Frankfurt Documents
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The Frankfurt Documents were an important step towards the founding of the
Federal Republic of Germany
.
On July 1, 1948 the representatives of the
London 6-Power Conference
, which took place between February and June 1948.
The handover took place at the IG Farben Building in
Hessen) and Leo Wohleb (Baden
).
A West German state was to be established under the following conditions:
- There should be a constitutional convention (German: Verfassunggebende Versammlung, literally, "Constituent Assembly") before September 1, 1948, to draft a constitution shaping a federalform of government, while maintaining the rights of people and the participating states.
- The constitution should first be approved by the military governments, followed by a referendum in the states to ratify the Constitution.
- The respective simple majority in two thirds of eleven West German states should be sufficient for ratification.
- Constitutional amendments must be approved by the military governors.
- German foreign policy should continue to be controlled by the military governors, in particular with regards to questions regarding the status of the Ruhr, reparations, industrial policy in general, and the rights of the Allied forces.
- The boundaries of each state should be reviewed and should, if necessary, take into account traditional forms if new states were created. No state should be allowed to be too large or to dominate the others.
The Frankfurt Documents prompted the prime minister to hold the Rittersturz Conference in Koblenz on the resolutions that had been passed.