Liberal women

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Liberal women
Chairperson logo
Jacqueline Kruger
 
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Basic data
Alignment liberalism
Establishment date 1990
Place of foundation Hamburg
Chairperson Jacqueline Kruger
Honorary Chairwoman Irmgard Schwaetzer
Deputy Tatjana Sosin

Henriette Panow
Heike Schaumann

Treasurer Anja Offermann
Addresses
Website www.liberale-frauen.de
structure

The Liberal Women are an independent political women's organization founded in Hamburg in 1990. They are close to the FDP and were officially recognized by them in 1994 as an advance organization .

history

In 1972 the FDP was the first of the Bundestag parties to pass a program for equal rights for women. In 1987 the federal executive committee of the FDP decided on a women's advancement plan with the aim of increasing the proportion of women on executive boards and parliaments. At the third FDP women's congress in Hamburg in autumn 1990, criticism of the FDP's policy to promote women was expressed from among the 600 participants. Then the Federal Association of Liberal Women eV was founded on the initiative of Irmgard Adam-Schwaetzer .

This association initially stood next to already existing women's organizations of the FDP. For example, there were FDP women's committees in NRW or FDP state working groups such as in Lower Saxony. The establishment of the Liberal Women was therefore not supported by party chairman Otto Graf Lambsdorff and general secretary Cornelia Schmalz-Jacobsen .

In 1997 the membership had grown to 450.

Background and political work

The organization of almost a thousand members of all age groups takes place, similar to the political parties, in the federal association and so far 14 regional associations. The members work actively on the politics of the FDP in various federal and state committees. In addition, they have the right to introduce political proposals and to make speeches at all party conventions of the FDP.

The Liberal Women support and promote the candidacies of women within the party, specifically address women and seek contact with other women's organizations.

In 2004, the general assembly adopted its own basic program under the title For a gender-equitable society . The aim of the program was to increase equal opportunities within society.

Documents of the Liberal Women are kept in the Archives of Liberalism of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom in Gummersbach (North Rhine-Westphalia).

By resolution of the FDP federal executive board , the federal chairwoman of the Liberal Women can attend its meetings without voting rights, provided that she is a member of the FDP.

Federal Chairperson

Irmgard Schwaetzer 1991, honorary chairwoman of the Liberal Women

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Dagmar Biegler: Women's Associations in Germany: Development Structures Political Integration, Volume 139 of Research Politics, 2013, ISBN 978-3-322-97540-9 , pp. 107-109, online