Alliance C - Christians for Germany

Alliance C - Christians for Germany
Party leader	Karin Heepen
vice-chairman	Ute Büschkens-Schmidt, Mathias Scheuchner
Federal Managing Director	Daniel graves
Federal Treasurer	Antje Steffes Friedemann Hetz (Deputy)
founding	1989 (PBC) 2008 (UP) March 28, 2015 (Association)
Place of foundation	Karlsruhe (PBC) Berlin (AUF) Fulda (Association)
Headquarters	Karlsruhe
newspaper	IMPRESSION - the magazine for politics from Alliance C
Alignment	Christian Democracy Conservatism Christian Fundamentalism
Colours)	White
Bundestag seats	0/709
Seats in state parliaments	0/1873
Number of members	1200
Minimum age	16 years
Proportion of women	45%
MEPs	0/96
European party	ECPM
Website	buendnis-c.de

Bündnis C - Christians for Germany ( short name : Bündnis C ) is a small party in Germany and aligns its policy with the Christian image of man .

Alliance C was founded in 2015 through the merger of the Christian fundamentalist parties, the Biblical Christians Party and the AUF - Party for Work, Environment and Family . It is a member of the European Christian Political Movement (ECPM). With the transfer of a member of parliament, Alliance C was represented in the European Parliament from October 2018 until the 2019 European elections .

Content profile

Alliance C, according to its own admission, is based on Christian ethics and principles that have shaped the free, democratic constitutional state. The party advocates “Christian-conservative positions in family, social, educational and foreign policy”, including in particular the “fight against abortion and gender mainstreaming positions, as well as idealizing marriage and family as a godly bond between men and woman who understands the introduction of an educational salary for parents, the support of the homeschooling idea, a strengthening of nations and criticism of international or supranational alliances such as the UN and the EU as well as unconditional support for Israel's right to exist ”. Your predecessor organizations belonged to the Christian fundamentalist spectrum.

history

prehistory

The Party of Biblical Christians (PBC) was founded in 1989 by Pastor Gerhard Heinzmann . The party ran for Bundestag, Landtag and European elections, but was rarely able to achieve results above 0.5%. In 2006 an attempt was made to merge the PBC with the similarly Christian-oriented small parties, the German Center Party and the Ecological Democratic Party, under the name “Aufbruch 2009”. The attempt initially failed, and the supporters of the merger idea founded the UP - Party for Work, Environment and Family (UP). After the AUF did not achieve any noteworthy election results either, the two parties PBC and AUF came closer from 2010, which finally led to the merger under the name "Alliance C". At the general election in 2013 the PBC with the support of AT participated in two provinces. At the PBC member congress, over ninety percent voted in favor of the merger, and at the AUF party congress over eighty percent of the delegates were in favor of the merger. In the strike ballot, 95.0% of the participating members of the PBC and 78.7% of the participating members of the AUF voted for the merger.

Since 2015 Alliance C

At their founding party conference in Fulda at the end of March 2015, the parties AUF and PBC merged to form “Alliance C - Christians for Germany - AUF & PBC”. Ole Steffes from Dresden (formerly PBC) and Karin Heepen from Erfurt (formerly AUF) were elected federal chairmen with equal rights.

The party stood for the first time in the state elections in Baden-Württemberg in 2016 and achieved 0.7% in the state constituency of Enz . In the state elections in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in 2016 , she received 842 votes, which corresponds to 0.1% of the vote. In the local elections in Lower Saxony in 2016 , the party was able to win a mandate in Wedemark and Bad Essen . At the party congress on October 22nd, 2016, the members decided to delete the suffix "AUF & PBC".

A candidate for the 2017 Bundestag election with eight state lists failed due to a lack of support signatures, so that the party was only able to put forward direct candidates in four constituencies. These achieved results between 0.2% and 0.4% of the first votes.

In autumn 2018, MEP Arne Gericke joined Alliance C. Gericke was elected for the family party in 2014 and initially switched to the free voters in mid-2017 . Gericke has been an individual member of the ECPM since 2014 , to which Alliance C also belongs.

organization

Federal party congresses

Party congress	date	place
Founding party conference	March 28, 2015	Fulda
Party congress (federal program, amendment to the statutes)	October 22, 2016	Eisenach
Party congress (election of the board)	October 21, 2017	Hünfeld
Party congress (candidate election for European elections)	October 6, 2018	Fulda
Delegate Congress (European election program)	February 10, 2019	Bad Blankenburg

Federal Executive

Chairperson	Karin Heepen
vice-chairman	Mathias Scheuschner, Ute Büschkens-Schmidt
Treasurer	Antje Steffes, Friedemann Hetz (deputy)
Assessor	Hermann Bohnenkamp, ​​Victoria Schneider, Johann Sliwa, Thomas Wiethe

Regional associations

Alliance C currently has regional associations in the following 7 federal states:

	Regional association	Chairman	vice-chairman	Treasurer	Assessor	Secretary General	Number of members	Establishment date	Municipal mandates	Result of the last election of the state parliament	Result of the last Bundestag election 2013 (PBC)
	in Baden-Württemberg	Jürgen Graalfs	Rainer Simon, Detlef Damaschke	Friedemann Hetz	Torsten Krause, Peter Uhrmeister		800	2015	0	0.0% ( 2016 )	0.2%
	in Bavaria	Verena Thümmel	Johann Sliwa	Johannes Gascho	Sven Pilz, Arno Schellartz, Manfred Steinel, Jörg Werner			2015	0	well *	well *
	in Hessen	Andrea Rehwald	Dieter Rühl, Edgar Winand	Wolfgang Peuckert	Gabriele Löber, Peter Schäfer, Samuel-LW Christoph Kambor-Jacob		95	2016	0	0.1% ( 2018 )	well *
	in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	Christian Hauser	Ute Büschkens-Schmidt, Peter Stockhaus	Manfred Schmidt	Gabriele Kohlstedt, Peter Reizlein	Matthias Kohlstedt		2015	3	0.1% ( 2016 )	well *
	in Lower Saxony	Thomas Wiethe	Klaus Dieter Schlottmann, Katrin Henze-Beushausen	Emil Weigand	Harald Baumgart, Hermann Bohnenkamp, ​​Thorsten Wegner			2015	3	0.0% ( 2017 )	0.1%
	in Rhineland-Palatinate	Andreas Lothar Wolff	Volker Giese, Barbara Rinder	Ernst Maier	Christoph Carius, Michael-Bernd Knögel, Elvira Grebe, Klaus Müller			2015	0	well *	well *
	in Saxony	Thomas Lamowski						2015	0	well *	well *
Legend * well - not started

Two other state associations are no longer listed by Alliance C:

• in Schleswig-Holstein
• in North Rhine-Westphalia

Federal working groups

Alliance C currently has 3 federal working groups:

• "Family and right to life"
• "Economy and Finance"
• "Media and Education Policy"

elections

State elections

The following table shows the state elections in which the party Alliance C has run since it was founded in 2015.

Election year	BW	HE	MV	NI
2016	0.01% a		0.10%
2017				0.0% b
2018		0.13%

^a Only ran in one of 70 constituencies.

^b Only ran in one of 87 constituencies.

Mandates

Municipalities

Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

In 2004, the PBC won a district council mandate in the Güstrow district. The mandate holder later transferred to the AUF and was able to hold the mandate in 2014, and most recently in the municipal elections in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in 2019 under the name of Bündnis C in the newly tailored, larger district of Rostock . In addition, the party was able to hold a seat in the municipality of Kuchelmiß in the 2019 local elections .

Saarland

In the Saarland, the AUF achieved a seat on the Mettlach municipal council in the 2014 local elections . In 2019 the party no longer took part. In the Mettlach district of Wehingen , 2 seats in the local council could be held in the 2019 election, but under the old name AUF.

Lower Saxony

In the local elections in Lower Saxony in 2016 , Alliance C won seats for the first time. Two seats were won in the municipal elections, one in Bad Essen , the other in Wedemark . In Hellendorf , 11.9% were achieved. With 15.3%, the party also got a local council seat there. The mandate in Gifhorn , which the PBC won in the 2011 local elections , was lost.

European Parliament

With the change of party of the German MP Arne Gericke , Alliance C was represented with a seat in the European Parliament since October 2018 . However, this mandate was lost in 2019, as the party only achieved 0.2% in the European elections and thus not the number of votes required for a seat in parliament.

See also

• History of the parties in Germany
• List of political parties in Germany
• Political parties in Germany

Web links

• Official website
• European election program. (PDF; 368 kB) In: buendnis-c.de. Alliance C, February 19, 2019, accessed August 21, 2019 . 
• Uwe Wagschal : Alliance C - Christians for Germany. In: Federal Agency for Civic Education : Party Profiles. Who is available for election? February 19, 2016 (on the occasion of the state elections in Baden-Württemberg 2016)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IMPRESSION magazine. In: buendnis-c.de, accessed on August 22, 2019.
2. ↑ bpb party profiles , accessed on August 5, 2020.
3. ^ Articles of Association. Alliance C - Christians for Germany . Status: October 6, 2018. In: Federal Returning Officer (Ed.): Alliance C - Christians for Germany. Statutes and subsidiary regulations . April 8, 2019, § 2.4, p. 4 ( bundeswahlleiter.de [PDF; 1.7 MB ; accessed on August 22, 2019] PDF-S. 7).
4. ^ Alliance C and ECPM. In: buendnis-c.de. Alliance C - Christians for Germany, 2018, archived from the original on February 16, 2019 ; accessed on February 15, 2019 . 
5. ^ Kai Oliver Thielking: Alliance C - Christians for Germany. In: Frank Decker, Viola Neu (Ed.): Handbook of German political parties. 3rd, expanded and updated edition. Springer VS, 2018, p. 195 f.
6. ↑ Michael Ragg: Christian parties AUF and PBC merge. Info letter. In: auf-partei.de. UP party, December 22, 2012, archived from the original on April 12, 2013 ; accessed on July 25, 2019 . 
7. ↑ PBC / UP party: Christian parties set the course for merger.
8. ↑ Two small Christian parties have united.
9. ↑ https://www.buendnis-c.de/index.php/aktuell/236-bundesparteitag-2016-bericht
10. ↑ Alliance C: On the 2017 federal election
11. ↑ https://www.buendnis-c.de/index.php/aktuell/274-bundestagswahl-2017-results-unserer-direktkandidaten
12. ↑ ^{a b c} Party structure Bündnis C. In: buendnis-c.de, accessed on January 10, 2020.
13. ↑ ^{a b c d} Alliance C: Landesverband Baden-Württemberg | Alliance C. Retrieved May 5, 2019 . 
14. ↑ Number of members in the Landesverband BW
15. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Alliance C - Christians for Germany. In: bundeswahlleiter.de. October 8, 2018, accessed May 5, 2019 . 
16. ↑ State Board of Hesse
17. ↑ ^{a b c} Alliance C: Board of Directors | Alliance C. Retrieved May 5, 2019 . 
18. ↑ Jennifer Ten Elsen: Alliance C - Christians for Germany (Alliance C). Retrieved May 5, 2019 . 
19. ↑ State Executive Committee MV
20. ↑ ^{a b c d} Alliance C: About Us | Alliance C. Retrieved May 5, 2019 . 
21. ↑ ^{a b c} Alliance C: Landesverband Niedersachsen | Alliance C. Retrieved May 5, 2019 . 
22. ↑ ^{a b c d} Alliance C: Landesverband Rheinland-Pfalz | Alliance C. Retrieved May 5, 2019 . 
23. ^ Alliance C: Member party conference of the regional association sets the course for the state election | Alliance C | State Association of Saxony. Retrieved May 5, 2019 . 
24. ↑ "The work of the regional association was transferred to the Politics Needs Christians initiative on November 25, 2019 and is the work of the active members of Alliance C in Schleswig-Holstein." About us. In: politik-c-sh.de, accessed on January 10, 2020.
25. ↑ Franz-Josef Münxelhaus: Alliance C founded the National Association NRW in Herne. December 5, 2016, accessed January 10, 2020 . 
26. ↑ tagesschau.de: tagesschau.de. Retrieved May 5, 2019 . 
27. ↑ tagesschau.de: tagesschau.de. Retrieved May 5, 2019 . 
28. ^ State election on October 15, 2017; The result of the state elections is finally certain | Nds. State Returning Officer. Retrieved May 5, 2019 . 
29. ↑ tagesschau.de: tagesschau.de. Retrieved May 5, 2019 . 
30. ↑ Election of the district assemblies of the districts as well as city councils / citizenships of the independent cities in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania on June 13, 2004. District of Güstrow. In: mvnet.de. The regional returning officer of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, accessed on June 30, 2011 . 
31. ↑ Election of the district councils of the districts in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania on September 4, 2011. (PDF) Preliminary result (electoral area: Central Mecklenburg, district). (No longer available online.) In : kreis-gue.de. September 5, 2011, formerly in the original ; accessed on July 25, 2019 (no mementos).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  
32. ↑ https://www.amt-krakow-am-see.de/default-wAssets/docs/oeffigte-bekanntmachungen/wahlbekanntmachungen/oeffiale-bekanntmachung-endgueltige-wahlverbindungen/oebk_kuchelmiss.pdf
33. ↑ Municipal Council. Distribution of seats in the municipal council. Local election results of May 25, 2014 ( Memento of February 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). In: mettlach.de, accessed on July 25, 2019.
34. ↑ Local council members of the Mettlach community ( Memento from May 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
35. ↑ https://www.mettlach.de/wp-content/uploads/dokumente/verwaltung/wahlen/00-GWA_Wahlwohlmachung_Erresult_Sitze.pdf
36. ^ Lower Saxony: Preliminary results of municipal elections ( Memento from September 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ).
37. ↑ Wedemark municipality - municipal elections 2016. In: wedemark.wahlen-aktuell.de, accessed on January 10, 2020.
38. ^ Result of the Hellendorf locality selection 2016. Final result. In: wedemark.wahlen-aktuell.de, accessed on January 10, 2020.
39. ↑ 2011 - Council election. Result. (No longer available online.) In: stadt-gifhorn.de. 2011, archived from the original on January 13, 2012 ; Retrieved July 25, 2019 (836 votes, 1.76%). 
40. ^ Arne Gericke: Alliance C for Christian-Innovative Politics in Europe. In: arne-gericke.eu. Arne Gericke, October 16, 2018, accessed April 2, 2019 .