Federal Association of Liberal University Groups
| Federal Association of Liberal University Groups | |
|---|---|
| Chairperson | logo |
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Tabea Gandelheidt |
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| Basic data | |
| Art | Student association |
| Alignment | liberalism |
| Establishment date | 17th December 1987 |
| Place of foundation | Cologne |
| Chairperson | Tabea Gandelheidt |
| Deputy |
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| Manager | Sarah Wischnewski |
| Addresses | |
| address | Reinhardtstrasse 14, 10117 Berlin |
| Website | www.liberale-hochschulgruppen.de |
| structure | |
| structure | 64 local groups (as of May 2016) |
| Memberships | LYMEC |
The Federal Association of Liberal University Groups (LHG) is a German political student association that is close to the Free Democratic Party (FDP). This is the LHG's “parliamentary contact”. According to its own information, it has 67 member groups nationwide and, along with RCDS and Juso university groups, is one of the three largest student associations in Germany .
At the European level, the LHG is a member of LYMEC and co-founder of the European Liberal Students Network (ELSN) within LYMEC. Former members of the LHG groups who have finished their studies, there is the possibility of membership in the Association of Liberal Academics .
structure
Like most student associations, the Liberal University Groups are also legally organized independently of the “parent party”, and membership in the association is not linked to party membership.
The federal association consists of local groups whose work is largely independent of decisions made at federal and state association level.
In addition, there are currently (as of January 2020) regional associations in Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg, Berlin-Brandenburg, Bremen, Hesse, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saxony and Saarland. However, these do not have a separate position in the federal association, but are bound by its statutes. A “regional association” does not have to be limited to a single federal state, but can also include groups from several federal states.
The federal association has three main tasks: First, it trains the members of the local groups for their political activities and coordinates their work. Second, it drives university and science policy programs from a student perspective. Thirdly, it sees itself as a lobby group for student interests vis-à-vis politics, here primarily the parent party.
The organs of the federal association are the federal executive board, the federal members' assembly and the federal arbitration tribunal. The Federal Members' Assembly as the highest decision-making body meets every six months. The federal board is elected annually, usually in the winter semester.
Documents of the Federal Association are kept in the Archives of Liberalism of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom in Gummersbach .
history
Liberal university groups with explicit party references have existed in Germany since the Weimar Republic . At that time split into the left-liberal Reichsbund Deutscher Demokratieischer Studenten and the national -liberal university groups of the German People's Party , they only played a minor role at the time. The Liberal Student Union of Germany (LSD) was founded in 1950 (in the western zones) , but it separated from the FDP in the course of the student movement in 1968/69 and soon disintegrated. As a de facto successor, two associations emerged, the more left-wing Liberal University Association (LHV, later Radical Democratic Student Groups) and the Social Liberal University Association (SLH), which was founded in 1968 as the German Student Union .
After the break of the social-liberal coalition in 1982, the LHV and the FDP officially separated. In 1987 around 40 university groups from the SLH, Liberal Student Initiative (LSI), JuLi university groups and some independent groups founded the Federal Association of Liberal University Groups. For the first time since the LSD was separated from the FDP in 1969, there was again a joint nationwide umbrella organization for all liberal students.
In 2013 the Federal Association of Liberal University Groups celebrated its 25th anniversary in Bonn.
Chair of the LHG
- Inka Goos (now judge) (December 17, 1987 to January 15, 1989)
- Peter Kuhlmeier (January 15, 1989 to November 12, 1989)
- Lukas Werner (November 12, 1989 to January 20, 1991)
- Beate Engelhardt (January 20, 1991 to January 19, 1992)
- Christian Etzrodt (January 19, 1992 to October 24, 1992)
- Bernd-Alfred Bartels (October 24, 1992 to January 23, 1994)
- Knut Wuhler (January 23, 1994 to February 5, 1995)
- Carl Sonnenschein (February 5, 1995 to February 4, 1996)
- Gunnar Pietsch (February 4, 1996 to February 9, 1997)
- Britta Paulekat (February 9, 1997 to February 1, 1998)
- Sandra von Münster (February 1, 1998 to February 6, 2000)
- Raoul Michael Koether (February 6, 2000 to April 20, 2002)
- Marcel Luthe (April 20, 2002 to May 24, 2003)
- Martin Hörig (May 25, 2003 to December 17, 2005)
- Götz Galuba (December 17, 2005 to January 20, 2007)
- Daniel George (January 20, 2007 to January 30, 2009)
- Johannes Knewitz (January 30, 2009 to January 21, 2011)
- Kristina Kämpfer (January 21, 2011 to January 27, 2012)
- Josephine Victoria Dietzsch (January 27, 2012 to January 26, 2014)
- Julia Buschhorn (January 26, 2014 to January 23, 2015)
- Sascha Lucas (January 23, 2015 to June 26, 2015)
- Alexander Schopf (June 26, 2015 to January 16, 2016)
- Johannes Dallheimer (January 16, 2016 to January 12, 2019)
- Lukas Tiltmann (January 12, 2019 to January 10, 2020)
- Tabea Gandelheidt (since January 10, 2020)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Political university groups in Germany. In: uniturm.de. Retrieved July 8, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Association. liberale-hochschulgruppen.de, accessed on January 16, 2020 .
- ↑ Groups and regional associations. liberale-hochschulgruppen.de, accessed on January 16, 2020 .