German Democratic Union

The German Democratic Union (short name: DDU ) was a left-wing political party in the Federal Republic of Germany .

The DDU was founded on September 24, 1955. It appeared almost exclusively in the Saarland . The greatest success in the state elections in 1960 was the entry into the state parliament of Saarland with the two MPs Erich Walch and Erwin Gieseking .

On March 3, 1961, the DDU joined the German Peace Union (DFU) as its Saarland regional association. It was previously the regional association of the BdD , which largely merged with the DFU. As a regional association of the DFU, but under the name DDU, the group also took part in the state elections in 1965, but failed to re-enter the state parliament.

elections

The DDU only ran for state elections in the Saarland.

• 1955: 05,121 votes, 0.9%
• 1960: 26,743 votes, 5.0% (+4.1 percentage points), 2 seats in the Saarland state parliament
• 1965: 18,585 votes, 3.1% (–1.9 percentage points), as a regional association of the DFU

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Red and Pink . In: Der Spiegel 35/1961, pp. 20-29, here: p. 20. Online .