The peace list

The Peace List (FRIEDEN) was an electoral alliance founded in the Federal Republic of Germany in 1984 , which ceased its federal political activities in 1989.

History and program

The Peace List was founded on March 18, 1984 in Bad Godesberg as Other Political Association (SPV). On December 7, 1984, it was constituted in North Rhine-Westphalia as the state party “The NRW Peace List”.

According to the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, it was dominated by the German Communist Party (DKP) and related groups such as the German Peace Union (DFU). The theologian Uta Ranke-Heinemann and the footballer Ewald Lienen as well as splinter groups such as the Democratic Socialists worked with her. The party turned against the implementation of the NATO double decision . Furthermore, an understanding between the two power blocs of the Cold War was advocated .

The peace list saw itself as part of the peace movement . This assignment was politically and ideologically controversial. Other parties questioned this. A frequent point of criticism was the proximity to the DKP. Attempts to bring the Green Party closer to the DKP through closer cooperation with the Peace List failed.

After a member survey, the federal executive decided in 1988 not to stand for election to the European Parliament in 1989. From 1989 with the decline in personnel and finances of the DKP following the end of the funding from the SED, the peace list no longer appeared.

Party executive

From 1984 onwards, Uwe Knickrehm and Horst Trapp were spokespersons for the Federal Executive of the Peace List . Mechtild Jansen , Manfred Coppik and Hans Mausbach also held this office from 1984 to 1986, and were replaced by Hans-Wilhelm Confurius , Helga Genrich and Karl-Heinz Hansen in 1986 .

elections

The peace list entered the European elections in Germany in 1984 as SPV and reached 1.3 percent. In the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia in 1985 it came to 0.7 percent. In the federal election of 1987 , she ran in 245 of 248 constituencies with direct candidates who, from a legal point of view, traded as individual applicants or representatives of groups of voters. They received 0.5 percent of the first votes. Land lists were not drawn up; instead, the SPD and the Greens were called with a second vote . Otherwise, she ran in individual cases in state and local elections.

Candidates

Candidates for the European elections in 1984 included a .: Claus Bantzer , Emil Carlebach , Frank Deppe , Gisela Elsner , Donata Höffer-Friedländer , Jörg Huffschmid , Gerhard Kade , Dietrich Kittner , Hans Jürgen Krysmanski , Reinhard Kühnl , Richard Scheringer .
In the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia in 1985 , u. a. the then football player Ewald Lienen for the peace list on the candidate list.
In the federal election in 1987 a. a .: Matthias Gatzemeier , August Kühn , Guido Zingerl

Publications

The peace list: disarming - the program for the future: positions on the 1987 federal election . Bonn 1986 (57 pages).

credentials

Constitutional Protection Reports of the Federal Minister of the Interior , 1984, pp. 37, 48, 69, 75/6 (and subsequent years).
Constitutional Protection Reports of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia , 1985–1988.
Peter Schindler: Data Handbook on the History of the German Bundestag 1949 to 1999 . Volume I, Nomos, Baden-Baden 1999, p. 110f .: The Peace List (PEACE) .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Peter Schindler: Data Handbook on the History of the German Bundestag : 1949 to 1999 . Volume I, Baden-Baden 1999, p. 110.
↑ Regina Wick: The Wall Must Go - The GDR should stay , Stuttgart 2012, pp. 66–68.
↑ Peter Schindler: Data Handbook on the History of the German Bundestag : 1949 to 1999 . Volume I, Baden-Baden 1999, p. 111.
↑ Statistisches Bundesamt Wiesbaden : Election of the members of the European Parliament from the Federal Republic of Germany on June 17, 1984. Special issue. The candidates for election to the European Parliament from the Federal Republic of Germany , 1984, pp. 69–73
↑ Attack from the left. The Mönchengladbach professional footballer Ewald Lienen is running for the Düsseldorf state parliament on May 12th in sixth place on the peace list . Der Spiegel 7/1985.

[Handbuch-1] Peter Schindler: Data Handbook on the History of the German Bundestag : 1949 to 1999 . Volume I, Baden-Baden 1999, p. 110.

[2] Regina Wick: The Wall Must Go - The GDR should stay , Stuttgart 2012, pp. 66–68.

[3] Peter Schindler: Data Handbook on the History of the German Bundestag : 1949 to 1999 . Volume I, Baden-Baden 1999, p. 111.

[4] Statistisches Bundesamt Wiesbaden : Election of the members of the European Parliament from the Federal Republic of Germany on June 17, 1984. Special issue. The candidates for election to the European Parliament from the Federal Republic of Germany , 1984, pp. 69–73

[5] Attack from the left. The Mönchengladbach professional footballer Ewald Lienen is running for the Düsseldorf state parliament on May 12th in sixth place on the peace list . Der Spiegel 7/1985.