʃtɛfan ˈhaɪm] ). He lived in the United States and trained at Camp Ritchie...
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    serving on the Committee on Foreign Affairs. In 2023, he became the Alterspräsident (Father of the House) of the Bundestag following the death of Wolfgang...
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    Since he was the longest-serving Member of the Bundestag, serving as Alterspräsident, it was his task to oversee the opening session of the new Bundestag...
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    Paul Löbe (category Alterspräsidents of the Bundestag)
    Paul Gustav Emil Löbe (14 December 1875 – 3 August 1967) was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), a member and president...
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    the session is chaired by the Father of the House, the so-called "Alterspräsident", the oldest member of the Bürgerschaft. Usually, the President of...
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    Marie-Elisabeth Lüders (category Alterspräsidents of the Bundestag)
    Chancellor, had renounced the title. Though there are no set rules, the Alterspräsident traditionally gives the first speech of the legislative period. During...
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    Alfred Dregger (category Alterspräsidents of the Bundestag)
    Alfred Dregger (10 December 1920 – 29 June 2002) was a German politician and a leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Dregger was born in Münster...
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    Herbert Wehner (category Alterspräsidents of the Bundestag)
    Herbert Richard Wehner (11 July 1906 – 19 January 1990) was a German politician. A former member of the Communist Party, he joined the Social Democrats...
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    Otto Schily (category Alterspräsidents of the Bundestag)
    Otto Georg Schily (born 20 July 1932) is a former Federal Minister of the Interior of Germany, his tenure was from 1998 to 2005, in the cabinet of Chancellor...
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    "rehabilitated" in 1990. Just served in the Brandenburg State Parliament (as its Alterspräsident, or "chairman by seniority") in the newly unified Germany until he...
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    Hermann Otto Solms (category Alterspräsidents of the Bundestag)
    Hermann Otto Solms (born Hermann Otto Prinz zu Solms-Hohensolms-Lich; 24 November 1940) is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP). Between...
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    Heinz Riesenhuber (category Alterspräsidents of the Bundestag)
    Transrapid and the wind turbine Growian. In 2009 he became the 17th Alterspräsident (Father of the House) of the Bundestag due to his status as the oldest...
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  • Archived from the original on March 11, 2012. Retrieved July 18, 2019. "Alterspräsident des Brandenburger Landtages verstorben". Märkische Oderzeitung (in...
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  • Berliner Vertreter Heinrich Bruhn FDGB Mitglied der SED Otto Buchwitz SED Alterspräsident Friedrich Burmeister CDU Justus Claus LDPD Horst Claußner FDJ Erich...
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  • ΡΙΖΟΣΠΑΣΤΗΣ. Retrieved 2022-12-10. Brunner, Benedikt (2012). Der Alterspräsident: Ein Konstituierungsreglement und seine Alternativen (in German). Wiesbaden:...
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    from 1928 until its dissolution in 1930. Wilhelm Bock (SPD) served as Alterspräsident (Father of the House) and presided over the first parliamentary session...
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  • William Borm (category Alterspräsidents of the Bundestag)
    1965 to 1972 he was member of the Bundestag. On 20 October 1969, as Alterspräsident (oldest member, or "honorary president"), he opened the first meeting...
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  • successor on 16 October 1963. Robert Pferdmenges of the CDU served as Alterspräsident (Father of the House), after Konrad Adneuauer (CDU) who should have...
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  • December 1966. Konrad Adenauer, the former federal Chancellor, served as Alterspräsident (Father of the House) until his death on 17 April 1967. He was succeeded...
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  • it inappropriate for the incumbent federal chancellor to serve as Alterspräsident. She presided over the first session of the 3rd Bundestag until Eugen...
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