The SPD Bavaria (SPD Bayern, own spelling BayernSPD), full name Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD), Landesverband BayernSatzung der BayernSPD i. d. F. v. 14. Juli 2014 [Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), State Association of Bavaria], is the Bavarian State Association of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. In 2022, it was the second largest state association of a party in Bavaria with 52,000 members.
The party's co-chairs are Ronja Endres and Florian von Brunn.Irene Esmann (April 24, 2021), BayernSPD: Neue Doppelspitze will nicht leisetreten Bayerischer Rundfunk.
History The SPD Bavaria has a rich history, which dates back to 1866, when a workers' education club in Nuremberg was founded as the first Social Democratic institution.Broschüre Die SPD Nürnberg stellt sich vor (PDF; 1,9 MB) In 1881, Karl Grillenberger won the first Reichstag mandate for the SPD in Bavaria, also in Nuremberg. 1887 the SPD (still not under this name) in the Kingdom of Bavaria joined for the first time the election to the Chamber of Deputies of the Kingdom, and received 2.1 percent of the vote, but no seat.Wahlen-in-deutschland.de In 1888, the Social Democratic newspaper Münchener Post was founded.
The history of the SPD Bayern as a separate organization began with the first party conference of the SPD in Bavaria, which met on the initiative of Georg von Vollmar in 1892 in Reinhausen near Regensburg. The party congress decided that the SPD would take part in the state elections in 1893 and passed an election program.Robert Hofmann (2003): Der Kampf um Sozialreformen und elementare Bürgerrechte., in Franz Maget/Karin Radermacher (ed.): Mit Leidenschaft für Demokratie. 110 Jahre SPD-Landtagsfraktion in Bayern., Munich 2003
Chairpeople
PeriodChairperson1892–1918Georg von Vollmar1918–1933Erhard Auer1946–1947Lisa Albrecht1946–1947Wilhelm HoegnerBayern.de, 13. Mai 1946 bis 11. Mai 19471947–1963Waldemar von Knoeringen1963–1972Volkmar Gabert1972–1977Hans-Jochen Vogel1977–1985Helmut Rothemund1985–1991Rudolf Schöfberger1991–2000Renate Schmidt2000–2003Wolfgang Hoderlein2003–2009Ludwig Stiegler2009–2017Florian Pronold2017–2021Natascha Kohnen2021–Ronja Endres Florian von Brunn
Election results
Landtag of Bavaria Election Popular Vote Seats +/– Government Votes % 1946 871,760 28.6 (#2) 1950 2,588,549 28.0 (#1) 9 19542,733,94628.1 (#2) 2 1958 2,839,300 30.8 (#2) 3 1962 3,465,168 35.3 (#2) 15 1966 3,768,973 35.8 (#2) 0 1970 3,742,760 33.3 (#2) 9 1974 3,409,126 30.2 (#2) 6 1978 3,599,479 31.4 (#2) 1 1982 3,876,970 31.9 (#2) 6 1986 3,119,124 27.5 (#2) 10 1990 2,882,008 26.0 (#2) 3 1994 3,506,620 30.0 (#2) 12 1998 3,501,900 28.7 (#2) 3 2003 2,012,265 19.6 (#2) 26 2008 1,972,437 18.6 (#2) 2 2013 2,437,401 20.6 (#2) 3 2018 1,309,078 9.7 (#5) 20 2023 1,140,753 8.4 (#5) 5
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