The following is a list of members of the German Bundestag who died in office since its establishment in 1949.
West Germany (1949-1990) Member Party Constituency Date of death Age at death (years) Cause Fritz Linnert Bavaria 27 October 1949 64 Günther Sewald North Rhine-Westphalia 25 November 1949 44 Friedrich Klinge Lower Saxony 21 December 1949 66 Franz Ziegler Bavaria 30 December 1949 50 Friedrich Schönauer Bavaria 2 April 1950 45 Paul Krause North Rhine-Westphalia 18 October 1950 44 Ernst Falkner Bavaria 27 October 1950 41 Erich Klabunder Hamburg 27 October 1950 43 Stroke Karl Rüdiger Hesse 20 February 1951 54 Road accident Martin Loibl Bavaria 16 April 1951 52 Bruno Leddin Lower Saxony 25 April 1951 53 Rhineland-Palatinate 14 May 1951 50 Stroke Wilhelm Hamacher North Rhine-Westphalia 29 July 1951 67 Wilhelm Fischer Bavaria 21 October 1951 47 North Rhine-Westphalia 13 November 1951 46 Hermann Stopperich Lower Saxony 6 January 1952 56 Georg Kohl Baden-Württemberg 31 January 1952 70 Wilhelm Knothe Hesse 20 February 1952 63 Carl Schröter Schleswig-Holstein 25 February 1952 64 Bernhard Lohmüller Bremen 2 March 1952 60 Hermann-Eberhard Wildermuth Württemberg-Hohenzollern 9 March 1952 61 Stephan Weickert Bavaria 16 March 1952 59 Kurt Schumacher Lower Saxony 20 August 1952 56 Ernst Mayer Baden-Württemberg 18 December 1952 51 Hans Albrecht Freiherr von Rechenberg North Rhine-Westphalia 19 January 1953 60 Walther Kolbe North Rhine-Westphalia 25 December 1953 53 Franz Böhner North Rhine-Westphalia 8 January 1954 64 Robert Görlinger North Rhine-Westphalia 10 February 1954 65 Ernst Winter Lower Saxony 7 March 1954 65 Wilhelm Tenhagen North Rhine-Westphalia 22 August 1954 42 Fall Hermann Ehlers Lower Saxony 29 October 1954 50 Tonsilitis Carl Wirths North Rhine-Westphalia 16 June 1955 57 Fritz Schuler Baden-Württemberg 30 July 1955 70 Walter Sassnick Bavaria 6 November 1955 60 Hans Griem Hamburg 7 November 1955 53 Robert Tillmanns Berlin 12 November 1955 59 Heart attack Gerhard Lütkens North Rhine-Westphalia 17 November 1955 62 Wilhelm Naegel Lower Saxony 24 May 1956 52 Otto Ziegler Lower Saxony 27 July 1956 61 Otto Lenz Rhineland-Palatinate 2 May 1957 53 Malaria Louise Schroeder Berlin 4 June 1957 70 Heart attack Johannes Böhm North Rhine-Westphalia 18 July 1957 67 Walter Brookmann Schleswig-Holstein 31 August 1957 56 Josef Brönner Baden-Württemberg 21 January 1958 73 Wolfgang Klausner Bavaria 17 April 1958 52 Road accident Lisa Albrecht Bavaria 16 May 1958 61 Wilhelm Mellies North Rhine-Westphalia 19 May 1958 58 Karl Arnold North Rhine-Westphalia 29 June 1958 57 Heart attack Josef Gockeln North Rhine-Westphalia 6 December 1958 57 Road accident Fritz Heinrich North Rhine-Westphalia 7 March 1959 38 Injuries from World War II Anton Diel Rhineland-Palatinate 6 April 1959 61 Ernst Pernoll Lower Saxony 15 July 1959 56 Josef Oesterle Bavaria 31 August 1959 60 Johannes Kunze North Rhine-Westphalia 11 October 1959 67 Philipp Wehr Bremen 20 February 1960 53 Hermann Lindrath Baden-Württemberg 27 February 1960 63 Paul Leverkuehn Hamburg 1 March 1960 66 Wilhelm Gülich Schleswig-Holstein 15 April 1960 64 Adolf Cillien Lower Saxony 29 April 1960 67 Otto Köhler Schleswig-Holstein 27 June 1960 63 Hans Jahn Lower Saxony 10 July 1960 74 Max Becker Hesse 29 July 1960 72 Hugo Rasch North Rhine-Westphalia 15 September 1960 47 Friedrich Maier Baden-Württemberg 14 December 1960 65 Kurt Pohle Schleswig-Holstein 3 November 1961 62 Philipp Meyer Bavaria 29 January 1962 75 Adolf Ludwig Rhineland-Palatinate 18 February 1962 69 Hermann Finckh Baden-Württemberg 28 April 1962 51 Richard Reitzner Bavaria 11 May 1962 68 Georg von Manteuffel-Szoege Bavaria 8 June 1962 73 Julius Brecht North Rhine-Westphalia 10 July 1962 62 Helene Weber North Rhine-Westphalia 25 July 1962 81 Robert Pferdemenges North Rhine-Westphalia 28 September 1962 82 Walther Kühn North Rhine-Westphalia 4 December 1962 69 Jakob Altmaier Hesse 8 January 1963 73 Heart attack Wolfgang Döring North Rhine-Westphalia 17 January 1963 43 Heart attack Karl-Heinz Lünenstraß North Rhine-Westphalia 22 May 1963 43 Heart attack Ernst Keller North Rhine-Westphalia 21 July 1963 62 Friedrich Funk Bavaria 5 August 1963 62 Heinrich Gerns Schleswig-Holstein 20 August 1963 71 Walter Menzel North Rhine-Westphalia 24 September 1963 62 Heinrich Höfler Baden-Württemberg 21 October 1963 66 Günter Klein Berlin 22 October 1963 63 Erich Ollenbauer Lower Saxony 14 December 1963 62 Pulmonary embolism Wilhelm Goldhagen Schleswig-Holstein 7 January 1964 62 Heinrich Deist North Rhine-Westphalia 7 March 1964 61 Luise Rehling North Rhine-Westphalia 29 May 1964 67 Stroke Josef Lermer Bavaria 15 July 1964 69 Walter Harm Lower Saxony 10 August 1964 57 Kurt Schröder Lower Saxony 6 September 1964 57 Franz Ruland Saarland 28 September 1964 63 Ladislaus Winterstein Hesse 2 November 1964 59 Heinrich von Brentano Hesse 14 November 1964 60 Esophageal cancer Johannes Even North Rhine-Westphalia 24 November 1964 60 Hermann Ehren North Rhine-Westphalia 30 November 1964 70 Rudolf Ernst Heiland North Rhine-Westphalia 6 May 1965 54 Georg Lang Bavaria 1 June 1965 52 Friedrich Wilhelm Willeke North Rhine-Westphalia 24 June 1965 71 Heart attack Gerhard Philipp North Rhine-Westphalia 20 April 1966 62 Josef Braun Berlin 17 July 1966 59 Wenzel Jaksch North Rhine-Westphalia 27 November 1966 70 Road accident Hans Verbeek North Rhine-Westphalia 13 December 1966 49 Fritz Erler Baden-Württemberg 22 February 1967 53 Cancer Heinrich Wilper North Rhine-Westphalia 3 March 1967 58 Helmut Schlüter Lower Saxony 7 April 1967 41 Konrad Adenauer North Rhine-Westphalia 19 April 1967 91 Heart attack Maria Probst Bavaria 1 May 1967 64 Thomas Dehler Bavaria 21 July 1967 69 Heart failure Theodor Mengelkamp North Rhine-Westphalia 21 July 1967 43 Heart attack Franz Stein Rhineland-Palatinate 14 September 1967 67 Hans-Christoph Seebohm Lower Saxony 17 September 1967 64 Pulmonary embolism Hermann Reinholz Rhineland-Palatinate 7 October 1967 43 Günter Frede Lower Saxony 23 November 1967 66 Rudolf Hussong Saarland 10 December 1967 64 Hans Merten Hesse 12 December 1967 69 Paul Gibbert Rhineland-Palatinate 30 December 1967 69 Hans Wellmann Berlin 30 May 1969 57 Konstantin Prinz von Bayern Bavaria 30 July 1969 48 Plane crash Paul Kübler Baden-Württemberg 9 August 1969 46 Helene Wessel North Rhine-Westphalia 13 October 1969 71 Albrecht Haas Bavaria 21 January 1970 63 Friedhelm Dohmann North Rhine-Westphalia 20 February 1970 38 Werner Jacobi North Rhine-Westphalia 5 March 1970 63 Alfred Burgemeister Lower Saxony 23 April 1970 63 Ernst Lemmer Berlin 18 August 1970 72 Hermann Haage Bavaria 21 December 1970 58 Franz Xaver Unertl Bavaria 30 December 1970 59 Udo Hein North Rhine-Westphalia 19 January 1971 56 Alfred Hein Lower Saxony 18 April 1971 56 Wolfgang Pohle Bavaria 27 August 1971 67 Will Rasner Schleswig-Holstein 15 October 1971 51 Rudi Lotze Lower Saxony 17 October 1971 49 Maria Henz Lower Saxony 10 April 1972 46 Karl-Hermann Flach Hesse 25 August 1973 43 Stroke Berthold Martin Hesse 12 November 1973 60 Klaus Dieter Arndt Berlin 29 January 1974 46 Werner Ferrang Saarland 31 May 1974 50 Günter Slotta Saarland 9 June 1974 49 Friedrich Freiwald Hesse 26 October 1974 63 Roelf Heyen Berlin 5 November 1974 36 Heart disease Friedrich Beermann Schleswig-Holstein 24 November 1974 63 Carlo Graaff Lower Saxony 9 December 1974 61 Elisabeth Orth Schleswig-Holstein 10 May 1976 55 Alex Hösl Bavaria 20 March 1977 57 Ludwig Erhard Baden-Württemberg 5 May 1977 80 Heart failure Hermann Spillecke North Rhine-Westphalia 5 May 1977 52 Wolfgang Schwabe Hesse 4 January 1978 67 Alfred Ollesch North Rhine-Westphalia 16 April 1978 62 Bertram Blank North Rhine-Westphalia 23 May 1978 58 Reinhold Staud Hesse 11 September 1978 49 Adolf Scheu North Rhine-Westphalia 20 December 1978 71 Egon Höhmann Hesse 19 January 1979 52 Walter Peters Schleswig-Holstein 8 April 1979 66 Hermann Schmitt-Vockenhausen Hesse 2 August 1979 49 Heinrich Reichold Bavaria 2 October 1979 49 Kurt Koblitz North Rhine-Westphalia 13 October 1979 63 Lauritz Lauritzen Schleswig-Holstein 5 June 1980 70 Horst Korber Berlin 2 July 1981 54 Franz Amrehn Berlin 4 October 1981 68 Albert Burger Baden-Württemberg 10 October 1981 56 Hans Hubrig Lower Saxony 25 March 1982 57 Egon Lampersbach North Rhine-Westphalia 16 December 1982 65 Hermann Schmidt North Rhine-Westphalia 10 February 1983 66 Gerhard Brosi Baden-Württemberg 3 April 1984 40 Harm Dallmeyer Schleswig-Holstein 11 April 1984 40 Alois Mertes Rhineland-Palatinate 16 June 1985 63 Stroke Werner Marx Rhineland-Palatinate 12 July 1985 60 Complications from arterial surgery Walter Polkehn Lower Saxony 3 April 1985 64 Franz-Josef Conrad Saarland 12 September 1985 41 Haimo George Baden-Württemberg 5 October 1985 52 Heart attack Helga Wex North Rhine-Westphalia 9 January 1986 61 Cancer Peter Milz North Rhine-Westphalia 26 November 1986 51 Ruth Zutt Baden-Württemberg 19 June 1987 58 Peter Lorenz Berlin 6 December 1987 64 Heart failure Lieselotte Berger Berlin 26 September 1989 68 Heinrich Klein Hesse 18 December 1989 57 Werner Weiß Rhineland-Palatinate 6 February 1990 63
Post-reunification (1990-present)