Extraordinary FDP Federal Party Congress 1994 (December)

Coordinates: 50 ° 52 ′ 39.4 "  N , 12 ° 4 ′ 51.7"  E

title	Extraordinary Federal Party Congress 1994
Serial number	14th
place	Gera
state	Thuringia
Hall	Culture and congress center Gera
Beginning	December 11, 1994
Duration (in days)	2
Delegates	662

Culture and congress center Gera

The FDP held the second extraordinary federal party congress in 1994 from December 11 to 12, 1994 in Gera . It was the 14th extraordinary federal party congress of the FDP in the Federal Republic of Germany .

Course and resolutions

In the face of a series of electoral defeats, the party leadership was under considerable pressure. The party chairman Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel gave a keynote speech and asked the vote of confidence , in which he was confirmed in office. A commission was also set up to draft a new policy program. A resolution was passed against the persecution of Kurdish members of the Turkish parliament.

Delegate key

A total of 662 delegates were invited to the federal party conference . According to the membership of the regional associations as of December 31, 1992 (330 delegates) and the number of votes (330 delegates) in the Bundestag election of December 2, 1990 , the regional associations stood for the term of office of the delegates, which began on May 1, 1993 and ended on April 30, 1995 ended up having the following delegate rights. The calculation in the federal office by the federal manager Rolf Berndt took place on January 18, 1993 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	Before
Baden-Württemberg	7.117	23	667.272	43	66	57
Bavaria	5,890	19th	551,892	35	54	47
Berlin	4,260	13	183,780	12	25th	25th
Brandenburg	5,177	16	138,586	9	25th	38
Bremen	624	2	50,630	3	5	4th
Hamburg	1,868	6th	117.293	8th	14th	12
Hesse	7,484	24	374.240	24	48	38
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	5,826	19th	91,229	6th	25th	30th
Lower Saxony	8,056	26th	474,609	31	57	46
North Rhine-Westphalia	20,017	64	1,118,967	72	136	110
Rhineland-Palatinate	5,200	17th	245.283	16	33	26th
Saarland	2,588	8th	42,459	3	11	8th
Saxony	9,666	31	345,471	22nd	53	69
Saxony-Anhalt	8,394	27	314.265	20th	47	65
Schleswig-Holstein	3,179	10	185,636	12	22nd	18th
Thuringia	7,841	25th	221,621	14th	39	67
Federal territory	103.187	330	5,123,233	330	660	660
Foreign group Europe		2			2	2

See also

• List of FDP federal party conferences

swell

• Another chance for the liberals! Contributions to the discussion about the future of liberalism and the FDP at the ao federal party congress of the FDP on December 11 and 12, 1994 in Gera , o. O. 1994.

literature

• Jürgen Dittberner : The FDP. History, people, organization, perspectives. An introduction , VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2nd edition, Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 978-3-531-17494-5 .

Web links

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

• Before the FDP party congress in Gera: What does liberal mean today? On this subject, ZEIT organized a symposium in honor of Marion Countess Dönhoff: Do we need the FDP? Excerpts from the discussion. In: Die Zeit , December 9, 1994.
• "Ugly face". In: Der Spiegel , December 5, 1994.
• FDP. Nice dilettante. In: Der Spiegel , December 19, 1994.
• Peter Pragal: At the special party conference in Gera, Klaus Kinkel had to face massive criticism of the grassroots. FDP leadership is in the pillory . In: Berliner Zeitung , December 10, 1994.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Based on documents from the archive of liberalism of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom .