FDP federal party conference 1999

Coordinates: 53 ° 5 ′ 12 ″  N , 8 ° 49 ′ 0 ″  E

title	50th Ordinary Federal Party Congress
Serial number	50
place	Bremen
state	Bremen
Hall	City Hall Bremen
Beginning	May 28, 1999
Duration (in days)	3

The original building of the city hall Bremen from 1964, on the left the Congress Centrum Bremen, inaugurated in 1993

The Federal Congress of the FDP in 1999 held the FDP from 28 to 30 May 1999 Bremen from. It was the 50th ordinary federal party conference of the FDP in the Federal Republic of Germany .

course

The venue was chosen with a view to the upcoming general election in Bremen on June 6, 1999 . Tax policy and the restructuring of the welfare state were discussed at the party congress .

decisions

The party congress decided on a ten-point program on SME policy, a campaign for so-called bogus self-employment, papers on income tax , partial retirement , shop closing , quality assurance in schools, educational support for the gifted, university sponsorship, modernization of dual training , reform of foundation law, on the death penalty , the rejection of widespread wiretapping, improved data protection for mobile phones , the abolition of the work permit law, the quality improvement of Deutsche Bahn and the health reform 2000. In addition, new versions of the federal statutes, the rules of procedure, the arbitration rules and the financial and contribution regulations were passed.

Federal Executive

After the new election in 1999, the federal executive board included:

Chairman	Wolfgang Gerhardt
vice-chairman	Rainer Brüderle , Walter Döring , Cornelia Pieper
Treasurer	Carl-Ludwig Thiele
Assessor in the Presidium	Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger , Jürgen Möllemann , Günter Rexrodt
Secretary General	Guido Westerwelle
Assessor in the federal board	Heinrich Arens , Gisela Babel , Hans-Artur Bauckhage , Stefan Berndes , Peter Braun , Jorgo Chatzimarkakis , Mehmet Daimagüler , Ulrike Flach , Paul Friedhoff , Rainer Funke , Christoph Hartmann , Helmut Haussmann , Ulrich Heinrich , Walter Hirche , Burkhard Hirsch , Birgit Homburger , Werner Hoyer , Michael Kauch , Jürgen Koppelin , Hans Kreher , Wolfgang Kubicki , Rolf-Peter Lange , Ina Lenke , Uwe Lühr , Martin Matz , Jan Mücke , Ursula Müller , Rainer Ortleb , Detlev Paepke , Christina Renner , Cornelia Schmalz-Jacobsen , Hermann Supporter , Dieter Thomae , Ruth Wagner
Honorary Chairwoman	Hans-Dietrich Genscher , Otto Graf Lambsdorff , Walter Scheel

See also

• Previous members of the federal executive committee since 1949
• Current federal executive committee 2017-2019
• List of FDP federal party conferences

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

• Matthias Geis: A robust liberal . In: Die Zeit , June 2, 1999.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Based on documents from the archive of liberalism of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom .
2. ↑ Federal statutes, rules of procedure, rules of arbitration, financial and contribution rules, decided at the federal party conference on 28/29. May 1999 in Bremen , o. O. 1999.