Federal Union

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The Federal Union (short name: FU ) was a parliamentary group of the first German Bundestag consisting of the members of the Bavarian Party and the Center Party . In addition, these parties ran together under the name of the Federal Union for the 1957 federal election .

Parliamentary group (1951–1953)

The FU was created on December 14, 1951 through the merger of the parliamentary groups from the Bavarian Party and the Center, and on January 24, 1952, Hermann Clausen , the only member of the Danish-Frisian minority party SSW, joined. The faction merger was made in order to get the two larger partners (Clausen was previously non-attached ) the parliamentary group status after the Bundestag had increased the minimum number of members for a parliamentary group on January 1, 1952 from 10 to 15. The Bavarian party still had 13 members, the Zentrum 9. In the federal elections in 1953 , BP and SSW failed to move back in. The center moved through the direct mandate rule with three members of the Bundestag, one of them a CDU member who had renounced the candidacy for the direct mandate.

Electoral alliance (1957)

For the 1957 federal election, the Center, the Bavarian Party and the DP split-off Deutsch-Hannoversche Party entered an electoral alliance called the Federal Union to overcome the five percent hurdle . She ran in Bavaria, where she won 3.2%, in North Rhine-Westphalia (0.8%) and Lower Saxony (0.4%). In addition, the SPD, which worked together with the Bavarian Party as part of a coalition of four in Bavaria, waived direct candidates in four Bavarian constituencies in favor of the FU. The FU only achieved 0.9% of the votes nationwide, was unable to win any direct mandates and thus clearly missed its goal of entering the Bundestag.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ZEIT Online History http://www.zeit.de/1957/34/wenn-die-spd-verliert
  2. ↑ Federal Returning Officer Results of the election to the 3rd German Bundestag on September 15, 1957 by constituency (CSV, 42 kB) ( Memento from July 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive )

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