Subdistrict

In various German party and association organizations, the term sub-district usually refers to the association structure above the lowest association level and below the state associations or the districts.

Sub-districts in the SPD

Within the structure of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) , the sub-districts form the second lowest level after the local associations . In city-states like Berlin and Hamburg, the subdistricts are called "districts". The Thuringian SPD describes the subdistricts as "district associations". As a rule, the layout of the SPD sub-districts corresponds to the layout of the respective local authorities :

• In urban districts there is usually an SPD sub-district, the layout of which corresponds to the urban area.
• In the case of rural districts , the sub-district often includes the municipalities belonging to the district.

Section 8 (1) of the SPD's organizational statute describes the sub-districts as an independent party structure and as a body for forming the political will of the party: “The SPD is divided into local associations, sub-districts and districts. In this structure, the party's political will is formed from bottom to top. ” The equivalent of the choice of words“ circle ”can be found in Section 8 * of the organizational statute of the Berlin Regional Association.

Further associations with sub-districts

• Especially the SPD affiliated organizations like the AWO or "SJD - Die Falken" also know the organization structure of the sub-district.
• The NPD , which is classified as right-wing extremist by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution , also has sub-districts.
• The German Trade Union Federation (DGB) wanted to introduce with an announced in November 2008 structural reform, which should be completed by 2014, below the (national) district level subdistricts whose cut should be based on administrative regions and "comparable political subdivisions". At the DGB Federal Congress in 2010, a new statute was adopted without the sub-district level

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cf. DISTRICT OFFICES OF THE BERLIN SPD. SPD Berlin , accessed on May 8, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Presentation on the SPD Hamburg website , accessed on August 18, 2019
3. ↑ § 3 of the Articles of Association , accessed on August 20, 2019
4. ^ Organizational statutes , election regulations, arbitration regulations, financial regulations of the Social Democratic Party of Germany and rules of procedure, supplementary statutory provisions of the SPD Berlin, information on the deployment of delegates and substitute delegates, guidelines of the working groups of the SPD Berlin. SPD Berlin , January 2014, p. 15 , accessed on May 8, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Key points of the chairmen of the member unions and the DGB on the DGB structural reform, November 4, 2008, last accessed on May 3, 2010
6. ↑ Press release 086/2010 of the German Trade Union Federation, last accessed on May 3, 2012