Political Parties and Elections - 1949-63 - Germany
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- Political Parties and Elections - 1949-63
- The CDU
- Supported capitalism and competition, but wanted to protect the vulnerable
- Supported the welfare state
- Followed the Ahlen Programme, which outlined beliefs in traditional Christian values, a social conscience and a free market - replaced with center-conservative policies in 1957
- The SPD
- Formed from Marxist, working-class movements
- Abandoned Marxism in 1959 at the Bad Godesberg Conference
- Wanted social justice and individual freedom
- Elections and election results
- Konrad Adenauer was Chancellor between 1949-63
- His period of power is often called "chancellor democracy"
- Elections were merely a series of plebiscites in favour of the government
- Election results
- 1949
- CDU - 31%
- SDP - 29.2%
- FDP - 11.9%
- KDP - 5.7%
- Others - 22.2%
- 1953
- CDU - 45.2%
- SPD - 28.8%
- FDP - 9.5%
- 1961
- CDU - 45.3%
- SPD - 36.2%
- Others - 5.7%
- FDP - 12.8%
- 1949
- Parties
- In 1945 the Allies allowed the formation of political parties . By 1949, politics was dominated by two major parties the CDU and SPD
- Christian Democrats (CDU) - conservative
- Social Democratic Party (SPD) - Democratic-Socialist
- Free Democratic Party (FPD) - composition of liberal parties
- German Party (DP) - Right-Wing
- League of Refugees and Expellees (BHE) - revisionist, nationalist
- Communist (KPD) - Communist (banned in 1956)
- Socialist Reich Party (SRP) - Pro-Nazi (banned in 1952)
- The CDU
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