Heppenheim Proclamation
The Heppenheim Proclamation consists of seven fundamental theses under a preamble, which were adopted at the founding congress of the Free Democratic Party in Heppenheim on December 12, 1948. They represent the first fundamental declarations and demands of the united West German liberal FDP of 1948.
The Heppenheim proclamation was not yet a fully fledged party program . It was replaced in 1957 by the Berlin program of the Free Democratic Party as the first basic program of the FDP.
background
Liberalism is the oldest of the modern political movements. It comes from the Enlightenment . The Free Democratic Party (FDP) stands in the tradition of classical liberalism , but it is a political re-establishment of the post-war period after the Second World War in Germany .
The Heppenheim proclamation and the founding party congress of the FDP belong in the context of the creation of the Federal German Basic Law 1948/49 on behalf of the three western occupying powers .
Under the motto “Unity in Freedom”, the founding party conference in Heppenheim resulted in the merger of 13 liberal regional associations in the three western zones of occupation . The West German "Free Democratic Party" emerged. The all-German liberal Democratic Party of Germany from 1947/48 had previously disintegrated. The left-liberal and national-liberal wing of the party were held together with great effort, through the fundamental Heppenheim commitment to a free market economy and the rejection of aspirations for socialism .
content
The Heppenheim proclamation contains a preamble and seven theses. These fundamental declarations by the West German FDP demand, among other things, a limitation of occupation costs, the exemption of German exports from existing restrictions, a tax reform that should encourage savings, and a burden equalization law .
literature
- Peter Juling : Programmatic development of the FDP 1946 to 1969. Introduction and documents. Anton Hain Verlag, Meisenheim 1977, ISBN 3-445-01529-5 .
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Text: Heppenheim Proclamation of December 12, 1948 (PDF; 362 kB)
- ^ Matthias Kortmann: The FDP program , dossier of the Federal Agency for Political Education .
- ↑ Jürgen Dittberner : The FDP: History, People, Organization, Perspektiven , 2nd edition, 2010, ISBN 9783531174945 , p. 33 f.
- ↑ KAS .
- ^ Karl G. Tempel: The parties in the Federal Republic of Germany and the role of the parties in the GDR , Wiesbaden 2013, ISBN 9783663097488 , p. 153 online .
Heppenheim Proclamation (1948) | Berlin Program (1957) | Freiburg Theses (1971) | Kiel Theses (1977) | The Liberal Manifesto (1985) | Wiesbaden Principles (1997) | Karlsruhe Theses of Freedom (2012)