WEST GERMAN PRESIDENCY
Candidate To Be Chosen
(Rec. 10.30 p.m.) BONN, June 14. Sixty leaders of West Germany’s Christian Democratic Party will meet tomorrow to choose a new candidate for the Federal Presidency as a result of Dr. Konrad Adenauer’s decision to remain Chancellor.
The crisis caused by Dr. Adenauer’s reversal of his decision to stand for the presidency is over, and the threatened split in his party has been averted. Now the party must choose a
man sufficiently popular to counteract the appeal of the opposition Social Democratic candidate, Professor Carlo Schmidt, in the elections on July 1. Possible candidates include Dr. Heinrich Krone, leader of the party’s Parliamentary group, Dr. Eugen Gerstenmaier, President (Speaker) of the Bundestag, who is a declared opponent of Dr. Adenauer’s turnabout decision, and Dr. Heinrich Luebke, the Agriculture Minister.
Dr. Ludwig Erhard, the Economics Minister who was a key figure in this week’s crisis because the Chancellor’s decision seemed to “snub” him, refused to stand for the presidency earlier this week when asked by Dr. Adenauer.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28921, 15 June 1959, Page 11
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