FDP European Party Congress 2009

Coordinates: 52 ° 28 ′ 27 ″  N , 13 ° 27 ′ 34 ″  E

title	FDP European Party Congress 2009
place	Berlin
state	Berlin
Hall	Estrel Convention Center
Beginning	January 17, 2009
Duration (in days)	1

Plenary of the European Party Congress

The FDP held the European Party Congress 2009 on January 17, 2009 in Berlin . It was an assembly of representatives to draw up the list for the 2009 European elections . The event took place in the Estrel Convention Center Berlin.

Course and resolutions

The motto of the party congress was "For Germany in Europe". The chairman of the FDP group in the European Parliament , Silvana Koch-Mehrin , was elected as the top candidate - as was the case at the FDP Europe Day 2004 . In addition, the program for the European elections “A Europe of Freedom for the World of the 21st Century” was adopted.

Candidate list

Silvana Koch-Mehrin, 2005

Candidates 1 to 20 according to list positions:

1. Silvana Koch-Mehrin , MEP ( Baden-Württemberg )
2. Alexander Graf Lambsdorff , MEP ( North Rhine-Westphalia )
3. Jorgo Chatzimarkakis , MEP ( Saarland )
4. Wolf Klinz , MEP ( Hesse )
5. Gesine Meißner , MdL ( Lower Saxony )
6. Alexander Alvaro , MEP ( Young Liberals / North Rhine-Westphalia)
7. Holger Krahmer , MEP ( Saxony )
8. Michael Theurer , Member of the State Parliament (Baden-Württemberg)
9. Nadja Hirsch ( Bavaria )
10. Jürgen Creutzmann , Member of the State Parliament ( Rhineland-Palatinate )
11. Alexandra Thein ( Berlin )
12. Britta Reimers ( Schleswig-Holstein )
13. Matthias Purdel ( Thuringia )
14. Alexander Plahr (North Rhine-Westphalia)
15. Norbert Meyer (Lower Saxony)
16. Franz Prockl (Bavaria)
17. Kornelia Kimpfel ( Brandenburg )
18. Friedrich Hülsenbeck ( Saxony-Anhalt )
19. Tom Eich (Baden-Wuerttemberg)
20. Fridjof Matuszewski ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania )

See also

• 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

Commons : FDP European Party Congress 2009  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Annual report of the Free Democratic Party 2007–2009, ed. from the Federal Office, Berlin 2009 , p. 6.
• Photos from the European Party Congress on flickr

Individual evidence

1. ^ European election program 2009 on the pages of the Archives of Liberalism of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom .
2. ↑ FDP European Party Congress: Silvana Koch-Mehrin elected as the top candidate with an overwhelming majority. In: fdp.de. January 17, 2009, archived from the original on February 1, 2009 ; accessed on May 31, 2019 .