Bund der Deutschen
The Federation of German, Party for Unity, Peace and Freedom ( short name: BdD ) was a political party in the Federal Republic of Germany.
Development program and to establishing the DFU
The BdD was born from the movement against the run by Konrad Adenauer policy with the West. After the signing of the General Treaty the German collection was founded on June 26, 1952 in Dortmund. Members of the Bureau were former Chancellor Joseph Wirth, Catherine of Kardorff - Oheimb and Wilhelm Elfes. The German collection called for resistance against the West firmly binding written contract General and demanded to exhaust all possibilities of reunification.
The establishment of the BdD was in 1953 at the instigation of the Politburo of the SED. Although acquisitions outwardly Joseph Wirth, Wilhelm Elfes and other bourgeois politicians the party presidency, but was the organization and financing of the party always in the hands of communist functionaries. The aim of the SED was similar to the concept of the National Front of the GDR Civil and win "national- minded " forces as allies.
Core program of BdD was a neutrality policy that opposed the rearmament of Germany and the integration with the West. Unlike Konrad Adenauer one aimed at an understanding with the Soviet Union.
Although the BdD also took into account economic and socio-political demands of the middle class and the peasants, but he also pleaded for socialization of heavy industry.
The 1961 saw the foundation of the German Peace Union, the SED operating the fusion of BdD with the new DDR alliance organization. The BdD the observed protection of the constitution of North Rhine Westphalia classified as the BdD 1964 as upstream cadre organization of a DFU. In fact, the BdD occurred despite persistence of the own organization no longer be elections, but sent candidates to the list of DFU.
On November 2 In 1968, DKP, DFU, BdD and other left-wing groups, which shows, with the common list action of Democratic Progress (ADF ) for the parliamentary elections in 1969. At this time, the members of stock for documentation of the SED of once 12,000 ( 1953/1955 ) declined to less than 3000 (1965).
The BdD was never officially dissolved, merged, however, de facto, at its last congress in 1968 with the DFU. Last Party Chairman of BdD was since 1964 the former Secretary General of the BdD and the later DFU and ADF functionary Josef Weber.
Press
As the BdD a related institution, the German People's Daily was founded in 1953. Successor was named after the German reunification, the political weekly Friday.
The BdD stepped to the following Federal and state elections: