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This study deals with the process of integration post war expellees in politics and with their involvement in Hessen political life in the 1950s. The introduction is devoted to the status of the expellees after their arrival in Hesse and with the origins of their political integration in the form of expellee associations, compatriot groups and the first party-political exile organizations. Attention is then focused upon the role and involvement of the expellees in Hessen politics in the 1950s with regard to the 'Bloc of Expellees and Deprived of Rights' (Bund der Heimatvertriebenen und Entrechteten, BHE), to the political representation of the expellees in the Hessen Land Parliament and the successful implementation of their coalition potential in the form of a long-term ruling co-operation with the Hessen SPD.