Citizens' action Hildesheim
The Hildesheim Citizens' Action (BAH) is an independent voter community that limits its local political work to the area of the city and district of Hildesheim (so-called town hall party ). It belongs to the bourgeois- conservative spectrum.
While the BAH takes part in the elections for the Hildesheim City Council and the Hildesheim local councils with its own lists of candidates, its members participate in the elections for the Hildesheim district council on the candidate lists of the independent in the Hildesheim district , an umbrella organization for free voter groups.
history
The BAH was founded in 1985. The driving force was the freelance journalist and author Hans Freter, who also served as chairman for many years.
In 1986 the BAH immediately moved into the Hildesheim City Council with three seats, in which it has been represented ever since. By joining CDU- led alliances, she was repeatedly involved in forming a majority in the council. The alliance of CDU, BAH and FDP that was formed after the local elections in 2001 broke up against the background of the so-called “Pecunia non olet affair” of the controversial Mayor of Hildesheim, Kurt Machens .
In 2006 there was a dispute within the BAH when the group and the Alliance for Hildesheim , which was founded in 2005 and which , like the BAH, supports the policy of the now full-time Mayor Machens, could not agree on the name of a joint list of candidates for the 2006 local elections . The project failed, and party founder Freter left the BAH together with several other members to join the alliance for Hildesheim.
In the local elections on September 10, 2006, BAH again won a seat in the Hildesheim City Council with 3.6 percent of the vote (Councilor Franz Lehne).