Die Linke Hessen

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Die Linke Hessen
Die Linke logo.svg
Chairperson Jan Schalauske
Petra Heimer
Deputy Michael Erhardt
Marjana Schott
Treasurer Karlheinz Hofmann
Establishment date August 24, 2007
Place of foundation Frankfurt am Main
Headquarters Allerheiligentor 2–4
60311 Frankfurt am Main
Landtag mandates
9/137
Number of members 2,679 (as of December 31, 2016)
Website die-linke-hessen.de

Die Linke Hessen (spelling: DIE LINKE.Hessen) is the regional association of the German party Die Linke in the state of Hesse . It has been represented in the state parliament without interruption since 2008 .

history

PDS

In 1990 the Hessian regional association of the Democratic Socialism Party (PDS) was formed. The PDS had no political significance whatsoever. It never ran for state elections and had only a small number of members (at the top 470 members). The election results in the Bundestag and European elections were also low. At the local level, electoral successes were achieved in the former strongholds of the KPD and DKP Hessen . This was mainly the student town of Marburg , but also Mörfelden and Dietzenbach , where the PDS made it into the local parliaments.

The party was shaped by the conflict between Trotskyist and DKP-derived old leftists, which led to a self-blockade.

WASG

From 2004 the WASG was also formed in Hessen . The driving force in Hesse was the Hessian DGB chairman Dieter Hooge , the authorized representative of IG Metall Offenbach, Werner Dreibus , and the authorized representative of IG Metall Kempten, Peter Vetter .

In November 2004, the Hessian regional association was able to name 14 district associations and 400 members at the party's first federal delegate assembly.

In the local elections in Hesse in 2006 , WASG and PDS mostly competed locally on joint lists and received a number of mandates (for the individual mandates, see detailed results of the local elections in Hesse 2006 ).

Merger to form Die Linke

In contrast to other regional associations, the conflicts regarding the merger of the two parties in Hesse were minor. The vast majority of the members supported the merger. While in all other federal states a small management committee was created to prepare for the merger, in Hesse both state boards simply met at the same time as a transitional board. The joint party's first state convention took place on August 24, 2007 in Frankfurt.

State elections in 2008 and 2009

The list of candidates for the party Die Linke for the state elections in Hesse in 2008 became a nationally recognized political issue. The party congress did not accept the proposal to elect Dieter Hooge as the top candidate. Instead, an alternative list proposal was adopted, headed by the former DKP man Pit Metz. This, who confessed to being a communist and had expressed himself relative to the order to shoot at the inner-German border, was seen in public as evidence of the left's desire for total opposition and against the federal executive's policy of participation. After the federal board had intervened, Pit Metz waived the top candidacy. The compromise candidate became the non-party Willi van Ooyen , who from 1984 had been one of the three federal managing directors of the German Peace Union . Van Ooyen, however, also came under public criticism, as the German Peace Union was largely financed from the GDR and was considered a DKP apron organization.

Already after the first state election, the Left Party found itself tipping the scales. In the state elections in Hesse in 2008, the party made it into the state parliament for the first time with 5.1% of the vote and 6 seats. There was thus neither a majority in the state parliament for the previous black-yellow coalition nor for a red-green coalition .

The top candidate of the SPD, Andrea Ypsilanti , who had unequivocally ruled out cooperation with the Die Linke party before the election, changed her position completely after the election and sought a red-green minority government tolerated by Die Linke. The left-wing faction in the Hessian state parliament had clearly signaled that it wanted to support this minority government. This attempt failed twice, the CDU-led government remained in office until these “ Hessian conditions ” were ended with the early state elections in Hesse in 2009 .

In the early state elections in 2009, Die Linke was even able to increase its share of the vote slightly to 5.4% and continued to provide 6 members. However, since the CDU and FDP now again had a majority in the state parliament, the left remained in the opposition.

State election 2013

In the state elections in Hesse in 2013 , the starting position of the state elections in 2008 was repeated. Once again, there was neither black-yellow nor red-green, and the question of a red-red-green coalition was once again (at least arithmetically) possible.

Member of the state parliament

The parliamentary group in the Hessian state parliament has not changed in terms of personnel since 2008. Only some functions have been transferred to other people.

This list shows the parliamentary group and party functions as well as the functions in the Hessian state parliament, but not board or committee memberships and the distribution of spokespersons.

Eliminated

  • Barbara Cárdenas Alfonso ; 2008– November 2016
  • Willi van Ooyen ; 2008 - May 2017
  • Gabriele Faulhaber ; often just called 'Gabi Faulhaber', November 2016 - 2018 in the Cultural Policy Committee (KPA), Petitions Committee (PTA), Council of Elders, Hessian Animal Welfare Advisory Board and Education Study Commission
  • Marjana Schott ; 2008–2009 Parliamentary Managing Director

State Board

Chairperson Petra Heimer, Jan Schalauske
vice-chairman Marjana Schott , Michael Erhardt
further members in the executive state board Milena Hildebrandt, Danielle Lichére, Stephanie Schury
State Treasurer Karlheinz Hofmann
Assessor Gülistan Ayata, Nick-Papak Amoozegar, Tim, Dreyer, Nicole, Eggers, Gabriele Faulhaber , Lutz Getzschmann, Lisa Hofmann, Katja Joesbury, Achim Kessler , Elisabeth Kula, Jakob Migenda, Karen Reusch, Matthias Riedl, Heidemarie Scheuch-Paschkewitz , Anton Stortchilov , Ulrich Wilken , Eyup Yilmaz

State chairman

PDS

The left

State chairman year
Ulrich Wilken 2005-2014
Ulrike Eifler 2005-2009
Heidemarie Scheuch-Paschkewitz 2009-2018
Jan Schalauske since 2014
Petra Heimer since 2018

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Oskar Niedermayer : Party members according to federal states. Federal Agency for Civic Education , July 8, 2017, accessed on February 2, 2018 .
  2. ^ About: Hubertus Knabe: Left politician Willi van Ooyen: Honecker's millions for a Trojan horse. FAZ, October 9, 2008 .
  3. ↑ Rüdiger Schmidt-Beck, Thorsten Faas: The Hessian state election of January 27, 2008. Return of the "Hessian conditions", in: Journal for Parliamentary Issues, 1/2009, pp. 16–34.
  4. ↑ Member of the left parliamentary group in the Hessian state parliament. Retrieved March 11, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Home - Left parliamentary group in the Hessian state parliament. Retrieved September 8, 2017 .
  6. ^ Members of the regional executive committee - DIE LINKE. State Association of Hesse. Retrieved November 27, 2018 .