Extraordinary FDP federal party conference 1983

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title	Extraordinary Federal Party Congress 1983
Serial number	8th
place	Freiburg in Breisgau
state	Baden-Württemberg
Hall	City Hall

Beginning	January 29, 1983
Duration (in days)	2
Delegates	400

Freiburg city hall

FDP federal party conference in Freiburg

Genscher, Morlok and Lahmann at the FDP federal party conference in Freiburg (from left to right)

The FDP held the extraordinary federal party congress in 1983 on January 29 and 30, 1983 in the town hall in Freiburg im Breisgau . It was the 8th extraordinary federal party conference of the FDP in the Federal Republic of Germany .

course

At this party conference under the motto “Freedom needs courage. Germany needs FDP the Liberals ”, the FDP adopted its“ election statement ”for the 1983 federal election . This contained the following sections: the liberal positions, economic, financial and social policy, peace policy, social, domestic and legal policy, environmental policy, other tasks for the future.

Delegate key

Olaf Feldmann and Federal Minister of Justice Hans A. Engelhard (from left to right)

A total of 400 delegates were invited to the federal party conference . According to the membership of the regional associations on December 31, 1981 (200 delegates) and the number of votes (200 delegates) in the federal election on October 5, 1980 (Berlin: election to the House of Representatives on May 10, 1981 ), the regional associations stood for the term of office of the delegates who began on May 1, 1982 and ended on April 30, 1984, entitled to the following delegate rights. The calculation by the federal office took place on January 19, 1982 and was communicated to the regional associations.

According to the membership of the regional associations and the votes, the following delegate key resulted:

Delegate rights to the federal party congress
Regional association	Delegates according to the number of members		Delegates by voter vote		total	Status January 25, 1980
Baden-Württemberg	9,337	22nd	654,882	32	54	53
Bavaria	9,153	21st	532.620	26th	47	48
Berlin	2,481	6th	70,529	3	9	13
Bremen	886	2	68,720	3	5	6th
Hamburg	2,279	5	155,701	8th	13	13
Hesse	10,290	24	377,448	18th	42	42
Lower Saxony	10,484	24	535.914	26th	50	46
North Rhine-Westphalia	26,311	61	1,191,643	58	119	119
Rhineland-Palatinate	6,645	15th	239.921	12	27	28
Saarland	4,320	10	57,598	3	13	12
Schleswig-Holstein	4,561	10	216,552	11	21st	20th
Federal territory with Berlin	86,747	200	4,101,528	200	400	400
Federal territory excluding Berlin			4,030,999

Coalition statement

A coalition statement was passed for the 1983 federal election : “The Free Democratic Party declares its will to continue the coalition with the CDU / CSU for the next legislative period. She is determined to make this coalition a success for our country by realizing the maximum possible liberal politics, provided that the CDU / CSU does not achieve an absolute majority ”.

elections

Since Andreas von Schoeler , who had been elected to the federal executive committee at the federal party conference in November 1982 , had left the FDP, there was a by-election for the executive committee. Was elected Wolfgang Gerhardt , who shortly before the chairman of the FDP Hessen had been elected.

Party's youth work

After the separation of the Young Democrats from the FDP, the Young Liberals (JuLIs) were recognized by the FDP in a resolution on youth work . The motion received a clear majority of 361 votes cast with 263 votes in favor, 92 against, 3 abstentions (3 votes were invalid). As part of an amendment to the statutes, the young democrats were removed from the statutes, but the young liberals were not mentioned by name as a youth organization. The amendment to the statutes was passed with the necessary quorum (submission 389 // Yes: 269 // No: 111 // Enth: 6 // Invalid: 3 // Quorum: 269).

Others

In preparation for the party congress, the Bureau met directly in Freiburg on 28 January at 13:00 and at 15:00 of the national board .

Documents

Invitation to the Extraordinary FDP Federal Party Congress on December 20, 1982 to the delegates
Agenda for the Extraordinary FDP Federal Party Congress
Calculation of the delegate rights to the federal party congress by the federal office

swell

Election statement '83 of the Free Democratic Party for the federal elections on March 6, 1983. Decided at the extraordinary federal party conference of the FDP on January 29 and 30, 1983 in Freiburg , Offenbach 1983.

literature

Jürgen Dittberner : The FDP. History, people, organization, perspectives. An introduction , Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2nd edition, Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 978-3-531-17494-5 .
Friedrich Naumann Foundation (ed.): The program of the liberals. Ten years of program work by the FDP from 1980 to 1990. Nomos, Baden-Baden 1990, ISBN 3-7890-2111-3 .

Web links

Commons : Extraordinary FDP Federal Party Congress 1983 - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wiktionary: Federal Party Congress - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Statement on the 1983 Bundestag election on the page of the Archives of Liberalism of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom

Individual evidence

^ Information from: Archiv des Liberalismus ( www.freiheit.org/content/archiv-des-liberalismus ) (ADL), inventory of the FDP Federal Party Rallies, A1-1.
↑ Printed in the Friedrich Naumann Foundation (ed.): The program of the Liberals. Ten years of program work by the FDP from 1980 to 1990. Nomos, Baden-Baden 1990, ISBN 3-7890-2111-3 , pp. 191-213.

[1] Information from: Archiv des Liberalismus ( www.freiheit.org/content/archiv-des-liberalismus ) (ADL), inventory of the FDP Federal Party Rallies, A1-1.

[2] Printed in the Friedrich Naumann Foundation (ed.): The program of the Liberals. Ten years of program work by the FDP from 1980 to 1990. Nomos, Baden-Baden 1990, ISBN 3-7890-2111-3 , pp. 191-213.