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 | | He advocated uniting all the liberal parties in the Western occupation zones, overcoming the split between right liberals and left liberals that existed in the Weimar Repulic. |
 | | In 1948 he was a member of the Parliamentary Council (Parlamentarischer Rat) with considerable influence on the Grundgesetz, the constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany. |
 | | After being elected to the first German Bundestag, he relinquished his parliamentary mandate on September 12, 1949, when he was elected president, the highest state office, in the Federal Assembly (Bundesversammlung) against Kurt Schumacher. |
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