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Adolf Cillien
Adolf Cillien (April 23, 1893 – April 29, 1960) was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and former member of the German Bundestag. Life Cillien became a member of the appointed Hannover Landtag on 23 August 1946 until 29 October 1946. There he was chairman of the CDU state parliament faction as well as chairman of the committee for popular education, art and science. Between 9 December 1946 and 23 March 1947, he was a member of the appointed Lower Saxony State Parliament and subsequently became a member of the Lower Saxony State Parliament in the first legislative period between 20 April 1947 and 30 April 1951. There he became chairman of the CDU parliamentary group and later chairman of the DP/CDU parliamentary group (since 28 March 1951). On 9 May 1947 he was elected chairman of the Culture Committee. Cillien was a member of the German Bundestag from 1953 until his death. He was directly elected in the constituency of Hildesheim-Stadt und -Land ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bundestag
The Bundestag (, "Federal Diet") is the German federal parliament. It is the only federal representative body that is directly elected by the German people. It is comparable to the United States House of Representatives or the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. The Bundestag was established by Title III of the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany (, ) in 1949 as one of the legislative bodies of Germany and thus it is the historical successor to the earlier Reichstag. The members of the Bundestag are representatives of the German people as a whole, are not bound by any orders or instructions and are only accountable to their electorate. The minimum legal number of members of the Bundestag (german: link=no, Mitglieder des Bundestages) is 598; however, due to the system of overhang and leveling seats the current 20th Bundestag has a total of 736 members, making it the largest Bundestag to date and the largest freely elected national parliamentary chamber in the wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
