The
Bundestag adopted the bill ratifying the Treaty on 11January
1952 by 378 to 143. The opposing forces included the Communists
and Social Democrats. The Bundesrat followed suit on 1February
1952 and adopted a supplementary resolution on 1July 1952
which called on the Federal Government to ensure that the
Allied High Commission abolished all the restraints on iron
and steel production in Germany and that West Berlin was expressly
included in the territory covered by the ECSC.
PROCEDURE
Bundesrat
Draft law introduced
on 6 June 1951
Public debates on 15 and 27 June 1951 and 1 February 1952
Final reading on 1 February 1952.
Bundestag
Draft law introduced
on 29 June 1951
Public debates on 12 July and 9, 10 and 11 January 1952
Final vote: passed by 378 votes to 143
RELEVANT
DOCUMENTS AND MATERIAL
Entschließung
des Bundesrates,
01.02.1952, Bulletin des Presse- und Informationsamtes der Bundesregierung,
05.02.1952, n° 15, p. 136.
Hallstein, Walter
(1952), Germany and the Schuman Plan, (PDF)
