Party of humanists

Party of humanists
Party leader	Jan Steinhauser
Secretary General	Dominic Ressel
vice-chairman	Philine Brosch
Treasurer	Reinhard Loffl
founding	4th October 2014
Place of foundation	Berlin
Headquarters	Beilsteiner Strasse 21, 12681 Berlin
Alignment	European federalism Evolutionary humanism Liberalism (evidence based on the party's own information)
Colours)	white black magenta light blue
Bundestag seats	0/709
Seats in state parliaments	0/1821
Number of members	around 1,500 (as of August 25, 2020)
Minimum age	16 years
Average age	33 (as of May 10, 2020)
MEPs	0/96
Website	diehumanisten.de

The Party of Humanists (short name: Die Humanisten ) is a small party founded in Germany in 2014 .

history

The party of humanists was founded on October 4th, 2014 in Berlin. She first ran for the 2017 federal election with a state list in North Rhine-Westphalia. The party chairmanship has been held by Robin Thiedmann since the federal party congress in Berlin on May 26 and 27, 2018, previously Felix Bölter. At the federal party conference in Stuttgart on July 27 and 28, 2019, Jan Steinhauser was elected as the new federal executive chairman.

Political classification

The party of humanists invokes evolutionary humanism with its politics . On its website it describes itself as the “rational-liberal party of modernity”.

There are no connections to the Humanist Party , which has been inactive since 2006 .

The Humanist Party has an unusually long list of incompatibilities. According to their own statements, this is intended to cause problems with extremist members, such as B. the Pirate Party had, stop. Among other things, the right-wing groups AfD , JA , Pegida , so-called Reichsbürger as well as Die Linke , Attac , Antifa and Occupy movements are on this list. But religious groups such as Jehovah's Witnesses , Opus Dei or Salafists can also be excluded from joining the party.

Content profile

According to their own statements, the humanists pursue a critical-rational policy approach that makes particular use of scientific knowledge. Although the overarching goals of the party are based on values, the way to achieve these goals is open to all possible political concepts, regardless of the political tendency from which the concepts originate. The only decisive factor is the effectiveness of the policy concept.

Claims are u. a .:

• The establishment of a Federal European State with a European Constitution . Strong, self-governing regions should take the place of nation states.
• The health insurance benefits should only include measures of evidence-based medicine with scientifically proven effectiveness.
• The private full health insurance should be abolished and thus the system of two-class medicine ended.
• Maximum freedom of expression .
• Separation between the state and religious institutions .
• The legalization of surrogacy .
• Deletion of the reference to God and other religiously based special rights from the Basic Law, the state constitutions and other laws.
• Simplification of the tax system through the continuous reduction of exceptional and special regulations as well as the reduction of subsidies.
• Complete equality of sex work based on the New Zealand model.
• The legalization of active euthanasia .
• A move away from the nuclear power phase-out scenario by 2022 towards a regulated transition to new nuclear reactor types , so that the security of supply is never endangered.
• The abolition of indexing, the criminal law prohibition of the representation of violence, of binding age ratings and the prohibition of unconstitutional symbols in video games.
• The abolition of upload filters , the NetzDG and other laws that, from the point of view of humanists, threaten freedom of expression online.
• The legalization of abortions without indication up to the 22nd week of pregnancy and the abolition of the ban on advertising for abortions .
• The deregulation of shop opening times .
• The abolition of gender quotas , especially in relation to the law on electoral list parity in Brandenburg, as a "deeply ideology-driven, constitutional and anti-democratic law"
• The strict prohibition of religious circumcision on children.
• The expansion of global free trade .
• The rejection of a compulsory year of service for school leavers
• The legalization of all drugs , but only for adults and combined with increased education, as well as production and sale only under state control.
• Technological progress and openness to technologies such as genetic engineering or stem cell research .
• Reduction of the use of antibiotics in factory farming to avoid resistance.
• Rejection of the civil clause that excludes research for clearly military purposes at all German universities.
• The maintenance of animal experiments on non-human primates in basic research, unless alternative methods can be used.
• Promote research into in vitro meat .

elections

In the 2017 federal election , the party only ran in North Rhine-Westphalia and received 5,991 second votes, corresponding to a state share of 0.1% and a federal share of 0.0%. In the state election in Bavaria on October 14, 2018 , the Bavarian State Association took part in the constituency of Upper Bavaria and received 0.1% of the total vote. Throughout Bavaria this corresponded to a share of 0.0%. The state election in Hesse on October 28, 2018 resulted in 0.1% of the valid votes cast for the state list of the party.

In the European elections on May 26, 2019 , 0.2% of voters voted for them.

The party also took part in the election for Bremen citizenship, which took place at the same time as the European elections. There 0.45% of the total vote went to the Bremen Humanist Party. On September 1, 2019, the party also took part in the state elections in Saxony, where it received 0.2% of the second vote.

Federal election results since 2017

Bundestag election results
year	Number of votes	Share of votes	Seats	Top candidate
2017	05,991	0.0%	0/709	Philipp Schaub

European election results since 2019

European election results
year	Number of votes	Share of votes	Seats	Top candidate
2019	62,604	0.2%	0/96	Robin Thiedmann

Regional associations

Regional association		Establishment date	Chairperson	Members As of June 29, 2020	State election	Bundestag election 2017	European elections 2019
	Baden-Württemberg	3rd December 2016	Mark Simon	179	-	-	0.2%
	Bavaria	February 11, 2017	Daniel Giesemann	206	0.0% ( 2018 )	-	0.2%
	Berlin	2nd April 2017	Georg Hille	121	-	-	0.2%
	Brandenburg	not yet established		24	-	-	0.1%
	Bremen	June 9, 2018	Julia Kreitz	24	0.5% ( 2019 )	-	0.4%
	Hamburg	October 1, 2017	Michael Brandt	34	0.2% ( 2020 )	-	0.2%
	Hesse	September 25, 2016	Felix Möller	133	0.1% ( 2018 )	-	0.2%
	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	not yet established		16	-	-	0.1%
	Lower Saxony	November 25, 2017	Sara arrow	117	-	-	0.2%
	North Rhine-Westphalia	October 22, 2016	Leonard Niesik	311	-	0.1%	0.2%
	Rhineland-Palatinate	April 15, 2018	Holger Schlenger	65	-	-	0.1%
	Saarland	not yet established		9	-	-	0.1%
	Saxony	January 7, 2018	Dominic Eberle	104	0.2% ( 2019 )	-	0.2%
	Saxony-Anhalt	March 31, 2018	Steffen Schmidt	29	-	-	0.2%
	Schleswig-Holstein	20th October 2018	Alexander Eddelbüttel	45	-	-	0.2%
	Thuringia	not yet established		24	-	-	0.1%

organization

Party leader

Party leader	Beginning of the term of office	Term expires
David Helmus		May 22, 2016
Felix Bölter	May 22, 2016	May 27, 2018
Robin Thiedmann	May 27, 2018	28th July 2019
Jan Steinhauser	28th July 2019	officiating

Federal Executive

Federal Executive
Party leader	Jan Steinhauser
Deputy Chair	Philine Brosch
Secretary General	Dominic Ressel
Deputy Secretary General	Axel Börold
Treasurer	Reinhard Loffl
Deputy Treasurer	Dennis Kropp
Further members of the federal executive committee	Jessica Dittmar, Alexander Mucha, Robin Thiedmann

Web links

• Party of humanists

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Our team. In: diehumanisten.de. Retrieved September 2, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Imprint. In: diehumanisten.de. Retrieved September 2, 2019 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b} membership administration , wiki.diehumanisten.de
4. ^ "Wahl-O-Mat European election 2019 - comparison of positions", Federal Agency for Civic Education , accessed on June 30, 2019.
5. ^ Party of Humanists: Model of Evolutionary Humanism. Retrieved September 17, 2019 . 
6. ↑ https://www.diehumanisten.de/2019/05/07/zur-unvereinbarkeitsliste-was-bedeutet-unvereinbar/
7. ↑ https://www.bpb.de/politik/wahlen/wer-haben-zur-wahl/hamburg-2020/303575/die-humanisten
8. ^ Humanist press service: Party of humanists founded. Accessed August 31, 2018 . 
9. ^ Christian Röther: Party of Humanists "Politicians like to stand next to religious leaders". In: Deutschlandfunk. March 8, 2017, accessed September 1, 2018 . 
10. ^ ^{A b} Federal Agency for Civic Education: Party of Humanists. Accessed August 31, 2018 . 
11. ^ Statement by the Humanist Party on the list of incompatibilities. Retrieved May 14, 2019 . 
12. ^ Incompatibility List - Party of Humanists. (PDF) Party of Humanists, accessed on August 29, 2019 . 
13. ↑ Our policy: not left, not right, but right. In: The Humanists. March 4, 2019, accessed on May 5, 2019 (German). 
14. ^ Party of Humanists: Basic Program. Accessed August 31, 2018 . 
15. ↑ Impulse paper: Our vision for Europe - The Federal Republic. In: The Humanists. Retrieved on May 11, 2019 (German). 
16. ↑ End of two-class medicine. In: The Humanists. February 27, 2020, accessed on February 29, 2020 (German). 
17. ↑ tagesschau.de: Objectives of the "others" - small parties in the European elections. Retrieved May 14, 2019 . 
18. ^ Open meeting in Hanover. Retrieved May 8, 2019 . 
19. ↑ New Zealand's Sex Work Liberalization - A Success? In: The Humanists. April 9, 2019, accessed on May 5, 2019 (German). 
20. ↑ Elective test stone: German Society for Human Dying. In: The Humanists. February 24, 2019, accessed on May 5, 2019 (German). 
21. ↑ Position paper on nuclear energy. In: The Humanists. February 19, 2019, accessed on May 5, 2019 (German). 
22. ^ Censorship in the entertainment media. In: The Humanists. February 6, 2019, accessed on May 5, 2019 (German). 
23. ↑ Against censorship and Article 13: Fair use instead of upload filters. In: The Humanists. February 18, 2019, accessed on May 8, 2019 (German). 
24. ^ The German abortion law - not as liberal as it should be. In: The Humanists. July 19, 2018, accessed on May 8, 2019 (German). 
25. ↑ Facebook. Retrieved May 8, 2019 . 
26. ^ Voting list parity in Brandenburg - democracy under fire. In: The Humanists. February 4, 2019, accessed on May 8, 2019 (German). 
27. ↑ Facebook. Retrieved May 9, 2019 . 
28. ↑ Vision Europe. In: The Humanists. Retrieved on May 9, 2019 (German). 
29. ↑ No to compulsory service, yes to freedom. In: The Humanists. April 10, 2019, accessed on May 11, 2019 (German). 
30. ↑ In the realm of the smallest parties . In: sueddeutsche.de . September 23, 2017, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed on May 11, 2019]).
31. ↑ ^{a b c d} Which parties think like me when it comes to science? Find out now with the Science-O-Mat! Science-O-Mat, accessed September 17, 2019 . 
32. ↑ The culture meat revolution. Die Humanisten, January 2, 2019, accessed on September 17, 2019 . 
33. ↑ NRW election results
34. ^ The State Returning Officer of the Free State of Bavaria: Approved parties for the state elections in Bavaria in 2018. (PDF) Accessed August 31, 2018 . 
35. ↑ State election - results in the table view for Upper Bavaria. Retrieved August 16, 2019 . 
36. ^ The State Returning Officer in Hesse: Approved parties for the state elections in Hesse in 2018. Accessed August 31, 2018 . 
37. ↑ European elections 2019: preliminary official result. Federal Returning Officer , May 27, 2019, accessed on May 27, 2019 . 
38. ↑ State of Bremen: Overall results of the 2019 parliamentary elections. Accessed on August 16, 2019 . 
39. ↑ Communication and Public Relations Department: Election Results - sachsen.de. Retrieved October 11, 2019 . 
40. ↑ Bundestag election 2017 - WDR candidate check. Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln , 2017, accessed on September 9, 2019 . 
41. ^ Federal party congresses. Humanist Party, accessed September 20, 2019 . 
42. ↑ Federal Board. Humanist Party, accessed September 20, 2019 .