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xviii THE MAKING OF THE GERMAN POST-WAR ECONOMY

1 Mar CDU Party Convention in Neheim-Hüsten: Konrad
Adenauer is elected as chairman of the CDU in British
occupation zone
1 Apr First edition of Frankfurter Hefte
19 Apr Communists and Social Democrats form SED in Soviet
zone
25 Apr-12 July Second Conference of Allied Ministers of Foreign
Affairs in Paris: James F. Byrnes (US Secretary of State)
requests the consolidation of the four zones; only Great
Britain accepts (29 July)
28 Apr Communal and local elections in Bavaria, Hesse,
Wuerrtemberg-Baden
9-11 May First party convention of the SPD in the western zones
(Hanover) elects Kurt Schumacher as chairman, Erich
Ollenhauer elected representative chairman
26 May Communal and local elections in Bavaria and Hesse
5 June Winston Churchill speaks of ‘Iron Curtain’
21/22 June German economic experts and politicians convene in
Hamburg in order to discuss economic direction of
post-war Germany
28/29 Aug Arbeitsgemeinschaft der CDU/CSU in Deutschland convenes
in Königstein
6 Sep Speech by US Secretary of State James F. Byrnes in
Stuttgart
15 Sep First communal and local elections in Baden, Lower
Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate,
Schleswig-Holstein, Wuerttemberg-Hohenzollern and
the Saarland
13 Oct Communal and local elections in Baden, Bremen,
Hamburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-
Palatinate, Schleswig-Holstein, Wuerttemberg-
Hohenzollern
20 Oct Local Elections in Berlin
4 Nov-11 Dec Third Conference of Allied Ministers of Foreign Affairs
in New York
24 Nov First democratic Landtag elections in Wuerttemberg-
Baden
1 Dec First Landtag elections in Bavaria and Hesse
2 Dec Signing of the Bevin-Byrnes Agreement
Bavarian Constitution proclaimed
11 Dec Hessian Constitution proclaimed