The Left Baden-Württemberg

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The Left Baden-Württemberg
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Chairperson Dirk Spöri, Sahra Mirow
Treasurer Kathleen Kamprath
executive Director Claudia Haydt
Establishment date October 21, 2007
Place of foundation Stuttgart
Headquarters Falkertstrasse 58, 70176 Stuttgart
Landtag mandates
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Number of members 3,532 (as of end of 2018)
Website www.die-linke-bw.de

Die Linke Baden-Württemberg ( DIE LINKE. Baden-Württemberg ) is the state association of the party Die Linke in Baden-Württemberg. MPs from Baden-Württemberg have been represented in a state group in the German Bundestag since 2005 ; after the 2017 Bundestag election , the 19th German Bundestag has six members from the Baden-Württemberg state association.

history

founding

The Left Party was founded as an amalgamation of the regional associations of the Die Linkspartei.PDS and the WASG at a founding party conference on October 20 and 21, 2007 in Stuttgart in the DGB building. The foundation was prepared by a commission made up of board members from both parties. The members of the first board (2007–2008) were on the executive board: Franz Groll (WASG, Calw); Elke Lison (Die Linkspartei.PDS, Reutlingen); Bernd Riexinger (WASG, Stuttgart); Ursula Schorlepp (WASG, Stuttgart); Bernhard Strasdeit (Die Linkspartei.PDS, Tübingen); Christoph Cornides (Treasurer, Die Linkspartei.PDS, Mannheim). The other board members were: Annette Groth (WASG, Stuttgart), Jürgen Gulden (WASG, Weinheim), Ute Gsöls-Puhl (WASG, Karlsruhe), Susanne Kempf (WASG, Ostalb), Gudrun Kuch (Die Linkspartei.PDS, Mannheim), Gregor Mohlberg (Die Linkspartei.PDS, Freiburg), Reinhard Neudörfer (Die Linkspartei.PDS, Waiblingen), Silvia Ofori (WASG, Schwäbisch Hall), Anne Rahlfs (Die Linkspartei.PDS, Stuttgart), Sabine Rösch-Dammenmiller (WASG, Göppingen ), Dirk Spöri (WASG, Freiburg), Stefan Straub (WASG, Reutlingen).

The new party in Baden-Württemberg had around 2,200 members when it was founded (800 Die Linkspartei.PDS; 1,400 WASG).

Historical roots

The historical roots of the PDS, the WASG and the party Die Linke lie in the socialist labor movement until 1918 and in the communist and left-wing socialist labor movement until 1945. The party in Baden-Württemberg took part in 2008 with an anniversary event on the 100th anniversary of the International Socialist Congress 1907 in Stuttgart - on the u. a. Rosa Luxemburg also spoke - and the 100th anniversary of the founding of the socialist youth movement also made reference to these origins. Many members of the parties PDS, WASG and Die Linke in Baden-Württemberg were previously members of other parties, in particular from the area of ​​the New Left , the K groups and from the left and trade union wing of the SPD .

History of the PDS Baden-Württemberg

The Baden-Württemberg regional association of the PDS was founded on September 2, 1990 in Stuttgart. In the run-up to the founding, there was already a group called Linke Liste / PDS, which was formed in August 1990 but was not yet part of the nationwide party. The name of the party when it was founded was initially PDS / Left List. The addition left list was dropped by a resolution of a state members' meeting on May 20, 1995. On July 24, 2005 the national association was renamed from PDS to Linkspartei.PDS. The regional association's committees and structures were the state members' assemblies, the state board and the grassroots organizations. The Linkspartei.PDS recently had 26 grassroots groups across the country. The youth association of the PDS was the AGJG . The Baden-Württemberg state association of the AGJG was founded in 1994 in the Rhein-Neckar district and at the end of 2000 joined the new youth association of the party ['solid] - the socialist youth .

Participation in elections

The PDS in Baden-Württemberg only took part in the federal and local elections - sometimes in alliances. In the local elections on October 24, 1999, the PDS ran for the first time in Baden-Württemberg. In Karlsruhe (1 local council), Konstanz (1), Tübingen (2 local councils, 1 district council), Mannheim (1) and Stuttgart (1) were most recently members of the PDS in local councils. The PDS Baden-Württemberg took part in the European elections as part of the federal party. In 1994 Hannelis Schulte from Heidelberg ran for 15th place on the party's federal list. In 2003 Diether Dehm ran for the PDS in Lörrach as Lord Mayor. At that time, at 17.7%, he achieved the PDS's highest result in an election in the West German federal states .

History of the WASG Baden-Württemberg

The Baden-Württemberg regional association of the WASG was founded as an association on October 23, 2004 in Stuttgart. The first chairman was Bernd Riexinger . Other members of the state board were Claudia Mrosek and Damian Ludewig as well as Bernd Mehrling as treasurer. The bodies and branches of the regional association were the regional party congress with the delegate principle, the regional executive committee, the regional committee (body of representatives from the district associations) and the district associations. The WASG recently had 31 district associations across the country.

Participation in elections

The WASG in Baden-Württemberg only took part in the 2006 state elections . It achieved a national average of 3.1%. The strongholds of the WASG were 6.9% of the votes in the state electoral districts of Freiburg II and Mannheim I, 5.5% in Pforzheim and 5.1% in Aalen.

Organization and structure

The Left Baden-Württemberg is organized in district and local associations. The district associations are territorially congruent with the districts and the independent cities.

Organs and bodies

The highest organ is the state party congress , which is elected for a two-year legislature . The most important governing bodies of the party between the party congresses are the state executive with currently 18 members (as of 2017) and the state committee. In addition, there is the state finance council, as an assembly of the district treasurers. The state statutes and state regulations regulate further matters . The members of the executive board are Sahra Mirow (state spokeswoman), Dirk Spöri (state spokesperson), Kathleen Kamprath (treasurer), Bernhard Strasdeit (state manager) as well as Elwis Capece and Heidi Scharf.

Working groups

The party organization also includes working groups and working groups in which members and non-members of the party with an interest in certain topics can officially come together. Such nationwide associations include: a. the Landesarbeitsgemeinschaft (LAG) civil rights and democracy, the LAG companies & trade unions, the LAG education, the LAG peace policy, the LAG unemployed and low-wage earners and the LAG women.

Youth Association and Student Association

The youth association Left Youth ['solid] also occupies an important position within the party . All members of the regional association as well as sympathizers of the party up to the age of 35 can participate. The Left Youth ['solid] is the state youth association of the party. Within this association, the university association Die Linke.SDS exists as a working group. The youth association was founded in Baden-Württemberg on September 22, 2007. The predecessor organization was the Jugendverband der Linkspartei.PDS ['solid] - the socialist youth. The WASG did not have its own youth association in Baden-Württemberg.

Political education

Education associations affiliated with the party are the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung (formerly Rosa-Luxemburg-Forum Baden-Württemberg) and the Forum Linke Kommunalpolitik .

Publications

Die Linke Baden-Württemberg publishes the membership magazine Landesinfo as a print publication, which was already published as a membership magazine of the PDS in Baden-Württemberg. Since the state elections in 2011, Die Linke Baden-Württemberg has also published the campaign newspaper “kurswechsel”. Linke Baden-Württemberg operates a website in the field of electronic media and has its own presence on YouTube , Facebook and Twitter .

Election results in Baden-Württemberg

Bundestag elections

In the federal elections on September 24, 2017, Die Linke, under the leadership of Bernd Riexinger in Baden-Württemberg, was able to get 6.4% of the votes "in the Ländle" and sent a total of six mandate holders as a regional group to the 19th German Bundestag . Riexinger had to deal with internal party criticism from Oskar Lafontaine about the performance in the federal election . Richard Pitterle is no longer a member of the state group in the Bundestag after eight years.

Election date Result in% be right Surname
2nd December 1990 0.3% PDS / Left List
October 16, 1994 0.8% PDS
September 27, 1998 1.0% 58.013 PDS
September 22, 2002 0.9% 56,156 PDS
September 18, 2005 3.8% 219.105 Left Party.PDS
September 27, 2009 7.16% 389,637 The left
22nd September 2013 4.8% 272,456 The left
September 24, 2017 6.4% 380,557 The left

State elections

In the state elections in Baden-Württemberg in 2016, top candidate Bernd Riexinger led the party together with Gökay Akbulut in and through the election campaign. However, the candidates could not obtain a direct mandate in any of the constituencies. On the national average, the Left received only 139,700 votes, which corresponds to a percentage of 2.8%.

Election date Result in% be right Surname
March 26, 2006 3.1% 121,753 WASG
March 27, 2011 2.8% 139,700 The left
March 27, 2016 2.9% 156.240 The left

Elected officials

Member of the state parliament

Ulrich Maurer joined the WASG on July 1, 2005 from the SPD. Until his election to the Bundestag in autumn 2005, he was the only WASG member in a German state parliament.

Member of the Bundestag

On December 8, 2009, a state group Baden-Württemberg of the LINK was founded in the Bundestag.

MEPs

Functionaries

Party leaders in the country: PDS, WASG and DIE LINKE

Equal state spokeswoman and state spokesperson of the party Die Linke (executive state board)

Term of office Surname
2007-2008 Franz Groll, Bernd Riexinger, Elke Lison, Ursula Schorlepp, Bernhard Strasdeit and Christoph Cornides (treasurer)
2008-2011 Sabine Rösch-Dammenmiller, Dorothee Diehm, Bernd Riexinger, Sybille Stamm, Bernhard Strasdeit and Christoph Cornides (treasurers)
2011– Sabine Rösch-Dammenmiller, Heidi Scharf, Bernd Riexinger, Sybille Stamm, Bernhard Strasdeit and Christoph Cornides (treasurers)

Equal state spokeswoman for the PDS or Linkspartei.PDS

Term of office Surname
1990-1992 Theodor Bergmann
1992-1993 Dietmar Muller
1993-1994 Reinhard Neudorfer
1993-1994 Friederike Bünjer and Reinhard Neudorfer
1994-1996 Ulrike Küstler and Niko Fostiropoulos
1996-1997 Ulrike Hintsches and Niko Fostiropoulos
1997-1998 Ulrike Hintsches and Peter Linnes
1998-1999 Chantal Pannacci and Peter Linnes
1999-2000 Eva Steinmann and Peter Linnes
2000-2003 Peter Linnes
2003-2005 Bernhard Strasdeit and Elke Lison
2005-2007 Bernhard Strasdeit and Elke Lison

State chairman of the WASG

Term of office Surname
2004-2007 Bernd Riexinger

Country Managing Director

Period Surname
2007-2019 Bernhard Strasdeit
2019- Claudia Haydt

Others

For the protection of the constitution , individual groups of the party are currently being observed with regard to their activities.

On the night of September 28, 2017, a pane and glass door in the citizens' office of Karin Binder and the member of the Bundestag Michel Brandt was thrown in, whereupon the state security department started the investigation because it was assumed to be a politically motivated act.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d die-linke-bw.de (accessed on January 26, 2020)
  2. ^ Oskar Niedermayer : Party members in Germany: Version 2019. (PDF) FU Berlin , September 23, 2019, p. 18 , accessed on October 22, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Statistical data / analyzes on the election to the 14th state parliament of Baden-Württemberg on March 26, 2006 as PDF ( memento of the original from June 3, 2006 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. Retrieved January 16, 2010  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.statistik-portal.de
  4. ^ Die Linke Baden-Württemberg, Party, About Us (die-linke-bw.de, accessed on October 7, 2017)
  5. ↑ State statutes and state regulations, status 2014 (die-linke-bw.de, accessed on October 7, 2017)
  6. ↑ Baden-Württemberg: The final state result of the federal election has been determined ( memento from October 13, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (zvw.de from October 6, 2017, accessed on October 7, 2017)
  7. ↑ Die Linke "We are stronger than ever" (deutschlandfunk.de, September 30, 2017, accessed October 7, 2017)
  8. ↑ Bundestag candidate Richard Pitterle, Die Linke: Ein Enttäuschter advertises with roses (stuttgarter-zeitung.de, September 15, 2017, accessed October 7, 2017)
  9. ↑ a b Statistical Reports Baden-Württemberg Article No. 4212 020001 of November 6, 2002 (destatis, p. 7, accessed October 7, 2017)
  10. ↑ State result Baden-Württemberg - final result of the federal election 2005 ( Memento from January 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ↑ Second votes and share of second votes in the 2009 Bundestag election
  12. ^ State result Baden-Württemberg - final result of the federal election 2013
  13. ↑ State result Baden-Württemberg - final result of the 2017 federal election
  14. ↑ Riexinger and Akbulut lead leftists into the state election campaign (focus.de from November 21, 2015, accessed on October 7, 2017)
  15. ↑ Die Linke in Baden-Württemberg: The Street Fighter (taz.de, March 2, 2016, accessed October 7, 2017)
  16. ↑ State elections 2016 in Baden-Württemberg: The left has hopes for the state parliament (stuttgarter-zeitung.de from February 20, 2015, accessed on October 7, 2017)
  17. ↑ Final results of the election to the 15th state parliament of Baden-Württemberg on March 27, 2011 with comparative information from 2006 in the state electoral districts of Baden-Württemberg (destatis.de, p. 4, accessed on October 7, 2017)
  18. ↑ a b Final result of the state elections on March 27, 2011 with comparative information from 2006: State of Baden-Württemberg
  19. ^ The Südwest-LINKE in the Bundestag ; Presentation of the Baden-Württemberg state group of the left in the 19th German Bundestag with short portraits of the individual corresponding members (on die-linke-bw.de, accessed on April 27, 2019)
  20. ↑ Information from the Federal Agency for Civic Education Federal Agency for Civic Education: Die Linke Baden-Württemberg (bpb.de, accessed on October 7, 2017)
  21. ↑ Karlsruhe discs smashed by Die Linke (swr.de, September 28, 2017, accessed October 7, 2017)