United Left (1976)

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The United Left (VL) was a socialist party in the Federal Republic of Germany that existed from 1976 to 1981 and that took part in the 1976 federal election .

Inventory period

The United Left was founded on February 1, 1976. Its forerunner was a Labor Party initiative that had existed since July 1975. The VL was assigned to the socialist small groups and had a regional association in North Rhine-Westphalia , its membership was 126. The VL held party conferences; a political program was published in 1977. Party chairman was the employee Klaus-Erich Rieseberg from Mülheim an der Ruhr . The party was dissolved on February 9, 1982.

General election 1976

The United Left only took part in the 1976 federal election in one federal state. It entered North Rhine-Westphalia with a state list with 6 candidates and four district election proposals ( constituencies Cologne I, II and IV and Mülheim). Six of the seven applicants were between 25 and 34 years old, and one was younger. All candidates were employed (2 in manufacturing, 2 in technical and 3 in service professions). The United Left received 217 first and 707 second votes in this federal election.

Political orientation

The United Left advocated a socialist council democracy in Germany, peaceful reunification and a neutral Germany outside of NATO and the Warsaw Pact .

literature

  • Constitutional Protection Report 1976, pp. 110–111 (illustration of the election call and only brief mention of the election results)
  • Political parties in the FRG: a handbook (edited by the Institute for International Politics and Economy of the GDR. Author collective: Manfred Behrend and others) Berlin: Dietz 1989 ISBN 3-320-01052-2
  • Data handbook on the history of the German Bundestag 1949 to 1999 (edited by Peter Schindler) Baden-Baden 1999
  • Richard Stöss: Introduction (...) in: Party Handbook (Table 12): Anti-capitalist parties , pp. 254–5

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Handbook of parties in the FRG ; The ultra-left sect is constituted as a “party initiative” , in: Berliner Extra-Dienst No. 52 / IX of June 27, 1975, p. 5
  2. ↑ according to the Constitutional Protection Report 1976 “councilor communist ” ; the handbook parties in the FRG describes the VL as a "splinter group of Maoists and former members of the SPD "
  3. ↑ Data Handbook, Vol. I, p. 135
  4. ↑ Alan J. Day (et al., Ed.), Political Parties of the world , 1980, p. 134 (" United Left ")
  5. ↑ R. Stöss, Introduction ... in: Party Handbook , pp. 254-5
  6. ↑ Parliament No. 39-40 of September 25, 1976, pp. 1ff. (Issue for the 1976 Bundestag election)
  7. ↑ AJDay (et al., Ed.), Political Parties of the world , 1980, p. 134