FDP federal party conference 1959

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Coordinates: 52 ° 29 ′ 0 ″  N , 13 ° 25 ′ 0 ″  E

Free Democratic Party (logo, 1952-1968) .png
title 10th ordinary federal party congress
Serial number 10
place Berlin
state Berlin
Hall Schultheiss hall construction on the Hasenheide in Neukölln
Beginning May 21, 1959
Duration (in days) 3

The Free Democratic Party held the federal party congress of the FDP in 1959 from May 21 to 23, 1959 in Berlin . It was the 10th ordinary federal party conference of the FDP in the Federal Republic of Germany .

Course and resolutions

The party congress advised u. a. on the "Berlin Declaration" on Germany policy, the election of the Federal President to succeed Theodor Heuss and the candidacy of Max Becker . He also passed resolutions on social and domestic policy.

The party chairman Reinhold Maier and his deputies Mende, Kohut and Leverenz were confirmed in their offices.

Federal Executive

Reinhold Maier, postage stamp (1989)

After this party congress, the federal executive board included:

Chairman Reinhold Maier
vice-chairman Erich Mende , Oswald Adolph Kohut , Bernhard Leverenz
Treasurer Hans Wolfgang Rubin
Assessor Thomas Dehler , Max Becker , Wolfgang Döring , Hans Schäfer , Erich Schwertner , Ewald Bucher , Herta Ilk , Walter Scheel , Hans-Günter Hoppe , Gerhard Daub , Eduard Leuze , Ernst Achenbach , Walter Erbe
Member by office Hans Lenz (Chairman of the Bundestag parliamentary group)
Representatives of the regional associations Wolfgang Haußmann ( Baden-Württemberg ), Albrecht Haas ( Bavaria ), Rudolf Will ( Berlin ), Georg Borttscheller ( Bremen ), Edgar Engelhard ( Hamburg ), Wolfgang Mischnick ( Hesse ), Carlo Graaff ( Lower Saxony ), Willi Weyer ( North Rhine-Westphalia ), Fritz Glahn ( Rhineland-Palatinate ), Heinrich Schneider ( Saarland ), Wilhelm Jentzsch ( Schleswig-Holstein )
Honorary President Marie-Elisabeth Lüders

See also

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  • It should be the whole of Germany! The fatherland stands above the parties! From the Berlin Declaration of the Free Democrats of May 23, 1959 , Strüder-Druck, Neuwied 1959.
  • Thomas Dehler : Courageous liberals - our fate. Speech at the federal party conference of the FDP in Berlin in 1959 . In: Walter Erbe / Thomas Dehler: The idea of ​​freedom needs courageous advocates! , Strüder-Druck, Neuwied 1959, pp. 2-14.
  • Walter Erbe : Freedom as a profession and calling. (Speech at the FDP federal party conference on May 22, 1959 in Berlin) . In: Peter Juling (Ed.): What does liberal mean today? , Bleicher, Gerlingen 1978, pp. 63-80.
  • Karl-Hermann Flach : Report by the Federal Managing Director Karl-Hermann Flach. Federal party conference of the FDP in Berlin from May 21 to 23, 1959 , Bonn 1959.

literature

  • Thomas Dehler : Courageous liberals - our fate. Speech at the Federal Party Congress of the FDP in 1959 in Berlin , Neuwied 1959.
  • 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 .
  • Volker Stalmann : "... place social equilibrium next to freedom and nationality"? The social policy of the FDP 1949–1969 . In: Jahrbuch zur Liberalismus-Forschung 29 (2017), pp. 241–264.
  • 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 .

Web links

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

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. ↑ Udo Wengst (edit.): FDP federal board. Meeting minutes 1954–1960 , p. 442, note 1.