Free Democratic Party / Saar Democratic Party

Free Democratic Party / Saar Democratic Party
Oliver Luksic
Chairman	Oliver Luksic
Deputy	Helmut Isringhaus Tobias Raab Angelika Hießerich-Peter
Treasurer	Roland King
Honorary Chairman	Werner Klumpp
Headquarters	Ursulinenstrasse 39 66111 Saarbrücken
Landtag mandates	0/51
Number of members	1,000 (as of December 31, 2018)
Website	fdp-saar.de

The Free Democratic Party / Democratic Party Saar is a party and the Saarland regional association of the FDP . According to the statutes, only the term “Free Democratic Party” is used in elections and in election advertising.

history

The Democratic Party of the Saar (short name: DPS ) was founded after the Second World War in the then independent Saar Protectorate . At first she admitted to the economic ties to France and political independence from Germany. Since pro-German parties were not allowed to vote, the national-conservative forces rallied in the DPS and made them the “German-oriented opposition”. In 1950 Heinrich Schneider , the former head of the Saar office of the NSDAP , took over the leadership of the party. Because of her support for the connection of the Saarland to the Federal Republic of Germany , she was banned by the High Commissioner of the French occupying power in 1951. The DPS remained active in the illegal act and took legal action against the prohibition order. Only in the voting campaign in 1955 was it - like CDU Saar and SPD Saarland - admitted again and received 24.2% of the valid votes in the state elections in 1955 .

After the Saarland was annexed to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1957, the DPS joined the FDP as the Saarland regional association.

After the European elections in Germany in 2004 , the FDP / DPS was represented by Jorgo Chatzimarkakis in the European Parliament and from the Bundestag election in 2009 until the Bundestag election in 2013 with Oliver Luksic in the German Bundestag .

Christoph Hartmann (2011)

After the majority in the Saarland state elections in 2009 did not result in a black and yellow government majority, the FDP / DPS joined the first Jamaica coalition at state level together with the CDU and Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen . As the second largest partner, the Saarland FDP provided the deputy prime minister in the three-party alliance with Christoph Georg Hartmann and another minister, Georg Weisweiler . The chairman of the FDP / DPS Christoph Hartmann and the chairman of the FDP parliamentary group Horst Hinschberger announced on November 9, 2010 that they would withdraw from their party offices in order to put an end to internal party quarrels. Hinschberger's successor, Christian Schmitt , also resigned in December 2011 and became a non-party member of the CDU parliamentary group. Thereupon Christoph Kühn withdrew his candidacy for the FDP parliamentary group chairmanship. On January 6, 2012, the Prime Minister of Saarland Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer declared the coalition to have failed. One reason she cited was the “state of disruption” of the FDP in Saarland. As a result, the FDP / DPS had to accept the worst result in its history in the early elections on March 25, 2012 with 1.2% and is no longer represented in the Saarland state parliament. In the state elections in Saarland in 2017 , the party achieved 3.3 percent and thus again no mandate.

State chairman

Werner Klumpp (1977)

Years	Chairman
1955-1962	Heinrich Schneider
1962-1967	Paul Simonis
1967-1970	Reinhard Koch
1970-1984	Werner Klumpp
1984-1990	Horst Rehberger
1990-1991	Uta cube
1991-1994	Harald Cronauer
1994-1998	Walter Teusch
1998-2000	Werner Klumpp
2000-2002	Karl-Josef Jochem
2002-2011	Christoph Hartmann
since 2011	Oliver Luksic

Election results

State elections

State election results

in percent

25%

20%

15%

10%

5%

0%

'47

'55

'60

'65

'70

'75

'80

'85

'90

'94

'99

'04

'09

'12

'17

Results of the FDP / DPS in state elections in Saarland (share of votes and mandates)

State election results
year	be right	Seats
1947	7.6%	3
1952	forbidden
1955	24.2%	12 (from 1956: 13)
1960	13.8%	7th
1965	8.3%	4th
1970	4.4%	0
1975	7.4%	3
1980	6.9%	4th
1985	10.0%	5
1990	5.6%	3
1994	2.1%	0
1999	2.6%	0
2004	5.2%	3
2009	9.2%	5
2012	1.2%	0
2017	3.3%	0

See also state elections in Saarland

Bundestag elections

• 1957: 18.2% - 1 seat
• 1961: 12.9% - 1 seat
• 1965: 08.6%
• 1969: 06.7%
• 1972: 07.1%
• 1976: 06.6%
• 1980: 07.8%
• 1983: 06.0%
• 1987: 06.9% - 1 seat
• 1990: 06.0% - 1 seat
• 1994: 04.3%
• 1998: 04.7%
• 2002: 06.4% - 1 seat
• 2005: 07.4% - 1 seat
• 2009: 11.9% - 1 seat
• 2013: 03.8%
• 2017: 07.6% - 1 seat

Saarland member of the FDP in the Bundestag

The Saarland regional association of the FDP is currently represented by one member in the German Bundestag :

• 1957–1965: Heinrich Schneider
• 1987–1994: Uta Würfel
• 2002–2004: Christoph Hartmann
• 2004–2009: Karl Addicks
• 2009–2013 and since 2017: Oliver Luksic

Web links

• Website of the FDP / DPS
• Literature on FDP Saarland in the Saarland Bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ^ Oskar Niedermayer : Party members in Germany. Version 2019. (PDF; 1.1 MB) In: fu-berlin.de. Retrieved July 30, 2019 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} § 1 of the Articles of Association ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ German forever . In: Der Spiegel . No. 41 , 1947, pp. 1-2 ( online ).
4. ^ Stefan Haas, Patric Bies and Rainer Freyer: The political parties in Saarland 1945–59. In: saar-nostalgie.de. June 25, 2018. Retrieved November 17, 2018 . 
5. ^ Olaf Kühne, Annette Spellerberg: Historical aspects of the formation of regional identities and home orientations in the Saarland . In: Dies .: Heimat in times of increased flexibility requirements. Empirical studies in Saarland. VS Verlag for Social Sciences, Wiesbaden. P. 66.
   Heinrich Schneider: Post from Hermann Deutsch . In: Der Spiegel . No. 43 , 1955, pp. 16-25 ( online ).
6. ↑ Hanna Gersmann , Paul Wrusch: Saarland is no longer Jamaica. In: taz.de . January 6, 2012, accessed November 17, 2018 . 
7. ↑ Lisa Caspari: Sudden end of a chaos coalition. In: Zeit Online . January 6, 2012, accessed November 17, 2018 . 
8. ↑ Kramp-Karrenbauer wants a grand coalition. Spiegel Online , January 6, 2012, accessed January 6, 2012 . 
9. ^ Results of the state elections in Saarland