FDP federal party conference 1949

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title	1st ordinary federal party conference
Serial number	1
place	Bremen
state	Bremen
Hall	town hall

Beginning	June 10, 1949
Duration (in days)	3
Delegates	196

Bremen town hall

Brochure for the Federal Party Congress, 1949

The Federal Congress of the FDP in 1949 held the FDP from 10 to 12 June 1949 in Bremen from. It was the 1st ordinary federal party conference of the FDP in the Federal Republic of Germany . The party conference took place in the Bremen town hall .

Course and resolutions

The first regular party convention of the Free Democrats was also the first “election party convention”, as the first federal elections took place two months later . After the laboriously concealed battles between the regional associations at the founding party congress in Heppenheim , this party congress was all about internal party unity. The chairman Theodor Heuss and his deputy Franz Blücher were confirmed almost unanimously in their offices. The subsequent board elections went almost smoothly.

With the “Bremen Platform”, the delegates decided on a common programmatic basis, which, in addition to the commitment to German unity, primarily dealt with the situation in the Soviet occupation zone and other current issues such as dismantling, denazification , etc. The subject of “tax reform” also emerged. The party congress laid an important foundation stone for the liberals' success in the federal elections in August 1949 with 11.9 percent.

Delegate key

According to the statutes, 174 delegates and 22 board members were entitled to vote. The regional association of South Baden with eight delegates and one board member did not appear.

Association	Delegates	Board members
Bavaria	16	3
Bremen	6th	2
Hamburg	17th	2
Hesse	18th	3
Lower Saxony	26th	1
North Rhine-Westphalia	32	3
Rhineland-Palatinate	8th	1
Schleswig-Holstein	11	1
Württemberg-Baden	29	2
Württemberg-Hohenzollern	6th	2
Berlin	11	1

Bremen platform

Federal Executive

After the party congress, the federal executive board included:

Federal Chairman
a deputy federal chairman
seven assessors on the executive board
in accordance with Section 11, Paragraph 1, Item 3 of the Articles of Association, another six assessors, including a woman and a member less than 32 years old

position	Surname	Election result
Chairman	Theodor Heuss	172 votes out of 177
Deputy Chairman	Franz Blücher	168 Yes, 9 Ent.
Executive board	Thomas Dehler Carl-Hubert Schwennicke Eberhard Wildermuth Hermann Schäfer Karl Theodor Bleek Ernst Mayer August-Martin Euler	178 votes 171 votes 148 votes 143 votes 127 votes 120 votes 119 votes
Assessor	Representative of the women: Hanna Katz Representative of the young democrats: Heinz Müller Other assessors: Hermann Höpker-Aschoff, Karl Rüdiger, Erich Mende, Wolfgang Glaesser	123 votes (runoff against Grete Sehlmeyer ) 123 votes 121 votes 95 votes 91 votes 113 votes (runoff against Marie-Elisabeth Lüders )

Honorary Council

The following ten members belonged to the honorary council elected according to § 14 of the statutes:

Chairman: Carl Jokusch, Bielefeld
Deputy: Dr. Fratzscher, Munich-Gladbach
Fritz Schwake, Herford
Gerda Krüger-Nieland , Hamburg
Hellmut Froböß , Detmold
Hans Erbe, Bremen
Walter Sternfeld, Munich
Walter Conrad , Berlin
Edgar Kölle, Esslingen
Pritzfeld, Rotenburg

Web links

Commons : FDP Federal Party Congress 1949 - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wiktionary: Federal Party Congress - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Liberal deadlines: First regular party congress of the FDP in Bremen on the pages of the archive of liberalism of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom

swell

Party conference of the FDP from June 10 to 12, 1949 in Bremen , ed. by the Bremen Democratic People's Party, foreword by Hans AF Meineke, Bremen 1949.

literature

Jürgen Dittberner : The FDP. History, people, organization, perspectives. An introduction , VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2nd edition, Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 978-3-531-17494-5 .
Dieter Hein : Between liberal milieu party and national collection movement. Founding, development and structure of the Free Democratic Party 1945-1949 , Droste Verlag , Düsseldorf 1985, ISBN 3-7700-5127-0 .
Peter Juling : Programmatic development of the FDP 1946 to 1969. Introduction and documents. Anton Hain Verlag, Meisenheim 1977, ISBN 3-445-01529-5 .
Heino Kaack : On the history and program of the Free Democratic Party. Floor plan and materials , Anton Hain Verlag, Meisenheim 1976, ISBN 3-445-01380-2 .
Udo Wengst (edit.): FDP federal executive. The Liberals chaired by Theodor Heuss and Franz Blücher. Minutes of meetings 1949–1954. First half volume: 1949–1952 , Droste, Düsseldorf 1990, ISBN 3-7700-5159-9 .

Individual evidence

↑ Information from: Archiv des Liberalismus ( www.freiheit.org/content/archiv-des-liberalismus ) (ADL), inventory of FDP federal party congresses, A1-1: Minutes of the negotiations of the party congress of the Free Democratic Party on June 12, 1949 in Bremen Town Hall - 2nd day.
^ Peter Juling: Programmatic development of the FDP 1946 to 1969. Introduction and documents. Anton Hain Verlag, Meisenheim 1977, pp. 87-102; Bremen platform as pdf on the pages of the archive of liberalism of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom.

[1] Information from: Archiv des Liberalismus ( www.freiheit.org/content/archiv-des-liberalismus ) (ADL), inventory of FDP federal party congresses, A1-1: Minutes of the negotiations of the party congress of the Free Democratic Party on June 12, 1949 in Bremen Town Hall - 2nd day.

[2] Peter Juling: Programmatic development of the FDP 1946 to 1969. Introduction and documents. Anton Hain Verlag, Meisenheim 1977, pp. 87-102; Bremen platform as pdf on the pages of the archive of liberalism of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom.