German Party (1993)

The German Party ( short name: DP) is a right-wing political party in Germany, which was founded in 1993. She sees herself in the aftermath of the German Party, which had its greatest impact in the late 1940s and the 1950s and was involved from 1949 to 1960 in the federal government.

• 2.1 National associations and their chairmen
• 2.2 Party finance and asset
• 2.3 Local Mandates
• 2.4 Protection of the Constitution

History

The historic German party

The German Party of the post-war period goes back to the German - Hanoverian Party ( DHP), which was founded in 1866 as a protest against the annexation of the Kingdom of Hanover by the Kingdom of Prussia. The DHP was consistently in the Prussian Landtag, and at times represented in the Reichstag of the German Empire and in the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic. In 1933 the ban and forced dissolution took place. 1945 it was refounded as Lower Saxony 's Party ( NLP) and later renamed the German party. 1949 to 1960 she was represented in the Bundestag and participate in the federal government. In 1961 she broke away at the federal level in effect on. In 1980, the DP lost its status as a party. However, it continued to exist as an association.

Start-up 1993

In 1993 took place in Kassel, the reestablishment of the DP as a political party. The former club chairman of Zworowsky Wolf, who had been until 1979 for the Hessian CDU member of parliament, was the first chairman of the party. Due to his age, he was replaced in 1994 by Johannes Freiherr von Campenhausen.

The party had its focus in Hesse and Lower Saxony. As early as 1990 the DP had set out for state elections in Lower Saxony, but reached only 0.01 % of the vote. In the Lower Saxony state parliament election in 1994, she failed to obtain the necessary signatures of supporters, so they came in individual constituencies only with candidates. Municipal elections in 1996 brought no significant results. Competed in two of the six electoral areas, the DP had their best result in the election area Stade 0.3 %. In the state election in Hamburg in 1997 the party gave only 0.1 % of the electorate vote. The same result was reached in the regional elections in Lower Saxony in 1998.

Era Kappel

In March 2000, the DP was planning a merger with the Federation of Free Citizens ( BFB ) and the DSU. However, the DSU jumped off soon and the BFB broke up in August 2000.

The former national chairman of the BFB, the 1998 leaked from the FDP National Liberal politician Heiner Kappel, was elected in the summer of 2001, national chairman of the DP.

In the state elections in Bremen on 25 May 2003, the DP was achieved with 0.5 % for the first time since the foundation is a significant election result above the local level.

German party - the Freedom

In October 2003 was a merger with the Freedom People's party ( FDVP ), which was founded in June 2000 by DVU renegade MPs from the state parliament of Saxony- Anhalt. The party name was since the merger German party - the Freedom Party.

With the inclusion of this group there was a significant shift to the right of the party and it was classified and observed by several constitutional protection agencies of the countries to be quite extreme.

In the European elections of 2004, the DP reached 0.2%.

In November 2004, the first DP agreed to cooperate with the Republicans and the DSU. The DP led, according to press reports in 2004, but also discussions with the NPD in order to achieve a political cooperation. 2005 should be a party to the Pact of NPD and DVU Germany the DP. Instead there are no official documents. Also the Protection of the Constitution could not confirm this in his report of 2005.

Since Kappel spoke out against cooperation with the NPD, he was deposed on 22 January 2005 by the National Executive Board and initiated a process of elimination party against him. The leadership of the party took over as acting the previous three deputy, Eberhard Lehmann, Claudia Wiechmann ( former chairman of the FDVP ) and Ulrich Paetzold. Wiechmann and Paetzold elected a little later to equal the new national chairman. In a lawsuit, however, was able to prevail Kappel, but left after resting his employees.

Since 2007

In July 2007, a party congress in osthessischen Rommerz chose the Lower Alfred Kuhlemann national chairman and ordered the expulsion from the party of the former chairman of Kappel. The DP is understood since this congress as " democratic, conservative and patriotic party " and distanced himself from the NPD. The legality of the Congress, however, was disputed by the former Chairman Claudia Wiechmann and Ulrich Paetzold. In autumn 2009, Gerd -Uwe Dahlmann took over the presidency. Also was at the party the suffix " the Freedom ' stored again.

Structure of the DP

December 31, 2003 604 persons were members of the German party. The members continue to come predominantly from northern Germany. Current and verifiable membership figures are not available.

Estimates speak of but only about 200 members. According to Federal Election there are national associations in Lower Saxony, Hesse, Baden- Württemberg and Berlin- Brandenburg. Publik was last re- establishment of the National Federation of North Rhine- Westphalia on 31 January 2010. Has issued this as the first destination to participate in the state election in North Rhine -Westphalia on May 9, 2010. For a national list of the required number of signatures not reached, but in the constituency 109 " Bochum III - Herne II" took the DP to a direct candidates. The state chairman Michael Fischer reached there for the DP, although only 67 votes (0.11 %), but this was very important for the whole party, because this party status for another six years could be obtained.

National associations and their chairmen

Party finances and assets

The party is lack of electoral success is not eligible for funding from the state party financing. In Bundestag printed paper 16/ 1252 annual report of the year 2003 is set. Accordingly, the party this year received around 205,000 euros, including:

• Membership fees 23 percent
• Donate 75 percent

She graduated in 2003 from 11,000 euro surplus, last year there were 35,500 euro surplus. The party was not over-indebted, its net assets amounted to 2003 17.000 €. According to the company, the party received in this period four major gifts over 10,000 euros. These large donations together accounted for about 100,000 euros.

Local mandates

Since its foundation as a party in 1993, the DP has won no seats in parliament or state elections. Mostly however, it has won in local mandates. In the district of Harburg ( Lower Saxony), the DP with 1.0 percent of the vote achieved a council mandate at the municipal election on 9 September 2001. In Baden-Württemberg Herbrechtingen the DP earned profits of 6.4 percent of the vote and a seat in the council, in which she was thus represented by 2009 at the municipal election held on 13 June 2004. In the district council election on 13 June 2004, it reached 1.2 percent of the vote in the council of the district of Anhalt- Zerbst (Saxony- Anhalt) a seat in which she was represented until the resolution of the county in 2007.

In the district council election in the district of Wittenberg ( Saxony- Anhalt), it reached 1.5 percent of the vote (2004: 0.3%) in the local elections on 22 April 2007 and a seat on the council.

Protection of the Constitution

Observations were the party of several country offices for constitutional protection. Already under the former National Chairman Heiner Kappel the party had shown, according to information from the Baden-Württemberg state constitutional protection no reservations against right-wing extremists. However, the observations only went to 2007 and was terminated at the end of the Paetzold / Wiechmann era. In recent reports, the German Constitutional Protection Party shall no longer mention.

National Chairman

Election results at the country level

* A direct candidate with 67 votes