FDP Federal Party Congress 1966

Coordinates: 49 ° 26 ′ 16 ″  N , 11 ° 6 ′ 19 ″  E

title	17th ordinary federal party congress
Serial number	17th
place	Nuremberg
state	Bavaria
Hall	Meistersingerhalle
Beginning	June 6, 1966
Duration (in days)	2

Meistersingerhalle

The Federal Congress of the FDP in 1966 held the FDP from 6 to 7 June 1966 in Nuremberg from. It was the 17th ordinary federal party conference of the FDP in the Federal Republic of Germany .

course

The party conference took place in the Meistersingerhalle . The reason for choosing the location was the upcoming state election in Bavaria in 1966 . The party chairman Erich Mende placed the focus of his speech on Ostpolitik . He called for diplomatic relations to be established with countries in the Eastern Bloc , citing Romania as an example . It is time to form a new focus in Germany policy . Internal German trade should be expanded.

"Anyone who is against a policy of practical steps on the Germany question should also have the courage to admit that he either wants to solve the German question by force or even forego any change in the current situation."

- Erich Mende in his party conference speech

In his presentation, Thomas Dehler described the work of the CDU-FDP coalition . He confessed to this, but attacked the coalition partner like the SPD . The SPD dreams of a grand coalition (which actually came in October of the year after the coalition breakdown), but will never become the guardian of a clear market economy . Regarding the Union he stated:

"We will use every opportunity to force our coalition partner to shape a free social order with us."

- Thomas Dehler in his party conference speech

The party congress made decisions on foreign and German policy, economic and social policy, as well as budget and financial policy. In a resolution, the party congress called for "all disarmament efforts to be supported that are capable of increasing the security of all European states and facilitating the resolution of political questions".

Treasurer Hans Wolfgang Rubin reported on the party's income of 28.6 million DM with expenditure of 27 million DM. The income also included 1.4 million DM from public funds. Parts of the FDP rejected state funding from parties.

Federal Managing Director Hans Friderichs held his annual report on the subject of “fields of force in modern parties”.

Erich Mende was re-elected as party chairman with 222 of 247 votes.

Federal Executive

After the new election in 1966, the federal executive committee included:

Chairman	Erich Mende
vice-chairman	Willi Weyer , Ewald Bucher , Wolfgang Mischnick
Treasurer	Hans Wolfgang Rubin
Assessor	Ernst Achenbach , Thomas Dehler , Liselotte Funcke , Hildegard Hamm-Brücher , Winfrid Hedergott , Karl Holl , Hans-Günter Hoppe , Heinz Herbert Karry , Reinhold Kreitmeyer , Eduard Leuze , Walter Peters , Fritz-Rudolf Schultz , Heinz Starke
Representatives of the regional associations	Hermann Saam ( Baden-Württemberg ), Klaus Dehler ( Bavaria ), William Borm ( Berlin ), Georg Borttscheller ( Bremen ), Willy Max Rademacher ( Hamburg ), Heinrich Kohl ( Hesse ), Carlo Graaff ( Lower Saxony ), Siegfried Zoglmann ( North Rhine- Westphalia ), Hermann Eicher ( Rhineland-Palatinate ), Paul Simonis ( Saarland ), Otto Eisenmann ( Schleswig-Holstein )
Honorary President	Reinhold Maier

See also

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

swell

• Order for Germany. XVII. Ordinary federal party conference of the Free Democrats June 6 to 7, 1966 in Nuremberg , Strüder-Druck, Neuwied 1966.

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 .
• 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 .

Web links

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

• FDP: These guys . In: Der Spiegel , June 13, 1966.

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. ^ FDP party congress in Nuremberg . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , April 29, 1966, p. 1.
3. ↑ Mende wishes diplomatic relations with Romania . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , June 7, 1966, p. 1.
4. ^ Resolutions of the FDP federal party congress in Nuremberg . In: free democratic correspondence , vol. 17, no. 43, June 16, 1966, appendix, pp. 1–4.
5. ^ Hans Friderichs: Force fields of modern parties . In: Order for Germany. XVII. Ordinary federal party convention of the Free Democrats June 6 to 7, 1966 in Nuremberg , Neuwied 1966, pp. 43–50.
6. ^ Schiffers, FDP federal executive committee. Meeting minutes 1960–1967 , p. LXXIII f.