Bavarian State Party
The Bavarian State Party (BSP) was a right-wing political party that was only active in Bavaria .
History and program
The BSP was created on September 25, 1967 by splitting off from the Bavarian Party (BP). Its chairman, Helmut Kalkbrenner , left the Bavarian party after internal differences and founded the BSP together with the last chairman of the BP parliamentary group in the state parliament, Joseph Panholzer . In its program, the party saw itself as a “political fighting community for Bavaria” with the aim of “creating a free Bavarian state in an allied Germany”. Initially 30% of the BP members joined the BSP, but by 1970 the majority had returned to the BP.
The BSP increasingly turned to European federalism and called for a sovereign Bavaria as part of a federally built Europe. Already in the state election in 1970 it entered as the " European Federalist Party of Bavaria (Bavarian State Party - European Party)". In 1976/77 the BSP even merged with the EFP Germany and acted as their regional association. In 1978, however, the BSP became independent again. As a section of Bavaria, it joined the European Federalist Party, which was founded in 1974 as a European party.
In the summer of 1979, BSP negotiated a merger with BP, which ultimately failed. In the 1980s, the BSP moved away from the EFPD. In the mid-1980s, the EFPD's own Bavarian regional association was founded. In 1986 the BSP ran for the last time in the state elections, in 1993 it was deleted from the party register of the Federal Returning Officer.
Chairperson
| September 25th to December 3rd, 1967 | Joseph Panholzer |
| December 3, 1967 to October 19, 1969 | Helmut Kalkbrenner |
| from 1975 | Arthur cruiser |
Election results in the Bavarian state elections
| 1970 | 1974 | 1978 | 1982 | 1986 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.16% | 0.17% | 0.09% | - | 0.01% |
literature
- Alf Mintzel : Bavarian State Party (BSP) , in: Richard Stöss (Ed.) Party Handbook , Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1983 (in the article on Die Bayernpartei , pp. 395–489, especially pp. 437ff., 443ff., 465ff. and 486ff.). ISBN 3-53111-838-2
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Alf Mintzel: The Bavarian Party. In: Rudolf Stöss : Party Handbook : The parties of the Federal Republic of Germany 1945–1980. Pages 395-489.
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Dirk van den Boom: Politics this side of power ?: On the influence, function and position of small parties in the political system of the Federal Republic of Germany. Leske + Budrich Verlag, 1999.
