SPD Bremen

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SPD Bremen
Sascha Aulepp
Sascha Aulepp
Logo SPD LV State Bremen.svg
Chairperson Sascha Aulepp
Deputy Sarah Ryglewski
Elias Tsartilidis
Treasurer Gisela Schwellach
executive Director Roland Pahl
Establishment date April 6, 1864 as ADAV
Place of foundation Bremen
Headquarters Obernstrasse 39–43
28195 Bremen
Landtag mandates
23/84
Number of members 4029 (as of January 2020)
Website www.spd-land-bremen.de

The SPD Bremen is the state organization of the SPD in the state of Free Hanseatic City of Bremen . It consists of the sub-districts Bremen -Stadt with 31 local clubs, Bremen-Nord with nine local clubs and Bremerhaven with nine local clubs. Since July 31, 1945, it has provided the mayor of Bremen without interruption , which corresponds to the prime ministers in territorial states .

history

Foundation of the ADAV

He promoted the forward association for the new political movement. Gustav Adolph Deckwitz judged a group of the General German Workers' Association (ADAV) in Bremen on January 1, 1864 . On April 6, 1864, Deckwitz was appointed by the chairman of the ADAV Ferdinand Lassalle as a representative in Bremen; the beginning of the Bremen SPD. In 1865 the association already had 239 members.

Due to the clashes of the emerging socialist groups in Germany and the growing importance of the Social Democratic Workers' Party (SDAP) of August Bebel and Wilhelm Liebknecht with the Eisenach program , the shrinking ADAV von Deckwitz lost members and influence. The national movement of 1870/71 reduced the ADAV's chances. In Bremen, the eight-class suffrage prevented the hope of reaching a parliamentary majority. In 1874 the ADAV even moved its headquarters from Berlin to Bremen.

Association for SAP

In 1870, the Eisenach group from the SDAP founded the social democratic workers' association in Bremen. In 1875 the ADAV merged with the Socialist Workers 'Party of Germany (SAPD) to form the Socialist Workers' Party of Germany (SAP); The "Great Fraternization Festival" was celebrated in the salons of the Tonhalle in Neustadt . In 1876 the party was publicly represented by the Bremer Freie Zeitung, which it founded . The Bremen party and its newspaper were banned under the Socialist Act in 1878. It was able to keep its supporters in Bremen during the prohibition period until 1890. The supporters worked with their party goals in other Bremen workers' associations. In 1890 the Bremer Bürger-Zeitung was created as a mouthpiece .

Citizenship and Reichstag elections and mandates

Bremen citizenship

See also Bremen citizenship from 1854 to 1933: election results and members

Elections were made in Bremen according to the eight-class suffrage . The votes of 17 voters in the 1st to 3rd class (i.e. the bourgeoisie) had the same significance as the votes of 297 voters in the 4th class (i.e. the workers and low-wage earners) in terms of the proportion of the population. Only those citizens who had taken the expensive Bremen Citizenship Oath were allowed to vote , and for many workers that was too expensive. Since the fourth grade was so drastically restricted in their right to vote, the rule of the upper class was secured. The turnout was therefore significantly lower in the citizenship elections than in the classless and general Reichstag elections, in which all citizens could participate.

Despite the ban, in 1881 the rather moderate baker Johann Meyer was elected for the first time as a SAP representative as a fourth-class member of the Bremen citizenship . In 1884 there were already five, in 1896 only two ( Christian Blome and Heinrich Hartmann (politician, 1835) ) and then in 1899 nine members ( Fritz Ebert , Johann Imwolde , Johann Kruse , Josef Ulmer , Johann Voigt , Heinrich Johann Barthel , Gerd Wegener , Hermann Rhine , August Behrens)

Reichstag elections in Bremen

Since 1867, Social Democrats ran for the Reichstag in the North German Confederation and in the Reichstag of the German Empire . A member of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen constituency was represented in the Reichstag for the first time in 1890 :

  • In 1867 Gustav Adolph Deckwitz (ASAV) ran unsuccessfully for the Reichstag in the North German Confederation .
  • In 1871 ( 1st WP ) Wilhelm Hasselmann (SDAP) received 15.6% of the Reichstag elections with 1506 votes.
  • In 1874 ( 2nd WP ) the share of the SDAP candidate Carl Wilhelm Tölcke was 18.4%.
  • In 1877 ( 3rd WP ) Wilhelm Frick (SAP) received 6,790 votes = 35.2%.
  • In 1878 ( 4th WP ) the German Social Democrats experienced the most violent attacks after the imperial assassination; nevertheless, Fricke received 30.3 percent of the vote. The party was banned by the Socialist Law .
  • In 1881 ( 5th WP ), during the prohibition period, Fricke received 23.3% of the votes without any formal means of assistance from the party.
  • In 1884 ( 6th WP ) 23.3% of voters voted for Julius Bruhns from the SAP
  • In 1887 ( 7th WP ) Wilhelm Liebknecht (SAP) received 7743 votes = 27.7%.
  • In 1890 ( 8th WP ), the trade unionist Julius Bruhns, a social democrat from Bremen, was elected to the Reichstag for the first time with 16,403 votes = 48.7% and then in a runoff election with 50.8%.
  • In 1893 ( 9th WP ) the party lost the seat of the Reichstag; The candidate was the cigar maker Hinrich Schmalfeldt (1930 honorary citizen of Bremerhaven), who could not win the election in the Prussian constituency of Geestemünde as early as 1890 .
  • In 1898 ( 10th WP ) Schmalfeldt lost and there was no Social Democrat in the Reichstag for Bremen.
  • In 1903 ( 11th WP ) Schmalfeldt was able to recapture the seat.
  • In 1907 ( 12th WP ) Schmalfeldt lost the mandate again and renounced a new candidacy.
  • In 1912 ( 13th WP ) the left-wing cigar worker and editor of the Bremer Bürger-Zeitung Alfred Henke recaptured the mandate.

SPD at the turn of the century 1900

Hasenclever : ADAV Chairman
Liebknecht : co-founder of the SPD

Prominent members of the SPD at that time in and for Bremen were Wilhelm Hasenclever as ADAV Chairman, Wilhelm Liebknecht , Hermann Rhein , Senator, Alfred Henke, Wilhelm Pieck , later GDR President, and Friedrich Ebert , later Reich President.

Ebert was in Bremen from 1891 to 1905 innkeeper, speaker, until 1894 editor of the Bremer Bürger-Zeitung , 1894/96 party chairman, 1900 union secretary, 1900 member and SPD parliamentary group chairman of the Bremen citizenship and 1905 party secretary and member of the party executive of the Reichs. This ended Ebert's time in Bremen.

Pieck was the SPD house cashier in Bremen in 1897, chairman of the city district in 1899, chairman of the payment office of the Bremen woodworkers' association in 1900, Bremen trade union delegate in 1904, member of the parliament from 1905 to 1910 and full-time first secretary of the Bremen SPD in 1906 . In 1910 he left Bremen and became secretary of the central education committee of the SPD in Berlin.

The reform pedagogue Heinrich Schulz was head of the Bremer Bürgerzeitung in Bremen from 1901 to 1906 , founded the education committee of the trade union cartel in 1905, formulated the Mannheim guiding principles for popular education with Clara Zetkin at the party congress of the SPD , was a member of the SPD Reich party executive committee in 1919 and state secretary for 1920 to 1927 School and educational issues in the Reich Ministry of the Interior.

Youth work: On June 9, 1907, the Young Guard was founded in the Lessing Educational Association , a young worker group with apprentices and young workers from mostly larger companies. The association kept in close contact with the SPD. At times (around 1908) it was organized as an educational association to avoid bans. It was banned in 1917. The Bremen Workers' Youth Association was formed in 1918 and soon became part of it. The Free Socialist Youth was also formed in 1918 and was close to the USPD. In 1919 the USPD-affiliated Socialist Workers Youth was established . The MSPD did not succeed in building up its own or closely related powerful youth association, the workers' youth association was not of great importance.

Trade union and SPD: After the lifting of the bans, the SPD-affiliated trade unions in Bremen increased from 4,554 (1894) to 10,341 by 1900 and to 36,085 members by the First World War.

Press work: The Bremer Bürger-Zeitung (from 1922 to 1933 Bremer Volkszeitung (Bremer Bürger-Zeitung) ) was published in 1890 by the SPD in Bremen. For a time it was one of the leading social democratic newspapers in the German Reich and represented above all the left wing of social democracy. The newspaper existed until 1974. Important (chief) editors of the newspaper were u. a. Julius Bruhns (1890–1895), Franz Diederich Papers (1895–1900), Heinrich Schulz (1901–1906) Alfred Henke (1900–1919), Wilhelm Kaisen (1920–1925) and Alfred Faust (1919–1933) as well as employees Johann Knief , Anton Pannekoek , Friedrich Ebert (1893/94) and Karl Radek .

Division and merger of the party

cleavage

The war-related split of the party in 1917 into the majority Social Democratic Party of Germany ( MSPD) and the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) also had an impact in Bremen. The leaders of the USPD in Bremen were Adam Frasunkiewicz and Alfred Henke .

The proclamation of a Bremen Soviet Republic in 1918/19 by the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and the USPD, from which the MSPD was expressly excluded, deepened the gap between the MSPD and the USPD. In 1918, the USPD violently wrested the much-read Bremer Bürger-Zeitung from the MSPD and the MSPD was expelled from all bodies.

The Provisional Government of Bremen, formed on February 4, 1919, consisted only of MSPD representatives and the Senate under the President of the Senate Karl Deichmann (MSPD) then consisted of senators from the MSPD and the liberal parties German People's Party (DVP) and German Democratic Party ( DDP); the USPD was not there. In 1920 a purely bourgeois Senate was formed without the MSPD and USPD.

Until 1922, the MSPD had the Bremer Volksblatt as its press organ with around 13,000 copies. The USPD had around 10,000 members in 1920 and the Bremer-Arbeiter-Zeitung as a press organ with 15,000 copies. In 1920 a left wing joined the KPD and the number of members fell to 8,000.

In 1920 Hanna Harder founded the Arbeiterwohlfahrt (AWO) in Bremen as a working group of the SPD.

Merger

In 1922 there was the United SPD in Bremen, into which many former USPD members converted and which now had around 10,000 members. The various youth organizations in Bremen became part of the Socialist Workers' Youth (SAJ) in Germany. As a party newspaper, the joint Bremer Volkszeitung established itself in 1922 with Alfred Faust and Wilhelm Kaisen as editors-in-chief.

The SPD suffered from the wing fighting in the period that followed. In 1923 she received 23% of the vote in the elections. The number of members decreased to 7,000 and then increased to 8,300 by 1925 and 10,000 by 1931. From 1928 to 1933 the SPD was again represented in the Senate with Senators Deichmann until 1931, Kaisen, Kleemann , Rhein until 1931 and Sommer .

Organizationally, there was the sub-district of Bremen. Bremerhaven was represented in the Unterweser subdistrict. In the Vegesack sub-district , with its secretary Willy Dehnkamp , the districts of Blumenthal and Osterholz were also represented. The youth association SAJ joined the new Socialist Workers' Party of Germany (1931) (SAP) in 1931 .

In the Reichstag election of September 14, 1930, the SPD suffered losses. In the general election the losses increased further and the SPD had 35% of the vote. Further losses followed in the 1932 Reichstag elections, with voting results of around 30%.

Party office

The traditional party office of the SPD was located at Geeren No. 6-8 from the 1920s to the end of the 1970s. The editorial office of the Bremer Bürger-Zeitung was in the building . This is where the association was founded in 1926, from which the GEWOBA housing association became.

1933 to 1945

In 1933 the SPD was able to unite 30% of the votes. On March 6, 1933, the SPD senators had to resign and were soon arrested and the SPD banned. During the time of National Socialism there were also small SPD groups in the resistance; SPD and KPD members established contacts. Resistance was broken by arrests and long imprisonment in concentration camps and prisons. Most of the SPD members withdrew during this time and were largely not bothered.

Bremen SPD since 1945

New beginning 1945

Even before the SPD was allowed to re-establish itself in September 1945, Social Democrats were appointed by the US occupation forces to rebuild the Bremen Senate and to high administrative offices. Since June 6, 1945 Wilhelm Kaisen , Emil Theil and Christian Paulmann were senators and since August 1, 1945 - at first under Kaisen - only Social Democrats led the state governments of Bremen. The first post-war mayor in Wesermünde was Helmuth Koch (DNVP, CDU), who was followed from 1946 to 1948 by Gerhard van Heukelum (SPD) for Wesermünde and then Bremerhaven.

In August 1945, the SPD and KPD declared that they could imagine a united party. The distrust of many SPD members towards the KPD was too great and the line of the chairman of the SPD Kurt Schumacher opposed this. At the company level there were frequent contacts and partial cooperation. In 1946 Adolf Ehlers and Hermann Wolters joined the SPD from the KPD and in 1947 Kaisen parted ways with the remaining KPD Senator Käthe Popall .

The SPD in Bremen-Stadt had only 800 members in 1945, then in 1946 without Bremen-Nord 5000 members in 28 districts. In 1946, the Bremen People's Youth was founded as a youth organization as the successor to the SAJ. In 1947 it was renamed the Socialist Youth of Germany - The Falcons . In 1946 the Young Socialists were also re-established.

In elections to the Bremen citizenship, the SPD received around 40% of the vote in 1947, then 48.7% in 1955 and around 55% of the votes between 1959 and 1963. In the 1971 election for the Bremerhaven City Council, the SPD received 55.7% of the vote.

organization

Organizationally, the SPD in Bremen was divided into the sub-districts (UB) Bremen, Bremen-Nord and Bremerhaven until the beginning of the 1970s, then into the four sub-districts of Bremen East, West and North as well as Bremerhaven until the end of the 1980s and then again as UB Bremen-Stadt, Bremen-Nord and Bremerhaven. In 1970/71 the annual reports mentioned the working groups of women, young socialists, teachers, lawyers, the self-employed, the company groups, the Kurt Schumacher active group and the economic policy and business group Unterweseraum working groups.

After the war, the party office was located on the Geeren in Bremen-Mitte , from the mid-1970s on Findorffstraße in Findorff and since 2009 in Obernstraße 39-43 again in the old town. The best-known state party secretary was Willi Lemke from 1974 to 1981 , who was then Werder Bremen manager until 1999 , education senator until 2007 and was UN special advisor for sport until 2016.

Kaisen : Mayor
Wedemeier : Group chairman, mayor
Scherf : Senator, Mayor
Böhrnsen : Chairman of the parliamentary group, mayor
Sieling : Chairman of the parliamentary group, mayor

SPD in the Senate

In the state of Bremen, as President of the Senate and Mayor of Bremen, Social Democrats have led the state government, the Bremen Senate, without interruption since 1945 . There were

The governments were formed as coalitions or solely by the SPD:

  • 1946/47 with BDV and KPD ,
  • 1947 to 1951 with the BDV / FDP ,
  • 1951 to 1959 with CDU and FDP,
  • 1959 to 1971 with the FDP,
  • 1971 to 1991 alone,
  • 1991 to 1995 with the FDP and the Greens ,
  • 1995 to 2007 with the CDU,
  • 2007 to 2019 with the Greens,
  • since 2019 with the Greens and the Left .

Current members of the Senate of the SPD

Membership development

  • In 1971 the sub-district (UB) Bremen had 9701 (2063 female) members in 38 local associations. There were 3392 (753 female) members in the Bremerhaven University Library.
  • In 1990 the state organization had 11,934 members, of which 7559 in the Bremen-Stadt University Library, 1650 in the Bremen-North University Library and 2725 in the Bremerhaven University Library.
  • In 2000 the state organization had 7,040 members, of which 4,563 in the Bremen-Stadt UB, 973 in the Bremen-North UB and 1,504 in the Bremerhaven UB.
  • In 2011, the state organization had 4,787 members, including 3,189 in the Bremen-Stadt UB, 644 in the Bremen-North UB and 954 in the Bremerhaven UB.
  • In 2015, the state organization had 4,308 members, of which 2912 in the Bremen-City UB, 528 in the Bremen-North UB and 868 in the Bremerhaven UB.
  • In 2017, the state organization had 4,248 members, of which 2910 in the Bremen-Stadt UB, 522 in the Bremen-North UB and 816 in the Bremerhaven UB.

Working groups and forums

Working groups

  • AG for employee issues (AfA)
  • AG for Education (AfB)
  • WG Social Democratic Women (ARSP)
  • AG Healthcare (ASG)
  • AG SPDqueer ( Schwusos )
  • AG of the self-employed (AGS)
  • WG Social Democratic Lawyers (ASJ)
  • Young Socialists ( Jusos )
  • AG 60plus
  • WG Migration and Diversity
  • AG Self Active

Forums

  • Forum One World Bremen, Committee for International Affairs,
  • Cultural Forum of Social Democracy Bremen
  • Sportforum, (LAG Sport)
  • Economic Forum Bremen / Northwest
  • Science forum of the SPD in Bremen and the north-west region

State Board

Current composition of the state executive

Surname function Subdistrict MP
Sascha Aulepp State chairman Bremen city Member of the Bundestag
Sarah Ryglewski Deputy State chairman Bremen city Member of the Bundestag
Uwe Parpart Deputy State Chairman Bremerhaven
Gisela Schwellach Treasurer Bremen-North
Karl Bronke Secretary Bremen city
Derik Eicke Assessor Bremen city
Janne Herzog Assessor Bremen city
Florian Boehlke owner Bremen-North
Arno Gottschalk Assessor Bremen city Member of the Bundestag
Wolfgang Grotheer Assessor Bremen city
David Ittekkot Assessor Bremen city Member of the Bundestag
Petra Krümpfer Assessor Bremen city
Elena Reichwald Assessor Bremen city
Ute Reimers-Bruns Assessor Bremen-North
Brigitte Mollenhauer Assessor Bremerhaven
Uwe Schmidt Assessor Bremerhaven Member of the Bundestag
Fabian Marx Assessor Bremerhaven

State chairwoman of the SPD Bremen

Years Chairman
1949-1951 Wilhelm Kleemann
1951-1962 Christian Paulmann
1962-1972

Moritz Thape

1972-1988 Henning Scherf
1978-1986 Konrad Kunick
1986 Hans-Dieter Müller
1986-1988 Herbert Brückner
1988-1991 Use Janz
1991-1992 Horst Isola
1992-1993 Harald Stelljes , acting
1993 Konrad Kunick
1993 Harald Stelljes , acting
1993-1995 Christine Wischer
1995 Harald Stelljes , acting
1995-2004 Detlev Albers
2004-2006 Carsten Sieling
2006-2010 Uwe Beckmeyer
2010-2014 Andreas Bovenschulte
2014-2016 Dieter Reinken
since 2016 Sascha Aulepp

Subdistricts

  • Bremen-Stadt sub-district: 2910 members, Chairman Falk Wagner (since April 21, 2018)
  • Bremen-North sub-district : 522 members, chairwoman Ute Reimers-Bruns (since September 22, 2018)
  • Bremerhaven sub-district : 816 members, Chairman Martin Günthner (since March 13, 2012)

Status (members): December 2017

Bremen citizenship from 1946

MPs

See the list of the members of the Bremen citizenship (19th electoral period) from 2011 as well as the results and the members of the citizenship elections since 1946 in the table.

Election results

In the elections from 1946 to 1999, the citizenship had 100 seats. In 2003 the citizenship was reduced to 83 members, 67 of them initially came from Bremen and 16 from Bremerhaven. For the 18th electoral period (WP) 2011, 68 members from Bremen and 15 from Bremerhaven were elected. As of 2011, the list is also linked to the results of the citizenship election.

Citizenship election results
year Top candidate be right Seats list
1946 Wilhelm Kaisen 47.6% 51 1st WP.
1947 Wilhelm Kaisen 41.7% 46 2nd WP.
1951 Wilhelm Kaisen 39.1% 43 3rd WP.
1955 Wilhelm Kaisen 47.8% 52 4th WP.
1959 Wilhelm Kaisen 54.9% 61 5th WP.
1963 Wilhelm Kaisen 54.7% 57 6th WP.
1967 Willy Dehnkamp 46.0% 50 7th WP.
1971 Hans Koschnick 55.3% 59 8th WP.
1975 Hans Koschnick 48.8% 52 9th WP.
1979 Hans Koschnick 49.4% 52 10th WP.
1983 Hans Koschnick 51.3% 58 11th WP.
1987 Klaus Wedemeier 50.5% 54 12th WP.
1991 Klaus Wedemeier 38.8% 41 13th WP.
1995 Klaus Wedemeier 33.4% 37 14th WP.
1999 Henning Scherf 42.6% 47 15th WP.
2003 Henning Scherf 42.3% 40 16th WP.
2007 Jens Boehrnsen 36.7% 32 17th WP.
2011 Jens Boehrnsen 38.6% 36 18th WP.
2015 Jens Boehrnsen 32.8% 30th 19th WP.
2019 Carsten Sieling 24.9% 23 20th WP.

Parliamentary group

SPD parliamentary group chairman has been Mustafa Güngör since 2019 .
The deputy group chairmen are Martin Günthner and Petra Krümpfer .
In Group Bureau continue Elombo Bolayela Janina Brünjes , Arno Gottschalk , Birgitt Pfeiffer , Ute Reimers-Bruns , Volker Stahmann and Valentina Tuchel represented.

The parliamentary group chairmen since 1900 see the list of parliamentary group chairmen of the Bremen citizenship .

Member of the Bundestag

Koschnick : Senator, Mayor, Member of the Bundestag

Bremen is divided into two constituencies. From 1949 to 2002 there were still three constituencies in Bremen. The Bremen-West constituency was dissolved in 2002 and distributed to the other two constituencies.

Without exception, the SPD representatives have won the direct mandate in all constituencies in the state of Bremen since 1949 . There were directly elected as members of the Bundestag in

The following are currently represented in the Bundestag:

Member of the Bundestag born Constituency First votes
Uwe Schmidt 1966 Bremen II - Bremerhaven 34.1%
Sarah Ryglewski 1983 Bremen I. 29.8%

Member of the European Parliament

In the European Parliament (EP), representatives of the SPD from Bremen were represented from 1979 to 2009, i.e. from the 1st electoral term to the 6th electoral term :

Members of the federal board

literature

  • Herbert Brückner , Renate Meyer-Braun, Beenhard Oldigs (eds.): 150 years of social democracy in Bremen and Bremerhaven . Edition Falkenberg, Bremen 2013, ISBN 978-3-95494-040-0 .
  • Johannes Stracke: The Bremen SPD . In: Lothar Probst (Ed.): Political institutions, parties and elections in the state of Bremen (= politics and participation . Vol. 5). Lit, Berlin a. a. 2011, ISBN 978-3-643-11145-6 , pp. 49-54.
  • Erhard Lucas : The social democracy in Bremen during the First World War (= Bremen publications on contemporary history . Issue 3). Schünemann, Bremen 1969.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Herbert Schwarzwälder : Das Große Bremen-Lexikon , S. 821. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
  2. How the Bremen parties grew and shrunk in 2019. January 6, 2020, accessed January 7, 2020 .
  3. Erika Thies: The history of citizenship. In: Weser-Kurier of April 30, 2011, p. 11.
  4. ^ Herbert Black Forest : History of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen . Volumes I to V, Edition Temmen, Bremen 1995, ISBN 3-86108-283-7 , here Vol. II, p. 412
  5. Bremen and the Social Democracy - Festschrift for the party conference of the German Social Democracy . Bremen 1904, reprint Bremen 1990, p. 52.
  6. ^ Herbert Black Forest : History of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen . Volumes I to V, Edition Temmen, Bremen 1995, ISBN 3-86108-283-7 , here Vol. II, pp. 412, 414.
  7. Klaus Auf dem Garten: Organized workers' movement in Bremen . In: Herbert Brückner, Renate Meyer-Braun, Beenhard Oldigs (eds.): 150 Years of Social Democracy in Bremen and Bremerhaven , p. 22.
  8. ^ Christian Paulmann: The Social Democrats in Bremen, 1864-1964 . Schmalfeldt Publishing House, Bremen 1964.
  9. a b SPD annual reports 1970/1971
  10. SPD annual book 2006/2007
  11. ^ SPD annual book 2010/2011
  12. SPD annual book 2014/2015
  13. SPD E-Mail Newsletter 43/2017 - member information from January 11, 2018
  14. ^ Results of the citizenship elections in Bremen