Voting Community of Independent Citizens

The Voting Association of Independent Citizens (WUB) was founded in 1974 in the Berlin district of Zehlendorf as a registered association.

It entered the district election for the first time in 1975 and achieved 12.9% of the vote after the regional returning officer had previously rejected a candidacy from independent individual applicants and this option had to be enforced by legal action.

In the meantime, the WUB Zehlendorf provided two city councilors or 9 of 45 members of the district assembly .

The greatest political success is likely to be the forced amendment of the Berlin constitution with regard to the candidacy of citizens' initiatives and the prevention of a planned road tunnel in the center of Zehlendorf and thus the extension of the western bypass from Steglitz town hall to the Zehlendorfer clover leaf .

After the district merger with Steglitz , the three percent hurdle in Zehlendorf and in some constituencies in Steglitz was clearly exceeded, but not in the entire district. The WUB then dissolved in 2001.

The architect Walther Grunwald was one of the co-founders .

Individual evidence

↑ Marcel Gäding: The Failed Experiment: The Voting Community of Independent Citizens dissolves after 26 years. Berliner Zeitung , February 19, 2002, accessed on October 5, 2013 .
^ Election in Berlin on October 21, 2001; Final result - comment on the results; Page 36 (PDF; 4.2 MB) The Berlin State Returning Officer, accessed on October 5, 2013 .

Web links

WUB Zehlendorf at the Berlin traffic website

[1] Marcel Gäding: The Failed Experiment: The Voting Community of Independent Citizens dissolves after 26 years. Berliner Zeitung , February 19, 2002, accessed on October 5, 2013 .

[2] Election in Berlin on October 21, 2001; Final result - comment on the results; Page 36 (PDF; 4.2 MB) The Berlin State Returning Officer, accessed on October 5, 2013 .