Action Democratic Progress

The Action Democratic Progress ( ADF ) was a short-lived, left-wing political party in the Federal Republic of Germany that unsuccessfully participated in the 1969 federal election .

history

The founding of the party went back to an initiative of the Gießener Kreis around Werner Hofmann , the director of the sociological institute of the University of Marburg , in early 1968 and was related to the resistance against the emergency laws .

A founding congress with 2000 participants met on November 2nd, 1968 in Dortmund . An action and electoral alliance for the 1969 Bundestag election was resolved. Organizationally, a council of 162 members and a 20-person working committee were formed.

The constitution as a party took place on December 7, 1968 in the Sindlingen house in Frankfurt am Main . A party presidium of 80 people and a 55-member party executive were elected. The party executive committee consisted of eight presidium members, two elected presidium secretaries, the treasurer and five elected party executive members. From January 1, 1969, the party had an office in Bonn .

In terms of content, the party was strongly communist . A parliamentary basis for representatives of the extra-parliamentary opposition was to be created on the model of a Popular Front party . Although designed as an open electoral alliance, members of communist groups dominated. The ADF was largely funded by the Federation of Germans (BdD), the German Peace Union (DFU), the recently founded DKP , the SDAJ , the Franconian Circle, the VVN , the West German Women's Peace Movement (WFFB) and the Association of Independent Socialists (VUS) carried. Close cooperation between the communists and the “bourgeois left” was controversial in left-wing extremist circles.

For the Bundestag election on September 28, 1969, the goal was to overcome the 5% hurdle. The ADF competed in all ten federal states at the time. Overall, however, only 0.6% of the votes (197,331 votes) were achieved. The strongholds were Bremen (1.5%), Hamburg (1.2%) and Saarland (1.2%).

After this election defeat, the ADF decided to no longer appear as a party, but only as an action alliance.

literature

Extremism reports from the Interior Ministry of North Rhine-Westphalia, 1969 and 1970.

Remarks

↑ Cold coffee . In: Der Spiegel . No. 51 , 1968, p. 34 ( online ).
↑ so z. B. the emergence of the ADF (in the magazine Internationale Revolution nr.2, June 1969, p.1 ) was dismissed as follows: “Electoral alliance with the ridiculous petty-bourgeois-pacifist parties like the 'Peace Union' and 'Bund der Deutschen' with one of them Group-appropriate program: 'Action Democratic Progress'! "

[1] Cold coffee . In: Der Spiegel . No. 51 , 1968, p. 34 ( online ).

[2] so z. B. the emergence of the ADF (in the magazine Internationale Revolution nr.2, June 1969, p.1 ) was dismissed as follows: “Electoral alliance with the ridiculous petty-bourgeois-pacifist parties like the 'Peace Union' and 'Bund der Deutschen' with one of them Group-appropriate program: 'Action Democratic Progress'! "