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Saturday, May 18, 2024

Founding of the Freie Volkspartei in 1956


Founding of the Freie Volkspartei (Free People's Party) in 1956. Vice Chancellor and Minister for Economic Cooperation Franz Blücher (center), Housing Minister Victor-Emanuel Preusker (left), and retired General Hasso von Manteuffel (right) in front of the press in Bonn on April 23, 1956 shortly after the party was founded. The so-called Euler Group, consisting of 16 FDP MPs, including the four FDP federal ministers, left the FDP faction in the German Bundestag in February 1956. Photo by Kurt Rohwedder.



16 delegates leave FDP Bundestag faction in 1956. Leading personalities of the split off group, which had shortly before left the FDP Bundestag faction, consult with each other on the 23rd of February in 1956 in the office of vice president of the Bundestag Ludwig Schneider in Bonn. A group of 16 delegates, amongst them four Federal ministers and vice president of the Bundestag Schneider, had left the faction as protest against the politics of FDP federal chairman Thomas Dehler. Dehler had decided to cancel the government coalition with the CDU/CSU. To be seen (l-r) Hans Wellhausen, Hermann Schäfer, Fritz Neumayer, Ludwig Preiss, General Hasso von Manteuffel and Hermann Berg. Photo by Kurt Rohwedder.

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https://www.europeana.eu/en/item/2022037/11088_4CFAE2C0_867A_4827_93C6_9699A7E60DF4

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