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APPENDIX 13: Overview of Party Conventions (1945-1950)

SPD

1. Party Convention 9-11 May 1946 Hanover
2. Party Convention 29 June - 2 July 1947 Nuremberg
3. Party Convention 12 Sep - 14 Sep 1948 Düsseldorf
4. Party Convention 21-25 May 1950 Hamburg

CDU

Party Convention* 14-16 Dec 1945 Bad Godesberg
Party Convention 1 Mar 1946 Neheim-Hüsten
Party Convention 3 Feb 1947 Ahlen
Party Convention 15 July 1949 Düsseldorf
Constitutive Party Convention 20-22 Oct 1950 Goslar

* In view of the fact that the CDU was a ‘Union’ of various Christian-oriented
parties and not a uniform party on a national level until 1950, one can hardly speak
of representative party conventions. However, several congresses of national
importance took place before the constitutive CDU Party Convention in Goslar in
1950.

CSU

1. Party Convention 17 May 1946 Munich
2. Party Convention 14/15 Dec 1946 Eichstätt
3. Party Convention 30/31 Aug 1947 Eichstätt
4. Party Convention 24/25 Jan 1948 Marktredwitz
5. Party Convention 27-29 May 1949 Straubing

FDP

1. Party Convention 11/12 Dec 1948 Heppenheim
2. Party Convention 12 June 1949 Bremen

Source: Own compilation based on available data published by the various political
parties.