FDP federal party conference 1956

Coordinates: 49 ° 47 '4.8 "  N , 9 ° 55' 53.7"  E

title	7th ordinary federal party congress
Serial number	7th
place	Wurzburg
state	Bavaria
Hall	Hut halls
Beginning	April 20, 1956
Duration (in days)	2

The Free Democratic Party held the federal party convention of the FDP in 1956 from April 20 to 21, 1956 in Würzburg . It was the 7th ordinary federal party conference of the FDP in the Federal Republic of Germany .

Course and resolutions

Shortly before the party congress, the coalition with the CDU in the Bundestag was ended on the initiative of the Düsseldorf “ Young Turks ” . This was the first time that the FDP was in opposition in Bonn . Although it became apparent that the delegates would not question the exit from the coalition, the future of the party and parliamentary group leader Thomas Dehler was uncertain. Several state associations had spoken out in favor of a change at the top of the party. Dehler ran again, but got an opposing candidate in Max Becker who stood for a different political style. With 155 to 67 votes, the previous chairman Dehler was confirmed in his office, but his term of office lasted less than a year until he was replaced by Reinhold Maier . In addition, with Erich Mende , Walter Scheel and Wolfgang Mischnick, younger liberal politicians were elected to the federal executive committee, who were to decisively determine the politics of the FDP in the coming decades.

With the "Würzburg resolution", the party congress underlined that the Free Democrats, despite leaving the federal government, adhered to their central goals, namely reunification , integration with the West and a "free, socially responsible market economy".

Federal Executive

Thomas Dehler (1964)

After this party congress, the federal executive board included:

Chairman	Thomas Dehler
vice-chairman	Erich Mende , Wolfgang Haußmann , Oswald Adolph Kohut
Treasurer	Hans Wolfgang Rubin
Assessor	Willy Max Rademacher , Konrad Frühwald , Walter Scheel , Marie-Elisabeth Lüders , Winfrid Hedergott , Hermann Kessler
Assessor of the entire board	Karl Atzenroth , Wolfgang Mischnick , Bernhard Leverenz , Paul Luchtenberg , Ewald Bucher , Herta Ilk , Günther Reichardt
Representatives of the regional associations	Eduard Leuze ( Baden-Württemberg ), Otto Bezold ( Bavaria ), Carl-Hubert Schwennicke ( Berlin ), Georg Borttscheller ( Bremen ), Edgar Engelhard ( Hamburg ), Konrad Mälzig ( Lower Saxony ), Willi Weyer ( North Rhine-Westphalia ), Wilhelm Nowack ( Rhineland-Palatinate ), Paul Bernhard Haas ( Schleswig-Holstein )

See also

• Previous members of the federal executive committee since 1949
• List of FDP federal party conferences

Web links

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

• Liberal deadlines: 55 years ago FDP federal party conference in Würzburg on the side of the archive of liberalism of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom
• Robert Strobel : Dehler and his party . In: Die Zeit , April 26, 1956.

swell

• Path and goal - it should be the whole of Germany! Report of the FDP to the VII Federal Party Congress in 1956 in Würzburg , ed. from the FDP federal office, Sutter-Druck, Essen 1956.

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 .
• 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 .
• Holger Löttel ( edit .): Adenauer and the FDP . Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn etc. 2013 (= Adenauer. Rhöndorfer edition ), ISBN 978-3-506-77874-1 .
• Volker Stalmann (edit.): The FDP parliamentary group in the German Bundestag. Meeting minutes 1949–1969 , 2 half-vols., Droste, Düsseldorf 2017, ISBN 978-3-7700-5338-4 .
• Udo Wengst (edit.): FDP federal executive. The Liberals chaired by Thomas Dehler and Reinhold Maier. Minutes of meetings 1954–1960 . Droste, Düsseldorf 1991, ISBN 3-7700-5163-7 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Information from: Archiv des Liberalismus ( www.freiheit.org/content/archiv-des-liberalismus ) (ADL), inventory of the FDP Federal Party Rallies, A1-1.
2. ↑ Thomas Dehler's speech at the party congress is printed in: Thomas Dehler: Reden und Aufzüge , Wiesbaden 1969, ISBN 978-3-663-04177-1 , pp. 107-120, online .
3. ^ Peter Juling: Programmatic development of the FDP 1946 to 1969. Introduction and documents. Anton Hain Verlag, Meisenheim 1977, p. 26 f., 144 f.
4. ↑ Path and goal - it should be the whole of Germany! Report of the FDP to the VII Federal Party Congress in 1956 in Würzburg , Essen 1956.
5. ↑ Udo Wengst (edit.): FDP federal board. Minutes of the meeting 1954–1960 , p. 173.