FDP North Rhine-Westphalia

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FDP North Rhine-Westphalia
Joachim Stamp
Joachim Stamp 		FDP LV NRW.svg
Chairman Joachim Stamp
Deputy Angela Freimuth
Alexander Graf Lambsdorff
Secretary General Johannes Vogel
Treasurer Otto Fricke
executive Director Mirco Rolf-Seiffert
Thorsten Anders
Establishment date May 27, 1947
Headquarters Sternstrasse 44
40479 Düsseldorf
Landtag mandates
28/199
Number of members 17,286 (as of December 31, 2018)
Website www.fdp.nrw

The FDP North Rhine-Westphalia or FDP NRW (official name: Free Democratic Party, Landesverband Nordrhein-Westfalen eV ) is a regional association of the FDP in North Rhine-Westphalia and the largest of the 16 regional associations of the FDP. Chairman since 2017 Joachim Stamp , general secretary since 2014 Johannes Vogel .

Political orientation

Section 1 of the state statutes of the FDP-NRW stipulates that it is a registered association within the federal party of the Free Democratic Party. It wants to stand up for the establishment and expansion of the democratic constitutional state and a liberal social order supported by a social spirit and rejects totalitarian and dictatorial efforts. She advocates a liberal society .

organization

The federal statutes of the FDP stipulate in § 8 that there is only one regional association in each state. For North Rhine-Westphalia this is the FDP-NRW. It brings together the members of the district associations of the FDP in North Rhine-Westphalia. The legal form of the FDP-NRW is that of a registered association .

structure

Structure of the FDP-NRW in its nine district associations

The FDP-North Rhine-Westphalia is composed of nine district associations, which in turn consist of 54 district associations and 10 city associations (the latter only in the Ruhr district association). Below the district parties, the FDP is divided into local parties, local associations and district associations (Cologne).

The former Federal Chairman Guido Westerwelle comes from the Cologne District Association, Bonn District Association . The Cologne district association has the largest number of members in North Rhine-Westphalia. In the local elections in 2004, the FDP also achieved the highest share of the vote here. The three municipalities , whose administrative head is an FDP mayor, are located in the area of ​​the Cologne district association.

District associations with their district parties

  • District association Aachen: District associations Aachen city, Aachen-Land, Düren, Euskirchen, Heinsberg
  • District association Düsseldorf: District associations Düsseldorf, Mettmann, Remscheid, Rhein-Kreis-Neuss, Solingen, Wuppertal
  • District association Cologne: District associations Bonn, Leverkusen, Cologne, Rhein-Erft, Oberberg, Rhein-Berg, Rhein-Sieg
  • District association Münsterland: District associations Borken, Coesfeld, Münster, Steinfurt, Warendorf
  • District Association of the Lower Rhine - The Lower Rhine Party: District associations of Duisburg, Kleve-Geldern, Krefeld, Mönchengladbach, Viersen, Wesel
  • District association Ostwestfalen-Lippe: District associations Bielefeld, Gütersloh, Herford, Höxter, Lippe, Minden-Lübbecke, Paderborn
  • District association Ruhr: District associations Bochum, Bottrop, Dortmund, Essen, Gelsenkirchen, Herne, Mülheim, Oberhausen, Recklinghausen. City associations Datteln, Castrop-Rauxel, Dorsten, Gladbeck, Haltern, Herten, Marl, Oer-Erkenschwick, Recklinghausen, Waltrop
  • District association Westphalia-South: District associations Hamm, Hochsauerlandkreis, Soest, Unna
  • District association Westphalia-West: District associations Ennepe-Ruhr, Hagen, Märkischer Kreis, Olpe, Siegerland-Wittgenstein

Apron organizations

In addition to the geographical breakdown, there are so-called apron organizations in which liberals from certain social groups gather. Apron organizations often have a federal, state and district association. Not all district associations have all apron organizations in their area.

Factions

The FDP-NRW provides members of parliament (mostly in parliamentary groups) in district representatives , city ​​councils , district councils and assemblies , regional councils , landscape assemblies , in the state parliament .

history

After the end of the Second World War, liberal parties with various names emerged at the local level throughout the British Zone . B. Liberal Democratic Party in Mülheim and Essen, German Development Party in Opladen, Social Liberal Party in Mönchengladbach and Party of Active People's Democrats in Duisburg.

On November 10, 1945, the Westphalia State Association of the Liberal Democratic Party was founded under the chairmanship of Gustav Altenhain . On December 4, 1945, the Free Democratic Party - North Rhine Regional Association was founded in Düsseldorf, whose party chairman Friedrich Middelhauve (1896-1966) was. On January 7th and 8th, 1946, the regional parties of Hamburg, Hanover, Oldenburg, Braunschweig, Schleswig-Holstein, North Rhine Province and Westphalia united in Opladen to form the FDP of the British Zone . Its chairman was Wilhelm Heile (1881-1969); he was followed from 1947 to 1949 by Franz Blücher (1896–1959).

After the founding of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia on August 23, 1946 through the merger of the part of the Rhineland and Westphalia that initially belonged to the British occupation zone, the state associations of North Rhine-Westphalia and Westphalia merged to form the FDP state association of North Rhine-Westphalia on May 27, 1947.

Franz Blücher became finance minister in the appointed Amelunxen I cabinet , and the FDP was represented by 9 members in the first appointed state parliament .

In August 1947, the first party conference of the North Rhine-Westphalian FDP took place in Hohensyburg.

In the first free state election ( on April 20, 1947 , the FDP received 5.9 percent of the votes (CDU 37.6; SPD 32.0); it was not involved in the coalition government that followed ( Arnold I cabinet ). In the following years . the party opened deliberately to the right party chief Friedrich Middelhauve described the course of the party as "stressed national policy in the best sense" in 1950, the FDP rejected the. Constitution for the state of North Rhine-Westphalia from; only the CDU and the center advocating in. Landtagswahl The FDP received 12.1 percent of the vote and 26 seats on June 18, 1950. The FDP remained in opposition to the CDU / center coalition.

In the early 1950s, former NSDAP members tried to infiltrate the FDP-NRW (so-called Naumann district ). In January 1953 the British occupation forces arrested seven of these people.

In the state elections on June 27, 1954 , the FDP was stable with 11.5 percent of the vote and 25 mandates. After considerable internal party conflicts, the FDP decided to form a government coalition with the CDU under Karl Arnold ( Arnold III cabinet ). The coalition broke up as early as February 1956. A group of young politicians around Wolfgang Döring (in public there was talk of the Young Turk Uprising ) took the discussion at the federal level about introducing a right to vote in a trench as an opportunity to form a social-liberal coalition with the SPD . The FDP received four ministerial posts in the Steinhoff cabinet .

In the state elections in July 1958 , the FDP only received 7.1 percent of the vote and 15 seats. The CDU returned to the government with an absolute majority ( Meyer's I cabinet ). In the state elections in July 1962 , the CDU lost this absolute majority; CDU and FDP formed a government coalition ( Meyer's II cabinet ).

In December 1966 the FDP changed coalition partners again. The social democrat Heinz Kühn became prime minister of a social-liberal coalition that was to exist until 1980. With this coalition election, North Rhine-Westphalia anticipated the formation of a social-liberal coalition in the federal government in 1969. The FDP (now with its own spelling FDP) received 5.5 percent of the vote in the state elections in June 1970 (after 7.4 percent in 1966) and 11 seats. In 1970, parliamentary group leader Heinz Lange and two other members of the FDP resigned in protest against the federal FDP's Ostpolitik .

The policy of 1970 was determined by administrative reform , territorial reform and school reform. In particular, the school policy of the social-liberal government polarized. There was bitter resistance to the compulsory introduction of the comprehensive school . The public spoke of “school struggle”. An initiative "Stop KOOP" was formed, which from February 16 to March 1, 1978 collected more than 3.6 million signatures against the cooperative comprehensive school and thus far exceeded the 20 percent threshold for a referendum that was valid at the time . The new school law was prevented. In the state elections on May 11, 1980 , the FDP failed with 4.98% of the vote, just short of the five percent hurdle .

elections

State elections and seats

In NRW, the five percent hurdle applies to the state elections . The FDP failed twice on this hurdle: In the election for the 9th and 12th state parliament . In the last state election in May 2017 , the FDP achieved a plus of 4.0% and received 12.6% of the second vote. In the current 17th legislative period, the North Rhine-Westphalian state parliament thus has 28 liberal members.


Local elections

Up until the local elections in 1999 , the NUTS 3 level (district councils and city councils of urban districts) as well as the municipal councils of the district-dependent cities and municipalities were also subject to the five percent hurdle in NRW . As a result, the FDP was not always represented in local parliaments.

Vorlage:Zeitleiste Wähleranteil Kommunalwahlen in Nordrhein-Westfalen seit 1946 Räte der kreisfreien Städte und Kreistage


European elections

In the European elections on June 7th, 2009 , the FDP in NRW won 12.3% (ARD June 7th, 2009. 10:30 pm) of the votes, 1.3 points above the national average.

Chairperson

Years Chairman
1947 Gustav Altenhain
1947-1956 Friedrich Middelhauve
1956-1972 Willi Weyer
1972-1979 Horst Ludwig Riemer
1979-1983 Burkhard Hirsch
1983-1994 Jürgen Möllemann
1994-1996 Joachim Schultz-Tornau
1996-2002 Jürgen Möllemann
2002-2010 Andreas Pinkwart
2010–2012 Daniel Bahr
2012-2017 Christian Lindner
since 2017 Joachim Stamp

Parliamentary group

The FDP state parliamentary group in North Rhine-Westphalia has consisted of 28 members since the state election in May 2017 . Group chairman is Christof Rasche . The parliamentary group is also involved in the North Rhine-Westphalian government ( Laschet cabinet ) and provides the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Children, Family, Refugees and Integration ( Joachim Stamp ), the Minister for Economic Affairs, Innovation, Digitization and Energy ( Andreas Pinkwart ) as well as the Minister for Schools and Education ( Yvonne Gebauer ).

Years Chairman
1946-1954 Friedrich Middelhauve
1954-1956 Reinhard legs
1956 Hermann Kohlhase
1956-1958 Wolfgang Döring
1958–1962 Willi Weyer
1962-1969 Walter Möller
1970 Heinz Lange
1970-1980 Hans Koch
1980 Wolfgang Heinz
1985-1995 Achim Rohde
2000-2003 Jürgen W. Möllemann
2003-2005 Ingo Wolf
2005–2012 Gerhard Papke
2012-2017 Christian Lindner
since 2017 Christof Rasche

literature

  • Lothar Albertin : The FDP in North Rhine-Westphalia. Portrait of a hardworking party. In: Ulrich von Alemann (Ed.): Parties and elections in North Rhine-Westphalia (= writings on the political geography of North Rhine-Westphalia. Vol. 2). Kohlhammer, Cologne 1985, ISBN 3-17-008679-0 , pp. 121-145.
  • Kristian Buchna: National Collection on the Rhine and Ruhr. Friedrich Middelhauve and the North Rhine-Westphalian FDP 1945–1953 (= series of quarterly journals for contemporary history. Vol. 101). Oldenbourg, Munich 2010, ISBN 3-486-59802-3 .
  • Gerhard Papke : Liberal force of order, national collection movement or middle class party? The FDP parliamentary group in North Rhine-Westphalia 1946–1966. Droste, Düsseldorf 1998, ISBN 3-7700-1104-X .
  • Gerhard Papke: Our goal is the independent FDP. The liberals and the change of power in North Rhine-Westphalia 1956. Nomos, Baden-Baden 1992, ISBN 3-7890-2558-5 .
  • Jan Treibel: The FDP in North Rhine-Westphalia - Multi-coalition capable party of programmatic change , in: Marschall, Stefan (Ed.): Political parties in North Rhine-Westphalia, Essen 2013, pp. 275-292, ISBN 9-783837-507713

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Oskar Niedermayer : Party members in Germany. Version 2019. (PDF; 1.1 MB) In: fu-berlin.de. Retrieved July 30, 2019 .
  2. ↑ The name NRW-FDP can be found sporadically in the press, but is not used by the party itself
  3. ↑ State Board. FDP Landesverband NRW, accessed on November 25, 2017 .
  4. ↑ FDP: Federal Statute (PDF; 565 kB), 2008
  5. ↑ FDP NRW: STATUTE OF THE ASSOCIATION OF COUNTRY FDP North Rhine-Westphalia. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved May 5, 2017 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.fdp.nrw  
  6. ↑ Stephan Lüke: "Stop the school chaos". In: General-Anzeiger . July 21, 2006, accessed July 4, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Results of the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia 2017 , accessed on May 16, 2017 at wdr.de
  8. ↑ Ekkehard Rüger: Rapid new FDP parliamentary group leader. In: Westdeutsche Zeitung . wz.de, October 10, 2017, accessed on October 18, 2017 .