FDP federal party conference 1995

Coordinates: 50 ° 0 ′ 8 ″  N , 8 ° 16 ′ 33 ″  E

title	46th Ordinary Federal Party Congress
Serial number	46
place	Mainz
state	Rhineland-Palatinate
Hall	Rheingoldhalle
Beginning	June 9, 1995
Duration (in days)	3
Delegates	662

Rheingoldhalle Mainz

Wolfgang Gerhardt

The Federal Congress of the FDP in 1995 held the FDP from 9 to 11 June 1995 in Mainz Rheingoldhalle from. It was the 46th ordinary federal party conference of the FDP in the Federal Republic of Germany .

Course and resolutions

The party congress discussed a liberal law on foreigners and basic principles of environmental policy . It resolved motions on the subjects of Bosnia , Scientology , strengthening vocational training, school policy , the abolition of the solidarity surcharge , German-Czech relations, current legal policy and the so-called summer smog.

Federal Executive

Wolfgang Gerhardt was elected as the new chairman instead of Klaus Kinkel . The opposing candidate Jürgen W. Möllemann lost with 219 to 371 votes.

After the new election in 1995, the federal executive board included:

Chairman	Wolfgang Gerhardt
vice-chairman	Cornelia Schmalz-Jacobsen , Jürgen Bohn , Rainer Brüderle
Treasurer	Hermann Otto Solms
Assessor in the Presidium	Gisela Bock , Joachim Schultz-Tornau , Walter Döring
Secretary General	Guido Westerwelle
Co-opted members	Klaus Kinkel , Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger , Günter Rexrodt , Burkhard Hirsch , Wolfgang Weng , Martin Bangemann
Assessor in the federal board	Axel Adamietz , Gerhart Baum , Ignatz Bubis , Peter Caesar , Georgios Chatzimarkakis , Hans-Michael Goldmann , Klaus Gollert , Karlheinz Guttmacher , Klaus Haupt , Burkhard Hirsch , Birgit Homburger , Michael Kauch , Wolfgang Knoll , Jürgen Koppelin , Heidi Langensiepen , Klaus von Lindeiner , Bruno Menzel , Jürgen W. Möllemann , Detlev Paepke , Cornelia Pieper , Andreas Reichel , Günter Rexrodt , Manfred Richter , Maja Schmidt , Markus Schönherr , Sigrid Semper , Max Stadler , Walter Teusch , Carl-Ludwig Thiele , Detlef Thomaneck , Jürgen Türk , Ruth Wagner , Hans-Joachim Widmann , Carl-Jochen Winter
Honorary Chairwoman	Walter Scheel , Hans-Dietrich Genscher , Otto Graf Lambsdorff

See also

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

swell

• Horst-Günther Klitzing: New beginning - new opportunity. For the FDP federal party conference in Mainz. In: Profil , vol. 1995, issue 7–8, p. 14.
• Confused decision-making. FDP elects Gerhardt and slows down national liberals. In: Neue Gesellschaft / Frankfurter Hefte . Vol. 42 (1995), No. 7, pp. 581-584.

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 .

Web links

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

• Liberal deadlines: Wolfgang Gerhardt becomes FDP federal chairman
• So crazy. The Union is worried about its coalition partner: the Mainz party congress weakened the liberals again. In: Der Spiegel , June 19, 1995.
• Matthias Geis: Cheeky and free . In: Zeit online , June 16, 1995.
• Hajo Schumacher : FDP: "I don't wobble" . In: Der Spiegel , June 5, 1995.
• Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff : And the prompter shouted: Keep it up . In: Die Zeit , June 16, 1995.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Based on documents from the archive of liberalism of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom in Gummersbach .
2. ↑ free democratic correspondence , issue 107, June 13, 1995.