Work for Bremen and Bremerhaven

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Work for Bremen and Bremerhaven e. V. (short name: AFB ) was a community of voters founded in 1995 , which existed until 2002 and was only active in the state of Bremen .

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The AFB was seen as a reservoir for dissatisfied, former SPD members of the right wing of the party and grew with the entry of many non-party members.

The election manifesto was primarily geared towards economic and financial issues and spoke with the goals of budget consolidation - e.g. B. Strengthening Bremen as a business location - predominantly bourgeois voters.

history

In the SPD there was a group of members who did not agree with the policy of the traffic light coalition of the SPD, FDP and the Greens in the Wedemeier Senate under Mayor Klaus Wedemeier .

The new voter community was constituted on January 20, 1995, in order to run for the next election for citizenship . This was brought forward because of the break in the traffic light coalition and took place on May 14, 1995.

In the state elections in Bremen in 1995 it then achieved 10.7% and moved into the state with 12 members. She was also represented on numerous advisory boards . With the transfer of a CDU member, the number of MPs grew to 13. In the formation of the government, however, the AfB played no role despite the failure of the FDP at the five percent hurdle , since the SPD was on par with the CDU in terms of mandates and Alliance 90 / The Greens had two more MPs than the AfB. Mayor Klaus Wedemeier of the SPD resigned because of the poor election result and cleared the way for Henning Scherf , who formed a coalition between the SPD and the CDU.

Since the Grand Coalition essentially pursued the same goals as the AfB, it was difficult for the AfB to make a name for itself in the opposition , so that it only achieved 2.4% in the following general election in Bremen in 1999 . In the 15th legislative period it was no longer represented in the citizenry, but only had a few seats on the advisory councils . Its membership decreased in the following years. Talks on cooperation with the Schill party were unsuccessful. In 2002 the AfB disbanded.

The electoral success of 1995 could partly be financed due to incomplete regulations in the political party law. The Weser Report advertising paper , for example, had advertised generously and waived as a discount of 60% of the costs of 117,000 euros otherwise incurred for this; A bank granted a loan without collateral in the amount of DM 300,000. The advertising papers A to Z , which belong to the same group of companies as the Weser Report, paid the agency commissioned with public relations. Strictly speaking, this financial support should have been shown as so-called waiver donations and included in the statement of accounts.

Members

The party members came from economically oriented SPD circles, but also from other political parties and groups.

The members of the Bremen citizenship were:

• Klaus Bernbacher
• Gerold Fuchs (moved up)
• Brigitte Ginda
• Karla Hense-Brosig
• Ludwig Hettling
• Elke Kröning (resigned her mandate in March 1999)
• Werner Lenz
• Andreas Lojewski
• Albert brands
• Horst Ochs
• Lutz H. Peper (resigned his mandate in January 1998)
• Friedrich Rebers
• Rolf Reimers (organizer of the Music Show of Nations )
• Uwe Siefert (transfer from the CDU)
• Gerhard Thielemann (moved up)
• Patrick Wendisch

Leading politicians and founding members were the Sparkasse director Friedrich Rebers (1929-2001), the former SPD economics senator Werner Lenz (1927-2004) and Elke Kröning (married to the SPD politician Volker Kröning ) and Andreas Lojewski (formerly SPD). When Rebers left active politics due to illness, the party lost its important driving force.

literature

• Hans-Jörg Dietsche: Work for Bremen and Bremerhaven (AFB). In: Frank Decker & Viola Neu : Handbook of German political parties. VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 3-531-15189-4 , pp. 151-154.

See also

• Results of the local elections in Bremen and Bremerhaven

Individual evidence

1. ↑ hs / dpa: Schill Party: Cooperation with the AfB instead of a new foundation? In: welt.de . January 13, 2002, accessed October 7, 2018 . 
2. ^ The daily newspaper : The grand coalition of the KPS company . September 17, 2005