List of historical political parties in Germany

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The list of historical political parties in Germany lists the historical parties in Germany since 1848. For current political parties in Germany, see List of Political Parties in Germany .

Political groups in the Frankfurt National Assembly

The following parliamentary groups were represented in the Frankfurt National Assembly , the first freely elected parliament for all of Germany, which existed from May 18, 1848 to May 31, 1849:

Parties and political groups after 1848 until the founding of the German Empire

The German Imperium

Weimar Republic

Saarland 1945–1956

The Saarland was after the Second World War until 1 January 1957, a autonomous territory under a French protectorate . Accordingly, independent parties emerged after 1945. In the run-up to the referendum on the European Saar Statute in 1955, parties seeking reunification with the Federal Republic of Germany were also admitted.

German Democratic Republic

Parties of the National Front of the German Democratic Republic

SED - Socialist Unity Party of Germany (1946 emerged from the forced unification of the SPD and KPD , renamed SED-PDS in 1989, renamed PDS in 1990, renamed Die Linkspartei in 2005, merged with WASG and renamed Die Linke in 2007 )

Block parties

CDU - Christian Democratic Union of Germany (GDR) , founded in 1945, merged into the CDU in 1990
DBD - Democratic Peasant Party of Germany , founded in 1948, merged with the GDR CDU in 1990
LDPD - Liberal Democratic Party of Germany , founded in 1945 as LDP, in March 1990 merged with NDPD to form the Bund Free Democrats , in August 1990 merged into the FDP
NDPD - National Democratic Party of Germany , founded in 1948, merged with LDPD in March 1990 to form the Bund Free Democrats , in August 1990 merged with the FDP

Mass organizations

Independent parties in the turnaround time

In addition, a few other small parties emerged, some of which still exist today, including:

Furthermore, some small West German parties developed activity in the GDR, including the Bund Sozialistischer Arbeiter (BSA), the Christian League (CHRISTLICHE LIGA), the Seniors Protection Bund "GRAUE PANTHER" (SSB GP), the European Federalist Party Europe Party ( EFP) and the European Union of the GDR (EUdDDR)

In addition, parties competed in various electoral alliances, including:

Federal Republic of Germany

Founded between 1945 and 1959

BCSV - Baden Christian Social People's Party , founded in 1945, from 1947 Baden regional association of the CDU
BVP - Baden People's Party , regional party, founded in 1959, dissolved in 1970
BDV - Bremen Democratic People's Party , founded in 1945, joined the DVP in 1947, joined the FDP in 1947
BHE - Federation of Expellees and Disenfranchised , founded in 1950, from 1952 All-German Bloc / Union of Expellees and Disenfranchised (GB / BHE), 1961 merger with the German Party (DP) to form the All-German Party (GDP)
BHKP - Bavarian Homeland and Royal Party , founded in 1945
BdD - Federation of Germans, Party for Unity, Peace and Freedom , founded in 1953, de facto merged into the German Peace Union (DFU) in 1968
CNG - Christian National Community , 1959/60 as a spin-off from the CDU Saarland
CVP - Christian People's Party (1956–1957) , founded in 1956 through the merger of the Christian People's Party of the Saarland and the German Center Party , split again in 1957 into the two original parties
DPD - Democratic Party of Germany , founded in 1947, party work ceased in 1948
DAP - German rebuilding party , founded in 1945, merged in 1946 with the German Conservative Party to form the DKP-DRP
DG - German Association , created in 1949 from the German Union , in 1965 merged into the Action Group of Independent Germans (AUD)
DKP - German Conservative Party , founded in 1945, merged in 1946 with the German construction party to form the DKP-DRP
DKP-DRP - German Conservative Party - German right-wing party , emerged in 1946 from the German Construction Party and German Conservative Party, in 1950 with the National Democratic Party to the German Reich Party
DNS - umbrella organization of the National Collection , electoral alliance of various right-wing extremist parties, including the German Community and the German Block
The German Block , founded in 1947 as a spin-off from WAV, dissolved after 1952
DP - German party , founded in 1945 as Lower Saxony State Party (NLP), from 1946 DP, 1961 merger with GB / BHD to form GDP, re-established in 1962 as a spin-off from GDP, 1980 conversion to association, 1993 re-establishment
DRP - German Reich Party , founded in 1950 through the merger of DKP-DRP and National Democratic Party, dissolved in 1965
DSP - German Social Party - Independent Association of Expellees and Disenfranchised, founded in 1950
DSP - German Social Union , founded in 1956, dissolved in 1962
DemP - Democratic Party , founded in 1946, from 1948 Baden regional association of the FDP
DP - Democratic Party of Rhineland-Palatinate , emerged in 1947 from the Liberal Party of the Rhineland (LP) and the Social Volksbund (SV), from 1948 the Rhineland-Palatinate state association of the FDP
DVP - Democratic People's Party , founded in 1945, merged in 1952 with the Baden FDP to form the FDP / DVP, Baden-Württemberg regional association of the FDP
EVD - European People's Movement in Germany , 1949
FVP - Free People's Party , founded in 1956 as a spin-off from the FDP, merged with DP in 1957
FDV - Free German People's Party , created in 1957 from the Berlin regional association of the FVP, dissolved in 1968
FU - Federal Union , 1951–53 parliamentary group of the Bavarian Party, Center and later SSW, 1957 electoral alliance of the Center, Bavarian Party and German-Hanoverian Party
FSP - Free Social Party , incorporated into FSU in 1950
FSU - Free Social Union , from about 1958 free Social Union, starting in 1968 with the additional designation Democratic center in 2001 Human Wirtschaftspartei risen
GVP - All-German People's Party , founded in 1952, dissolved in 1957
Hamburg block , from 1953 the Hamburg regional associations of CDU, DP and FDP, dissolved in 1957
KPD - Communist Party of Germany , founded in 1919, banned in 1933, re-constituted in 1945, merged with the SPD to form the SED (today Die Linke) in East Germany in 1946 , banned in West Germany in 1956
Farmers Party , founded in 1954, in 1956 DRP risen
LDP - Liberal Democratic Party , founded in 1945 as the German Democratic Party (DDP), in Bavaria in 1946, in Hesse in 1948 merged with the FDP
LP - Liberal Party of the Rhineland , 1947 merger with SV to form the Democratic Party of Rhineland-Palatinate
Mittelstand - German Mittelstand (Union of German Medium-Sized Companies, UDM), 1957
NDP - National Democratic Party , founded in 1945, merged with DKP-DRP in 1950 to form the German right-wing party
NB - Neubürgerbund , founded in 1948, merged into BHE in 1950
NU - Niederdeutsche Union, founded in 1950 as an amalgamation of the Lower Saxony regional associations of CDU, DP and FDP, departure of the FDP in 1951, dissolved in 1955
Party, founded in 1945, Free Democrats since 1946 - PFD Hamburg regional association in the FDP risen
RSF - Radical Social Freedom Party , founded in 1946, merged into FSU in 1950
RPD - Republican Party of Germany , founded in 1945, dissolved in 1960
RWVP - Rhenish-Westphalian People's Party , founded in 1946 as the Rhenish People's Party - Rheinisch-Westfälische Heimatpartei (RVP)
SFP - Social Freedom Party , founded in 1947, merged into FSU in 1950
SRP - Socialist Reich Party of Germany, founded in 1949 as a spin-off from the DKP-DRP, banned in 1952
SV - Sozialer Volksbund , founded in 1946, merged with LP in 1947 to form the Democratic Party of Rhineland-Palatinate
SVP - Saarland People's Party , founded in 1959 as a split from the CSU / CVP, merged into the CVP in 1965
SzT - Collection for Action , founded in 1949
Apolitical Bäuerliche Emergency Association - Help for the Bavarian Forest , stepped to the state election in Bavaria in 1950 to
VBH - Father City Bund Hamburg , founded in 1946, 1949 electoral alliance of the Hamburg regional associations of CDU, FDP and German Conservative Party, dissolved in 1952
VU - Patriotic Union , founded in 1949, incorporated into the NPD in 1966
Association of economically and politically disenfranchised
WAV - Economic Development Association , founded in 1945, dissolved in 1953
WdV - community of voters of those injured by aviation, displaced persons and currency-impaired, after 1951 community of voters of those injured by planes , evacuees and currency- damaged

Founded between 1960 and 1974

ADF - Action Democratic Progress founded in 1968, party work stopped in 1969
AUD - Association of Independent Germans , founded in 1965, dissolved in 1980 in favor of the Greens
BGL - Bremen Green List , founded in 1974, dissolved after 1983
BSP - Bavarian State Party , founded in 1967 as a spin-off from the Bavarian Party (BP), dissolved after 1986
BSA - Association of Socialist Workers , founded in 1971
CVP - Christian People's Party (1965–1970) , founded in 1965 as a merger of the Center Party and the Saarland People's Party , party work ceased after 1970
DL - Democratic Left , founded in 1967, only competed in the state elections in Baden-Württemberg in 1968
DSP - German Sex Party , founded in 1970, dissolved after 1973
DU - German Union , founded in 1971 as the successor party to the NLA, dissolved after 1974
EAP - European Workers' Party , founded in 1974, dissolved in 1986
EFP - European Federalist Party , founded in 1964, party work ceased in 1994
FSP (ML) - Free Socialist Party (Marxist-Leninists) , 1967–1968, first Maoist party in Germany
G - Justice Party
GDP - All-German Party , created in 1961 as a merger of DP and GB / BHE, renamed All-German Party of Germany (GPD) in 1966, dissolved in 1981
GIM - Gruppe Internationale Marxisten , German section of the Fourth International, founded in 1969, 1986 merger with the Communist Party of Germany / Marxist-Leninists to form the United Socialist Party (VSP)
KBW - Kommunistischer Bund Westdeutschland , founded in 1973, dissolved in 1985
KPD-AO - Communist Party of Germany (organizational structure) , founded in 1970, dissolved in 1980
KPD / ML - Communist Party of Germany / Marxist-Leninists , founded in 1968, merged in 1986 with the International Marxists group to form the United Socialist Party (VSP)
NLA - National Liberal Action , founded in 1970, party work stopped in 1971, successor party German Union
Lower Bavarian farmers and SMEs Confederation , stepped to the state election in Bavaria in 1962 to
SEW - Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin since 1969, before that SED-West Berlin, renamed Socialist Initiative in 1990, dissolved in 1993
SpB - Spartacusbund , founded in 1974, dissolved in 1982
VFS - Association for Peace and Social Security, communist electoral alliance that entered into the state elections in Baden-Württemberg in 1960

Founded between 1975 and 1989

AL - Alternative List , founded in 1978, from 1980 State Association of the Greens, from 1993 as Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen Berlin
ASD - All socially insured persons and pensioners in Germany (Pensioners Party), founded in 1982, dissolved in 1989
AVP - Action Group Fourth Party , founded in 1975, merged into the Free Republican Party
APD - German Motorists and Citizens' Interest Party, founded in 1988 as the Motorists Party (AFP), renamed APD in 1992, dissolved in 2002
Citizens 'Party - The Citizens' Party , founded in 1979, dissolved after 1986
BWK - Association of West German Communists , founded in 1980, dissolved in 1995
Colorful list - fight back , founded in 1978, in the same year merger with the GLU regional association Hamburg to form the GAL
CBV - Christian Bavarian People's Party (Bavarian Patriot Movement) , founded in 1975 as a spin-off from the Bavarian Party (BP), re-integrated into the BP in 1988
LIGA - Christian League - The Party for Life, founded in 1985 as the Christian Party for Life (CPL), since 1987 as LIGA, dissolved in 1995 and re-founded as Christian Party of Germany (CPD), merged into the Center Party in 2002
DS - Democratic Socialists , founded in 1982 as a split from the SPD , dissolved in 1991
DVU - German People's Union , founded in 1987, merged with the National Democratic Party of Germany in 2011
The Citizens' Party , founded in 1979, dissolved after 1986
FAP - Freedom German Workers' Party , founded in 1979, banned in 1995 (as an association)
FVP - Freedom People's Party , Republicans split off in 1985, party work ceased after 1986
WOMEN - Women's party , founded in 1979, merged into the feminist party Die Frauen in 1997
PEACE LIST - Peace list , electoral alliance founded in 1984 with the participation of DFU, DKP and others, work stopped in 1989
GRAUE - Die Grauen - Graue Panther , founded in 1989, dissolved in 2008
GAZ - Green Action Future , founded in 1978, was in 1980 in The Greens on, broke away in 1982 from the Greens and went to the ODP on
Green List Schleswig-Holstein , founded in 1978, in 1982 the Greens risen
GLU - Green List Environmental Protection , established in 1977, in 1980 the Greens risen
HP - Humanist Party , founded in 1984, last elected in 2002
International World Peace Party
KDVP - German People's Party loyal to the king , founded in 1986, dissolved in 1993
KPD / RZ - Kreuzberg Patriotic Democrats / Realistic Center , founded in 1988, inactive since 2006
Responsible Citizens - The Responsible Citizens , 1984–1989
UngüLtiG - Union not enough thoughtful smiles despite inner genius , 1985 to 1987
UWSH - Independent Community of Voters Schleswig-Holstein , 1986 to around 1990
PEOPLE FRONT - Popular Front against Reaction, Fascism and War , founded in 1979, no longer an electoral party after 1980
VL - United Left , founded in 1976, dissolved in 1982
VSP - United Socialist Party , founded in 1986 as a merger of the Gruppe Internationale Marxisten and KPD / ML, after 1986 no more party work
5% block , only run for the 1976 federal election
6. Party youth and women's list, the state election in Bavaria in 2008 competed

Founded between 1990 and 2004

AB 2000 - Party of the Alternative Citizens Movement 2000 in Germany , founded in 1998, dissolved in 2005
ADM - Allianz der Mitte , founded in 2004, merged with German Conservatives in 2012
APPD - Anarchist Pogo Party of Germany , founded in 2000, last elected in 2005
AfB - work for Bremen and Bremerhaven , founded in 1995, dissolved in 2002
ASP - Automobile Taxpayers Party , founded in 1993, dissolved in 2002
BFB - Federation of Free Citizens , founded in 1994, merged in 1998 with the Offensive for Germany to form the Federation of Free Citizens - Offensive for Germany - Die Freiheitlichen, dissolved in 2002
BGD - Federation for Germany as a whole , founded in 1990, merged with Autochthone to form AGsD in 2017
Chance 2000 , 1998
BMV - Bürgerpartei MV the initiative for Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania , founded in 2002, merged in 2006 with the independent state party Alliance for MV
BSU - Bürgerliche Soziale Union , founded in 2003, opened up in 2005
CATS - Creative Alternative Tierhaltung Stuttgart, entered the state elections in Baden-Württemberg in 2001 , dissolved in 2004
ddp - German Democratic Party , founded in 2004, dissolved in 2015
DL - Democratic Left , founded in 1999, last election: 2001 election
DPD - Democratic Party of Germany , founded in 1995, party work stopped after 1998
DPP - Democratic Protest Party , founded in 2004, dissolved in 2008 or 2009
DLVH - German League for People and Homeland , founded in 1991, converted into an association in 1996
DSP - German Senior Citizens Party , founded in 2003, dissolved in 2007
DMP - Die MittelstandsPartei - Die bürgerliche Mitte , founded in 1997, party work stopped in 2003
The White - Democratic Alternative , founded in 2004, only ran for elections in 2007
Free Francs
FAKT - Peace, Work, Culture and Transparency , founded in 2003, no political activity since 2005
FDVP - Freedom German People's Party , founded in 2000 as a spin-off from DVU Saxony-Anhalt, merged into DP in 2003
future! - future! - Die Junge Alternative , founded in 1997, last ran for state elections in 2006
NATURAL LAW - Natural Law Party , Departure to New Consciousness, founded in 1992, dissolved in 2004
NON-VOTERS - party of non-voters
NO - National Offensive , founded in 1990 as a spin-off from the FAP , banned in 1992 under the Association Act
OPdM - East German Center Party , took part in the 2002 state elections in Saxony-Anhalt
PASS - Party of the Unemployed and Socially Vulnerable, later the Party of the Willing to Work and Socially Vulnerable , founded in 1993, last elected in 2006
PBC - Party of Biblical Christians , founded in 1989, merged into Alliance C - Christians for Germany in 2015
PRG - Party for Pension Justice and Family , founded in 2001
PDD - Party of German Democrats , founded in 1990, dissolved in 2000
Pro DM - Pro Deutsche Mitte - Pro D-Mark initiative, founded in 1998 as Pro D-Mark initiative - new liberal party, dissolved in 2007
RBP - Rule of Law Citizens' Party , founded in 2002
Pensioners - Pensioners' Party , founded in 1996, became part of the PRG in 2002
RENTNER - Pensioners Party Germany , founded in 2002, dissolved in 2016
RSB - Revolutionary Socialist Federation / Fourth International , founded in 1994, December 2016 merger with isl to form the International Socialist Organization (ISO)
Schill - Rule of Law Offensive Party , founded in 2000, initially short name PRO, then Schill, then Offensive D, dissolved in 2007
SPASSPARTEI - The fun party for Germany , founded in 2002, party work stopped in 2005
VIBT - Thuringia People's Interest Association , founded in 1998
50Plus - 50Plus The generation alliance , founded in 2004, dissolved in 2009

Founded between 2005 and 2019

AB - Alternative Alliance for Social Justice , founded in 2006, last run for elections in 2011
ADd - Active Democracy Direct , founded in 2011, ceased party work around 2015
AGFG - Alliance for Health, Peace and Social Justice , founded in 2005, dissolved in 2009
APD - Workers-Workers Party Germany , founded in 2006, last elected in 2011
AViP - Motorists and People's Interest Party , founded in 2011, last elected in 2013
ON - Party of Labor, environmental and family , founded in 2008, in 2015 Alliance C - Christians for Germany merged
Education - Education party , founded in 2006, work stopped in 2007
Blue #TeamPetry - The blue party , founded in 2017, dissolved at the end of 2019
BMV - Citizens for Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , existed in 2018
DAP - German unemployment party , joined the House of Representatives in Berlin in 2006
DIE FREIHEIT - Civil Rights Party for More Freedom and Democracy - Die Freiheit , founded in 2010, dissolved in December 2016
Parents - Parents' party , founded in 2005, party work ceased around 2008
Free Union , founded in 2009, last elected in 2011
GUR - Health our right , only started in Saarland in 2009
DIE GRAUEN - Die Grauen - Generationspartei , founded in 2008 as the successor to Die Grauen - Graue Panther, merged with Graue Panther Deutschland (GPD) in 2013
DIRECT DEMOCRACY - Direct Democracy Initiative , founded in 2011, party work stopped in 2012
Kusch - Rechts Mitte HeimatHamburg , founded in 2006 as HeimatHamburg, dissolved in 2008
LUPe - noise torture-environment-politics-honest , founded in 2013, party work stopped in 2016
MUD - Maritime Union Germany , founded in 2011, party work stopped in 2012
Pro Germany - Citizens' Movement Pro Germany , founded January 20, 2005, dissolved November 11, 2017
Pro NRW - Citizens' movement pro NRW , founded February 6, 2007, converted into an association in 2019
RRP - Pensioners' Party, founded in 2007, from September 2012 on Alliance 21 / RRP , dissolved in May 2016
SG-NRW - Social Justice - North Rhine-Westphalia, regional successor party of the WASG, merged on December 1, 2012 with the Family Party of Germany
SPV - Sarazzi Party - for referendums SPV Atom-Stuttgart21, founded in 2010, ceased party work after 2011
SVP - Saxon People's Party , founded in 2006, in February 2019 in favor of ADPM dissolved
WASG - Work & Social Justice - Die Wahlalternative , established as a party in 2005, merged with Die Linkspartei.PDS in 2007 to form Die Linke

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The German Social Democratic Party (DSP) from 1952 to 1955 ( Memento from November 20, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ DPP. Democratic Protest Party. In: Klassenlexikon.de . Roger Behn, accessed August 14, 2011 .