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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).
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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 Leader of the Social Democratic Party (Vorsitzender der Sozialdemokratischen Partei Deutschlands) is the most senior political figure within the Social Democratic Party of Germany. Since December 2021, the office has been held jointly by Saskia Esken and Lars Klingbeil .
The federal government of Germany often consisted of a coalition of a major and a minor party, specifically CDU/CSU and FDP or SPD and FDP, and from 1998 to 2005 SPD and Greens. From 1966 to 1969, from 2005 to 2009 and from 2013 to 2021, the federal government consisted of a coalition of the two major parties, called a grand coalition .
The body consists of the SPD co-leaders, Deputy Party Leaders, the General Secretary, the Party Treasurer and the party's spokesperson for EU affairs, as well as additional elected members. [ 2 ] From 1950, the seat of the party executive and the party's federal headquarters was a temporary building in Bonn, also known as the "Baracke", which ...
In the 2017 federal election, the SPD won just 20.5% of votes cast, its worst result in the history of the Federal Republic.Party leader Martin Schulz subsequently announced that the SPD would not renew the grand coalition with the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in which it had served since 2013.
The Parlamentarische Linke (English: Parliamentary Left, abbreviated PL) is a platform within the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD)'s Bundestag group. [2] As of 2022, 96 of the group's 206 members belong to the Parliamentary Left, [3] making it the largest of the three extant platforms in the SPD group, alongside the Seeheimer Kreis and Berlin Network.