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The Social Democratic Party has its origins in the General German Workers' Association, founded in 1863, and the Social Democratic Workers' Party, founded in 1869. The two groups merged in 1875 to create the Socialist Workers' Party of Germany (German: Sozialistische Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands).
After those changes, the SPD enacted the two major pillars of what would become the modern social-democratic program, namely making the party a people's party rather than a party solely representing the working class and abandoning remaining Marxist policies aimed at destroying capitalism and replacing them with policies aimed at reforming ...
The political culture of Germany as of the early 21st century is known for the popular expectation for governments to ensure a degree of social welfare, [1] business and labour corporatism, and a multiparty system dominated by conservative and social democratic forces, with a strong influence of smaller Green, liberal and socialist parties.
Many parties in this era described themselves as Social Democrats, including the General German Workers' Association and the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Germany, which merged to form the Social Democratic Party of Germany, the Social Democratic Federation in Britain, and the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. Social Democrat ...
On 26 September 1990 the Social Democratic Party in the GDR dissolve itself and joined the Western Social Democratic Party of Germany and becoming one single party again. Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), since 1990 Hans-Jochen Vogel: 26 September 1990 – 29 May 1991: Björn Engholm: 29 May 1991 – 3 May 1993: Resigned after political ...
The Social Democratic Workers' Party of Germany a (German: Sozialdemokratische Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands, SDAP) was a Marxist socialist political party in the North German Confederation during unification. Founded in Eisenach in 1869, the SDAP endured through the early years of the German Empire.
The organization was established in 1917 as the result of a split of anti-war members of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), from the left of the party as well as the centre and the right. The organization attempted to chart a course between electorally oriented reformism on the one hand and Bolshevist revolutionism on the other.
German People's Party: DtVP Social liberalism Federalism Laïcité Parliamentarism: 1868–1910 German Progress Party: DFP Liberalism Federalism: 1861–1884 German Free-minded Party: DFP Liberalism Progressivism Parliamentarism Laïcité: 1884–1893 Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany: USPD Democratic socialism Centrist Marxism ...