Radical Social Freedom Party

Bundestag election campaign 1949: Members of the RSF Northern District Group demonstrate against Lower Saxony's Prime Minister Kopf

Ballot for the first federal election in 1949

The Radikal-Soziale Freiheitspartei (short term: RSF ) was a party that was founded in Düsseldorf in 1946 and was merged into the then newly founded trizonal Free Social Union (FSU) in 1950 . It was the partisan arm of the free economy movement founded by Silvio Gesell in the British zone of occupation and took part in the federal election in 1949 as well as in various state and local elections in the young Federal Republic.

history

Among the founding personalities of the RSF, which was founded in Düsseldorf on January 27, 1946, were the architect Richard Batz , member of the Fisiocratic Combat League and its 1st chairman; furthermore Aloys Kokaly , the chairman of the Freiwirtschaftlichen Jugendverband eV and later editor of the biotechnical series IMPLOSION , as well as the Federal Railway Councilor Peter Thielen.

The new party was joined by other free-economic parties in February 1946. These included the German Peace Party based in Cologne, the East Frisian Free Economic Party ( Aurich ), the Radical Socialist Freedom Party ( Bottrop ) and the Free Economic Party ( Solingen ). The jointly published party program contained, among other things, the demand for the introduction of free money and the abolition of private property (not private use) of land. According to this program, the basic pension should be paid to the mothers according to their number of children. All economic and personal affairs, including marriage, should be largely kept out of the reach of the state. Public tasks should be carried out as decentrally as possible through democratic self-administration. The dismantling of national borders and thus the complete freedom of movement of people and goods was also called for.

In the township elections in Hamburg in 1949 (where she had already stood as a candidate in 1946), she won a seat with 2.0% of the valid votes ( Willi Eberlein was MP ), as there was still no five percent threshold . In the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia in 1950 , it also achieved 2.0%.

In the 1949 federal election , the RSF won 0.9% of the vote nationwide. The highest result was 3.8% in the constituency of Flensburg , 2.1% in North Rhine-Westphalia, 1.5% in Hamburg, and 2.1% in Bremen.

In 1950 the RSF became part of the trizonal Free Social Union.

State elections

year	country	Result	Seats
1946	Hamburg	0.714
1947	Bremen	1.101
1949	Hamburg	1.965	1
1950	North Rhine-Westphalia	1,982

literature

• Radikal-Soziale Freiheitspartei (Ed.): RSF immediate program for the reorganization of the monetary and financial system , 1945
• Richard Stöss: Die Freisoziale Union , in: (ders.): Party Handbook , Opladen 1984, pp. 1397–1423
• Inge Lüpke-Müller: A region in political upheaval. The democratization process in East Frisia after the Second World War (Ed. Ostfriesische Landschaft Aurich ), Aurich 1998, ISBN 3-932206-11-8 , pp. 203-206

Web links

• RSF data at parteienlexikon.de
• RSF instant program at parteienlexikon.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Userpage Röhrig / Freie Universität Berlin: The Radical Social Freedom Party (RSF) ; Accessed May 31, 2011
2. ↑ Party Lexicon : RSF ; Accessed May 31, 2011
3. ↑ Güter Bartsch: The NWO Movement Sivio Gesells , Lütjenburg 1994, pp. 183-188, 190