Party of faithful Christians

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Party of faithful Christians
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founding November 22, 1989
Place of foundation Karlsruhe
fusion 2015 with OPEN to Alliance C
Headquarters Karlsruhe
Alignment Christian fundamentalism
Evangelicalism , Pentecostal movement
Number of members 2,545 (as of December 31, 2013)
Proportion of women 45%
European party ECPM

The party faithful to the Bible (short name: PBC ) was a small German party founded in 1989 . It went up in March 2015 in Alliance C - Christians for Germany .

It saw itself as Christian - value conservative and belonged to the spectrum of Christian fundamentalist parties. It described itself as the "political mouthpiece of Christians from all churches", but can be classified as evangelical due to membership and character . The religious studies media and information service described it as a party with a “ Pentecostal- evangelical character with appropriate theological underpinning”.

history

The party was founded in 1989 by Pastor Gerhard Heinzmann , who was the head of the international " Gypsy Mission " and was supported by a group of church activists and pastors from the Pentecostal-evangelical environment and in autumn 1989 at a conference of the pastors of the Federation of Free Church Pentecostal Churches (BFP) presented his concept. The motive was that so-called “professing Christians” should exert more influence on politics, especially on the abortion discussion at the time. In contrast to the previously active Christian parties, he succeeded in influencing evangelical Christians, and in the 1990s he led the party to individual electoral successes in local strongholds and to the largest party in the spectrum of small Christian parties.

Heinzmann was chairman of the party until 2005, when he was no longer running for reasons of age. He was followed by Walter Weiblen until December 2007 . In autumn 2006 a cooperation was agreed with the Center Party and the ÖDP . Plans cherished by the party executive under Walter Weiblen to found a party as a way to merge with this and other small Christian parties were rejected by a majority by the parties themselves and at the party congresses in October 2007 and December 2007, including the delegates of the PBC. On December 15, 2007, Ole Steffes was elected as the new federal chairman at a special party conference. Weiblen, who had resigned after the failure of his plans from the PBC, founded with a group of followers and some members of the Center Party and the ODP on 26 January 2008 in Berlin the new party: OPEN - Party of Labor, environmental and family with the subtitle Christians for Germany . Since 2010 there have been new talks for a Christian party alliance ("Alliance C"). For the early state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia on May 13, 2012 , the PBC with its state list was not approved by the state election committee on April 14, 2012 due to a lack of supporting signatures and thereupon issued an election recommendation for the AUF party.

The PBC intended to unite with the UP - Party for Work, Environment and Family in autumn 2013 . The new party was to be called Alliance C - Christians for Germany . The merger was unilaterally postponed by the OP for an indefinite period until after the 2014 European elections . The joint federal party conference of AUF and PBC on March 28, 2015 in Fulda paved the way for an Alliance C - Alliance Christians for Germany .

Content profile

According to the political scientists Frank Decker and Viola Neu, the party basically aligns its program with the moral and ethical principles of the Bible , which it tries to spread through missionary work. The main topic is the fight against all forms of abortion , which it dresses in a number of family, youth, educational and socio-political demands. For example, she calls for the strengthening of marriage and the family by making divorce more difficult , a ban on pornography and prostitution, and state support for large families. Compulsory Bible lessons are also to be introduced in schools and prisons and the homeschooling movement is to be supported. Same-sex and extramarital forms of life are rejected, and national prayer and fasting days (e.g. on November 9th) are advocated. It sees itself as pro-Jewish, but in contrast to the Christian center, for example, is not considered anti-Muslim . Tones critical of Islam, above all with regard to the relationship between Islam and Christianity, can, however, be determined. For example, Muslims in Europe are calling for the abandonment of minarets and buildings, which should be understood as a “Muslim demonstration of power”. She is skeptical of European integration.

The PBC calls for a right to “get out of homosexuality”, as well as astrology , fortune telling and so-called satanic cults as well as pornographic depictions glorifying violence. It is committed to the Basic Law and the democratic constitutional state and advocates a social market economy and solidarity community. In addition, the PBC calls for a transparent tax system in which the value added tax for services and basic goods should be reduced, but increased for luxury goods.

The PBC competes in the political segment of small Christian parties with the German Center Party and the Christian Center (CM). The AUF, the PBC and formerly the German Center Party were members of the Association of European Christian Political Movement (ECPM). The ECPM is represented by the Dutch ChristenUnie in the European Parliament and is part of the Euro-critical group European Conservatives and Reformists .

Voters and membership

Regional strongholds are rural and pietistic areas in Baden-Württemberg and Saxony, in which the party received several mandates at the municipal level. In these federal states she achieved her best result in European, federal and state elections with 0.7 percent in the state elections in 2004 in Saxony and 2006 in Baden-Württemberg.

The - according to self-reported - around 3,500 members of the PBC come mainly from evangelical free churches . The party has most of its members in Baden-Württemberg , followed by Bavaria and North Rhine-Westphalia ; In terms of percentage, it was strongest in Baden-Württemberg up until the state elections in 2011 , when it only ran in 10 constituencies and fell to 0.1% of the vote, followed by Saxony . For the 2013 federal election , the PBC ran with state lists in Baden-Württemberg and Lower Saxony .

Party organization

Federal Chairperson

Period Surname
1989-2005 Gerhard Heinzmann
2005-2007 Walter Weiblen
2007-2015 Ole Steffes

Youth organization

The party's youth organization was the JuBis ( Young Christians Faithful to the Bible ).

Election results

Bundestag elections

In 1990, the PBC had not yet been allowed to vote; it ran for the first time in a federal election in 1994.

Bundestag election results
year Number of votes Share of votes
1994 65,651 0.1%
1998 71,941 0.1%
2002 101,645 0.2%
2005 108.605 0.2%
2009 40,370 0.1%
2013 18,542 0.0%

European elections

European election results
year Number of votes Share of votes
1994 93.210 0.3%
1999 68,732 0.3%
2004 98,651 0.4%
2009 80,688 0.3%
2014 55,377 0.2%

State elections

State election results from 1991 (in percent)
year BW BY BE BB HB HH HE MV NI NW RP SL SN ST SH TH
1991 n / A 0.2 n / A n / A
1992 0.6 n / A
1993 0.2
1994 n / A n / A 0.1 n / A n / A n / A n / A n / A
1995 n / A 0.2 0.2 0.1
1996 0.5 0.2
1997 0.2
1998 0.1 0.1 0.2 n / A
1999 n / A n / A n / A 0.2 n / A 0.3 0.2
2000 0.1 0.2
2001 0.5 n / A 0.1 0.3
2002 0.1 n / A
2003 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.2
2004 n / A 0.2 n / A 0.7 n / A
2005 0.1 0.2
2006 0.7 n / A 0.2 0.3 n / A
2007 0.3
2008 n / A n / A n / A 0.2
2009 n / A n / A n / A 0.4 0.2 n / A
2010 0.1
2011 0.1 n / A n / A n / A 0.1 n / A n / A
2012 n / A n / A n / A
2013 0.2

Local elections

The party only occasionally managed to send representatives to local parliaments. From 2004 to 2009 the PBC was represented in the district of Böblingen (Baden-Württemberg) with a mandate in the district council, in the district of Güstrow (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania) the party won a seat in the district council in 2004, but lost it in 2008 when the district council changed to ON party . In the city council election in 2004 in Gronau (North Rhine-Westphalia), the PBC won a seat, she in 2009 forfeited again. It was last represented in two local parliaments: In the Saxon local elections in 2009 , the party in Klingenthal achieved 4.98% of the vote and thus received a seat on the city council, but lost it in 2014. In the local elections in Lower Saxony in 2011 , the PBC in Gifhorn reached 1 , 76% of the vote and a city council mandate.

literature

  • Kai Oliver Thielking: Between the Bible and the Basic Law. Small Christian parties in the Federal Republic of Germany (= scientific articles from the Tectum publishing house. Political science series. 1). Tectum-Verlag, Marburg 1999, ISBN 3-8288-8007-X (also: Marburg, Univ., Diploma thesis, 1998).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German Bundestag: Accountability report of the party (PDF; 16.9 MB)
  2. ↑ http://www.bpb.de/politik/wahlen/wer-haben-zur-wahl/bundestag-2013/165525/pbc
  3. ↑ Karin Heepen : AUF & PBC are united ( Memento from May 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). In: auf-partei.de, accessed on July 26, 2019.
  4. ↑ a b Frank Decker and Viola Neu: Handbook of German political parties, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2007, p. 357 online in Google books
  5. ↑ the Evangelical Central Office for Weltanschauungsfragen in [1] "In Germany, politicized forms of fundamentalism are articulated, for example, in small Christian parties such as the Party of Biblical Christians (PBC) or the Christian Center (CM)."
  6. ↑ program. In: pbc.de, accessed on August 26, 2013.
  7. ↑ Religious Studies Media and Information Service e. V. (REMID): God in the Bundestag?
  8. ↑ Press release PBC. (No longer available online.) In: pbc.de. Formerly in the original ; accessed on July 26, 2019 (no relevant mementos ).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.pbc.de
  9. ^ UP party: press release on founding a party. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: auf-partei.de. January 26, 2008, formerly in the original ; Retrieved on July 26, 2019 ( webcitation.org memento error: Secure connection failed).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.auf-partei.de .
  10. ↑ Idea Spectrum and Salt and Light, various editions
  11. ^ State elections in North Rhine-Westphalia without the PBC ( Memento from May 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). Homepage PBC NRW, accessed on April 15, 2012
  12. ↑ Christian parties set the course for merger. In: pbc.de, accessed on August 23, 2013.
  13. ↑ Homepage PBC
  14. ↑ March 28 , 2015 - Federal party conference in Fulda ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). Homepage AUF, April 2, 2015, accessed on July 26, 2019 (Memento only covers the place and date of the federal party conference).
  15. ↑ a b c Frank Decker, Viola Neu: Handbook of German political parties, VS Verlag, 2nd expanded and revised edition, 2013, ISBN 978-3-658-00962-5 , p. 356 ff.
  16. ↑ Julia-Verena Lerch, University of Duisburg-Essen: Party of Bible-faithful Christians. Party profile at the Federal Agency for Civic Education , accessed on August 26, 2013.
  17. ↑ JuBis - Young Christians who are faithful to the Bible.
  18. ↑ Objectives and program of the parties CHRISTIAN CENTER (CM) and Party of Biblical Christians (PBC).
  19. ↑ Bundestag election 2017. In: bundeswahlleiter.de. Retrieved on July 26, 2019 (links to all federal elections in the pull-down menu ).
  20. ↑ Election to the 9th European Parliament on May 26, 2019. In: bundeswahlleiter.de. Retrieved on July 26, 2019 (links to all European elections in the pull-down menu).
  21. ^ Results of the state elections in Baden-Württemberg from 1984 to 1996 ( Memento from March 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). In: statistik.baden-wuerttemberg.de, accessed on July 26, 2019.
  22. ^ Results of the state elections in Baden-Württemberg from 1996 to 2011 ( Memento from May 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). In: statistik.baden-wuerttemberg.de, accessed on July 26, 2019.
  23. ^ Result of the state elections in Baden-Württemberg in 1992 ( Memento from January 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). Parties under five percent. In: tagesschau.de , accessed on April 1, 2011.
  24. ↑ Election of the district assemblies of the districts as well as city councils / citizenships of the independent cities in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania on June 13, 2004. District of Güstrow. In: mvnet.de. The regional returning officer of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, June 13, 2004, accessed on June 30, 2011 .
  25. ↑ Local elections on August 30, 2009. Final result for: Gronau (Westf.), Stadt. In: Wahlresults.nrw.de. The regional returning officer of North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on June 30, 2011 .
  26. ↑ Municipal elections on June 7th, 2009. Eligible voters, voters, ballot papers, distribution of votes and seats in the election on June 7th, 2009 in the district town of Klingenthal; Vogtland district. In: statistik.sachsen.de. State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony, accessed on June 30, 2011 .
  27. ↑ Election results - Council election 2011. (No longer available online.) In: stadt-gifhorn.de. City of Gifhorn, archived from the original on January 13, 2012 ; Retrieved September 15, 2011 .