FDP Federal Party Congress 2009

Coordinates: 52 ° 19 ′ 26 ″  N , 9 ° 48 ′ 10 ″  E

title	60th Ordinary Federal Party Congress
Serial number	60
place	Hanover
state	Lower Saxony
Hall	Hanover Exhibition Center
Beginning	May 15, 2009
Duration (in days)	3
Website	http://60.parteitag.fdp.de/

Federal Party Congress 2009

The Federal Congress of the FDP in 2009 held the FDP from 15 to 17 May 2009. Hannover from. It was the 60th ordinary federal party conference of the FDP in the Federal Republic of Germany . The event took place at the Hanover Exhibition Center .

Resolutions and papers

The motto of the party conference was “Germany can do better”. It passed the program for the 2009 federal election entitled “Strengthening the Center”. In addition, he passed papers or passed resolutions on the subject of “Disarmament now! Liberal demands for disarmament and arms control in the 21st century "," University pact, excellence initiative and pact for research and development ", no censorship of the Internet, against state participation in Opel , answers to the financial crisis ," Lower agricultural diesel taxation - reduce the competitive disadvantages of German agriculture " , " Align the social market economy with global competition of the 21st century - 10 points for a change of course in German economic policy ". The basic program for 2012, the Karlsruhe Theses of Freedom, was discussed .

Federal Executive

Guido Westerwelle was confirmed in office as party chairman.

After the new election in 2009, the federal executive board included:

Chairman	Guido Westerwelle
vice-chairman	Rainer Brüderle , Cornelia Pieper , Andreas Pinkwart
Treasurer	Hermann Otto Solms
Assessor in the Presidium	Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger , Birgit Homburger , Philipp Rösler
Secretary General	Dirk Niebel
Further members of the executive committee	Heinrich Kolb , Silvana Koch-Mehrin , Hans-Jürgen Beerfeltz , Gabriele Renatus , Jörg van Essen , Wolfgang Gerhardt
Assessor in the federal board	Christian Ahrendt , Alexander Alvaro , Daniel Bahr , Uwe Barth , Hans-Artur Bauckhage , Nicola Beer , Ernst Burgbacher , Jorgo Chatzimarkakis , Angela Freimuth , Miriam Gruß , Jörg-Uwe Hahn , Christoph Hartmann , Walter Hirche , Werner Hoyer , Gerry Kley , Wolfgang Kubicki , Heinz Lanfermann , Christian Lindner , Markus Löning , Horst Meierhofer , Gesine Meißner , Jan Mücke , Hans-Joachim Otto , Gisela Piltz , Alexander Pokorny , Rolf Salo , Michael Theurer , Carl-Ludwig Thiele , Johannes Vogel , Volker Wissing , Hartfrid Wolff , Holger Zastrow , Martin Zeil
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

swell

• Strengthening the Center, Germany Program 2009. Program of the Free Democratic Party for the 2009 Bundestag election; decided at the federal party congress from 15. – 17. May 2009 in Hanover , Berlin 2009.

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 .
• Florian Glock: The political orientations of party congress delegates. The delegates of the FDP federal party conferences 2009, 2010 and 2011 , Drewipunkt, Wiesbaden 2015, ISBN 978-3-7700-5289-9 .

Web links

Commons : FDP-Bundesparteitag 2009  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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

• Special pages for the 60th Federal Party Congress
• Speech by the party chairman on May 15, 2009
• Annual report of the Free Democratic Party 2009-2011 , ed. from the federal office, Berlin undated, p. 7 f.

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. ↑ Strengthening the Center, Germany Program 2009. Program of the Free Democratic Party for the 2009 Bundestag election; decided at the federal party congress from 15. – 17. May 2009 in Hanover , Berlin 2009; Program for the Bundestag election as pdf on the pages of the Archives of Liberalism of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom .