Unification party conference of the FDP in 1990

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Coordinates: 53 ° 51 ′ 16.7 ″  N , 10 ° 41 ′ 20.9 ″  E

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title Unification convention
Serial number 12
place Hanover
state Lower Saxony
Hall Eilenriedehalle
Beginning August 11, 1990
Duration (in days) 2
Delegates 662
Eilenriedehalle

The FDP held the unification party conference in 1990 from August 11th to 12th, 1990 in the Eilenriedehalle in the congress center in Hanover .

course

At the party congress, the West German FDP joined forces with the East German liberal parties, the Bund Free Democrats , the German Forum Party and the GDR FDP . The unification party conference began immediately after the extraordinary federal party conference on August 11 at 4:00 p.m.

Attendees

Invitation to the unification party conference

A total of 662 delegates were invited to the party congress. The FDP provided 402 delegates, the Bund Free Democrats 160, the German Forum Party 45 and the FDP of the GDR 55 delegates.

Delegate of the FDP

Delegate rights to the federal party congress
Regional association Deleg. according to members Deleg. according to voter. Total delegates
Baden-Württemberg 23 38 61
Bavaria 19th 31 50
Berlin 7th 3 10
Bremen 2 2 4th
Hamburg 6th 6th 12
Hesse 23 19th 42
Lower Saxony 24 24 48
North Rhine-Westphalia 62 52 114
Rhineland-Palatinate 16 13 29
Saarland 9 3 12
Schleswig-Holstein 9 9 18th
Foreign group Europe 2 2

Delegate of the Federation of Free Democrats

Delegate rights to the unification party convention
Regional association Delegates
East Berlin 6th
Thuringia 24
Brandenburg 25th
Saxony 47
Saxony-Anhalt 39
Mecklenburg 19th

Delegate of the FDP of the GDR

Delegate rights to the unification party convention
Regional association Delegates
East Berlin 4th
Thuringia 15th
Brandenburg 11
Saxony 9
Saxony-Anhalt 12
Mecklenburg 4th

Delegate of the German Forum Party

Delegate rights to the unification party convention
Regional association Delegates
East Berlin 6th
Thuringia 3
Brandenburg 13
Saxony 13
Saxony-Anhalt 10

Invitation and agenda

Invitation with agenda

The delegates of the FDP were invited to the unification congress by the party chairman on June 29, 1990. A draft agenda was sent with the invitation.

The agenda saw u. a. various speeches, elections and resolutions:

  • opening
  • Speeches by party chairmen Otto Graf Lambsdorff (FDP), Rainer Ortleb (Bund Free Democrats), Lothar Ramin (German Forum Party), Bruno Menzel (FDP of the GDR)
  • Joint resolution on the statutes of the Free Democratic Party
  • Elections to the presidium
  • Elections to the federal board
  • Policy statement: "For a liberal Germany"

Federal Executive

Election result for the federal executive committee. Press release from August 13, 1990

After the new election in 1990, the federal executive board included:

position Surname Election result (Submission // Valid // Yes // No // Ent. //%)
Chairman Otto Graf Lambsdorff 622 // 617 // 524 // 72 // 21 // 85%
vice-chairman Irmgard Adam-Schwaetzer 624 // 617 // 541 // 52 // 24 // 88%
Deputy Chairman Rainer Ortleb 620 // 619 // 542 // 57 // 20 // 88%
Deputy Chairman Wolfgang Gerhardt 559 // 557 // 451 // 66 // 40 // 81%
Deputy Chairman Bruno Menzel 570 // 566 // 483 // 71 // 12 // 85%
Deputy Chairman Gerhart Baum 582 // 579 // 463 // 78 // 38 // 80%
Treasurer Hermann Otto Solms 568 // 566 // 513 // 32 // 21 // 91%
Assessor in the Presidium Walter Hirche 568 // 563 // 489 // 40 // 34 // 87%
Assessor in the Presidium Joachim Günther 570 // 562 // 459 // 77 // 26 // 82%
Assessor in the Presidium Georg Gallus 565 // 560 // 390 // 139 // 31 // 70%
Assessor in the Presidium Christiane Pätzold 571 // 565 // 428 // 101 // 36 // 76%
Assessor in the Presidium Ruth Wagner 562 // 556 // 460 // 63 // 33 // 83%
Secretary General Cornelia Schmalz-Jacobsen 506 // 498 // 370 // 96 // 32 // 74%
Permanent representatives: Rüdiger von Wechmar
(European Parliament)

Wolfgang Weng
(parliamentary group)
1. Assessor department
in the federal executive committee 		Olaf Feldmann
Josef Grünbeck
Rainer Cario
Günter Rexrodt
Knut Sandler
Manfred Richter
Robert Vogel
Otto Wilke
Dieter Wöstenberg
Heinrich Juergens
Jürgen Möllemann
Rainer Brüderle
Horst Rehberger
Dietmar Schicke
Gerd Brunner
Wolfgang Kubicki
Andreas Kniepert 		514 // 30 // 50
504 // 28 // 63
417 // 90 // 88
379 // 104 // 112
336 // 37 // 222
388 // 13 // 194
336 // 21 // 238
347 // 30 // 218
494 // 34 // 67
509 // 22 // 64
462 // 68 // 65
486 // 33 // 76
490 // 29 // 76
343 // 155 // 97
444 / / 76 // 75
442 // 72 // 81
501 // 39 // 52
2. Assessor department
in the federal executive committee 		Rosemarie Fuchs
Hildegard Hamm-Brücher
Burkhard Hirsch
Guido Westerwelle
Walter Goldbeck
Ingo von Münch
Mechthild von Alemann
Uwe Ronneburger
Uta Würfel
Ursula Seiler-Albring
Wolfgang Lüder
Torsten Wolfgramm
Peter Caesar
Wolfgang Rauls
Hartmut Sieckmann
Hans-Joachim Otto
Carola von Braun
Arno Schmidt 		468 votes
394 votes
391 votes
386 votes
357 votes
353 votes
352 votes
341 votes
337 votes
335 votes
333 votes
332 votes
328 votes
326 votes
316 votes
312 votes
305 votes
329 votes ( runoff against Heinz Rogler )
Honorary Chairman Walter Scheel

Others

The conference presidium was formed by Wolfgang Lüder , Ruth Wagner , Ina Albowitz , Jürgen Neubert (FDP of the GDR), Reinhard Nissel (Union of Free Democrats).

So that a new federal board could be elected, all West German board members who had been elected in October 1988 had announced their early resignation.

See also

Web links

Commons : FDP Unification Party Congress 1990  - Collection of images
Wiktionary: Federal Party Congress  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Information from: Archiv des Liberalismus ( www.freiheit.org/content/archiv-des-liberalismus ) (ADL), inventory of the FDP Federal Party Rallies, A1-1.
  2. ↑ Jörn Arfs: Unity Party Congress: growth for the FDP. The eastern liberals were left with nothing but a cat table . In: Die Zeit , August 17, 1990.