FDP Berlin

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FDP Berlin
Christoph Meyer
Christoph Meyer 		FDP LV Berlin.svg
Chairman Christoph Meyer
Deputy Daniela Kluckert
Juliane Hüttl
Mathia Specht-Habbel
Secretary General Lars Lindemann (acting)
Treasurer Laura Pfannemüller
executive Director Marcel Schwemmlein
Establishment date 1948
Place of foundation Berlin
Headquarters Dorotheenstrasse 56
10117 Berlin
Landtag mandates
12/160
Number of members 3,318 (as of December 31, 2018)
Website www.fdp-berlin.de

The FDP Berlin is the regional association of the Free Democratic Party in the state of Berlin .

history

From foundation to split

The "German Democratic Party" was founded on June 16, 1945 in the apartment of the first chairman, Waldemar Koch . The name picked up on the tradition of the German Democratic Party of the Weimar Republic , but was changed to " Liberal Democratic Party of Germany " (LDP) upon registration . The LDP was approved for the Soviet zone of occupation on July 10, 1945 . In Berlin-Mitte, at Taubenstrasse 48/49, a "Reichs office" was set up. The Berlin regional association was founded there on September 21, 1945. Martin Stritte was elected chairman of the Berlin regional association with 15 votes to 2 votes . Only five months later he lost the confidence of the party base, which accused him of being too close to the Soviets. He was succeeded by Fritz Hausberg , his deputy being Carl-Hubert Schwennicke .

In the election for the city council of Greater Berlin in 1946 , the party achieved 9.3% of the vote, despite obstacles in East Berlin .

The increasing conformity of the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany in the Soviet Zone led to a conflict with the (overall) Berlin LDP. At the 2nd party congress of the LDP from July 5 to 7, 1947, the Berlin delegate Anton Schöpke spoke out on behalf of his regional association against the re-election of Wilhelm Külz . A request for a secret ballot was rejected and Wilhelm Külz was confirmed in office in an open vote with 258 against 23 votes with 9 abstentions. The Berlin regional association then withdrew its representatives from the LDP's entire board.

The Berlin state party conference confirmed Carl-Hubert Schwennicke as chairman on August 15, 1947. The SMAD declared Schwennicke to be “intolerable”, but could not remove him due to the status of the city of Berlin. In January 1948, the Berlin state executive, Wilhelm Külz, who had published an uncoordinated article in “Morgen” about political developments in West Germany, asked for his mandate to be returned to the city council. The zone management of the LDP took this as an opportunity to establish a "Landesgruppe Berlin" under Reinhold Schwarz . The split in the regional association was complete. A conference of functionaries for all of Berlin on January 25, 1948 voted 490 to 6 against the attempt to split up and supported Carl-Hubert Schwennicke. The extended party board of the LDP zone association then decided on February 10, 1948, to exclude the Berlin state association from the LDP.

The LDP in East Berlin

After Külz's death, on April 26, 1948, a "Working Group of the LDP Berlin" was formed in the eastern sector of Berlin. This later became part of the LDPD as the “Greater Berlin District Association”. The LDPD was included as a so-called bloc party in uniform electoral lists of the National Front together with the SED. Like the CDU, the National Democratic Party of Germany and the Democratic Peasant Party of Germany , since the founding of the GDR on October 7, 1949, it played an increasingly subordinate role as a formative political party and thus became an assistant to the communist SED. The Berlin District Association was the district association of the de facto East Berlin district of the GDR and as such provided the number of members in the East Berlin City Council and the People's Chamber, which was determined before the elections .

The FDP in West Berlin

The split in the Berlin LDP followed the split in Germany and Berlin. The Berlin blockade was the first high point of the Soviet policy of division . In this phase, the LDP succeeded in the election to the city council of Greater Berlin in 1948 (in the west; no democratic elections were held in East Berlin until 1990) to increase the share of the vote to 16.1%. In the last all-Berlin magistrate from 1948 under Ernst Reuter , the LDP was represented by 3 city councilors: Hugo Holthöfer for postal and telecommunications, Walter Conrad for health and Marie-Elisabeth Lüders for social affairs.

On January 12, 1949, the state party renamed itself “FDP-Landesverband Berlin”.

While the FDP achieved very good results in 1950 and 1954 with 23.0 percent and 12.8 percent of the vote, respectively, it fell out of the House of Representatives for the first time in 1958 with 3.8 percent of the votes.

However, she managed to return in 1963 . It was not until 1989 that she left parliament for the next time, only to return two years later as a result of reunification.

Since the reunification

Sebastian Czaja, top candidate for the 2016 parliamentary elections

In the parliamentary elections that took place in 1990, the first Gestamt Berlin election since 1946, the FDP Berlin won 7.1%. After electoral failures in 1995 and 1999, the Berlin FDP succeeded in re-entering the House of Representatives in 2001 with a strong result of 9.9%. In 2006, the parliamentary group in the House of Representatives could be defended in this year's election. In 2011, the FDP Berlin lost the election for the Berlin House of Representatives in 2011 and failed because it moved into the House of Representatives. In mid-September 2015, the state chairwoman Alexandra Thein , who was only elected in 2014, withdrew due to health problems. Henner Schmidt followed her on a provisional basis. The office of Secretary General was created at the end of September 2015 and is held by Sebastian Czaja . In addition to the then state chairwoman Sibylle Meister , he is one of the top staff of the FDP Berlin, who succeeded in re-entering the House of Representatives in the election for the Berlin House of Representatives in 2016 . One of the main campaign topics was the (ultimately successful) referendum on the continued operation of Berlin-Tegel Airport , which the FDP Berlin had initiated.

organization

District associations with their local associations

The regional association of the Free Democratic Party in Berlin is divided into twelve district associations.

  • District association Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf: Local associations Alt-Wilmersdorf, Charlottenburg City, Charlottenburg West, Wilmersdorf
  • District association Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg: Local associations Friedrichshain, Kreuzberg
  • District association Lichtenberg: no local associations
  • Marzahn-Hellersdorf district association: no local associations
  • District association center: Local associations Gendarmenmarkt, Hackescher Markt, Oranienburger Tor, Tiergarten, Wedding
  • District association Neukölln: Local associations Britz-Buckow-Rudow, Neukölln-Nord
  • District association Pankow: Local associations FDP OV Stadt Land Panke, Prenzlauer Berg, Weißensee
  • District association Reinickendorf: local associations north, center-south
  • District association Spandau: Local associations Spandau Mitte, Spandau Havel
  • District association Steglitz-Zehlendorf: Local associations Dahlem, Lichterfelde-Lankwitz, Steglitz, Zehlendorf, Zehlendorf-Wildwest
  • District association Tempelhof-Schöneberg: Local associations Friedenau, Schöneberg, Tempelhof-Süd, Tempelhof
  • District association Treptow-Köpenick: no local associations

State technical committees

The political work of the state board is expertly supported by the following state technical committees.

  • building and living
  • Districts and administrative reform
  • Digital policy
  • Europe and international
  • health
  • Universities and research
  • Cultural policy, media, creative industries
  • Liberal rule of law
  • Mobility, environment, energy
  • New Work, professional, academ. Further education u. social rise
  • Open society and diversity
  • Social and family
  • World's best education
  • Economy, innovations, budget, finance

Apron organizations

In Berlin there are a number of organizations that are close to the FDP Berlin.

Election results

Elections to the House of Representatives

State election results of the FDP Berlin
in percent
25%
20%
15%
10%
5%
0%
'50
'54
'58
'63
'67
'71
'75
'79
'81
'85
'89
'90
'95
'99
'01
'06
'11
'16
Results of the state elections
year be right Seats
1950 23.1% 32
1954 12.8% 19th
1958 3.9% -
1963 7.9% 10
1967 7.1% 9
1971 8.4% 11
1975 7.1% 11
1979 8.1% 11
1981 5.6% 7th
1985 8.5% 12
1989 3.9% -
1990 7.1% 18th
1995 2.5% -
1999 2.2% -
2001 9.9% 15th
2006 7.6% 13
2011 1.8% -
2016 6.7% 12


Results
Bundestag elections
15%
10%
5%
0%
'90
'94
'98
'02
'05
'09
'13
'17

Bundestag elections

Bundestag election results
year be right Seats MPs
1990 9.1% 3 Wolfgang Lüder , Klaus Röhl , Jürgen Starnick
1994 5.2% 2 Günter Rexrodt , Klaus Röhl
1998 4.9% 1 Günter Rexrodt
2002 6.6% 2 Günter Rexrodt (died on August 19, 2004, successor : Hellmut Königshaus ), Markus Löning
2005 8.2% 2 Hellmut Königshaus, Markus Löhning
2009 11.5% 3 Hellmut Königshaus (retired on May 20, 2010, successor: Holger Krestel ), Lars Lindemann , Martin Lindner
2013 3.6% - -
2017 8.9% 3 Hartmut Ebbing , Daniela Kluckert , Christoph Meyer

Government holdings

The Berlin FDP was involved in the state government for a total of 24 years:

From 1950 to 1953 she was represented in the Reuter Senate as part of a coalition of the SPD, CDU and FDP . After Ernst Reuter's death , the coalition broke up and the FDP formed a coalition with the CDU under Walther Schreiber .

However, this coalition only lasted a year until the election for the Berlin House of Representatives in 1954 , in which the SPD under Otto Suhr achieved an absolute majority. The CDU entered the government as a junior partner of the SPD, the FDP formed the opposition.

After the election to the Berlin House of Representatives in 1963 , the Governing Mayor Willy Brandt offered the FDP, despite an absolute majority, a coalition to which the FDP also consented. She was thus involved in the third Brandt Senate . This coalition was up to the election to the Berlin House of Representatives in 1971 continued so that the FDP in the first Senate Albertz , in the second Senate Albertz and the first contactor Senate was represented.

After the 1971 election, the SPD formed a sole government, which it was unable to continue after the election to the Berlin House of Representatives in 1975 due to the loss of an absolute majority. The FDP in turn formed a coalition with the SPD, which this time lasted until the election to the Berlin House of Representatives in 1981 and enabled the FDP to participate in the Schütz III , Stobbe I , Stobbe II and Vogel Senates .

In the 1981 election, the social-liberal coalition lost its majority. Due to the existing Red-Yellow coalition under Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt , the FDP waived the CDU's coalition offer, but declared itself ready to tolerate the Weizsäcker Senate from within the opposition .

After the coalition change at the federal level, the Berlin FDP officially entered the Senate in 1983. This black-yellow coalition lasted until 1989 under Eberhard Diepgen , but lost its majority in 1989 .

Since then, the Berlin FDP has not been involved in the Berlin government. After the election to the Berlin House of Representatives in 2001 , the FDP held talks with the SPD and Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen to form a traffic light coalition under Klaus Wowereit , but these failed quickly.

State chairman

Years Chairman
1960-1969 William Borm
1969-1971 Hermann Oxfort
1971-1981 Wolfgang Lüder
1981 Jürgen Kunze
1981-1989 Walter Rasch
1989-1990 Hermann Oxfort
1990-1994 Carola von Braun
1994-1995 Günter Rexrodt
1996-1998 Martin Matz
1998-2000 Rolf-Peter Lange
2000-2004 Günter Rexrodt
2004-2009 Markus Löning
2010–2012 Christoph Meyer
2012-2014 Martin Lindner
2014-2015 Alexandra Thein
2015-2016 Henner Schmidt (acting)
2016-2018 Sibylle Master
since 2018 Christoph Meyer

State chairwoman of the LDP in East Berlin

State chairman

District Chairperson

Group in the House of Representatives

The FDP parliamentary group in the Berlin House of Representatives has consisted of twelve members since the election on September 18, 2016 . The parliamentary group leader is Sebastian Czaja .

Members are in the 18th electoral term of the Berlin House of Representatives (as of March 2, 2020):

Deputy Moving in over Functions / memberships
Sebastian Czaja List place Group leader
Stefan Foerster List place
Paul Fresdorf List place Parliamentary executive director
Maren Jasper-Winter List place
Florian Kluckert List place
Holger Krestel List place deputy group leader
Marcel Luthe List place
Sibylle Master List place deputy group chairman
Thomas Seerig List place
Bernd Schlömer List place
Henner Schmidt List place
Alexander Wieberneit (moved up for Florian Swyter ) List place

literature

  • Jürgen Dittberner: The FDP: history, people, organization, perspectives, 2nd edition, 2010, ISBN 978-3-531-17494-5 , pp. 129-165

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Oskar Niedermayer : Party members in Germany. Version 2019. (PDF; 1.1 MB) In: fu-berlin.de. Retrieved July 30, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Liberals in Berlin: FDP leader Alexandra Thein resigns , (accessed on November 3, 2015)
  3. ↑ Liberals in Berlin: Sebastian Czaja is the new General Secretary of the FDP , (accessed on November 3, 2015)
  4. ↑ State technical committees. Retrieved January 19, 2020 .
  5. ^ Results of the state elections in Berlin
  6. ^ Results of earlier federal elections. (PDF; 484 kB) In: bundeswahlleiter.de . August 3, 2015, accessed October 9, 2017 .
  7. ↑ www.parlament-berlin.de