Community of voters of the aviation victims

The voter community of the aviation victims (full name voter community of the aviator victims, evacuates and war victims , short WdF ) was a voter community in Bremen from 1950 to 1955. It was an organization of the Germans expelled from their homeland after the end of the Second World War and operated one corresponding interest policy.

During its five-year existence, it ran for the state elections in the Bremen electoral area only once in 1951 and only had a state association in this state. The WdF had around 500 members. It dissolved in 1955 without an official successor organization.

In the Bremen electoral area , it achieved 5.3% with 14,355 valid votes cast. Between 1951 and 1955 she was represented by four members of the Bremen citizenship . She did not stand for election in the Bremerhaven area. The BHE as a direct competitor, as the second clientele for displaced persons , sued against the result because it received only two MPs from the Bremerhaven constituency with a total of 18,744 valid votes; this was due to the failure of the five percent threshold with 13,368 votes and 4.9% in the Electoral district of Bremen. The lawsuit was dismissed by the Electoral Examination Court of the Hanseatic City of Bremen. Speaker of the parliament group was Wilhelm Pohlmann until his death in May 1954. The Office followed him Friedrich Hohrmann after. From May 1955 the WdF formed a parliamentary group together with the BHE group . The WdF was the first, and until the Statt Party moved into the Hamburg citizenship in 1993, the only community of voters that succeeded in gaining seats in a state parliament.

The political positioning of the WdF is inconsistent. While some political scientists classify it as a right-wing political organization, others see it as a “clientele of the center ” that specifically wanted to represent the interests of its constituents.

It is regarded as the forerunner organization of the BHE / GB and did not run for the citizenship elections in 1955.

The community of voters of those injured by airplanes, displaced persons and currency- damaged persons with the same abbreviation WdF received a mandate in the Munich city council in 1956 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Richard Stöss : Political parties handbook: The parties of the Federal Republic of Germany 1945-1980 , Springer-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 9783663143499 , p. 267
2. ↑ Decision of the Election Examination Court of October 29, 1952
3. ↑ Article on Friedrich Hohrmann. Sources named there
4. ↑ Der Spiegel : Success of the Schill Party: A Novelty in Post-War History , September 23, 2001
5. ↑ Aline Schniewind: The party systems of the federal states in comparison: inventory and developments , LIT Verlag Münster, 2012, p. 134f.
6. ^ Sven Leunig: The government systems of the German states , Springer-Verlag, 2012, ISBN 9783531933047 , p. 86
7. ^ Richard Stöss: Party Handbook: The parties of the Federal Republic of Germany 1945-1980 , p. 281