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| 1859 | Bismarck-Schonhausen, Otto Furst von |  |
| 10th May Berlin The Liberals have a majority in the Landtag & William dissolves it |
| 1871 | Bismarck-Schonhausen, Otto Furst von | |
| The new empire has a Parliament with two houses, the lower house, or Reichstag, is elected by universal male suffrage, however, the original constituencies drawn in 1871 were never redrawn to reflect the growth of urban areas |
| 21st Mar Berlin Opens the 1st Reichstag of the 2nd Reich |
| 1886 | Bismarck-Schonhausen, Otto Furst von | |
| Berlin Dissolves the Reichstag after it refuses his increases to the military budget |
| 1903 | Scheidemann, Phillip | |
| Berlin Appointed Member of the Reichstag |
| 1910 | Marx, Wihelm | |
| Appointed Member of the Reichstag |
| 1916 | Ebert, Friedrich | |
| Berlin Appointed Party Leader in the Reichstag |
| 1922 | Marx, Wihelm | |
| Appointed National Chairman of the Reichstag |
| 1924 | Treviranus, Gottfried | |
| Appointed Member of the Reichstag |
| 1928 | Goebbels, Paul Joseph | |
| Berlin Appointed Member of the Reichstag |
| 1928 | Goering, Herman | |
| Appointed Member of the Reichstag, 1 of 12 Nazis |
| Appointed Spokesman for the Lufthansa, with a fee of 1,000 Marks a month |
| 1928 | Ulbricht, Walther | |
| Appointedmber of the Reichstag for the Communist Party |
| 1930 | Bruening, Heinrich | |
| 18th July A finance bill is defeated in the Reichstag with the support of the SPD, KPD, the NSDAP and DNVP, Brning submits to the Reichstag the president's decree that it will be dissolved |
| 1930 | Frank, Hans | |
| Elected to the Reichstag |
| 1930 | Goering, Herman | |
| Appointed Member of the Reichstag, 2nd time |
| 1930 | Schumacher, Kurt | |
| Appointed Member of the Reichstag |
| 1932 | Hitler, Adolf | |
| 13th Aug There is still no majority in the Reichstag for any government, as a result, the Reichstag is dissolved and elections take place once more in the hope that a stable majority would result |
| 1932 | Papen, Franz von | |
| July Since most parties opposed the new government, von Papen had the Reichstag dissolved and calls for new elections |
| 1933 | Hitler, Adolf | |
| 31st Jan Berlin Dissolves the Reichstag & calls an election |
| 21st Mar Potsdam A ceremony in the Potsdam Garrison Church marks the opening of the Reichstag |
| 21st Mar Potsdam Opened on the same day Bismarck opened the 1st Reichstag of the 2nd Reich in 1871 |
| 21st Mar Potsdam The ceremonial opening of the 1st NSDAP Parliament, held at the Garrison Church |
| 23rd Mar Berlin The Reichstag convenes in the Kroll Opera House |
| 1933 | Papen, Franz von | |
| 4th Jan Cologne It is agreed Papen will ask Hindenburg to make Hitler Chancellor |
| 4th Jan Cologne Meets Hitler at von Schroeder's home |
| 1999 | Schroder, Gerhard | |
| 19th April Berlin The new Reichstag opens |
