List of FDP federal party conferences
The list of FDP federal party conventions contains all federal party conventions of the Free Democratic Party , subdivided into the ordinary and extraordinary federal party conventions as well as the federal representative assemblies, Europe days and European party conferences.
Ordinary federal party congresses (until unification in 1990)
 
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Federal party congresses of the FDP from 1948 to 1990 |
| No. | date | place | Summary |
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| Founding party conference | 11-12 December 1948 | Heppenheim | Merger of all 13 liberal regional associations of the three western occupation zones to form the FDP. Adoption of the “ Heppenheim Proclamation ”. Election of Theodor Heuss as chairman and Franz Blücher as deputy. |
| 1st Federal Party Congress | 10-12 June 1949 | Bremen | "Election party convention" before the 1949 federal election . Adoption of the "Bremen Platform". |
| 2nd Federal Party Congress | 29-30 April 1950 | Dusseldorf | First federal party conference under the new chairman Franz Blücher, the successor to Theodor Heuss , who was elected Federal President in September 1949 . Election of Hermann Schäfer as deputy chairman. Adoption of the “Guiding Principles for Cultural Policy”. |
| 3rd Federal Party Congress | 18.-23. September 1951 | Munich | Resolutions on the amnesty of war criminals and on the restructuring of the federal territory . |
| 4th Federal Party Congress | 18.-22. November 1952 | Bad Ems | Wing dispute in the FDP ends with a compromise. |
| 5th Federal Party Congress | 3rd to 5th March 1954 | Wiesbaden | Election of Thomas Dehler instead of Franz Blücher as chairman and of Friedrich Middelhauve , Hermann Schäfer and Carl-Hubert Schwennicke as deputy chairmen. |
| 6th Federal Party Congress | 25-26 March 1955 | Oldenburg | Election of Wilhelm Nowack , Wolfgang Haußmann and Friedrich Middelhauve as deputy chairmen. Discussion about the Saar Statute. |
| 7th Federal Party Congress | 20-21 April 1956 | Wurzburg | New election of the federal board. Election of Erich Mende , Wolfgang Haußmann and Oswald Adolph Kohut as deputy chairmen. Adoption of the "Würzburg Resolution". |
| 8th Federal Party Congress | 24.-26. January 1957 | Berlin | Election of Reinhold Maier instead of Thomas Dehler as chairman and of Erich Mende, Oswald Adolph Kohut and Willy Max Rademacher as deputy chairmen. Adoption of the “ Berlin Program ”. |
| 9th Federal Party Congress | 28-29 March 1958 | Dusseldorf | New election of the federal board. Election of Erich Mende, Oswald Adolph Kohut and Bernhard Leverenz as deputy chairmen. |
| 10th Federal Party Congress | 21-23 May 1959 | Berlin | Confirmation of the chairman Reinhold Maier and his deputies Mende, Kohut and Leverenz in their offices. |
| 11th Federal Party Congress | 28-29 January 1960 | Stuttgart | Election of Erich Mende instead of Reinhold Maier as chairman and of Oswald Kohut, Hans Lenz and Heinrich Schneider as deputy chairmen. |
| 12th Federal Party Congress | 23-25 March 1961 | Frankfurt am Main | Adoption of a call for parliamentary elections in 1961 . Resolutions "For a healthy and efficient agriculture" and "Healthy lifestyle in a healthy environment". |
| 13th Federal Party Congress | 23-25 May 1962 | Dusseldorf | New election of the federal board. Election of Hans Lenz, Bernhard Leverenz and Wolfgang Döring as deputy chairmen. Interim balance after a year of coalition with the CDU as well as discussion on Germany policy after the construction of the Berlin Wall. |
| 14th Federal Party Congress | 1st - 3rd July 1963 | Munich | Presentation of the so-called Mischnick plan for pension reform. |
| 15th Federal Party Congress | 1st - 3rd June 1964 | Duisburg | New election of the federal board. Election of Willi Weyer , Ewald Bucher and Wolfgang Mischnick as deputy chairmen. |
| 16th Federal Party Congress | 21-23 March 1965 | Frankfurt am Main | Hildegard Hamm-Brücher presented the educational situation in West Germany . |
| 17th Federal Party Congress | 6-7 June 1966 | Nuremberg | New election of the federal board with confirmation of the previous one. Discussion about the East, Germany and tax policy as well as the continuation of the coalition with the CDU / CSU. |
| 18th Federal Party Congress | 3rd to 5th April 1967 | Hanover | Adoption of the “Goals of Progress. Action program of the Free Democratic Party (107 theses) ”. |
| 19th Federal Party Congress | 29.-31. January 1968 | Freiburg | Election of Walter Scheel instead of Erich Mende as chairman and of Hans-Dietrich Genscher , Wolfgang Mischnick and Hermann Müller as deputy chairmen. Speech duel between Ralf Dahrendorf and Rudi Dutschke . |
| 20th Federal Party Congress | 23-25 June 1969 | Nuremberg | Adoption of the “Nuremberg Election Platform”, the program for the 1969 Bundestag election . |
| 21st Federal Party Congress | 22.-24. June 1970 | Bonn | New election of the federal board with confirmation of the previous one. |
| 22nd Federal Party Congress | 25-27 October 1971 | Freiburg | Adoption of the “ Freiburg Theses ”. Election of the first general secretary Karl-Hermann Flach . |
| 23rd Federal Party Congress | 23-25 October 1972 | Freiburg | New election of the federal board. Election of Hans-Dietrich Genscher, Hildegard Hamm-Brücher and Wolfgang Mischnick as deputy chairmen. |
| 24th Federal Party Congress | 12-14 November 1973 | Wiesbaden | Adoption of the "Wiesbaden guidelines for liberal media policy". |
| 25th Federal Party Congress | September 30 - October 2, 1974 | Hamburg | Election of Hans-Dietrich Genscher instead of Walter Scheel as chairman and of Wolfgang Mischnick, Hildegard Hamm-Brücher and Hans Friderichs as deputy chairmen. Adoption of the “Free Church in the Free State” paper. |
| 26th Federal Party Congress | 27.-29. October 1975 | Mainz | Adoption of the "Perspectives on Liberal Germany Policy ". |
| 27th Federal Party Congress | 19. – 20. November 1976 | Frankfurt am Main | New election of the federal board. Election of Hans Friderichs, Wolfgang Mischnick and Uwe Ronneburger as deputy chairmen. Adoption of a health policy paper. |
| 28th Federal Party Congress | 6-8 November 1977 | Kiel | Adoption of the “ Kiel Theses ” and a resolution on energy policy. |
| 29th Federal Party Congress | 12-14 November 1978 | Mainz | New election of the federal board. Election of Liselotte Funcke , Wolfgang Mischnick and Uwe Ronneburger as deputy chairmen. Adoption of an "Equal Rights Program". |
| 30th Federal Party Congress | 15-17 June 1979 | Bremen | Adoption of the paper "FDP and environmental protection ". |
| 31st Federal Party Congress | 5th-6th December 1980 | Munich | New election of the federal board with confirmation of the previous one. Resolutions on the subject of "Bundeswehr and Society" and on peace and détente policy. |
| 32nd Federal Party Congress | 29.-31. May 1981 | Cologne | Adoption of papers on “Politics for Peace and Security”, “Environmental Policy for the 80s” and an “ FDP Anti- Drug Program”. |
| 33rd Federal Party Congress | 5th-7th November 1982 | Berlin | New election of the federal board. Election of Gerhart Baum , Wolfgang Mischnick and Jürgen Morlok as deputy chairmen. Party congress shortly after the end of the social-liberal coalition with the resignation of some prominent members. |
| 34th Federal Party Congress | 18.-20. November 1983 | Karlsruhe | Adoption of a paper on “Peace and Security Policy for the 1980s”. |
| 35th Federal Party Congress | 1st - 3rd June 1984 | Muenster | New election of the federal board with confirmation of the previous one. Adoption of ten theses on European unification and a paper on employment policy. |
| 36th Federal Party Congress | 23–24 February 1985 | Saarbrücken | Election of Martin Bangemann instead of Hans-Dietrich Genscher as chairman. Adoption of the “ Liberal Manifesto ”. |
| 37th Federal Party Congress | 23-25 May 1986 | Hanover | New election of the federal board. Election of Gerhart Baum, Wolfgang Gerhardt and Jürgen Morlok as deputy chairmen. Adoption of papers on the priorities of liberal foreign, Germany, security, European and development policy. |
| 38th Federal Party Congress | 5th-6th September 1987 | Kiel | Adoption of a paper “To maintain inner peace”. |
| 39th Federal Party Congress | 7th-8th October 1988 | Wiesbaden | Election of Otto Graf Lambsdorff in place of Martin Bangemann as chairman and Irmgard Adam-Schwaetzer , Gerhart Baum and Wolfgang Gerhardt as deputy chairmen. Adoption of the "Wiesbaden Declaration". |
| 40th Federal Party Congress | 27.-28. May 1989 | Cologne | Adoption of a paper on “The Europe of the Future”. |
Ordinary federal party conferences (from the unification)
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Federal party congresses of the FDP from 1991 |
| No. | date | place | Summary |
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| 41st Federal Party Congress | 29-30 September 1990 | Nuremberg | Adoption of the “Action Program” for the 1990 Bundestag election . |
| 42nd Federal Party Congress | 1st - 3rd November 1991 | Suhl | Confirmation of Otto Graf Lambsdorff as Chairman and election of Uwe-Bernd Lühr as the new Secretary General. |
| 43rd Federal Party Congress | 2-3 October 1992 | Bremen | New election of the federal board. Election of Irmgard Adam-Schwaetzer, Rainer Ortleb and Wolfgang Gerhardt as deputy chairmen. |
| 44th Federal Party Congress | 11-13 June 1993 | Muenster | Election of Klaus Kinkel instead of Otto Graf Lambsdorff as chairman. |
| 45th Federal Party Congress | 3rd to 5th June 1994 | Rostock | Approval of the program for the 1994 federal election . |
| 46th Federal Party Congress | 9-11 June 1995 | Mainz | Election of Wolfgang Gerhardt instead of Klaus Kinkel as chairman. Jürgen W. Möllemann was a rival candidate. |
| 47th Federal Party Congress | 7th-9th June 1996 | Karlsruhe | Submission of the draft of a new policy program. |
| 48th Federal Party Congress | 23-25 May 1997 | Wiesbaden | New election of the federal board. Election of Rainer Brüderle , Cornelia Pieper and Cornelia Schmalz-Jacobsen as deputy chairmen. Adoption of the " Wiesbaden principles ". |
| 49th Federal Party Congress | 26.-28. June 1998 | Leipzig | Adoption of the program for the 1998 Bundestag election . |
| 50th Federal Party Congress | 28-30 May 1999 | Bremen | New election of the federal board. Election of Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger , Jürgen Möllemann and Günter Rexrodt as deputy chairmen. |
| 51st Federal Party Congress | 16.-17. June 2000 | Nuremberg | Resolutions for a direct election of the Federal President and greater citizen participation . |
| 52nd Federal Party Congress | 4th-6th May 2001 | Dusseldorf | New election of the federal board. Election of Guido Westerwelle instead of Wolfgang Gerhardt as chairman and of Rainer Brüderle, Walter Döring and Jürgen Möllemann as deputy chairmen. |
| 53rd Federal Party Congress | 10-12 May 2002 | Mannheim | Adoption of the program for the 2002 Bundestag election . |
| 54th Federal Party Congress | 16.-17. May 2003 | Bremen | New election of the federal board. Election of Rainer Brüderle, Walter Döring and Andreas Pinkwart as deputy chairmen. |
| 55th Federal Party Congress | 5th-6th June 2004 | Dresden | Adoption of the “Ten Liberal Principles on the Transatlantic Relationship” and decision to suspend conscription . |
| 56th Federal Party Congress | 5th-7th May 2005 | Cologne | New election of the federal board. Election of Rainer Brüderle, Cornelia Pieper and Andreas Pinkwart as deputy chairmen. |
| 57th Federal Party Congress | 14.-15. May 2006 | Rostock | Environmental policy decision. |
| 58th Federal Party Congress | 15-17 June 2007 | Stuttgart | New election of the federal board. Confirmation by Rainer Brüderle, Cornelia Pieper and Andreas Pinkwart as deputy chairmen. |
| 59th Federal Party Congress | May 30th - June 1st, 2008 | Munich | Resolutions to coordinate the tax system and social benefits as well as to introduce citizens' benefits . |
| 60th Federal Party Congress | 15-17 May 2009 | Hanover | New election of the federal board. Adoption of the program for the 2009 Bundestag election . |
| 61st Federal Party Congress | 24.-25. April 2010 | Cologne | Election of Christian Lindner to replace Dirk Niebel as the new Secretary General. |
| 62nd Federal Party Congress | 13-15 May 2011 | Rostock | New election of the federal board. Election of Philipp Rösler in place of Guido Westerwelle as chairman and of Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger , Birgit Homburger , Holger Zastrow as deputy chairmen. |
| 63rd Federal Party Congress | April 22, 2012 | Karlsruhe | Adoption of the " Karlsruhe Theses of Freedom ". |
| 64th Federal Party Congress | March 9, 2013 | Berlin | Motto of the party congress: "So that Germany stays ahead". New election of the federal board. Election of Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, Christian Lindner and Holger Zastrow as deputy chairmen. |
| 65th Federal Party Congress | 10-11 May 2014 | Dresden | Decision on a pension concept. |
| 66th Federal Party Congress | 15-17 May 2015 | Berlin | Motto of the party congress: "German courage". New election of the federal board. Election of Wolfgang Kubicki , Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann and Katja Suding as deputy chairmen. |
| 67th Federal Party Congress | 23–24 April 2016 | Berlin | Motto of the party congress: "Beta Republic of Germany". |
| 68th Federal Party Congress | 28-30 April 2017 | Berlin | Motto of the party congress: “Let's stop watching”. New election of the federal board. Confirmation of Wolfgang Kubicki, Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann and Katja Suding as deputy chairmen. Adoption of the program for the 2017 federal election . |
| 69th Federal Party Congress | 12-13 May 2018 | Berlin | Motto of the party congress: "Innovation Nation". |
| 70th Federal Party Congress | 26.-28. April 2019 | Berlin | Motto of the party congress: "A country grows with its people". New election of the federal board. Election of Wolfgang Kubicki, Nicola Beer and Katja Suding as deputy chairmen and Linda Teuteberg as general secretary. |
| 71st Federal Party Congress | 19th September 2020 | Berlin | The original plan was May 16-17, 2020. This date has been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic . |
| 72nd Federal Party Congress | 14.-16. May 2021 | Berlin |
Extraordinary federal party conferences and electoral congresses
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Extraordinary federal party congresses and election congresses of the FDP |
Federal representative assemblies, Europe days and European party conferences
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Federal representative assemblies, Europe days and European party conferences of the FDP |
| No. | date | Event hall / location |
Summary |
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| FDP Federal Representative Assembly 1979 | 3rd February 1979 | Congress and event center Eurogress Aachen |
Creation of the list for the 1979 European elections and the election of Martin Bangemann as the top candidate. |
| FDP Federal Representative Assembly 1984 | January 21, 1984 | Leverkusen | Creation of the list for the European elections in 1984 and renewed election of Martin Bangemann as the top candidate. |
| FDP Federal Representative Assembly 1988 | October 9, 1988 |
Rhein-Main-Hallen Wiesbaden |
Creation of the list for the European elections in 1989 and the election of Rüdiger von Wechmar as the top candidate. |
| FDP Federal Representative Assembly 1994 | January 22, 1994 | Hanover | Creation of the list for the European elections in 1994 and the election of Uta Würfel as the top candidate. |
| FDP Europe Day 1999 | January 23, 1999 |
Congress Center of Messe Frankfurt am Main |
Adoption of the program for the 1999 European elections and election of Helmut Haussmann as the top candidate. |
| FDP Europe Day 2004 (January) | January 17, 2004 | Saarbrücken | Adoption of the program for the 2004 European elections and election of Silvana Koch-Mehrin as the top candidate. |
| FDP Europe Day 2004 (March) | March 28, 2004 |
Bundeshaus Bonn |
Re-election of Europe Day on January 17th due to a formal error. |
| FDP European Party Congress 2009 | January 17, 2009 |
Estrel Convention Center Berlin |
Adoption of the program for the 2009 European elections and renewed election of Silvana Koch-Mehrin as the top candidate. |
| FDP European Party Congress 2014 | 19th January 2014 |
Maritim Hotel Bonn |
Adoption of the program for the 2014 European elections and election of Alexander Graf Lambsdorff as the top candidate. |
| FDP European Party Congress 2019 | January 27, 2019 |
STATION-Berlin Berlin |
Election of candidates for the 2019 European elections |
statistics
Distribution of federal party congresses, extraordinary federal party conventions, election congresses and European party congresses among the federal states
| Party congress | total | BW | BY | BE | BB | HB | HH | HE | MV | NI | NW | RP | SL | SN | ST | SH | TH |
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| Ordinary federal party congresses until 1990 | 42 | 5 | 7th | 3 | 2 | 1 | 7th | 3 | 8th | 3 | 1 | 2 | |||||
| Ordinary federal party congresses from 1990 | 28 | 4th | 2 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4th | 1 | 3 | 1 | |||||
| Extraordinary federal party conferences and electoral congresses | 25th | 4th | 2 | 7th | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Federal representative assemblies, Europe days and European party conferences | 9 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4th | 1 | |||||||||||
| total | 104 | 13 | 11 | 16 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 11 | 3 | 8th | 19th | 5 | 2 | 3 | - | 3 | 2 |
Media from federal party conferences
Program for the founding party conference in 1948
Invitation to the federal party conference in 1950
Schedule of the Federal Party Congress 1951
Flag of the ao federal party conference 1953
Invitation and delegate card to the 1954 federal party conference
Logo of the Federal Party Congress 1957
Invitation to the federal party conference in 1969
Federal Party Congress 1975: Genscher, Friderichs
Federal Party Congress 1976
Federal Party Congress 1977
Federal Party Congress 1978
Extraordinary Federal Party Congress 1980: Rudolf Augstein
Federal Party Congress 1981
Extraordinary Federal Party Congress 1983
Federal Party Congress 1986
Invitation to the unification party conference in 1990
Federal Party Congress 2009
Federal Party Congress 2013
Europe Day 2014
Federal Party Congress 2015
literature
- Jürgen Dittberner : The FDP. History, people, organization, perspectives , VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2nd edition, Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 978-3-531-17494-5 , pp. 170–172.
- Friedrich Naumann Foundation : The Liberals' Program. Ten years of program work by the FDP from 1980 to 1990. Nomos, Baden-Baden 1990, ISBN 3-7890-2111-3 .
- Wolfgang Gerhardt (Ed.): The power of freedom. History, present and future of liberalism. Hohenheim, Stuttgart / Leipzig 2008, ISBN 978-3-89850-165-1 .
- Peter Juling : Programmatic development of the FDP 1946 to 1969. Introduction and documents. Anton Hain Verlag, Meisenheim 1977, ISBN 3-445-01529-5 .
- Heino Kaack : On the history and program of the Free Democratic Party. Floor plan and materials , Anton Hain Verlag, Meisenheim 1976, ISBN 3-445-01380-2 .
- Heino Kaack : The FDP outline and materials on history, structure and program , 3rd updated and expanded edition, Anton Hain Verlag, Meisenheim am Glan 1979, ISBN 3-445-01932-0 .
- Wolfgang Mischnick (Hrsg.): Responsibility for freedom. 40 years of the FDP DVA, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-421-06500-4 .
- Walter Scheel / Otto Graf Lambsdorff (ed.): Freedom in responsibility. German liberalism since 1945. History, people, perspectives. Bleicher, Gerlingen 1998, ISBN 3-88350-047-X .
- Reinhard Schiffers (edit.): FDP federal board. The Liberals chaired by Erich Mende. Meeting minutes 1960–1967 , Droste, Düsseldorf 1993, ISBN 3-7700-5175-0 .
- Günter Verheugen (ed.): The program of the liberals. Ten years of program work by the FDP, 2nd edition, Nomos, Baden-Baden 1980, ISBN 3-7890-0623-8 .
- Udo Wengst (edit.): FDP federal executive. The Liberals chaired by Theodor Heuss and Franz Blücher. Minutes of meetings 1949–1954. 2 half volumes, Droste, Düsseldorf 1990, ISBN 3-7700-5159-9 .
- Udo Wengst (edit.): FDP federal executive. The Liberals chaired by Thomas Dehler and Reinhold Maier. Minutes of meetings 1954–1960 . Droste, Düsseldorf 1991, ISBN 3-7700-5163-7 .
Web links
Commons : Federal party congresses of the FDP - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Wiktionary: Federal Party Congress - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
Individual evidence
- ^ Information from: Archiv des Liberalismus ( www.freiheit.org/archiv-des-liberalismus ) (ADL), holdings of the FDP Federal Party Rallies, A1-1.
- ↑ Brief information on the last three party conventions 2016-2018 on the FDP website.
- ^ FDP: Decision of the federal executive committee of the FDP for the 68th ordinary federal party conference. (PDF) February 1, 2016, accessed September 17, 2016 .
- ^ FDP: 69th Ord. Federal Party Congress. Retrieved March 26, 2017 .
- ^ FDP: 70th Ordinary Federal Party Congress of Free Democrats. Retrieved July 29, 2018 .
- ↑ 71st ordinary federal party conference. Retrieved June 19, 2020 .
- ^ STATION Berlin Luckenwalder Strasse 4 10963 Berlin: 72nd Ordinary Federal Party Congress. Retrieved June 19, 2020 .
- ↑ FDP: Decision of the federal executive committee of the FDP for the extra federal party conference 2017. (PDF) February 6, 2017, accessed on February 23, 2017 .
- ↑ FDP will decide on the program for the European elections . In: portal liberal . ( liberale.de [accessed on February 28, 2017]).
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