FDP Schleswig-Holstein

FDP Schleswig-Holstein
Heiner Garg
Chairman	Heiner Garg
Deputy	Bernd Klaus Buchholz Anita Klahn Christopher Vogt
Treasurer	Oliver Kumbartzky
executive Director	Jan Voigt
Honorary Chairman	Jürgen Koppelin
Establishment date	March 28, 1946
Place of foundation	Neumunster
Headquarters	Eichhofstrasse 27-29 24116 Kiel
Landtag mandates	9/73
Number of members	2,652 (as of December 31, 2018)
Website	www.fdpsh.de

Seat of the FDP regional association Schleswig-Holstein in Kiel

The FDP Schleswig-Holstein is the regional association of the FDP in the state of Schleswig-Holstein .

history

Background: Liberal parties in Schleswig-Holstein

The Liberals were the first to form a party in the 1860s. Organized in the Progress Party and later in the German Freedom Party and the National Liberal Party , the Liberals in Schleswig-Holstein achieved electoral success in elections to the Prussian Landtag and Reichstag until the end of the Empire, even if the number of MPs fell significantly since the end of the 19th century.

In the Weimar Republic , the liberals in Schleswig-Holstein no longer played such an important role. In 1921 , the DDP had received 6.1% of the vote in the provincial parliament. However, their share of the vote fell to 3.7% in 1929. In the 1930s, the liberals fell back to the level of splinter groups, until the Nazis seized power, making liberal political work in Germany impossible.

founding

From the summer of 1945, the first local liberal groups formed, but they were weak and fragmented. Many liberals tended to participate in the Democratic Union (from which the CDU Schleswig-Holstein emerged ). In the first appointed state parliament , the liberals were represented by Heinrich Ambrosius from February 26th , who, however, joined the CDU in March.

Other liberals wanted their own party. The local group in Pinneberg around the Elmshorn industrialist Peter Christel Asmussen formed the nucleus of the future FDP. At the founding meeting on March 28, 1946 in Neumünster , he was elected chairman and on April 11, 1946 appointed to the appointed state parliament. On May 14, 1946, the license was approved by the military government. After the FDP had achieved 6.1% of the vote in the local elections in Schleswig-Holstein on October 13, 1946, the number of FDP representatives in the appointed state parliament was increased to four.

The first regular state party conference of the FDP Schleswig-Holstein on November 26, 1946 in Neumünster confirmed Peter Christel Asmussen as state chairman.

Opposition time

In the state elections in Schleswig-Holstein in 1947 , the FDP only achieved 5% and received no state parliament mandate due to the right to vote, which strongly favored the major parties. The FDP was thus the largest extra-parliamentary opposition party.

The unsatisfactory result led to internal party discussions and a change at the top of the party. Fritz Oellers was elected as the new state chairman on January 29, 1947, and Peter Christel Asmussen was named honorary chairman.

In the 1949 federal election , the FDP Schleswig-Holstein rose to 7.4% and provided two members of the Bundestag. In preparation for the state elections in Schleswig-Holstein in 1950 , the bourgeois parties tried to avoid a situation in which the SPD Schleswig-Holstein could again achieve a majority in parliament despite a minority of votes thanks to the right to vote. An electoral bloc was therefore formed from the CDU, FDP and German party .

Government participation

In the elections, the FDP received 7.1% of the vote. The winner was not the electoral bloc, but the BHE , which was the first to run for elections. This result reflected the fact that Schleswig-Holstein had by far the highest proportion of refugees and displaced persons in the population. A coalition government consisting of the electoral bloc and the BHE under Walter Bartram was formed. In the Bartram cabinet , the FDP was represented by Economics Minister Hermann Andersen .

The FDP parliamentary group in the state parliament did not prove to be stable. Of the eight elected FDP MPs, four split off in 1952 as the "German Collection" (DS) and in 1953 joined the CDU. Not least as a result of these quarrels, the FDP was only able to have five members in the 1954 elections. The bourgeois government was confirmed, however, and the FDP was subsequently represented in the state government alongside the CDU until 1971. In the elections, the FDP achieved the following results:

• 7.5% (1954)
• 5.4% (1958)
• 7.9% (1962)
• 5.9% (1967)

Social liberal time

In 1963, at the state party congress in Husum, there was a vote for the state chairmanship. The incumbent state chairman, Bernhard Leverenz , failed to achieve a majority with 75 votes, and Otto Eisenmann , who had started calling for a demarcation from the CDU, became the new state chairman with 83 votes.

However, this shift to the left was not supported by the whole party. When the social-liberal coalition was decided at the federal level in 1969 , the left wing under Otto Eisenmann called for an end to the coalition with the CDU in the country as well. A slim majority, however, was in favor of continuing the coalition, whereupon Otto Eisenmann resigned.

In the state elections in 1971, the FDP achieved 3.8% of the vote and was no longer represented in the state parliament, while the CDU received an absolute majority. Gerhard Stoltenberg (CDU) became Prime Minister.

Even if the FDP was able to move into the state parliament again with five or four members in the following state elections in 1975 and 1979, it remained in the opposition together with the SPD.

1980s and 1990s

In 1983 Uwe Ronneburger resigned as state chairman, who had led the party for 13 years during the social-liberal period. The election of Werner Zywietz as the new state chairman coincided with a return of the FDP to the CDU and the change of coalition in Bonn. Again, as in 1971, the FDP swapped a large part of its voters and missed the 5% hurdle in the state elections on March 13, 1983 with 2.2%. In the state elections on September 13, 1987, they returned to the state parliament with 5.2% - and almost also into the government. In the state parliament there was a stalemate between black-yellow and the SPD / SSW. Due to the Barschel affair , there were new elections in the following year, in which the FDP failed again with 4.4% of the 5% hurdle.

The FDP has been represented in the state parliament without interruption since the state elections on April 5, 1992. However, the opposition benches also had to be pushed down in the following years. After the drawer affair, the Social Democrats lost their absolute majority, but were able to remain in government in a red-green coalition.

From the grand coalition to government

After the state elections in 2005, the result was almost as close as in 1987. The attempt to form a red-green minority government with tolerance of the SSW failed and a grand coalition was formed. It was not until the state elections on September 27, 2009 that he was able to return to government. With 14.9%, the FDP achieved the best result in its history. The FDP parliamentary group was represented by 14 members in the 95-seat state parliament. In the Cabinet Carstensen II , the FDP made since then three ministers: Heiner Garg as Minister of Labor, Social Affairs and Health and Ekkehard Klug as Minister for Education and Culture. The non-party Emil Schmalfuß became Minister for Justice, Equality and Integration on the FDP ticket.

New elections in May 2012

The 17th electoral period of the Schleswig-Holstein Landtag ended repeatedly before the end of the five-year legislative period. On August 30, 2010, the State Constitutional Court announced the verdict on the action brought by the Greens, the SSW and the Left against the distribution of mandates: the unconstitutional electoral law of the time was established. The new election that became necessary as a result took place on May 6, 2012. Under the leadership of its top candidate Wolfgang Kubicki, the FDP Schleswig-Holstein was able to achieve the second-best result in its history with 8.2 percent. Since then the FDP parliamentary group has consisted of six members: Wolfgang Kubicki (Rendsburg, Plön, Neumünster), Christopher Vogt (Ratzeburg, Pinneberg), Heiner Garg (Ostholstein, Segeberg), Anita Klahn (Oldesloe, Lübeck), Ekkehard Klug (Kiel, Schleswig , Flensburg) and Oliver Kumbartzky (Heide, Nordfriesland, Itzehoe).

program

The current program of the FDP Schleswig-Holstein is the program for the state elections 2017 “State election program 2017-2022” with the slogan “The best for Schleswig-Holstein”, which was decided on at the state party conference on February 25, 2017 in Kiel.

structure

organization

The FDP Schleswig-Holstein is divided into 15 district associations:

• Schleswig-Flensburg district association
• District Association of North Friesland
• Schleswig District Association
• District association Dithmarschen
• District association Rendsburg-Eckernförde
• District association Kiel
• District association Steinburg
• District association Neumünster
• District association Plön
• Ostholstein district association
• Segeberg district association
• Pinneberg district association
• Stormarn district association
• Lübeck district association
• District Association of the Duchy of Lauenburg

The political subjects are prepared in state committees:

• Agricultural policy
• Educational and cultural policy
• Financial and budgetary policy
• Social policy
• Health policy
• Domestic and legal policy
• International politics
• Organizational issues
• Spatial planning, town planning and housing
• Articles of Association
• Environmental and energy policy
• Economic and Transport Policy

Party leader

Years	Chairman
1946-1949	Peter Christel Asmussen
1949-1951	Fritz Oellers
1951-1952	Hans Revenstorff
1952-1963	Bernhard Leverenz
1963-1970	Otto Eisenmann
1970	Walter Peters (acting)
1970-1983	Uwe Ronneburger
1983-1985	Werner Zywietz
1985-1988	Wolf-Dieter Zumpfort
1988-1989	Jens Ruge
1989-1993	Wolfgang Kubicki
1993-2011	Jürgen Koppelin
since 2011	Heiner Garg

Honorary Chairwoman

• Peter Christel Asmussen
• Uwe Ronneburger
• Jürgen Koppelin

Parliamentary group

The FDP parliamentary group in Schleswig-Holstein has consisted of nine members since 2017 . The parliamentary group chairman is Christopher Vogt , who took over the office in December 2017 from Wolfgang Kubicki , who had previously been parliamentary group chairman for 25 years.

Group leaders

Years	Chairman
1946-1950	FDP was not represented in the state parliament
1952-1954	Curt Hoffmann
1954-1952	Heinrich Wolgast
1962-1963	Bernhard Leverenz
1963-1967	Hinrich Schröder
1967-1971	Hans-Joachim Herbst
1971-1975	FDP was not represented in the state parliament
1975-1980	Uwe Ronneburger
1980-1983	Neithart Neitzel
1983-1987	FDP was not represented in the state parliament
1987-1988	Wolf-Dieter Zumpfort
1988-1992	FDP was not represented in the state parliament
1992-1993	Wolfgang Kubicki
1993-1996	Ekkehard Klug
1996-2017	Wolfgang Kubicki
since 2017	Christopher Vogt

Results in the state elections

State election results
year	be right	Seats
1947	5.0%	0
1950	7.1%	8th
1954	7.5%	5
1958	5.4%	4th
1962	7.9%	5
1967	5.9%	4th
1971	3.8%	0
1975	7.1%	5
1979	5.7%	4th
1983	2.2%	0
1987	5.2%	4th
1988	4.4%	0
1992	5.6%	5
1996	5.7%	4th
2000	7.6%	7th
2005	6.6%	4th
2009	14.9%	14th
2012	8.2%	6th
2017	11.5%	9

Minister of the FDP

1950–1952, CDU / FDP / DP / GB / BHE coalition under Walter Bartram and Friedrich-Wilhelm Lübke :

• Hermann Andersen , Minister for Economics and Transport (1950–1952)

1954–1962, CDU / FDP / GB / BHE coalition under Kai-Uwe von Hassel :

• Bernhard Leverenz , Minister of Justice (1954–1962) and Deputy Prime Minister (1958–1962)

1963–1971, CDU / FDP coalition under Helmut Lemke :

• Hans-Hellmuth Qualen , Minister of Finance (1963–1971)
• Bernhard Leverenz , Minister of Justice (1963–1967)
• Otto Eisenmann , Minister for Labor, Social Affairs and Displaced Persons (1967–1969)

2009–2012, CDU / FDP coalition under Peter Harry Carstensen :

• Heiner Garg , Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Labor, Social Affairs and Health
• Ekkehard Klug , Minister for Education and Culture
• Emil Schmalfuß , Minister for Justice, Equality and Integration (independent, nominated by the FDP)

since 2017, CDU / FDP / Greens coalition under Daniel Günther

• Heiner Garg, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Labor, Social Affairs and Health
• Bernd Buchholz, for economy, traffic, work, technology and tourism

literature

• History of the regional association on the website of the FDP Schleswig-Holstein

Individual evidence

1. ^ Oskar Niedermayer : Party members in Germany. Version 2019. (PDF; 1.1 MB) In: fu-berlin.de. Retrieved July 30, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Further information on the MPs and their respective areas of responsibility ( memento of the original from December 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ State election program 2012–2017  ( 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. (PDF; 819 kB)  
4. ↑ District associations . In: FDP Landesverband Schleswig-Holstein . ( fdp-lv-sh.de [accessed October 20, 2017]). District associations ( Memento of the original from October 20, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ^ Results of the state elections in Schleswig-Holstein