SPD Baden-Wuerttemberg

SPD Baden-Wuerttemberg
Andreas Stoch
Chairman	Andreas Stoch
Deputy	Jasmina Hostert Dorothea Kliche-Behnke Parsa Marvi Gabi Rolland
Secretary General	Sascha Binder
Treasurer	Karl-Ulrich Templ
executive Director	Marten Jennerjahn
Establishment date	7th / 8th June 1952
Place of foundation	Stuttgart
Headquarters	Wilhelmsplatz 10 70182 Stuttgart
Landtag mandates	19/143
Number of members	34,800 (November 2019)
Website	www.spd-bw.de

The SPD Baden-Wuerttemberg has about 34,800 members, the second largest party in Baden-Wuerttemberg . State chairman has been Andreas Stoch , who is also chairman of the parliamentary group , since November 2018 .

Title page of the Swabian Tagwacht on the occasion of the opening of the International Socialist Congress in Stuttgart in 1907

history

Before the November Revolution

The SPD has a long tradition in Baden-Württemberg, which began in the 19th century in the former states of Württemberg and Baden . From 1878 to 1890, for the duration of the socialist laws, the SPD was banned, as everywhere in Germany. Then began a wave of founding social democratic associations. A Baden stronghold of the SPD developed in Mannheim . The economic and social structure in Württemberg was characterized by medium-sized industry, and urbanization and the associated impoverishment of workers there was less than in other parts of the German Empire. In Stuttgart, however, there was housing misery. The increasingly independent cultural identity of the labor movement became visible with the founding of the Stuttgart Waldheime . At the local level, social democrats participated in politics early on and often found political consensus with bourgeois parties. In the Württemberg state parliament, on the other hand, the social democratic faction only approved the Württemberg state budget once, in 1907. This was in return for the International Socialist Congress in Stuttgart in August 1907 , the first of its kind on German soil. In Baden state parliament came after the election in 1905 to to 1918 unique collaboration between the National Liberals and the SPD in the so-called major block to the influence of the stronger Baden center push back. Nevertheless, no SPD member could become a civil servant until the November Revolution. During the First World War , many social democrats also lost their lives for the emperor and empire. The prominent Baden social democrat Ludwig Frank volunteered to take up arms ; he was killed in the first weeks of the war.

In the Weimar Republic

In the Weimar Republic , the SPD initially played a leading role. The SPD became a ruling party in Württemberg as well as in Baden and provided the Prime Minister with Wilhelm Blos in Stuttgart and Anton Geiß in Karlsruhe. In Württemberg, the SPD's participation in government ended with Wilhelm Keil's resignation from the Hieber cabinet in June 1923, and it remained in the opposition despite the great election success in 1928. From 1924 Kurt Schumacher was represented as a contentious opposition speaker for the SPD in the Württemberg state parliament. In Baden, the SPD was able to participate in government without interruption from 1918 to the end of 1932 and, with Adam Remmele, appointed the regularly changing Prime Minister several times. Other leading Baden Social Democrats of the Weimar Republic were Chancellor Hermann Müller and Ludwig Marum, a member of the Reichstag . During the Nazi era from 1933 to 1945, the SPD members were persecuted and many were deported to concentration camps as early as 1933.

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  Adam Remmele was President of the Republic of Baden twice

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  Ludwig Marum was from 1919 to 1928 chairman of the SPD parliamentary group in the state parliament of the Republic of Baden

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  Wilhelm Keil largely determined the policy of the SPD in Württemberg in the first half of the 20th century

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  Erich Roßmann was chairman of the SPD in Württemberg from 1924 to 1933

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  Fritz Ulrich
  (around 1933)

In Baden-Wurttemberg

After the Second World War , three independent SPD party districts were created in the states of Baden , Württemberg-Baden and Württemberg-Hohenzollern . All three party districts unreservedly supported the founding of the state of Baden-Württemberg, although this had to weaken the strong position of the SPD in the industrialized state of Württemberg-Baden, as there were fewer SPD voters in the less industrialized and strongly Catholic south of the new state due to structural reasons . The state association of the SPD was founded at the party congress from June 7th to 8th, 1952 in Stuttgart. Initially, the SPD Baden-Württemberg operated under the name "Party District" and only from 1962 as the "State Association". The party was involved in the government of Baden-Württemberg from 1952 to 1960 in an all-party government and from 1966 to 1972 and 1992 to 1996 in a grand coalition , but never provided the Prime Minister. Since May 12, 2011 the SPD was a junior partner in a green-red coalition . The main focus of government policy was domestic and economic policy. The SPD also played a decisive role in the administrative reform of 1973. In terms of school policy, the SPD worked until the end of the 1960s to abolish existing denominational schools and teacher training, especially in southern Württemberg. From the SPD state association in Baden-Württemberg, important federal political figures emerged again and again, such as Carlo Schmid , Alex Möller , Horst Ehmke , Erhard Eppler , Volker Hauff , Rainer Offergeld , Herta Däubler-Gmelin and Walter Riester . In the state elections in Baden-Württemberg in 2016 , the SPD received its historically worst result with 12.7% of the vote. As a consequence, she had to switch to the opposition.

structure

organization

The regional association is organized in local associations, which are combined into 43 district associations. The 43 district associations are spread over four regions whose catchment area corresponds to the four administrative districts of Karlsruhe , Freiburg , Stuttgart and Tübingen .

Members

The following table shows the development of the number of members since the foundation of the regional association in 1952. The highest number of members so far was reached in 1976.

year	Members
1952	37,661
1955	35,788
1968	47.192
1976	77,979
1980	71,457
1990	66,387
2002	49,243
2014	35,835
2018	36,451

Chairperson

Awarded the Federal Cross of Merit to Erwin Schoettle (right), 1969

Alex Möller , 1973

Erhard Eppler , 1973

Carlo Schmid (left) in conversation with Egon Bahr in 1976

Ute Vogt

1890-1933

SPD Baden

Years	Chairman
1890-1894	Adolf Geck
1894-1895	Jakob Friedrich Autenrieth
1895-1900	Johann Friedrich Haug
1900 – November 1901	Wilhelm Opificius
1901-1906	Georg Pfeiffle
1906-1908	August Schaier and Friedrich Sigmund
1908-1919	Anton Geiss
1920-1923	Georg Strobel
1923-1924	Gustav Zimmermann
1924-1933	Georg Reinbold

SPD Württemberg

Years	Chairman
1890-1891	Rudolf Behr
1891-1892	Adam Dietrich
1892-1895	Karl Sperka
1895-1899	Adam Dietrich
1899-1900	Friedrich Fischer
1900-1903	Otto Wasner
1903-1904	Rudolf Behr
1904-1905	Karl Sperka
1905-1906	Adam Dietrich
1906-1908	Gottlieb Eduard Steinbrenner
1908-1911	Karl Sperka
1911-1913	Karl Hildenbrand
1913-1920	Friedrich Fischer
1920-1924	Otto Steinmayer
1924-1933	Erich Rossmann

1946-1952

SPD Württemberg-Baden

Years	Chairman
1946-1947	Fritz Ulrich and Gustavo Alfredo Zimmermann
1947-1952	Erwin Schoettle

SPD Baden

Years	Chairman
1946-1952	Richard Jackle

SPD Württemberg-Hohenzollern

Years	Chairman
1946-1952	Carlo Schmid

SPD Baden-Württemberg (from 1952)

Years	Chairman / Chairperson
1952-1962	Erwin Schoettle
1962-1966	Alex Möller
1966-1968	Walter Krause
May – November 1968	Acting: Erwin Schoettle , Heinz Bühringer and Eugen Loderer
1968-1973	Heinz Bühringer
1973-1981	Erhard Eppler
1981-1987	Ulrich Lang
1987-1999	Ulrich Maurer
1999-2009	Ute Vogt
2009-2016	Nils Schmid
2016-2018	Leni Breymaier
since 2018	Andreas Stoch

For the chairmen of the SPD parliamentary group, see: Landtag of Baden-Württemberg

State election results

Election results of the SPD Baden-Württemberg

in percent

35%

30%

25%

20%

15%

10%

5%

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'56

'60

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'68

'72

'76

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'92

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'06

'11

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Results of the state elections
year	Leading candidate	be right	Seats
1952	Hermann Veit	28.0%	38
1956	Hermann Veit	28.9%	36
1960	Hermann Veit	35.3%	44
1964	Walter Krause	37.3%	47
1968	Walter Krause	29.0%	37
1972	Heinz Bühringer	37.6%	45
1976	Erhard Eppler	33.3%	41
1980	Erhard Eppler	32.5%	40
1984	Ulrich Lang	32.4%	41
1988	Dieter Spöri	32.0%	42
1992	Dieter Spöri	29.4%	46
1996	Dieter Spöri	25.1%	39
2001	Ute Vogt	33.3%	45
2006	Ute Vogt	25.2%	38
2011	Nils Schmid	23.1%	35
2016	Nils Schmid	12.7%	19th

References and comments

1. ↑ ^{a b} Many new comrades, but hardly any GroKo concern. Retrieved March 7, 2018 . 
2. ↑ cf. Friedrich Westmeyer : Housing misery in Stuttgart . Stuttgart 1911
3. ^ Michael Eilfort (Ed.): Parties in Baden-Württemberg. Writings on political geography Volume 31 . Verlag W. Kohlhammer in connection with the State Center for Political Education Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart 2004, page 91
4. ^ Daniel Friedrich Sturm : The SPD members run away. Axel Springer SE , February 22, 2015, accessed on August 25, 2017 . 
5. ^ SPD state association Baden-Württemberg: Annual report 2016-2018. November 24, 2018, accessed August 5, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Results of the state elections in Baden-Württemberg, time series 1952-2011 - State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg ( Memento of the original from June 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ^ Results of the state elections in Baden-Württemberg
8. ↑ Final result of the state elections on March 27, 2011 with comparative information from 2006: State of Baden-Württemberg ( Memento of the original from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
9. ^ Election results in Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate on FocusOnline , accessed on March 27, 2011

literature

• Jörg Schadt and Wolfgang Schmierer (eds.): The SPD in Baden-Württemberg and its history. From the beginnings of the labor movement until today. Writings on Political Studies Volume 3 . Verlag W. Kohlhammer in conjunction with the State Center for Political Education Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart 1979
• Horst Glück: The SPD. In: Michael Eilfort (Ed.): Parties in Baden-Württemberg. Writings on political geography Volume 31 . Verlag W. Kohlhammer in conjunction with the State Center for Political Education Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart 2004, pp. 75-104

Web links

• SPD Baden-Wuerttemberg
• SPD parliamentary group in Baden-Württemberg
• On the history of the SPD Baden-Württemberg
• Who is available for election? Information from the Federal Agency for Civic Education