FDP Federal Party Congress 1962

Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 11.5 "  N , 6 ° 46 ′ 34.3"  E

title	13th ordinary federal party congress
Serial number	13
place	Dusseldorf
state	North Rhine-Westphalia
Hall	Congress hall Düsseldorf
Beginning	May 23, 1962
Duration (in days)	3

The Federal Congress of the FDP in 1962 held the FDP from 23 to 25 May 1962 Dusseldorf from. It was the 13th ordinary federal party conference of the FDP in the Federal Republic of Germany .

course

At this party congress Erich Mende was confirmed as federal chairman. The focus was on an interim balance sheet after a year of coalition with the CDU and Germany's policy after the construction of the Berlin Wall .

Federal Executive

Erich Mende (1961)

After the new election in 1962, the federal executive board included:

Chairman	Erich Mende
vice-chairman	Hans Lenz , Bernhard Leverenz , Wolfgang Döring
Treasurer	Hans Wolfgang Rubin
Assessor	Ernst Achenbach , Karl Atzenroth , Ewald Bucher , Thomas Dehler , Wolfram Dörinkel , Josef Effertz , Otto Eisenmann , Walter Erbe , Hans-Günter Hoppe , Herta Ilk , Eduard Leuze , Peter-Heinz Müller-Link , Fritz Wedel
Representatives of the regional associations	Wolfgang Haußmann ( Baden-Württemberg ), Albrecht Haas ( Bavaria ), William Borm ( Berlin ), Georg Borttscheller ( Bremen ), Edgar Engelhard ( Hamburg ), Heinrich Kohl ( Hesse ), Carlo Graaff ( Lower Saxony ), Willi Weyer ( North Rhine-Westphalia ), Fritz Glahn ( Rhineland-Palatinate ), Paul Simonis ( Saarland ), Gerd Iversen ( Schleswig-Holstein )
Members by office	Knut von Kühlmann-Stumm , Wolfgang Stammberger , Heinz Starke , Wolfgang Mischnick , Walter Scheel
Honorary President	Marie-Elisabeth Lüders , Reinhold Maier

See also

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

swell

• Willi Weyer : Limits of Federalism. (From the speech at the Federal Party Congress on May 24, 1962 in Düsseldorf.) , Gerstung, Offenbach 1962.

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 .
• Reinhard Schiffers (edit.): FDP federal board. The Liberals chaired by Erich Mende. Meeting minutes 1960–1967 , Droste, Düsseldorf 1993, ISBN 3-7700-5175-0 .
• Michael Schmidt: The FDP and the German question 1949–1990 , Lit, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-8258-2631-7 .

Web links

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

• FDP without wing fighting. Sober and pliable - the recipe of the Free Democrats . In: Die Zeit , June 1, 1962.

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. ↑ Wolfgang Schollwer : The Free Democrats in Responsibility. To the XIII. Federal party conference of the FDP in Düsseldorf . In: free democratic correspondence 13 (1962), No. 40, May 21, 1962.
3. ↑ Reinhard Schiffers (edit.): FDP federal board. Meeting minutes 1960–1967 , p. LXIX f.