German Union (party)

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The German Union (DU) was a small German national liberal party that was founded in Düsseldorf in the summer of 1971 as the successor to the National Liberal Action (NLA) party . Federal chairman was Siegfried Zoglmann . Structures existed mainly in North Rhine-Westphalia .

Presidium member Dietrich Bahner tried to convince the CSU leadership around Franz Josef Strauss at a meeting in the summer of 1971 to give the new grouping three safe constituencies and in this way to enable the party to enter the Bundestag . The social-liberal coalition should work together with the Unionto be replaced in Bonn. The willingness of the CDU to forego three constituencies, however, was not there; only Zoglmann himself managed to get into the Bundestag via a place on the CSU state list. With the withdrawal of Zoglmann in November 1974 and other board members from the DU, it slipped into party-political insignificance.

The DU had their last election in the federal election in 1980 , where they ran with two direct candidates. Together they got 421 votes.

literature

  • Richard Stöss : The Action Group Fourth Party . In: Richard Stöss (Ed.): Party Handbook. The parties of the Federal Republic of Germany 1945–1980 . tape 1 : AUD-EFP. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1983, ISBN 3-531-11570-7 , pp. 336-366 .