The Left Bremen

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The Left Bremen
Die Linke logo.svg
Chairperson Cornelia Barth
Felix Pithan
Deputy Tim Ruland
Treasurer Birgit Menz
executive Director Andreas Hein-Foge
Establishment date October 13, 2007
Place of foundation Bremen
Headquarters Faulenstrasse 75
28195 Bremen
Landtag mandates
10/84
Number of members 647 (as of January 2020)
Website www.dielinke-bremen.de

Die Linke Bremen is the regional association of the party Die Linke in Bremen. The Left in Bremen has 647 members (as of January 2020).

history

prehistory

After the SED was renamed PDS , the PDS tried to establish itself in West Germany as well. The state association of the PDS in Bremen was founded in December 1994.

The PDS competed for the first time in the early state elections in Bremen in 1995 . With the electoral slogan “After the traffic light left” (the slogan referred to the failure of the traffic light coalition ), she campaigned for voters and achieved 8,174 votes or 2.4%. With the top candidate Martina Renner , the PDS in Bremen improved slightly to 8,418 votes or 2.9% in the 1999 general election in Bremen .

For the 2005 election , the PDS renamed as part of the planned merger with the WASG in Linkspartei.PDS and opened their list of WASG members.

Since the merger

The Left Party was formed on October 13, 2007 as a merger of the regional associations of the PDS and the WASG.

In the election for Bremen citizenship in 2007 on May 13, 2007, the party first appeared as a list connection before the merger of PDS and WSAG was completed. With Peter Erlanson as the top candidate, she made her first entry into a West German parliament. It became the fourth largest group with 7 members.

In September 2009 (re-elected in 2013) Agnes Alpers was elected a member of the German Bundestag via the Bremen state list . In March 2015 she resigned her mandate for health reasons; Birgit Menz followed her as Member of the Bundestag.

In 2011 the national spokesman for the national association refused to condemn the anti-Israel campaign “ Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions ” after groups in Bremen called for a boycott of Israeli products. A statement against this action was nationwide by numerous party members, including u. a. Katja Kipping and Bodo Ramelow signed, in which the campaign was explicitly described as "anti-Semitism", "which is reminiscent of the Nazi slogan ' Don't buy from the Jews '". This was followed by a formally unanimous decision by the left faction in the Bundestag, in which support for calls for boycotts and other anti-Israeli actions was clearly rejected.

With the general election in Bremen in 2011 , the party was able to maintain its status as the second strongest force in the opposition - with now five MPs. However, it failed in the Bremerhaven elective area with 4.6% of the five percent hurdle.

In the general election in Bremen in 2015 , the left reached almost 9.1 percent and entered the parliament with eight members.

In the general election in Bremen in 2019 , the left reached almost 11.3 percent and entered the parliament with ten members.

Organization and structure

The Bremen State Association is currently organized in four district associations:

  • Bremerhaven district association
  • District association Bremen links the Weser
  • District association Bremen-Mitte Ost
  • District association Bremen-North West

The political topics are dealt with in 19 working groups.

people

On the board

MPs

In the citizenship of the 18th electoral term from 2011 to 2015 , the Left was represented by five MPs.

In the citizenship of the 19th electoral period from 2015 to 2019 , the Left was represented by eight members.

In the citizenship of the 20th electoral term from 2019 , the left was represented by ten members (see there).

literature

  • Johannes Stracke: Die LINKE in Bremen . In: Lothar Probst (Ed.): Political institutions, parties and elections in the state of Bremen (= politics and participation . Vol. 5). Lit, Berlin a. a. 2011, ISBN 978-3-643-11145-6 , pp. 68-70.
  • Lothar Probst: The Left in the Bremen Citizenship, 2008, online (PDF; 654 kB).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ How the Bremen parties grew and shrunk in 2019. January 6, 2020, accessed January 7, 2020 .
  2. ^ Oskar Niedermayer : Party members according to federal states. Federal Agency for Civic Education , July 8, 2017, accessed on August 25, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Cornelia Barth and Christoph Spehr: Why we do not subscribe to the proposed party statement "No calls for boycotts against Israel in our city!" May 10, 2011, accessed March 4, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Leandros Fischer: Between internationalism and reasons of state: The dispute over the Middle East conflict in the DIE LINKE party. Springer, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-13353-5 , p. 294
  5. ↑ Bruno Engelin: Left Party: Unanimously with dissenters - parliamentary group disputes anti-Semitism resolution , Jüdische Allgemeine dated June 16, 2011
  6. ↑ structure . Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  7. ↑ Jean-Philipp Baeck: “You cut too much” . taz . November 19, 2013. Retrieved January 4, 2016.