The violets

The violets
Party leader	Irene Garcia Garcia and Michael Bentele
Secretary General	Rainer Schäfer
Federal Treasurer	Marion Schmitz
Honorary Chairman	Wolfgang Lißeck
founding	January 6, 2001
Place of foundation	Dortmund
Headquarters	Oberhausen
Alignment	Spiritual Politics , Direct Democracy
Number of members	704 (as of December 31, 2013)
Proportion of women	approx. 50 %
Website	die-violetten.de

The Violetten is a small German party .

Content profile

The violets see themselves as representatives of spiritual people. “ Spirituality ” accordingly occupies a central place in the views of the party. In terms of content, it focuses on domestic political issues, in particular on the introduction of an unconditional basic income and the areas of education, upbringing, economics, finance, work and the environment.

One of the focal points is nature conservation . In addition, the party rejects animal experiments and advocates forms of direct democracy . The violets also demand an unconditional basic income . According to the party, the main goal is to develop a society in which “everyone can think, feel and act from his level of consciousness and develop to a higher level of consciousness”. The violets also advocate the legalization of illegal drugs while at the same time strengthening education and addiction prevention and justify this with a right to self-determination.

The party tries to form an equal dual leadership of a man and a woman at the federal and state level.

organization

Federal Executive

Chairperson	Irene Garcia Garcia , Michael Bentele
Treasurer	Karin Schäfer
Federal Secretary	Rainer Schäfer

Data from the regional associations

There are currently eight regional associations of the violets.

	Regional association	State chairman	Result of the last election of the state parliament
	Baden-Württemberg	not occupied	na ( 2016 )
	Bavaria	Silvia Röder, Christian Schreiber	na ( 2018 )
	Berlin	not occupied	0.1% ( 2016 )
	Hamburg	Johanna Kretschmer	na ( 2020 )
	Hesse	not occupied	0.1% ( 2018 )
	North Rhine-Westphalia	Marion Schmitz	0.1% ( 2017 )
	Rhineland-Palatinate	not occupied	na ( 2016 )
	Schleswig-Holstein	Susanne Clemenz	na ( 2017 )
Legend: na - not started

history

The party was founded on January 6, 2001 in Dortmund . After a directional decision at the beginning of 2004, the party is in the process of rebuilding. In 2005 the first two regional associations were founded in Bavaria and Schleswig-Holstein . In 2009 there were a total of 11 regional associations. The number of members of the individual associations is usually well below 100 members. Most members have Bavaria with 405 and Baden-Württemberg with 159 people. At the 19th Federal Assembly in March 2008, a new federal board was elected, which will focus on voting for the next two years. The chairman and co-founder of the Bavarian State Association, Gudula Blau , who has held the national chairmanship since then, resigned on June 20, 2009 at the 23rd Federal Assembly in Bad Zwesten, Hesse, for personal reasons. She also resigned from the party three days later. Although the party usually has a woman and a man as federal chairman (s), Bruno Walter held the chair alone until February 28, 2010. Markus Benz and Christina Diggance held the chair for the next two years. From February 26, 2012 to November 7, 2015, it was Irene Garcia Garcia and Markus Benz. From November 7th, 2015 to March 31st, 2017 the chairmen were Irene Garcia Garcia and Jochem Kalmbacher . On April 1, 2017, Irene Garcia Garcia was elected sole chairperson. On May 12, 2018, the Federal Assembly re-elected Robert Hermsen as chairman. However, he resigned from office in May 2019 for health reasons. At the federal party conference on 14./15. September 2019, a new board was elected according to schedule. Michael Bentele is the new chairman. Irene Garcia Garcia was confirmed as chairwoman, as was Rainer Schäfer as secretary. Karin Schäfer is the new treasurer.

elections

Election year	Bundestag election	European elections	Bavaria	Hesse	NRW
2002	0.005%
2003			n / A	n / A
2004		n / A
2005	n / A				n / A
2006
2007
2008			0.1%	0.1%
2009	0.1%	0.18%		n / A
2010					0.1%
2011
2012					n / A
2013	0.0%		n / A	n / A
2014		n / A
2015
2016
2017	0.0%				0.1%
2018			n / A	0.1%
2019		0.1%

In the federal elections in 2002 , she ran only in North Rhine-Westphalia , where she received 2,412 second votes (equivalent to 0.005% nationwide).

The necessary number of support signatures was reached for the state elections in Hesse on January 27, 2008 with 1,304 confirmed signatures. The violets ran with a state list without direct candidates and received 2,439 second votes, which corresponds to 0.1%.

For the state elections in Lower Saxony that took place on the same day , the required number of 2000 certified support signatures was not achieved. The collection was discontinued there.

In Bavaria , the party went to the state election in Bavaria on September 28, 2008 in the three constituencies of Middle Franconia , Lower Bavaria and Upper Bavaria . The violets received 6,097 first votes and 9,333 second votes, which corresponds to an election result of 0.1%.

In the European elections in Germany in 2009 , the party received 46,355, 0.18% of the valid votes.

She also took part in the 2009 Bundestag election . In contrast, she was not admitted to the state elections in Saxony in 2009 . In the federal election, the party won 0.1% of the votes nationwide (32,078 votes).

The party took part in the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia in 2017 and achieved 0.1% of the vote.

In the 2013 Bundestag elections , the party only ran in Bavaria, where it received 2,516 first (0.0%) and 8,211 second votes (0.0%).

In the 2017 federal election , the party did not run with any state lists. However, they put five direct candidates who received between 0.2% and 0.4% of the first votes in their constituencies.

The party took part in the European elections on May 26, 2019 with a federal list and received 0.1% of the vote.

Web links

• Party website
• Party documents (PDF; 191 kB) from the Federal Returning Officer
• Interview with Jetzt-TV

Individual evidence

1. ^ German Bundestag: Accountability report of the party (PDF; 16.9 MB)
2. ↑ Stefan Braun, University of Lübeck on the website of the Federal Agency for Civic Education ( Memento from September 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Why a basic income? ( Memento of the original from March 9, 2009 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. 
4. ↑ die-violetten.de ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. (PDF) 
5. ↑ The Violets - Imprint. Retrieved May 15, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Oliver Schwarz: Die Violetten (THE VIOLETS). In: bpb.de. Federal Agency for Civic Education, May 3, 2019, accessed on May 15, 2019 . 
7. ↑ OVERVIEW OF THE ELECTIONS SINCE 1946 on wahl.tagesschau.de. (Old versions: Landtag elections and Federal Council - stat.tagesschau.de ( Memento from August 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ))
8. ↑ State Board of Violets in North Rhine-Westphalia , accessed on June 1, 2018.
9. ↑ Press release of the party Die Violetten from June 24th, 2009  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Accessed November 10, 2009 (PDF)  
10. ↑ Federal result - final result of the European elections 2009. (No longer available online.) In: bundeswahlleiter.de. The Federal Returning Officer, archived from the original on January 18, 2014 ; Retrieved July 4, 2009 . 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.  
11. ↑ 16 parties admitted to the state elections , press release of the regional returning officer of the Free State of Saxony from July 3, 2009
12. ↑ Preliminary result for North Rhine-Westphalia by the state returning officer ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved May 11, 2010 
13. ^ Final result of the 2013 Bundestag election. Wahlrecht.de; Retrieved November 8, 2013
14. ↑ die-violetten.de ( Memento of the original from October 2, 2017 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. , September 25, 2017 
15. ↑ tagesschau.de: Aims of the "others" - small parties in the European elections. Retrieved May 14, 2019 .