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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 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).
Socialist Workers Party of Germany (SAPD) (born 1931), see also Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), the Communist Party Opposition (KPO), Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) Social Republican Party of Germany. Horsing movement for job creation (SRPD) Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (1917–31), see also ...
Ruhr uprising: The Communist Party of Germany, the Communist Workers' Party of Germany, the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany and the Free Workers' Union of Germany together established the Ruhr Red Army in an attempt to set up a soviet-style government. Freikorps and regular troops defeated the Red Army with considerable loss of ...
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 ...
The Social Democratic Party in the GDR (German: Sozialdemokratische Partei in der DDR) was a reconstituted Social Democratic Party existing during the final phase of East Germany. Slightly less than a year after its creation it merged with its West German counterpart ahead of German reunification .
The majority of the SPD Reichstag party membership under the leadership of Ebert and Hugo Haase, who later moved to the Independent Social Democratic Party (USPD), supported Burgfriedenspolitik and the war policy of the German Empire. [6] [7] Karl Liebknecht of the SPD, a leading anti-war figure, shown here in 1912
After the ban was lifted in 1890, it renamed itself the Social Democratic Party of Germany (Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands, SPD) and surged at the polls. [14] By the 1912 elections, the SPD, a direct descendant of the small SDAP, had become the largest party in Germany. [15] Logo of the modern SPD