Freedom German People's Party

The Freedom German People's Party (short name: FDVP ) was a right-wing populist party in Germany, which was founded on February 15, 2000 at the federal level by nine former members of the DVU parliamentary group of the Saxony-Anhalt state parliament and existed until 2003 when it joined the German party (DP) merged. As a result, the DP was given the suffix Die Freiheitlichen .

history

The founding of the party was preceded by internal party quarrels with Federal Chairman Gerhard Frey . After the DVU had achieved a sensational election success with 12.9% in the state elections in Saxony-Anhalt on April 26, 1998 and had moved into the local state parliament with 16 members, there were more and more personal disputes in the parliamentary group, as a result of which the In 2000, nine MPs left the DVU and founded the FDVP, which saw itself as the German counterpart to the Austrian FPÖ .

On June 18, 2000, the second regional association of Thuringia, the FDVP, was founded.

During the legislative period , two FDVP MPs returned to the DVU, Mirko Mokry also turned his back on them at the end of 2001 as a subsequently non-attached MP. In the state elections in Saxony-Anhalt in 2002 it only achieved 0.8%, thus failing the five percent hurdle and was therefore no longer represented in the state parliament, despite the fact that the DVU, Republicans and the NPD did not run in this election. In October 2003 it was absorbed by the DP, which then expanded its party name to include Die Freiheitlichen .

Content profile

At its first federal party congress on May 7, 2000, the federal chairman of the FDVP and former DVU member of Saxony-Anhalt, Claudia Wiechmann , declared that the new party was mainly committed to the protection of national interests, the preservation of German identity, plebiscitary self-determination and the wanted to use special protection for families and children. In its 2000 report, the Thuringian Office for the Protection of the Constitution stated that “parallel to the split from the DVU, there was no clear distance between the FDVP in Thuringia” . This was particularly true with regard to their “ xenophobic and subliminally anti-Semitic attitude” . It should be classified as anti-constitutional and right-wing extremist (Verfassungsschutzbericht Freistaat Sachsen 2002). However , it was not classified as right-wing extremist in the Office for the Protection of the Constitution 2001 and 2003 of the Federal Ministry of the Interior .

literature

• Armin Pfahl-Traughber : Freedom German People's Party - The Freedom in Germany (FDVP) . In: Frank Decker , Viola Neu (Ed.): Handbook of German political parties . 2nd edition, Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2013, ISBN 978-3-658-00962-5 , p. 297.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Constitutional Protection Report 2001
2. ↑ State Ministry of the Interior, State Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Saxony (ed.): Dresden Verfassungsschutzbericht 2002 . 2003, p. 12 f.
3. ↑ Federal Ministry of the Interior (ed.): Verfassungsschutzbericht 2001 . Berlin 2002, p. 114.
4. ↑ Federal Ministry of the Interior (ed.): Verfassungsschutzbericht 2003 . Berlin 2004, p. 255.