Theodor Heuss
born in Brackenheim/Württemberg on 31.1.1884, died in Stuttgart on 12.12.1963
During the Weimar Republic, Heuss was a political journalist and Reichstag Deputy for the DDP (1924-28) and its successor, the German State Party (1930-33). Heuss worked as an author during the Nazi period. In 1946, he became chairman of the newly-founded Democratic People's Party. In 1948, the Landtag in Württemberg-Baden sent him to Bonn to serve on the Parliamentary Council. In December 1948, Heuss became federal chairman of the FDP which had been formed out of several liberal parties in western Germany. On 12 September 1949, the Federal Convention elected him the first President of the Federal Republic of Germany. He was returned to office unopposed in 1954.
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