FDP federal party conference 2001

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Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 22.1 ″  N , 6 ° 44 ′ 28.6 ″  E

Free Democratic Party (Logo, 2001-2013) .svg
title 52nd Ordinary Federal Party Congress
Serial number 52
place Dusseldorf
state North Rhine-Westphalia
Hall Stadthalle Congress Center Düsseldorf Süd
Beginning May 4, 2001
Duration (in days) 3
Congress Center Düsseldorf

The Federal Congress of the FDP in 2001 held the FDP from 4 to 6 May 2001 in Dusseldorf from. It was the 52nd regular federal party conference of the FDP in the Federal Republic of Germany .

prehistory

In the run-up to the party congress, party chairman Wolfgang Gerhardt was criticized within the party. Ultimately, he had to give in, and at the Dreikönigstreffen 2001, Gerhardt, Jürgen Möllemann and Guido Westerwelle announced that Gerhardt would no longer run and Westerwelle would become party leader. Möllemann, on the other hand, wanted to become the top candidate for the 2002 Bundestag elections under the title of "Chancellor candidate", which some participants felt as presumptuous . The goal of “ Project 18 ” formulated by Möllemann , namely a share of the vote of 18% in the federal election, was very ambitious.

Course and resolutions

The highlight of the party congress was the election of Guido Westerwelle to replace Wolfgang Gerhardt as the new chairman. The closing remarks of Westerwelle's speech became well known (and the reason for a series of party withdrawals):

“On every ship that steams and sails, there is someone who takes care of things! And thats me"

- Guido Westerwelle in his party conference speech. For the origin of the sentence, see Reise Reise

With these words Westerwelle formulated his claim to leadership. The party congress followed him in this and elected him chairman with 89.4% of the delegate's votes.

In his speech on "Project 18", Jürgen Möllemann excited the party congress. Fritz Goergen wrote about the speech:

"Möllemann had talked the delegates drunk in such an incredible way that it is difficult to convey to someone who was not there."

- Fritz Goergen

The "Project 18" was accepted, opponents like Ruth Wagner could not get through with their arguments.

A motion to remove the three dots in the party code that had been introduced in 1968 on the advice of an advertising agency was also accepted. The FDP became the FDP, the nickname of the "Pünktchenpartei" was a thing of the past.

Federal Executive

After the new election in 2001, the federal executive board included:

Chairman Guido Westerwelle
vice-chairman Rainer Brüderle , Walter Döring , Jürgen Möllemann
Treasurer Günter Rexrodt
Assessor in the Presidium Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger , Birgit Homburger , Martin Matz
Secretary General Cornelia Pieper
Assessor in the federal board Gisela Babel , Daniel Bahr , Hans-Artur Bauckhage , Jorgo Chatzimarkakis , Mehmet Daimagüler , Ulrike Flach , Jörg-Uwe Hahn , Barbie Haller , Christoph Hartmann , Helmut Haussmann , Ulrich Heinrich , Walter Hirche , Burkhard Hirsch , Werner Hoyer , Claus Jäger , Gerry Kley , Silvana Koch-Mehrin , Jürgen Koppelin , Hans Kreher , Horst Krumpen , Wolfgang Kubicki , Rudolf Lange , Ina Lenke , Markus Löning , Jan Mücke , Andreas Pinkwart , Alexander Pokorny , Sebastian Ratjen , Carl-Ludwig Thiele , Dieter Thomae , Jürgen Türk , Ruth Wagner , Holger Zastrow
Honorary Chairwoman Hans-Dietrich Genscher , Otto Graf Lambsdorff , Walter Scheel

See also

Web links

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

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 , pp. 91 f., 170-172.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information from: Archive of Liberalism ( www.freedom.org/content/archiv-des-liberalismus ) (ADL), FDP federal party congresses