FDP Federal Party Congress 1967

52.375833 9.769444Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 33 ″ N , 9 ° 46 ′ 10 ″ E



title	18th ordinary federal party conference
Serial number	18th
place	Hanover
state	Lower Saxony
Hall	City Hall

Beginning	April 3, 1967
Duration (in days)	3

Dome hall of the Hannover City Hall

The Federal Congress of the FDP in 1967 held the FDP from 3 to 5 April 1967 Hannover from. It was the 18th ordinary federal party conference of the FDP in the Federal Republic of Germany .

decisions

Thomas Dehler gave a speech on the subject of “For a radical liberal policy”. On the morning of April 5, 1967, the party congress “unanimously” adopted the “Goals of Progress”. Action program of the Free Democratic Party (107 theses) ”. The motto of the party congress was: "Winner of Progress - FDP."

Erich Mende remained party chairman . At the party congress, the young democrats , supported by journalists Henri Nannen ( Stern ) and Rudolf Augstein ( Der Spiegel ), tried to persuade the party leadership to resign through targeted disruptive actions. A motion by Rudolf Augstein to have the right to speak in the plenum of the party congress was rejected very narrowly with 128 to 118 votes. Augstein had planned to hold his speech at a Brockhaus , since Mende had told him in the run-up to the party congress that he should look up what political liberalism meant in the dictionary. The close voting relationship was also an indicator of the party's disagreement over the New Ostpolitik . In the substantive resolution of the party congress, it was possible to agree on a compromise formula for the Oder-Neisse border : the traditional formula that borders can only be finally decided upon with a peace treaty, was added under pressure from the left wing, "that a possible merging of the separated Parts of Germany should not "fail because of territorial issues. This formulation enabled broad approval for the entire resolution.

swell

Thomas Dehler: For radical liberal politics. Speech at the federal party congress of the FDP in Hanover on April 3, 1967. In: ders .: Speeches and essays , Westdeutscher Verlag, Cologne, Opladen 1967, pp. 132–141.
Erich Mende: Dispute about Germany. Speeches at the 18th ordinary federal party congress of the FDP on April 3 to 5, 1967 in Hanover , o. O. 1967.
Henri Nannen : The moment of truth. A documentation of the FDP's policy on Germany , ups-Druck, Hamburg 1967.
Goals of progress. Action program of the Free Democratic Party (107 theses) Adopted by the XVIII. Ordinary federal party conference of the FDP on April 5, 1967 in Hanover , Bonn 1967.

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 978-3-7700-5175-5 .
Karsten Schröder, Wolfgang Vonhausen: The treatment of the coalition question at the federal party conventions of the FDP from 1967 to 1969. In: Lothar Albertin (Ed.): Political Liberalism in the Federal Republic. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1980, ISBN 3-525-01324-8 , pp. 195-210.
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 .
Arnulf Baring : Change of power. The Brandt-Scheel era. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-421-06095-9 , pp. 223-226.

Web links

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

FDP in isolation. Pessimistic forecasts after the party congress . In: Die Zeit , April 14, 1967.
Enough trouble. In: Der Spiegel , No. 15, April 3, 1967.
Rolf Zundel: Happening in Hanover. The leadership problem remained unsolved at the FDP party congress . In: Die Zeit , April 7, 1967.

Individual evidence

↑ Thomas Dehler: For a radical liberal policy. Speech at the federal party congress of the FDP in Hanover on April 3, 1967. In: ders .: Speeches and essays , Westdeutscher Verlag, Cologne, Opladen 1967, pp. 132–141.
↑ See Schiffers, FDP federal board. Minutes of the meeting 1960–1967 , pp. 734–741.

↑ The action program is printed in: 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 , p. 88 ff .; Action program as a pdf on the pages of the Archives of Liberalism of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom .

↑ Erich Mende: Dispute about Germany. Speeches at the 18th ordinary federal party congress of the FDP on April 3 to 5, 1967 in Hanover , no.

^ Baring: Power change, pp. 224–225.

[1] Thomas Dehler: For a radical liberal policy. Speech at the federal party congress of the FDP in Hanover on April 3, 1967. In: ders .: Speeches and essays , Westdeutscher Verlag, Cologne, Opladen 1967, pp. 132–141.

[2] See Schiffers, FDP federal board. Minutes of the meeting 1960–1967 , pp. 734–741.

[3] The action program is printed in: 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 , p. 88 ff .; Action program as a pdf on the pages of the Archives of Liberalism of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom .

[4] Erich Mende: Dispute about Germany. Speeches at the 18th ordinary federal party congress of the FDP on April 3 to 5, 1967 in Hanover , no.

[5] Baring: Power change, pp. 224–225.