FDP Federal Party Congress 1977

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Coordinates: 54 ° 19 '14 "  N , 10 ° 7' 50"  O

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title 28th ordinary federal party conference
Serial number 28
place Kiel
state Schleswig-Holstein
Hall Ostseehalle
Beginning November 6, 1977
Duration (in days) 3
View of the podium in the Ostseehalle
The Federal Ministers Werner Maihofer and Hans Friderichs
Brochure: Kiel Theses

The Free Democratic Party held the federal party convention of the FDP in 1977 from November 6 to 8, 1977 in Kiel . It was the 28th ordinary federal party conference of the FDP in the Federal Republic of Germany .

Course and resolutions

The FDP was the first party to react programmatically to the end of the economic miracle with the “Kiel Theses” : If the famous “ Freiburg Theses ” assumed an optimistic economic development that favored social reforms, the consequences of the first oil crisis after 1973 had shown that there would be no automatic economic growth.

In the FDP, therefore, a "supplement from Freiburg" was considered. Two program commissions were set up for this. When the proposal was introduced at the federal party congress in Kiel, it was formally a compromise paper between the social-liberal and the market-based party wing. In fact, however, the paper clearly advocated a priority for market mechanisms over state reform policy. In his introductory speech, the outgoing Minister of Economic Affairs, Hans Friderichs , summed up the guiding principles of the “ Kiel Theses ”: The aim is still to “expand areas of freedom, develop equal opportunities and expand the competition of ideas”. “Market and competition” are fundamental for such a policy. The subsequent debate was based on two different papers: Current Perspectives on Social Liberalism from the Perspectives Commission around Gerhart R. Baum and Principles of Liberal Economic Policy from the Economic Commission around Hans Friderichs.

Overall, the “Kiel Theses”, which were adopted by a large majority, were understood as a “return to the social market economy ”. They thus represent an important link between the reform spirit of the time around 1970, compressed in the “Freiburg Theses”, and the turn towards a “ neoliberal ” social policy of the 1980s.

See also

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  • Gerhart Rudolf Baum: Liberal Perspectives. Introductory speech for the draft of the Kiel theses on the 28th Ordentl. Federal party conference of the FDP on November 7, 1977 in Kiel. In: ders .: German domestic policy. The state on the way to becoming a citizen , Econ Verlag, Düsseldorf, Vienna 1977, ISBN 3-430-11227-7 , pp. 13-28.
  • Decision on energy policy. Adopted at the 28th Ordinary Federal Party Congress of the FDP in Kiel from November 6th to 8th, 1977 , Rheindorff-Druck, Cologne 1977.
  • Free Democratic Party (ed.): Kiel theses on the economy in the social constitutional state, on citizens, the state, democracy, on education and employment of the young generation, decided at the 28th Ordinary Federal Party Congress of the FDP from November 6th to 8th, 1977 in Kiel . Bonn 1977.
  • Hans-Dietrich Genscher : Speech by the federal chairman of the Free Democratic Party Hans-Dietrich Genscher before the federal party conference of the Free Democratic Party on November 6, 1977 in Kiel , Cologne, 1977.

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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. ↑ Rolf Zundel: FDP party congress: You are centered again. From Freiburg to Kiel: the return of the liberals to market and order . In: Die Zeit , No. 47 of November 18, 1977; Kaack: The FDP plan and materials , 3rd ed., 1979, p. 63 f.