FDP federal party conference 1985

Coordinates: 49 ° 14 ′ 51 ″  N , 6 ° 59 ′ 3 ″  E

title	36th Ordinary Federal Party Congress
Serial number	36
place	Saarbrücken
state	Saarland
Hall	Saarlandhalle
Beginning	February 23, 1985
Duration (in days)	2

Saarlandhalle Saarbrücken entrance

Brochure: The Liberal Manifesto

The Free Democratic Party held the federal party convention of the FDP in 1985 from February 23 to 24, 1985 in Saarbrücken . It was the 36th regular federal party conference of the FDP in the Federal Republic of Germany .

course

The party congress - contrary to what was planned - was not dominated by the program debate , as a change in the party leadership took place on it. As the successor of Hans-Dietrich Genscher was Martin Bangemann elected party chairman.

decisions

The party congress decided on “ The liberal manifesto - freedom for the future. Liberal Manifesto for a Society in Transition ”. The new basic program was intended as a continuation of the “ Freiburg Theses ” (1971), which came from the social-liberal era . This should take into account the rapidly changing economic framework conditions, especially the increasingly emerging problems with the welfare state. The “Liberal Manifesto” paved the way for a consolidation of the FDP, which after the “turnaround” in 1982 only barely made it into parliament in the 1983 Bundestag elections and remained below five percent in the European elections a year later. After moving back into various state parliaments, she was able to celebrate a real "resurrection" with around nine percent in the 1987 federal election . The global political upheavals of 1989/90, however, removed a number of basic assumptions of the “Liberal Manifesto”, so that in 1997 it was replaced by the “Wiesbaden Principles”.

The party congress also adopted papers on "International Policy for Peace, Freedom and Human Rights", on the European Football Championship , on the announcement of US locations, on pension insurance , on community service , on childcare allowance and parental leave , on women's shelters , on a concerted action for women, on the equal opportunities officer , on the protection of raped women, on the law of consequences of divorce , on the implementation of the coalition agreement on the Anti-Discrimination Act, on the new regulation of criminal demonstration law , on the right to asylum and on the vehicle tax for all automobiles.

See also

• List of FDP federal party conferences
• The Liberal Manifesto

swell

• Freedom for the future. Liberal manifesto for a society in transition. Decided by the federal party congress of the FDP on February 23 and 24, 1985 in Saarbrücken . With a foreword by Helmut Haussmann , liberal-Verlag, Sankt Augustin 1985.

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 .
• Friedrich Naumann Foundation (ed.): The program of the liberals. Ten years of program work by the FDP from 1980 to 1990. Nomos, Baden-Baden 1990, ISBN 3-7890-2111-3 .
• Wolfgang Mischnick (Hrsg.): Responsibility for freedom. 40 years of the FDP Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-421-06500-4 .

Web links

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

• The liberal manifesto on the page of the Archives of Liberalism of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom
• Rolf Zundel: Saarbrücken Party Congress of the FDP: You dare to take to the streets again. From Genscher to Bangemann: The Liberals are becoming respectable for Union voters. In: Die Zeit , March 1, 1985.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Liberal Manifesto of the Free Democratic Party (.pdf)
2. ↑ All resolutions of the federal party congress can be found in the Friedrich Naumann Foundation (ed.): The program of the Liberals. Ten years of program work by the FDP from 1980 to 1990. Nomos, Baden-Baden 1990, ISBN 3-7890-2111-3 , pp. 281–306.