ge110f12maythemal: September 2012

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

My Work Process in FDP Party

Maythem Al Abbad

September, 19

My Work Process in FDP Party

Hello, working in FDP party was a good experience for me because I never read or heard about German parties particularly Free Democratic Party, or FDP. I meet with my group couple times on Monday and Wednesday at the library and we have been working for three hours in the couple times. I learned a lot from this topic and having a good information about German party especially FDP party. I did the history part of the FDP part and I searched about on Wikipedia. I came up with good details about the history of FDP party which is The Free Democratic Party, or FDP, was created to support liberal rights in Germany. It currently is made up of 93 members and is one of the largest groups in Bundestag. The FDP holds together the balance of power in Bundestag by promoting human rights and other things such as free markets and privatization. Without the FDP, the people of Germany wouldn’t have somebody to fight for their rights politically, economically, or socially.

My group members came up with different information about FDP party which are Theodor Heuss first chairman 1948, Heuss was first president of federal republic of Germany from 1949-1959. Free Democratic Party is a centrist German party that advocates individualism, capitalism and social reform; it was established in December 1948 at a conference attended by delegates from liberties in American, British and French zone occupation. Formed from nine regionally organized parties BDV, DemP, DP, DVP, (Northern Wurttemberg-Baden), DVP (Southern Wurttemberg-Hohenzollern), FDP from the British zone of occupation and the free state of Bavaria and the LDP from the state of Hessen and Berlin west. Formed with the intent to influence free market economics and human rights.“Kingmaker”.

References

1.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:FDP-Logo_2011.svg, 17 Sep 12
2.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Democratic_Party_(Germany), 17 Sep 12
3.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Guido_Westerwelle_(Foreign_ministry_in_Stockholm,_2010).jpg, 19 Sep 12
4.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Roesler-klein.jpg, 19 Sep 12
5.http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/where-do-they-stand-a-quick-guide-to-germany-s-political-parties-a-651388.html, 19 Sep 12

FDP party

17 September 2012

FDP

Jon W, Ry, AJ, Saphire, John, Patrick, Maythem, Matt

(1)

"As much government as necessary, as little government as possible," (2)

Overview

Histroy
major events
current standing

History

(S)Theodor Heuss first chairman 1948
(S)Heuss was first president of federal republic of germany from 1949-1959
(J)free democratic party is a centrist german party that advocate individualism, captialism and social reform.
(J)It was established in December 1948 at a conference attended by delegates from liberal parties in American, British and French zone occupation.
(P)Formed from nine regionally organized parties: BDV, DemP, DP, DVP (Northern Württemberg-Baden), DVP (Southern Württemberg-Hohenzollern), FDP from the Brtitish Zone of Occupation and The Free State of Bavaria and the LDP from the State of Hesse and Berlin West.
(M)Formed with the intent to influence free market economics and human rights.
(R)"kingmaker"

Major events

(R)1970 to 1990s Hans-Dietrich Genscher led the fdp as the forgein minister of germany
(R)During the 2002 elections, Juergen Moellemann published an anti-Semitic pamphlet and was forced to leave the FDP before commiting suicide in 2003.
(J)2009 FDP best result in federal election and second-longest serving chairman
(J)2009 Party support collapses (dropped to as low as 5%)
(J)2011 Guido Westerwelle stepped down after party was wiped out in select states.

Guido Westerwelle(3)

Phillipp Rosler(4)

Current Standing

(A)Guido had to step down from vice-chancelor in 2011 due to being unable to lower taxes as promised in 2009 election
(A)Phillipp Rosler succeeded Guido as chairman of FDP and vice-chancelor in May 2011

Fun Facts

(M)Guido on Big Brother germany in early 2000s
(M)Guido first openly gay vice-chancelor and foreign minister

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

How old?

Baden-Wurttemburg is one of the youngest West-German states and was founded in 1952. Wurttemburg became occupied by two tribes from agreement of land in World War 1.

The languages spoke?

In 1918, Wurttemburg was occupied by Badeners in the west and Schwaben to the east. Parts of Baden-Wurttemburg spoke mainly Swabian or Badisch. The central and southern parts of the state speak mainly Swabian. To the north, the language Rhine Franconian is spoken. There are different dialects of these languages that are used throughout the state.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baden-W%C3%BCrttemberg

http://wikitravel.org/en/Baden-W%C3%BCrttemberg