(1) A person shall be eligible to stand for election if, on election day, he or she
1. has been German as defined in Article 116 (1) of the Basic Law for at least one year, and
2. has reached the age of eighteen years.
(2) A person shall be ineligible to stand for election if he or she
1. is disqualified from voting under Article 13 of the Federal Electoral Law,
2. has been deprived by judicial decision of eligibility to hold public or political office, or
3. is a German as defined in Article 116 (1) of the Basic Law without possessing German citizenship and has attained this legal status by renouncing German citizenship under the Law of 22 February 1955 for the Regulation of Questions of Citizenship (Federal Law Gazette I, p. 65).
