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1 Jan 1947 American and British occupation zones form Bizone
3 Feb Ahlener Programm (CDU) adopted by the CDU
5/6 Feb Arbeitsgemeinschaft der CDU/CSU Deutschlands constituted
10 Mar-24 Apr Fourth Conference of Allied Ministers of Foreign
Affairs in Moscow
12 Mar Proclamation of the Truman Doctrine
20 Apr First democratic Landtag elections in Lower Saxony,
North Rhine-Westphalia, Schleswig-Holstein
18 May First democratic Landtag elections in Baden, Rhineland-
Palatinate, Wuerrtemberg-Hohenzollern
29 May ‘Agreement for Reorganisation of Bizonal Economic
Agencies’ signed by Military Governors Lucius D. Clay
and Sir Brian Robertson
5 June George C. Marshall outlines his economic plan at
Harvard University
6-8 June Prime Ministers Conference in Munich
10 June ‘Agreement for Reorganisation of Bizonal Economic
Agencies’ becomes effective
25 June Economic Council convenes in Frankfurt am Main
15 July JCS 1067 abrogated
24 July Election of Director of the VfW in the Economic
Council; SPD decides to go in opposition because of
disagreement with conservatives
29 Aug Revised Industrieplan for the Bizone
5 Oct First democratic Landtag elections in Saarland
12 Oct Local elections in Bremen
25 Nov-15 Dec Fifth Conference of Allied Ministers of Foreign Affairs
in London
7 Dec Communal and local elections in Wuerttemberg-Baden

7/8 Jan 1948 US and GB military governors convene with Prime
Ministers and representatives of the Bizone to discuss
reform of Bizone
24 Jan Johannes Semler dismissed as Director of the
Administration for Economics
9 Feb ‘Frankfurt Charta’ becomes effective: duplication of
delegates in the Economic Council (104 members),
Länderrat as second chamber (instead of Economic
Committee), power of veto and initiation of legislation,
Administrative Council with Oberdirektor as quasi-
parliament