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The Law Against the Formation of Parties (German: Gesetz gegen die Neubildung von Parteien), sometimes translated as the Law Against the Founding of New Parties, was a measure enacted by the government of Nazi Germany on 14 July 1933 that established the Nazi Party (NSDAP) as the only legal political party in Germany.
Chairman of the SPD in the British zone, resisting Grotewohl's claims and implementing the formation of the SPD in the new founded Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) in 1949. Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), 1949–1990 Kurt Schumacher: 23 May 1949 – 20 August 1952: Died in office Erich Ollenhauer: 27 September 1952 – 14 ...
The self-dissolution of the DStP, forced by the Nazis, took place on 28 June 1933. The law against the formation of new parties enacted on 14 July codified the existence of a single party in the Nazi state and any activity on behalf of other parties was made a punishable offense. [37]
The largest by members and parliament seats are the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), with its sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU) and Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). Germany also has a number of other parties, in recent history most importantly the Free Democratic Party (FDP), Alliance 90/The Greens , The Left , and more ...
Despite heavy losses since 1990, the SPD is still the largest party in Germany, ahead of the CDU. Although strongly leftist, the SPD was willing to compromise. Only through its support did the governing CDU/CSU pass a denazification law that its coalition partner the Free Democratic Party (FDP) and the far-right German Party voted against. [31]
The Law to Secure the Unity of Party and State (German: Gesetz zur Sicherung der Einheit von Partei und Staat), sometimes translated as the Law to Safeguard the Unity of Party and State, was a statute enacted by the government of Nazi Germany on 1 December 1933 that established a close interconnection between the Nazi Party (including its paramilitary wing, the Sturmabteilung, or SA) and the ...
In the summer of 1927, leading up to the end of the law's 5-year legal life, the subject of an extension came up for debate in the Reichstag. Due to the increased number of seats held by the German National People's Party, which had voted against the law in 1922, it needed to support the extension in order for it to pass.
[22] [23] Germany is a transit and destination country for persons, primarily women, trafficked mainly from Central and Eastern Europe and from Africa for the purpose of sexual exploitation. Russia alone accounted for one-quarter of the 1,235 identified victims reported in 2003, the latest year for which statistics are available.