FDP North Rhine-Westphalia
FDP North Rhine-Westphalia | |||
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Chairman | Joachim Stamp | ||
Deputy |
Angela Freimuth Alexander Graf Lambsdorff |
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Secretary General | Johannes Vogel | ||
Treasurer | Otto Fricke | ||
executive Director | Mirco Rolf-Seiffert Thorsten Anders |
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Establishment date | May 27, 1947 | ||
Headquarters | Sternstrasse 44 40479 Düsseldorf |
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Landtag mandates |
28/199 |
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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
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.
- Young Liberals (JuLis)
- Association of Liberal Local Politicians
- Liberal Seniors (LiS @)
- Liberal Women (LIF)
- Liberal lawyers
- Association of Liberal Doctors
- Liberal middle class (LM)
- Liberal leisure circles (LFK)
- Liberal university groups (LHG) in university cities.
- Liberal students
- Liberal Turkish-German Association (LTD)
- Friends and Sponsors of the FDP (FFK)
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.
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
- FDP regional association NRW
- FDP parliamentary group in the state parliament
- Archive of the Liberalism of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom in Gummersbach
Individual evidence
- ^ Oskar Niedermayer : Party members in Germany. Version 2019. (PDF; 1.1 MB) In: fu-berlin.de. Retrieved July 30, 2019 .
- ↑ The name NRW-FDP can be found sporadically in the press, but is not used by the party itself
- ↑ State Board. FDP Landesverband NRW, accessed on November 25, 2017 .
- ↑ FDP: Federal Statute (PDF; 565 kB), 2008
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Stephan Lüke: "Stop the school chaos". In: General-Anzeiger . July 21, 2006, accessed July 4, 2019 .
- ↑ Results of the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia 2017 , accessed on May 16, 2017 at wdr.de
- ↑ Ekkehard Rüger: Rapid new FDP parliamentary group leader. In: Westdeutsche Zeitung . wz.de, October 10, 2017, accessed on October 18, 2017 .