Frankfurt Documents

The Frankfurt Documents formed a working basis for the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany.

The handover took place at the IG Farben Building in Frankfurt am Main, and the documents took the name of the city.

The building is now located on the Campus Westend of Goethe University.The military governors Lucius D. Clay (United States), Marie-Pierre Koenig (France) and Brian Hubert Robertson (UK) issued an order establishing a western German state.

Present were Peter Altmeier (Rhineland-Palatinate), Karl Arnold (North Rhine-Westphalia), Lorenz Bock (Württemberg-Hohenzollern), Max Brauer (Hamburg), Hans Ehard (Bavaria), Wilhelm Kaisen (Bremen), Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf (Lower Saxony), Hermann Lüdemann (Schleswig-Holstein), Reinhold Maier (Württemberg-Baden), Christian Stock (Hessen) and Leo Wohleb (Baden).

A West German state was to be established under the following conditions: The Frankfurt Documents prompted the prime minister to hold the Rittersturz Conference in Koblenz on the resolutions that had been passed.

Members of the conference in the I.G.-Farben Building in Frankfurt am Main
The borders of military occupied Germany.