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  Liberal Democratic Party of Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Liberal Democratic Party of Germany (German: Liberal-Demokratische Partei Deutschlands (LDPD)) was a political party in East Germany.
In July 1946 the LDP and the liberal parties in the Western Zones founded a joint Coordination committe with the aim of forming an All-Germany liberal party (Deutsche Demokratische Partei, DPD).
The founding of the Democratic Party of Germany began with a conference in Rothenburg ob der Tauber in March 17, 1947.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Liberal_Democratic_Party_of_Germany   (668 words)

  
 Liberal Democratic Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Liberal Democratic Party or Democratic Liberal Party is the name of dozens of political parties around the world.
Switzerland — Liberal Democratic Party (also known as the Freethinking Democratic Party and the Radical Democratic Party)
East GermanyLiberal Democratic Party of Germany
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Liberal_Democratic_Party   (138 words)

  
 Germany - Political Parties and Democratization
The reintroduction of democratic political parties in Germany was one of the primary concerns of the Allies during the final phase of the war.
Vigorous resistance to the merger of the two leftist parties came from Social Democrats in the Western zones, led by Kurt Schumacher, a veteran Social Democratic politician and member of the Reichstag during the Weimar Republic and a political prisoner during the Third Reich.
The Social Democratic Party that operated in the Western zones was, in contrast to the Eastern SPD, markedly anticommunist.
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 East Germany   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The German Democratic Republic (Deutsche Demokratische Republik DDR or GDR) commonly known as East Germany was a Communist Party-led state that existed from 1949 to 1990 in the former Soviet occupation zone Germany.
The increasing prosperity of West Germany and political oppression in the East led large of East Germans to flee to the The increasing depopulation in the GDR caused political leadership to order the borders closed fences turrets dogs and most of all walls (DDR border system) which included the Berlin Wall in 1961.
Many who had to East Germany as anti- fascists who were opposed to the quick of Nazi functionaries and industry in the found themselves captives of a dogmatic and weak state which alone was forced to reparations to the Soviet Union.
www.freeglossary.com /East_Germany   (1586 words)

  
 Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on Democratic Party   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Of the two major U.S. parties, the Democratic Party is to the left of the Republican Party, though its politics are not as consistently leftist as the traditional social democratic and labor parties in much of the world.
The Democratic Party of the 1830s was a complex coalition with many elements, especially farmers in all parts of the country, together with workingmen's groups in the cities.
Civil libertarians also often support the Democratic Party because its positions on such issues as civil rights and separation of church and state are more closely aligned to their own than the positions of the Republican Party, and because the Democrats' economic agenda may be more appealing to them than that of the Libertarian Party.
www.blinkbits.com /blinks/politics/parties/democraticparty_753.php   (8505 words)

  
 East Germany - GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC
An SMAD decree of June 10 granted permission for the formation of antifascist democratic political parties in the Soviet zone; elections to new state legislatures were scheduled for October 1946.
In Berlin, which was still undivided, the SPD had resisted the party merger and, running on its own, had polled 48.7 percent of the vote, thus scoring a major electoral victory and decisively defeating the SED, which, with 19.8 percent, was third in the voting behind the SPD and the CDU.
Thus Joseph Stalin called for the transformation of the SED into a Soviet-style "party of the new type." To that end, Stalin named the Soviet-trained German communist Walter Ulbricht as first secretary of the SED, and the Politburo, Secretariat, and Central Committee were formed.
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 Germany - Social Democratic Party
Founded in 1875, the Social Democratic Party of Germany (Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands--SPD) is Germany's oldest political party and its largest in terms of membership.
The party is split into two factions, one giving priority to economic and social justice, egalitarianism, and environmental protection, and the other most concerned with controlling inflation, encouraging fiscal responsibility, and playing a significant part in the European security system.
The core of the Executive Committee is the nine-member Presidium, which represents the inner circle of party officials and is generally composed of the party leadership.
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 The Mahablog » Democratic Party   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
For Democrats, being boxed in as the Party of the Poor while the GOP assumes the mantle of the family is an electoral nightmare.
In the history of the Democratic Party, the election of 1980 looms large: the year the party lost the White House, the Senate, a generation of Midwestern liberals and, in some ways, its confidence that it was the natural, even inevitable, majority party.
It was the move away from democratic progressivism and toward “identity politics” that rendered the Democratic Party a shell of its former self, IMO.
www.mahablog.com /category/democratic-party   (14159 words)

  
 Germany
Antisemitism in Germany before the First World War involved a rejection of liberalism, modernism and Jewish emancipation, and was closely connected to the growth of German nationalism and racism.
In what may be Germany's last Nazi war crimes prosecution, Danz was expected to face trial for the murder of a young girl in a concentration camp in the final weeks of the war.
The 4,000-strong Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands (NPD, National Democratic Party of Germany) is the oldest far-right party in Germany.
www.axt.org.uk /antisem/archive/archive2/germany/germany.htm   (7758 words)

  
 Germany
The main opposition parties are the Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD, Social Democratic Party of Germany), which is strong in the Länder but has little influence at the national level, the Bündnis 90/die Grünen (Alliance 90/Greens) and the Partei des Demokratischen Sozialismus (PDS, Party of Democratic Socialism).
The former party chairperson of the NPD, Günter Deckert, was repeatedly charged with insult during the year and in November was given seven months' probation for calling on a Jewish CDU politician and member of the Central Council of the Jews, Michel Friedman, to "go to Israel".
While extremist parties and neo-Nazi groups have, in recent years, lost some of their presence, they still attempt to develop new political strategies, which increasingly attempt to capitalize on problems such as unemployment and the fear of social decline.
www.axt.org.uk /antisem/archive/archive1/germany/germany.htm   (7970 words)

  
 Political Organisations 1949-1990 (East Germany)
Democratic Farmer's Party of Germany (Demokratische Bauernpartei Deutschlands / DBD)
Thus, the leading positions in all of the mass organizations were held by members of the Socialist Unity Party (mostly simply called The Party) and therefore the broad spectrum of different organizations boiled down to one party line.
As we remarked for Nazi Germany, the Communist regime in East Germany was, until its last days, characterized by the union of party and state.
www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/de}ddr.html   (1476 words)

  
 Glossary of Organisations: In
A party formed in April 1917 at a congress in Gotha amid an atmosphere of revolutionary enthusiasm stimulated by the February revolution in Russia.
For a time the Spartacus group was associated with the party of "Independents" as an affiliated group, which preserved its organisational and political independence, and continued its illegal work and struggle to free the Social-Democratic workers from the influence of the Centrist leaders.
Precursor to the Spartacist League, the Internationale group was a sub-group within the German Social-Democratic Labour Party, formed by Karl Liebknecht, Rosa Luxemburg, Franz Mehring, Clara Zetkin and others at the beginning of the First World War, on the basis of being opposed to the World War.
www.marxists.org /glossary/orgs/i/n.htm   (930 words)

  
 Post-War East Germany
The years 1949 to 1955 were a period of Stalinization, during which East Germany was politically consolidated as an authoritarian Soviet-style state under SED leadership.
In order to guarantee the party's dominance within the state, all members of the SED who were active in state organs were obliged to carry out party resolutions.
The New Course in East Germany was based on the economic policy initiated by Georgi Malenkov in the Soviet Union.
www.shsu.edu /~his_ncp/EGermPW.html   (1947 words)

  
 Liberal Democratic Party of Germany 1945-1990 (East Germany)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Liberal Democratic Party of Germany 1945-1990 (East Germany)
Free Democratic Party (Liberal Party) (Freie Demokratische Partei / Die Liberalen / FDP)
A yellow flag with fl and red stripes on top (resembling the German colors) and reverse red and fl stripes on bottom, the yellow part being four times as wide as the each red or fl stripe with LDPD symbol in center.
www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/de}ldpd.html   (132 words)

  
 Germany
Note: For data on Germany since 3 Oct 1990 see the table at the top of the entry.
Party abbreviations: CDU = Christlich-Demokratische Union (Christian-Democratic Union, conservative christian-democratic); FDP = Freie Demokratische Partei (Free Democratic Party, liberal); PDS =Partei des Demokratischen Sozialismus (Party of Democratic Socialism, extreme left); SPD = Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (Social Democratic Party of Germany, social-democratic)
DBD = Demokratische Bauernpartei Deutschlands (Democratic Peasant Party of Germany,
www.worldstatesmen.org /Germany.html   (4005 words)

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