FDP federal party conference 2003

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Free Democratic Party (Logo, 2001-2013) .svg
title 54th Ordinary Federal Party Congress
Serial number 54
place Bremen
state Bremen
Hall City Hall Bremen
Beginning May 16, 2003
Duration (in days) 2
City Hall Bremen

The Federal Congress of the FDP in 2003 held the FDP from 16 to 17 May 2003 in Bremen from. It was the 54th ordinary federal party conference of the FDP in the Federal Republic of Germany .

course

The federal executive had chosen Bremen as the location of the federal party congress, because a week later the general election in Bremen in 2003 was due. The party congress itself took place in the Bremen city hall. The motto of the party congress was "Think new, act now".

The social democratic mayor of Bremen, Henning Scherf , opened the party congress with a greeting, after which the FDP top candidate in Bremen, Claus Jäger , spoke . In his main speech, party chairman Guido Westerwelle criticized the policies of the red-green federal government . At the end of the speech came the programmatic statement eagerly awaited by the delegates to correct “Strategy 18” after the Möllemann affair . He particularly emphasized three points:

“First: The FDP is not a party only for oyster slurpers and champagne drinkers, but a party that addresses the whole people.
Second: The FDP is first and foremost an independent party and only secondarily a coalition partner for anyone.
Third: The FDP is about winning people over to politics who have turned away from our political system. "

- Party congress speech by Guido Westerwelle

Westerwelle clearly distanced himself from Möllemann by saying that the FDP would “never grow by going into disarray”. The FDP parliamentary group chairman Wolfgang Gerhardt addressed the central points of a "free democratic foreign policy". The subsequent discussion resulted in little criticism of the work of the board. In response to the red-green government policy, a “Bremen Declaration” was adopted. Only two delegates addressed the Möllemann affair.

This mood was no longer reflected in the election results. Guido Westerwelle received only 509 votes from 638 delegates, ninety voted against him. This approval of almost 80% was well below the result of 88.9% for Westerwelle at the 2001 party congress . Cornelia Pieper was “punished” even more clearly with only 60.9% approval. Walter Döring received only 49.3% of the delegate's votes in the first ballot. After a short break from the party congress, he ran for a second ballot and received 56%. Treasurer Günter Rexrodt told the delegates about an "extremely tense" financial situation of the party. The net worth fell from 17.3 million euros in 1992 to minus 8.4 million euros. In 2002 alone the party had achieved a record loss of 5.7 million euros.

decisions

The main proposal of the federal executive committee "We create modern Germany" dealt with economic policy . It called for the tax cuts planned for 2005 to be implemented as early as 2004 and, in return, for all subsidies to be cut linearly by 20%. In future, subsidies are only likely to be paid out for a maximum of five years and gradually decreasing. The Dismissal Protection Act should only take effect after two years of service. The social selection in the event of company terminations should be restricted in such a way that companies can also continue to employ high performers. The foreign policy focus of the congress culminated in the decision to the EU accession Turkey .

Federal Executive

After the new election in 2003, the federal executive board included:

Chairman Guido Westerwelle
vice-chairman Rainer Brüderle , Walter Döring , Andreas Pinkwart
Treasurer Günter Rexrodt († August 19, 2004), Hermann Otto Solms (9/2004 - 5/2005 as acting treasurer)
Assessor in the Presidium Birgit Homburger , Jürgen Koppelin , Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger
Secretary General Cornelia Pieper
Assessor in the federal board Gisela Babel , Daniel Bahr , Uwe Barth , Hans-Artur Bauckhage , Ernst Burgbacher , Jorgo Chatzimarkakis , Mehmet Daimagüler , Ulrike Flach , Angela Freimuth , Paul Friedhoff , Jörg-Uwe Hahn , Barbie Haller , Christoph Hartmann , Walter Hirche , Burkhard Hirsch , Werner Hoyer , Claus Jäger , Gerry Kley , Silvana Koch-Mehrin , Hans Kreher , Horst Krumpen , Wolfgang Kubicki , Heinz Lanfermann , Markus Löning , Karl-Heinz Paqué , Dirk Niebel , Alexander Pokorny , Sebastian Ratjen , Reinhard Soltau , Michael Theurer , Carl- Ludwig Thiele , Dieter Thomae , Ruth Wagner , Holger Zastrow
Honorary Chairwoman Hans-Dietrich Genscher , Otto Graf Lambsdorff , Walter Scheel

See also

literature

  • Hans-Jürgen Beerfeltz : Right of way for freedom. The broadening of the FDP through programmatic substance since the Wiesbaden principles of 1997. In: Wolfgang Gerhardt (Hrsg.): Die Kraft der Freiheit. History, present and future of liberalism , Hohenheim Verlag, Stuttgart / Leipzig 2008, pp. 114–151.
  • 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. 100-102.

Web links

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

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. ↑ Guido Westerwelle's speech is reprinted in: free democratic correspondence , May 16, 2003.
  3. ↑ Westerwelle calls for "spiritual and moral turnaround" , in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , May 17, 2003.
  4. ↑ Carsten Germis: Radical Subsidy Removal , in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , May 4, 2003, p. 35.