Democratic Farmers' Party of Germany

The Democratic Farmers' Party of Germany ( DBD) was a farmer party and block party in East Germany. It was founded in April 1948 in the Soviet zone of occupation on the initiative of the SMAD. Incubator was Mecklenburg. In the state capital Schwerin, the founding conference of the Peasant Party of Mecklenburg took place on 29 April 1948. The contract for the foundation received the SED member Ernst gold tree which was their first president and remained until 1982. The goal was to win the farmers for the " construction of socialism ". She was thus one of the four block parties in the GDR and propagated in essential points the SED line. First, she pretended to represent the interests of the new, small and middle peasants, but in the 1950s it was used mainly to enforce the collectivization of agriculture in the GDR.

With the Bauer echo the DBD entertained his own newspaper. Supported by the SED, the party quickly developed until 1951. The membership grew within three years to around 85,000. However, due to the passive resistance of large parts of the rural population against the collectivization, membership stagnated until well into the 1970s. In the 1980s, the party grew stronger - as the other bloc parties also - organizationally again. In 1984 she was one of nearly 108,000 members in 1987 there were 103,000 members.

After 1989 /90, the party tried to seek a new profile as " ecological Peasant Party ", but received in the first free parliamentary elections on 18 March 1990, only 2.2 % of the vote and nine seats in the People's Chamber. The strongholds of the DBD were in present-day Mecklenburg- Vorpommern: She reached in the district of Neubrandenburg 6.3%, in the district of Rostock 4.4% and 4.0% in the district of Schwerin.

In response, the remaining members of the party decided in June 1990 for a merger with the CDU ( Ost). By following absorption into the CDU succeeded some former officials of the DBD to get into leadership positions at the federal, state and local level. So the last DBD Officer Ulrich Junghanns was elected on 27 January 2007, Chairman of the CDU in Brandenburg.

The whereabouts of the party 's assets is explained in Article assets of political parties and organizations of the GDR.

Party chairman

  • Ernst Gold Tree 1948-1982
  • Ernst Mecklenburg 1982-1987
  • Günther Maleuda 1987-1990, 1989/90, the penultimate People's Chamber of the GDR
  • Ulrich Junghanns 1990
Agrarianism Ernst Goldenbaum Collective farming East German general election, 1990 Neubrandenburg (Bezirk) Rostock (Bezirk) Schwerin (Bezirk) Communist Party of Germany National Democratic Party of Germany (East Germany)
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