Free Union

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FREE UNION
Logo of the party "Free Union"
Party leader Danny Hoffmann
Federal Treasurer Friedrich Müller
founding June 21, 2009
Place of foundation Munich
Headquarters Berlin
Alignment Conservatism ,
economic liberalism ,
direct democracy
Colours) blue-orange
Number of members 484 as of Oct. 26, 2014
Minimum age 16
Website no

The Free Union (spelling: FREIE UNION ; abbreviated FU ) is a small German party , the establishment of which was initiated on June 21, 2009 by the former CSU and Free Voters politician Gabriele Pauli .

At the founding party convention on June 21, 2009 in Munich, Pauli was elected federal chairman with 144 out of 155 votes. On the same day, a regional association was founded in Bavaria and drawn up the Bavarian state list for the federal election. In the following weeks, regional associations were also founded in all other federal states.

Content profile

According to the program, the Free Union sees itself as a “citizens' movement” that questions all structures of the state and, according to Pauli, wants to put an end to “the egoism and the power thinking in the established parties”. Among other things, the party is calling for direct elections to the Federal Chancellor and the Prime Minister and a nationwide referendum on the Basic Law . Further demands are a simplification of the tax system in three stages and a nationwide uniform education system .

history

Participation in elections

For the 2009 Bundestag election , the party submitted state lists in twelve states, but only achieved the necessary number of supporter signatures in Bavaria. In the meeting of the Federal Electoral Committee on July 17, 2009 in Berlin, the Free Union was awarded party status. Due to a formal error - the party chairman Pauli had not signed the transcript of the corresponding general meeting - the list was not approved in Bavaria. A complaint to the Federal Election Commission against the denial of leave was rejected and the Federal Constitutional Court pickled constitutional complaint was not accepted for decision. The party could therefore only run with five Bavarian and one Brandenburg direct candidate for the federal election. The candidates received a total of 6,121 first votes.

For the state election in Brandenburg in 2009 on September 27, 2009, the Free Union also ran only with direct candidates and achieved 150 votes (0.01%). For the first time in its history, the party succeeded in the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia in 2010 to collect enough signatures to be allowed to run a state list. She achieved 0.02% of the second votes. In the election for the Berlin House of Representatives in 2011 , the Free Union ran with only one direct candidate in the Marzahn-Hellersdorf district (constituency 5) and achieved 71 votes (0.0%).

In the state elections in Saarland (March 2012), the party missed the required number of support signatures. Contrary to its original announcement, the party did not take part in the early state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia on May 13, 2012, as the legal requirement to hold new elections no later than 60 days after the end of the previous government did not give it the time to obtain the necessary support signatures collect.

Since the party did not run for any more elections, it is no longer run as such by the Federal Returning Officer.

Internal party conflicts and splits

In a letter to the then Federal Minister of the Interior Thomas de Maizière , the then members of the Federal Executive Board, Josef Brunner, Peter Frühwald, Daniel Schreiner and Heike Seise, described the Free Union as an anti-constitutional party and called for its ban . After Brunner and Frühwald expressed their criticism of the party chairman in November, new, acting members of the federal executive committee were elected at a federal executive committee meeting on November 28, 2009.

In mid-July 2009, Sabrina Olsson and Michael Meier were removed from their offices. Sabrina Olsson then founded the Aufbruch 21 party - the Freedom Party , of which she was initially the national chairman. On December 20, 2009, the former board members Peter Frühwald, Daniel Schreiner and Heike Seise founded another new party called the Alliance for Civil Rights - AfB .

On May 27, 2010, Gabriele Pauli resigned as federal chairwoman of the Free Union due to internal differences of opinion and left the party a few days later.

On June 30, 2010, the state association of Hesse dissolved by resolution of a state members' meeting; However, according to the party's website, it is now back in existence without any content being displayed there.

On October 26, 2014, the previously inactive state association of North Rhine-Westphalia was reconstituted at an ordinary state members' meeting.

The former spokesman for the Castrop-Rauxel pirate party , Jörg Berg, was elected as state chairman. Berg resigned from his position as state chairman of the party on February 3, 2015 for professional reasons.

A new federal board was elected at the 2017 federal party conference of the FREIE UNION party.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Free Union": Big crowd when Pauli's party was founded ( Memento from June 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ party platform
  3. ↑ Gabriele Pauli founds "Freie Union" Stern on June 22, 2009
  4. ↑ Gabriele Paulis "Freie Union" founded ( memento of the original from June 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. n24.de on June 21, 2009  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.n24.de
  5. ↑ http://www.wahlrecht.de/news/2009/10.htm
  6. ↑ Federal electoral committee ( Memento of the original from December 30, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bundestag.de
  7. ↑ Decision of the BVerfG
  8. ↑ Direct candidate Bavaria
  9. ↑ Direct candidate Brandenburg ( Memento of the original from September 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wahlen.brandenburg.de
  10. ↑ Direct candidates ( Memento from September 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ^ Declaration by the party FREIE UNION NRW ( Memento from December 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ^ Page of the Federal Returning Officer , accessed on July 28, 2019
  13. ^ Letter to Minister of the Interior: Pauli's deputy calls for a ban on his own party
  14. ^ Free Union: Rebellion against Gabriele Pauli
  15. ↑ Report on the website of the Free Union (accessed December 5, 2009) ( Memento of August 3, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  16. ↑ Free Union mutinies against Pauli
  17. ↑ Awakening 21 - Die Freiheitlichen ( Memento from December 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  18. ^ Alliance party for civil rights founded in Berlin-Karlshorst - Troika at the top of the party , December 21, 2009
  19. ↑ Gabriele Pauli resigns as chairwoman of the Free Union , article in the Hamburger Abendblatt dated May 27, 2010 (requested on September 25, 2010)
  20. ↑ Gabriele Pauli leaves Free Union , Die Welt from June 4, 2010 (queried on September 25, 2010)
  21. ↑ Landesverband Hessenhttp: //www.bundestag.de/dokumente/textarchiv/2009/26668664_kw32_bundeswahlaususs/index.html ( Memento from October 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  22. ↑ FREE UNION: Further expansion of political activities. Retrieved November 4, 2014 .
  23. ↑ Pirates are regrouping. Retrieved November 4, 2014 .