Berlin’s non-participation in 1st Federal Diet elections

© AdsD SPD election poster on the occasion of the elections to the 1st German Federal Diet 1949 („For a free, social minded and unified Germany“)

Western Allied Headquarters inform Berlin Mayor Ernst Reuter (SPD) on 1 July 1949 that Berlin’s participation in upcoming elections to the 1st German Federal Diet are prohibited due to the city’s special Four-Powers status. Berlin’s representatives to the Federal Diet will have to be elected by the City Parliament. Not until 1990 – after re-establishment of German unity – will they granted full voting power in the German Federal Diet.