Lassalle circle

Lassalle circle
Florian Boenigk;
Basic data
Establishment date	July 22, 2006
Place of foundation	Bonn
Chairman	Florian Boenigk
Addresses
address	Elberfelder Strasse, 10555 Berlin
Website	www.lassalle-kreis.de
structure
Members	350

The Lassalle-Kreis is an association of men and women who also belong to a student association and the SPD . The namesake is Ferdinand Lassalle , who was a fraternity member of the Old Breslau fraternity and one of the founding fathers of the SPD.

Content profile and goals

The most important figures of the early German labor movement: Ferdinand Lassalle (bottom right) and Wilhelm Liebknecht (top right) were part of the company, presumably also Karl Marx (center).

Members united the view that social democracy and student associations share similar core beliefs. The Lassalle Circle has set itself the goal of building bridges for a lively dialogue between social democrats and corporates.

Emergence

The Lassalle-Kreis was founded on July 22, 2006 in Bonn by a group of corporate social democrats under the name Lassalle-Kreis / Arbeitskreis Sozialer und Demokratie Korporierte (AKSK). This was preceded by a call for the establishment of a “working group of social democratic corporates”, which was mainly distributed via the Internet.

The reason for this founding call was an order from the federal party congress of the SPD in Karlsruhe to the party executive on November 16, 2005. The executive committee was commissioned to check whether the "membership in a student fraternity or in a corps " was fundamentally incompatible with membership in the SPD could be explained. The request was justified by a delegate as follows:

"We don't need sexists and racists in the SPD."

This decision was preceded by years of efforts by the Jusos and the Juso university groups to exclude members of student associations, regardless of which umbrella organization, from their ranks. Functionaries of the Jusos were also in charge of the demand for a general incompatibility resolution.

After violent protests from the associations concerned, the project group involved in the decision made it clear that only member associations of the umbrella organization of the German fraternity were affected by the decision. On March 27, 2006, the presidium and executive committee of the SPD agreed that membership in a fraternity that belongs to the fraternity - a cartel within the DB - is not compatible with membership in the SPD. This significantly softened the original resolution and led to vehement protests by the Jusos and the Juso university groups, the aim of which had been the extensive exclusion of liaison members from the SPD.

Many of the corporate social democrats who would have been affected by the original incompatibility decision were angry about the allegations formulated in the motion, which in their eyes completely contradicted the reality of life in their associations. There were considerations among corporates to found an association within the SPD, similar to the Jusos or the working group of social democratic women , in order to dispel prejudices against student associations and misunderstandings and to be able to face hostile currents more effectively.

At a general meeting in 2008, it was decided to rename the organization to its current name.

literature

Manfred Blänkner, Axel Bernd Kunze (ed.): Red flags, colorful ribbons. Corporated Social Democrats from Lassalle to date . Dietz, Bonn 2016, ISBN 978-3-8012-0481-5 .

Web links

Website of the Lassalle Circle
Lassalle circle criticizes Göttinger Jusos , deputy. Federal Chairman Manfred Blänkner in conversation, Göttinger Tageblatt , August 19, 2015.
Guntmar Wolff: Lassalle-Kreis presents book , Lippische Landes-Zeitung , March 22, 2016.
Christopher Dowe: Red lad glory? , Book review, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , September 19, 2016.

Individual evidence

↑ »Lassalle-Kreis: History . Accessed March 10, 2017.

[1] »Lassalle-Kreis: History . Accessed March 10, 2017.