Working group SPD 60 plus
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| Basic data | |
| Chairman: | Lothar Binding |
| Deputy Chair: |
Heidemarie Fischer Friedhelm Hilgers Peter Schöbel |
| Honorary Chairman: | Erika Drecoll Otto Graeber Angelika Graf |
| Members: | around 250,000 |
| Structure: | 20 district and state associations |
| Website: | www.ag60plus.de |
The working group SPD 60 plus (AG 60plus = SPD working group from 60 years) sees itself as a target group organization of the SPD , which wants to give content- related impulses for the SPD and at the same time wants to be a mediator to the elderly in organizations, associations and institutions. Lothar Binding has been chairman of the 60 plus working group since 2017 .
The AG 60 Plus is a so-called apron organization of the SPD. These are associations that deal with special policy fields or represent professional associations within the SPD.
history
In the early 1990s, the SPD federal executive set up a commission on demographic change . One result of the work of this commission was the mandate of the SPD executive committee to form a separate working group for senior citizens based on the model of the CDU's senior citizens' union .
It was founded in 1994 under the chairmanship of Hans-Ulrich Klose .
membership
The SPD 60 plus working group automatically includes all SPD members over the age of 60 - that's around 250,000. This makes it the largest of the SPD target group organizations. However, only a small part of the members (in 2007 there were 40,000 of 250,000) actively participate in the working group. There is no formal membership. In addition, non-party members and those involved in senior work who have not yet reached the age of 60 are invited to participate.
organization
The “Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Älteren” is one of the total of nine working groups of the SPD, which have a special meaning in the context of the political decision-making and in the organizational structure of the party. It is financially and organizationally dependent on the SPD. The activities of the working groups are aimed at special contact persons for the SPD. You bring your topics, your positions and your suggestions into the discussion of the party and advertise for internal and social majorities. In the guidelines of the AG SPD 60 plus it says: "The older people in the SPD join together in a working group."
The aim is to represent the interests of the elderly inside and outside the SPD, to promote the commitment of the elderly, to win people over to the social democratic program. In the interest of opening up to the outside world, the working group should cooperate with associations, organizations and initiatives of the elderly and work with the elderly.
The AG SPD 60 plus works independently: It has its own organizational structure - analogous to the structure of the SPD - and it makes independent decisions.
There are 60 plus divisions at all levels of the SPD: in the local association, in the sub-district or district association, in the district, at the state level and finally at the federal level.
Resolutions and elections for the federal level of the working group SPD 60 plus are made at the federal congress, which takes place every two years. The delegates elected by the districts and the members of the AG SPD 60plus federal executive committee elected by the federal conference are entitled to vote: the federal chairman, two deputies and six assessors. This nine-person body leads the SPD 60 plus working group at the federal level and implements the resolutions of the federal conference. This means that the program of the AG SPD 60plus is not always and in all parts identical with what the SPD wants.
Chairperson
- 1994–1997: Hans-Ulrich Klose
- 1997–1999: Rudi Walther
- 1999–2007: Otto Graeber
- 2007–2011: Erika Drecoll
- 2011–2017: Angelika Graf
- since 2017: Lothar Binding
Individual evidence
- ^ AG SPD 60plus and clear words from Hubertus Heil
- ↑ Felix Butzlaff: Patt or tide change ?: Germany 2009, Göttingen studies on political parties, 2009, ISBN 3531162039 , page 246 ff., Online
- ↑ Honor for Kurt Kallert At the annual general meeting of the AG 60plus district of Osnabrück, Rainer Spiering awarded Comrade Kurt Kallert the Willy Brandt Medal on behalf of the SPD for his many years of commitment, as he worked tirelessly for the party for 51 years
- ^ AG SPD 60plus-Osnabrücker-Land
- ^ AG SPD 60plus - Info in District 49
- ^ AG SPD 60plus - Organization - About us
- ^ AG SPD 60plus - Resolution
- ↑ AG SPD 60plus - News
Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD)
Youth organizations: Young Socialists (Jusos) | Juso University Groups (Juso-HSGn) | Juso student and trainee group (JSAG)
Working groups: Working group for employee issues (AfA) | Working Group of Social Democratic Women (ARSP) | Working group SPD 60 plus (AG 60 Plus) | Working Group for Social Democrats in Health Care (ASG) | Working group for education in the SPD (AfB) | Working Group of Social Democratic Lawyers (ASJ) | Working group self-employed in the SPD (AGS) | Working Group of Formerly Persecuted Social Democrats (AvS) | Working group of the SPD for acceptance and equality (SPDqueer) | Working Group on Migration and Diversity | Working group self-active
Working groups: Working group Christians in the SPD | Working Group of Jewish Social Democrats | Working group of Muslim social democrats
Organizations of the party wings: Forum Democratic Left 21 (DL21) | Network Berlin | Parliamentary Left (PL) | Seeheimer Kreis
Related organizations: Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES) | Social Democratic Community for Local Politics (SGK) | Socialist Youth of Germany - Die Falken (SJD - Die Falken) | Friends of nature in Germany