List of political parties in Germany
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Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "Sidebar". The Federal Republic of Germany has a plural multi-party system. Historically, 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 recently the Alternative for Germany (AfD). 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, from 2013 to 2021 and since 2025, the federal government consisted of a coalition of the two major parties, called a grand coalition.[1]
Coalitions in the Bundestag and state legislatures are often described by party colors. Party colors are red for the Social Democratic Party, green for Alliance 90/The Greens, yellow for the Free Democratic Party, purple (officially red, which is customarily used for the SPD) for the Left, light blue for the AfD, and black and blue for the CDU and CSU respectively.[2][3]
Current parties
Parties represented in the Bundestag
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Parties represented in the European Parliament
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Parties only represented in state parliaments
| Name | <templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />Abbr.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Ideology | Political position | <templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />EP partyScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | <templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />EP groupScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Result in 2021 federal election | Leader(s) | MdLs | Membership | States | ||
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| style="background:Template:Party color;" | | Alliance Germany Bündnis DeutschlandScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
BD | Conservatism | Centre-right to right-wing | - | ECR | - (did not exist) | Steffen Grosse | Template:Composition bar | 1,000 | Bremen | |
| Values Union WerteUnionScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
WU | National conservatism Right-wing populism |
Right-wing | – | – | – (did not exist) | Hans-Georg Maaßen | Template:Composition bar | 4,000[6] | Lower Saxony | ||
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Minor parties
| Name | <templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />Abbr.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Leader(s) | Ideology | Political position | EP group | Membership | ||
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| Action Citizens for Justice Aktion Bürger für GerechtigkeitScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
ABG | Alfred Dorn | Direct democracy Alternative medicine Right-wing populism Nationalism |
Right-wing | 121 | |||
| Action Party for Animal Welfare Aktion Partei für TierschutzScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Tierschutz hier! | Thomas Schwarz | Animal rights Animal welfare |
Single-issue | 50 | |||
| Alliance C – Christians for Germany Bündnis C – Christen für DeutschlandScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Bündnis C | Karin Heepen & Ole Steffes | Conservatism Christian fundamentalism |
Right-wing | ECPM | 1,078 | ||
| Alliance for Human Rights, Animal and Nature Protection Allianz für Menschenrechte, Tier- und NaturschutzScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Tierschutzallianz | Josef Fassl | Animal rights | Single-issue | 97 | |||
| Alliance for Innovation and Justice Bündnis für Innovation und GerechtigkeitScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
BIG | Haluk Yildiz | Political Islam | 2,000 | ||||
| Alliance of German Democrats Allianz Deutscher DemokratenScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
AD-Demokraten | Ramazan Akbaş | Conservatism Political Islam |
2,500 | ||||
| AlphaHHP AlphaHHP - gesundheitspolitische Partei für Deutschland in EuropaScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
AlphaHHP | Anti-vaccination | ||||||
| Anarchist Pogo Party of Germany Anarchistische Pogo-Partei DeutschlandsScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
APPD | Peter Vehreschild | Satire | Apoliticism | 2,512 | |||
| Arminius – Association of the German People Arminius – Bund des deutschen VolkesScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Arminius – Bund | Johann Thießen | Russia German interests German nationalism Neo-nazism |
Far-right | 40 | |||
| Awakening Peace-Sovereignty-Justice Aufbruch Frieden-Souveränität-GerechtigkeitScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Aufbruch | Template:Interlanguage link | Russophilia Antimilitarism Anti-Atlanticism |
Right-wing | ||||
| Association for Freedom and Humanity BUND FÜR FREIHEIT UND HUMANITÄTScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Anton Stucki | Liberalism | 40[7] | |||||
| Basic Income Alliance Bündnis GrundeinkommenScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
BGE | Martin Sonnabend | Universal basic income | Single-issue | 350 | |||
| Template:Interlanguage link Grundeinkommen für AlleScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
GFA | Uwe Bjorck | Universal basic income | Single-issue | 27 | |||
| Bavaria Party BayernparteiScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
BP | Florian Weber | Autonomism Bavarian nationalism Regionalism Conservatism |
Centre-right | EFA | 3,926 | ||
| Bergpartei, die "ÜberPartei" Bergpartei, die ÜberparteiScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
B* | Yanachasca Laso Solari | Post-left anarchy Dadaism |
Far-left | 229 | |||
| Brandenburg United Civic Movements/Free Voters Brandenburger Vereinigte Bürgerbewegungen / Freie WählerScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
BVB/FW | Péter Vida | Regionalism | 910 | ||||
| style="background: Template:Party color" | | German Centre Party Deutsche ZentrumsparteiScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
ZENTRUM | Christian Otte | Christian democracy Conservatism Social conservatism |
Centre-right | 300 | ||
| style="background:Template:Party color" | | Climate List Germany Klimaliste DeutschlandScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
KL | Fabian Aisenbrey, Doris Vollmer | Climate change mitigation | 234 | |||
| Citizens for Germany Bürger für DeutschlandScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
BfD | Direct democracy | ||||||
| Citizens for Progress and Change Bürger für Fortschritt und WandelScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
BFW | Uwe Hück | Progressivism | Centre-left | 170 | |||
| Civic and Economic-Ecological Union Bürgerliche und wirtschaftsökologische UnionScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
BWUnion | Liberalism Nationalism |
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| Civil Rights Movement Solidarity Bürgerrechtsbewegung SolidaritätScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
BüSo | Helga Zepp-LaRouche | LaRouche movement | Syncretic | 556 | |||
| Communist Party of Germany Kommunistische Partei DeutschlandsScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
KPD | Torsten Schöwitz | Communism Marxism–Leninism Anti-revisionism Stalinism |
Far-left | 165 | |||
| Democratic Alliance for Diversity and Awakening Demokratische Allianz für Vielfalt und AufbruchScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
DAVA | Teyfik Ozcan | Turkish minority interests Erdoğanism |
1,000 | ||||
| Democratic Union of Germany Demokratische Vereinigung DeutschlandScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
DVD | Werner Krüger | Reformism Direct democracy Universal basic income |
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| Democratic Liberal LEAGUE Demokratisch Liberale LIGAScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
LIGA | Thomas H. Stütz | Conservatism | Centre-right | ||||
| Democracy DIRECT! Demokratie DIREKT!Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
DIE DIREKTE! | Christian Rombeck | Direct democracy | 34 | ||||
| Democratic Left Demokratische LinkeScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
DL | Eckehart Ehrenberg | Democratic socialism | Left-wing | 43 | |||
| Template:Interlanguage link Ökologische LinkeScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
ÖkoLinX | Grassroots democracy Eco-socialism Anti-fascism |
Left-wing to far-left | 350 | ||||
| Ecological-Left Liberal Democratic Party Ökolinksliberale Demokratische ParteiScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
ÖLDP | Bérangère Bultheel | Social democracy Social liberalism European Federalism |
Centre-left | 70 | |||
| Educate Berlin! Bildet Berlin!Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Bildet Berlin! | Florian Bublys, Tamara Adamzik | Education reform | Single-issue | 50 | |||
| Template:Interlanguage link Europäische Partei LiebeScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
LIEBE | European federalism Subsidized marriage |
53 | |||||
| Feminist Party The Women Feministische Partei Die FrauenScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
DIE FRAUEN | Renate Schmidtsdorff-Aicher | Feminism | 400 | ||||
| Free Citizens' Union Freie Bürger UnionScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
FBU | Walter Pfleiderer | National liberalism Conservatism Nationalism |
Right-wing | ||||
| Free Citizens Central Germany Freie Bürger MitteldeutschlandScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
FBM | Regionalism | 35 | |||||
| Free Horizon Freier HorizontScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
FREiER HORIZONT | Norbert Schumacher | Anti-Wind turbine | Single-issue | 40 | |||
| Template:Interlanguage link Freiparlamentarische AllianzScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
FPA | Luca Piwodda | Participatory democracy | 200 | ||||
| Free Saxons Freie SachsenScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
FS | Martin Kohlmann | Saxon monarchism Regionalism |
Right-wing to Far-right | 1,200 | |||
| Template:Interlanguage link Ab jetzt … Demokratie durch VolksabstimmungScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Volksabstimmung | Helmut Fleck | Direct Democracy Nationalism |
Right-wing | 350 | |||
| Future. Zukunft.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Z. | Lasse Lorenzen | Regionalism | 112 | ||||
| Template:Interlanguage link future!Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
future! | Stephan Bublitz | Youth interests | |||||
| Garden Party GartenparteiScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Gartenpartei | Roland Zander | Pro-Allotment Environmentalism |
349 | ||||
| German Centre Deutsche MitteScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
DM | Sven Hüther | Right-wing populism Anti-vaccination |
Right-wing | 500 | |||
| German Conservatives Deutsche KonservativeScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Deutsche Konservative | Dieter Jochim | Conservatism National conservatism |
Centre-right to right-wing | 380 | |||
| German Communist Party Deutsche Kommunistische ParteiScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
DKP | Patrik Köbele | Communism Marxism–Leninism |
Far-left | 2,850 | |||
| Template:Interlanguage link Deutsch Land WirtschaftScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
DLW | Benjamin Meise | Farmer interests | 15[8] | ||||
| German Party – The Freedomites Deutsche Partei – Die FreiheitlichenScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
DP | Gerd-Uwe Dahlmann | National conservatism German nationalism Right-wing populism |
Right-wing | 250 | |||
| German Sports Party Deutsche SportparteiScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
DSP | Michael Möller | Grassroots democracy Sport for social development Anti-Doping |
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| German Social Union Deutsche Soziale UnionScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
DSU | Roberto Rink | National conservatism Social conservatism |
Right-wing | 1,060 | |||
| Germans Originating from all of Germany (Autochthons) Aus Gesamtdeutschland stammende Deutsche (Autochthone)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
AGsD | Horst Zaborowski | Nationalism Irredentism Direct democracy |
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| style="background:Template:Party color"| | Grassroots Democratic Party of Germany Basisdemokratische Partei DeutschlandScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
dieBasis | Reiner Fuellmich, Viviane Fischer | Anti-lockdown Anti-vaccination |
18,988[9] | |||
| Good-People-Party Gut-Menschen-ParteiScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Die Gut-Menschen | Carl Philipp Trump | Left-wing | |||||
| Human Economy Party HumanwirtschaftsparteiScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
HUMANWIRTSCHAFT | Dieter Müller | Freiwirtschaft | 110 | ||||
| Human world - for the well-being and happiness of all Menschliche Welt – für das Wohl und Glücklichsein allerScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
MENSCHLICHE WELT | Michael Moritz | Progressive utilization theory Anti-vaccination Pacifism |
669 | ||||
| INDEPENDENTS for citizen-friendly democracy UNABHÄNGIGE für bürgernahe DemokratieScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
UNABHÄNGIGE | Werner Fischer | Non-partisan democracy Direct democracy |
86 | ||||
| Liberal Democrats – The Social Liberals Liberale Demokraten – Die SozialliberalenScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
LD | Bernd Grothkopp | Social liberalism | 100 | ||||
| Lobbyists for Children Lobbyisten für KinderScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
LfK | Johanna Nelkner, Fabio Libonati | Children's rights | 100 | ||||
| Lusatian Alliance Lausitzer Allianz / Łužiska Alianca / Łužyska AliancaScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Hannes Wilhelm-Kell | Regionalism Progressivism Ethnic minority interests |
90 | |||||
| Marxist–Leninist Party of Germany Marxistisch-Leninistische Partei DeutschlandsScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
MLPD | Gabi Fechtner | Marxism–Leninism Communism |
Far-left | 2,800 | |||
| Mindful Democrats Achtsame DemokratenScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
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| Modern Social Party Moderne Soziale ParteiScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
MSP | |||||||
| mut mutScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
mut | Claudia Stamm | Social liberalism | Centre-left | 400 | |||
| MERA25 MERA25Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
MERA25 | Julijana Zita | Progressivism Direct democracy |
Left-wing | DiEM25 | 2,000 | ||
| National Democratic Party of Germany Nationaldemokratische Partei DeutschlandsScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
NPD | Lennart Schwarzbach | Neo-Nazism | Far-right | ||||
| neo. Wellbeing for all neo. Wohlstand für alleScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
neo. | Jörg Gastmann | Economic Balance System Universal basic income Grassroots democracy |
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| New Strength Party Neue Stärke ParteiScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
NSP | Sara Storch, Christoph Thews | Neo-Nazism | Far-right | 100[10] | |||
| One for all - Party Eine für Alle - ParteiScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Eine für Alle | Grassroots democracy | 13 | |||||
| Party for Franconia Partei für FrankenScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
DIE FRANKEN | Robert Gattenlöhner | Regionalism | 237 | ||||
| style="background-color: Template:Party color" | | Party for Biomedical Rejuvenation Research Partei für schulmedizinische VerjüngungsforschungScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Verjüngungsforschung | Felix Werth | Single-issue politics | Single-issue | 289 | ||
| Party of Humanists Partei der HumanistenScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
PdH | Felicitas Klings | Humanism Secularism Civil libertarianism Social liberalism |
2,350 | ||||
| Party of Reason Partei der VernunftScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
PdV | Friedrich Dominicus | Right-libertarianism Euroscepticism |
Right-wing | EPIL | 352 | ||
| PETO PETOScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
PETO | Lydia Hannawald | Youth interests | 400 | ||||
| style="background-color: Template:Party color" | | Pirate Party Germany Piratenpartei DeutschlandScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
PIRATEN | Borys Sobieski[11] | Pirate politics E-democracy Direct democracy Social liberalism European federalism |
Centre-left | Greens/EFA | 5,541 | |
| Renters Party MieterparteiScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
MIETERPARTEI | Anke Hahn, Hartmut Bräunlich | Anti-high rent | Centre-left | 50 | |||
| Saxon People's Party Sächsische VolksparteiScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
SVP | Mirko Schmidt | Nationalism | Far-right | ||||
| SGV – Solidarity, Equity, Change SGV – Solidarität, Gerechtigkeit, VeränderungScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
SGV | Anti-corruption | ||||||
| Socialist Equality Party Sozialistische GleichheitsparteiScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
SGP | Ulrich Rippert | Trotskyism | Far-left | 276 | |||
| Standing up socially just intelligent party Aufstehen sozial gerechte intelligente ParteiScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Aufstehenpartei | Paul Weiler | Left-wing populism | Centre-left to Left-wing | ||||
| Statt Party Statt ParteiScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
STATT | Robert W. Hugo | Populism | 200 | ||||
| Transnational Unity, Solidarity, and Libertarianism Advocates Transnationale Einheit´s, Solidarität´s und Libertarismus AdvokatenScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
TESLA | Norbert Wiesweg | Sinti and Romani interests | |||||
| style="background:Template:Party color;" | | The Justice Party – Team Todenhöfer Die Gerechtigkeitspartei – Team TodenhöferScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Jürgen Todenhöfer | Anti-militarism Populism |
5,314 | ||||
| The Glass clear Die GlasklarScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
DGK | Marie-José Velonjara | Social democracy Populism |
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| The Federals DIE FÖDERALENScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
DIE FÖDERALEN | Maren Zaidan | Liberalism Federalism Progressivism |
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| The Grays – For all Generations Die Grauen – Für alle GenerationenScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Die Grauen | Michael Schulz | Intergenerationality | 135 | ||||
| style="background-color: Template:Party color" | | The Homeland Die HeimatScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
HEIMAT | Peter Schreiber | Neo-Nazism Ultranationalism Pan-Germanism Anti-immigration Revanchism |
Far-right | APF | 3,000 | |
| The House of Germany Das Haus DeutschlandScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
DHD | Egbert Besler | Constitutionalism Social democracy |
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| The Reformers Die ReformerScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
REFORMER | Erich Schuster | Liberalism Pro-Europeanism |
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| The III. Path Der III. WegScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
III. Weg | Matthias Fischer | Neo-Nazism Strasserism Ethnic nationalism German nationalism Hard Euroscepticism |
Far-right | 642 | |||
| The Modernity die ModerneScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Martin Martens | Centrism | Centre | |||||
| The New Centre Die Neue Mitte - Zurück zur VernunftScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
NM | Christoph Hörstel | Sovereignism Euroscepticism Anti-vaccination Russophilia |
Right-wing | ||||
| The New Democrats Die neuen DemokratenScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
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| The Libertarians Die LibertärenScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
DIE LIBERTÄREN | Dr. Mathias Hummel | Libertarianism Laissez-faire Economic liberalism |
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| THE OTHERS DIE SONSTIGENScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
sonstige | Democratic confederalism Progressivism Anti-militarism |
Left-wing | 171 | ||||
| The Party of Sorbians die partei der sorbenScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
PDS | Lars Krause | Political satire Sorbian Separatism Anti-militarism |
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| The Pink/ Alliance21 Die Pinken/Bündnis21Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
BÜNDNIS21 | Anti-corruption | 450 | |||||
| The Republicans Die RepublikanerScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
REP | Tilo Schöne | German nationalism National conservatism Euroscepticism Social conservatism |
Right-wing | 4,533 | |||
| The Sharks – Party with bite Die Haie – Partei mit BissScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
HAIE | Jan Heie Erchinger | Pragmatism | Centre | ||||
| The Peace Party Die FriedensparteiScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Mahmoud Ahmed | Pacifism | ||||||
| The Urbans. A HipHop Party Die Urbane. Eine HipHop ParteiScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
du | Niki Drakos, Raphael Hillebrand | Social justice Environmentalism |
303 | ||||
| The Violets Die ViolettenScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Die Violetten | Irene Garcia Garcia | Spiritualism Direct democracy Environmentalism |
678 | ||||
| Thuringian Homeland Party Thüringer HeimatparteiScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
THP | 56 | ||||||
| style="background:Template:Party color;" | | We Citizens Wir Bürger |
LKR | Jürgen Joost | Template:Ubl | Centre-right to right-wing | ECR Party | 1,000 | |
| V-Partei³ – Party for Change, Vegetarians and Vegans V-Partei³ – Partei für Veränderung, Vegetarier und VeganerScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
V³ | Roland Wegner | Animal rights Environmentalism |
1,200 | ||||
| Waying C Aufbruch CScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Andreas Epp | Christian democracy Conservatism |
Right-wing | 74 | ||||
| WiR2020 WiR2020Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
W2020 | Wolfgang Romberg, Sonja Früh | Anti-vaccinationism Anti-lockdown |
4,600 | ||||
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Historical parties
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Defunct parties in the Federal Republic of Germany
| Logo | Name | <templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />Abbr.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Leader(s) | Ideology | <templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />Est.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | <templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />Diss.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Note | |
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| 50Plus The Generation-Alliance 50Plus Das Generationen-BündnisScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
50Plus | Hans Werner Müller | Right-wing populism | 2004 | 2009 | |||
| Action Democratic Progress Aktion Demokratischer FortschrittScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
ADF | Collective leadership | Communism | 1968 | 1969 | |||
| Action Group Fourth Party Aktionsgemeinschaft Vierte ParteiScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
AVP | Christian Ernst Dietrich Bahner | National conservatism | 1975 | 1978 | |||
| Action Group of Independent Germans Aktionsgemeinschaft Unabhängiger DeutscherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
AUD | August Haußleiter (1968–1980) | German nationalism Environmentalism Neutrality |
1965 | 1980 | Merged into The Greens | ||
| Active Democracy direct Aktive Demokratie direktScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
ADd | Direct democracy E-democracy |
2011 | 2016 | ||||
| All-German Bloc/League of Expellees and Deprived of Rights Gesamtdeutscher Block/Bund der Heimatvertriebenen und EntrechtetenScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
GB/BHE | Waldemar Kraft (1951–1954) | National conservatism German nationalism Expellee interests |
1950 | 1961 | Merged into DP | ||
| All-German Party of Germany Gesamtdeutsche Partei DeutschlandsScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
GPD | Frank Seiboth, Herbert Schneider | National conservatism German nationalism Expellee interests |
1961 | 1981 | Merger of GB/BHE and DP | ||
| All-German People's Party Gesamtdeutsche VolksparteiScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
GVP | Gustav Heinemann | Anti-Template:Ill Christian democracy Anti-militarism Neutrality |
1952 | 1957 | Split from CDU, merged into SPD | ||
| Alliance for Health, Peace and Social Justice Allianz für Gesundheit, Frieden und soziale GerechtigkeitScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
AGFG | Matthias Rath | Alternative medicine | 2005 | 2009 | |||
| Alliance of Germans, Party for Unity, Peace and Freedom Bund der Deutschen, Partei für Einheit, Frieden und FreiheitScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
BdD | Josef Weber (1964–1968) | Anti-Template:Ill Anti-militarism Neutrality |
1953 | 1968 | Merged into DFU | ||
| Alliance of the Centre Allianz der MitteScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
ADM | Hans Weide | Conservatism | 2004 | 2012 | Merged into Deutsche Konservative | ||
| Automobile Taxpayers Party Automobile Steuerzahler-ParteiScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
ASP | Motorist interests | 1993 | 2002 | ||||
| Awakening of German patriots – Central Germany Aufbruch deutscher Patrioten – MitteldeutschlandScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
ADPM | Benjamin Przybylla | Right-wing populism National conservatism Nationalism |
2019 | 2020 | |||
| Awakening for civil rights, freedom and health Aufbruch für Bürgerrechte, Freiheit und GesundheitScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
AUFBRUCH | Hans Christoph Scheiner | Anti-wireless expansion Alternative medicine |
1998 | 2012 | |||
| Christian Centre Christliche Mitte — Für ein Deutschland nach GOTTES GebotenScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
CM | Josef Happel | National conservatism Christian conservatism Social conservatism |
1988 | 2016 | Still exists as a think tank | ||
| Christian Falangist Party of Germany Christlich Falangistische Partei DeutschlandsScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
CFPD | Falangism Zionism |
2006 | 2009 | ||||
| Christian League - The Party for Life Christliche Liga – Die Partei für das LebenScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
LIGA | Ewald Jaksch | Christian right Conservatism |
1985 | 1995 | |||
| Citizens for Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Bürger für Mecklenburg-VorpommernScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
BMV | Michael Bertram | Conservatism Regionalism |
2018 | 2018 | Split from AfD, merged into Free Voters | ||
| Citizens for Thuringia Bürger für ThüringenScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
BfTh | Ute Bergner | Right-wing populism | 2020 | 2024 | Merged into Values Union | ||
| Communist League of West Germany Kommunistischer Bund WestdeutschlandScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
KBW | Joscha Schmierer (1973–1982) | Maoism | 1973 | 1985 | |||
| Communist Party of Germany (Roter Morgen) Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands (Roter Morgen)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
KPD (Roter Morgen) | Communism Marxism–Leninism Anti-revisionism Hoxhaism |
1985 | 2011 | Split from KPD/ML | |||
| Communist Party of Germany/Marxists–Leninists Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands/Marxisten-LeninistenScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
KPD/ML | Ernst Aust (1968–1983) | Communism Marxism–Leninism Anti-revisionism Hoxhaism |
1968 | 1986 | Newspaper still exists | ||
| Communist Party of Germany Kommunistische Partei DeutschlandsScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
KPD | Max Reimann (1948–1956) | Communism Marxism–Leninism |
1918 | 1956 | Banned in 1956 | ||
| Democracy in Motion Demokratie in BewegungScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
DiB | Julia Beerhold, Alexander Plitsch | Democratic socialism | 2017 | 2025 | |||
| Democratic Gay/Lesbian Party - The People's Party Demokratische Schwul / Lesbische Partei - Die BürgerparteiScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
DSLP | Thomas Mosmann | Homonationalism Anti-Islam |
2013 | 2016 | |||
| Democratic Left Demokratische LinkeScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
DL | Template:Interlanguage link | Socialism | 1967 | 1970 | |||
| Democratic Socialists Demokratische SozialistenScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
DS | Eurocommunism | 1982 | 1991 | ||||
| Democratic Party of Germany Demokratische Parte DeutschlandsScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
DPD | Markus Giersch | Universal basic income Grassroots democracy Anti-Noise pollution |
2009 | 2015 | |||
| Drivers' and Peoples' Interest Party Autofahrer- und VolksinteressenparteiScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
AViP | Andreas Uhing | Motorist interests Euroscepticism |
2011 | 2016 | |||
| Drivers' and Citizens' Interest Party Autofahrer- und Bürgerinteressenpartei DeutschlandsScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
APD | Anton K. Marth | Motorist interests | 1988 | 2002 | |||
| Equality Party GerechtigkeitsparteiScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
G | 1973 | 1978 | |||||
| European Federalist Party Europäische Föderalistische ParteiScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
EFP | Karl Hahn | European federalism | 1964 | 1994 | |||
| European Workers-Party Europäische Arbeiter-ParteiScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
EAP | Helga Zepp-LaRouche | LaRouche movement | 1974 | 1986 | Succeeded by Patrioten | ||
| Expellee and Migrants Party of Germany – Unity Aussiedler und Migranten Partei Deutschland – EINHEITScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
DIE EINHEIT | Dimitri Rempel | Russophilia Conservatism Expellee interests |
2013 | ? | |||
| Federation for a Complete Germany Bund für GesamtdeutschlandScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
BGD | Horst Zaborowski | Revanchism Nationalism |
1990 | 2017 | Merged with AGsD | ||
| Free Citizens' Initiative Freie Bürger-InitiativeScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
FBI | Dr. Thomas Kernebeck | Direct democracy | 1994 | ? | |||
| Free German People's Party Freiheitliche Deutsche VolksparteiScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
FDVP | Nationalism | 2000 | 2003 | Split from DVU, merged into DP | |||
| Free German Workers' Party Freiheitliche Deutsche ArbeiterparteiScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
FAP | Friedhelm Busse (1988–1995) | Neo-Nazism Strasserism |
1979 | 1995 | Banned in 1995 (as organization) | ||
| Free Union Freie UnionScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
FU | Danny Hoffmann | Conservatism Direct democracy Economic liberalism |
2009 | 2019 | |||
| The Frisians Die FriesenScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
FRIESEN | Ralf Bieneck | Ethnic minority interests | 2007 | 2023 | |||
| German Community Deutsche GemeinschaftScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
DG | August Haußleiter (1952–1965) | German nationalism Anti-militarism Revanchism Neutrality |
1949 | 1965 | Merged into AUD | ||
| German Democratic Party Deutsche Demokratische ParteiScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
ddp | Thorsten Sandvoß | Third way Universal basic income |
2004 | 2015 | |||
| German Empire Party Deutsche ReichsparteiScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
DRP | Heinrich Kunstmann Adolf von Thadden Alexander Andrae |
Neo-Nazism (after 1952) Pan-Germanism German nationalism |
1950 | 1956 | Merger of DRP and NDP | ||
| German Freedom Party Deutsche FreiheitsparteiScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
DFP | Heinrich Kunstmann | German nationalism Strasserism Neutrality |
1962 | 1964 | Split from DRP, merged into AUD | ||
| German Freedom Party Die Freiheit – Bürgerrechtspartei für mehr Freiheit und DemokratieScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
DIE FREIHEIT | Michael Stürzenberger | Classical liberalism Direct democracy Right-wing populism Hard Euroscepticism |
2010 | 2016 | |||
| German-Hanoverian Party Deutsch-Hannoversche ParteiScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
DHP | Hans Wilhelm Griemsmann | Conservatism Federalism |
1953 | 1962 | Split from 1947 DP, rejoined remnant-DP | ||
| German Party Deutsche ParteiScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
DP | Heinrich Hellwege | German nationalism National conservatism Constitutional monarchism |
1947 | 1961 | |||
| German Party Deutsche ParteiScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
DP | Adolf von Thadden (after 1967) | National conservatism | 1961 | 1980 | Founded by former members of the 1947 DP | ||
| German Peace Union Deutsche Friedens-UnionScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
DFU | Pacifism Neutrality Anti-militarism |
1960 | 1984/90 | ||||
| German People's Union Deutsche VolksunionScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
DVU | Matthias Faust (2009–2011) | Pan-Germanism National conservatism Right-wing populism |
1971/87 | 2011 | Split from and merged into NPD | ||
| German Protestant League Deutsche Protestantische LigaScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
DEUPROLIGA | Christian democracy | 2020 | 2023 | ||||
| German Reconstruction Party Deutsche AufbauparteiScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
D|A|P | Tobias Stober | D-Mark reintroduction | 2017 | 2019 | |||
| German Social Movement Deutsch-Soziale BewegungScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
DSB | Karl-Heinz Priester | Neo-fascism Corporatism Pan-European nationalism |
1949 | 1970s | Merged into FSVP | ||
| German Social Union Deutsch-Soziale UnionScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
DSU | Otto Strasser | Strasserism Revolutionary nationalism |
1956 | 1962 | |||
| German Solidarity - Union for the Environment and Life Protection Deutsche Solidarität – Union für Umwelt und LebensschutzScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Öko-Union | Horst Götting | National conservatism | 1978 | 1997 | Split from AVP | ||
| German Union Deutsche UnionScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
DU | Siegfried Zoglmann | National liberalism | 1971 | 1980 | |||
| Gray Panthers Graue PantherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Graue Panther | Georg Schulte | Green politics Senior citizens interests |
1989 | 2008 | |||
| Humanist Party Humanistische ParteiScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
HP | New Humanism Social liberalism Grassroots democracy |
1984 | 2006 | ||||
| Independent Workers' Party (German Socialists) Unabhängige Arbeiter-Partei (Deutsche Sozialisten)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
UAP | Ulrich Villmow (1995–2014) | Strasserism Neue Rechte European federalism Democratic socialism |
1962 | 2014 | Split from DSU, unofficial successor | ||
| Independent Workers' Party of Germany Unabhängige Arbeiterpartei DeutschlandsScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
UAPD | Titoism Trotskyism |
1950 | 1952 | ||||
| Kreuzberg Patriotic Democrats/Realistic Center Kreuzberger Patriotische Demokraten/Realistisches ZentrumScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
KPD/RZ | Hans Joachim Grimm | Satire Anti-fascism |
1988 | 2016 | Merged into Die PARTEI | ||
| Labour and Social Justice – The Electoral Alternative Arbeit und soziale Gerechtigkeit – Die WahlalternativeScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
WASG | Klaus Ernst Thomas Händel Christine Buchholz Axel Troost |
Democratic socialism Trade unionism |
2005 | 2007 | Merged into The Left | ||
| League of German Communists Bund Deutscher KommunistenScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
BDK | Communism Marxism–Leninism |
1972 | ? | Split from DKP | |||
| Liberal People's Party Freiheitliche VolksparteiScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
FVP | Franz Handlos | National conservatism Social conservatism |
1985 | 1992 | Split from The Republicans | ||
| Maritime Union of Germany Maritime Union DeutschlandScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
MUD | Konrad Fischer | Fishermans' interests Social democracy Euroscepticism |
2011 | 2012 | |||
| Mature Citizens Die Mündigen BürgerScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Mündige Bürger | Erika Herbst | National conservatism Alternative medicine Esotericism |
1975 | 1994 | |||
| Motorist and citizens' interest party in Germany Autofahrer- und Bürgerinteressenpartei DeutschlandsScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
APD | Anton K. Marth (1988–1995) | Motorist interests | 1988 | 2002 | |||
| Muslim Democratic Union Muslimische Demokratische UnionScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
MDU | Islamism Salafism |
2010 | 2014 | Merged into BIG | |||
| National Democratic Empire Party Nationaldemokratische ReichsparteiScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
NDRP | Neo-Nazism | 1950 | 1951 | Merger of multiple smaller parties, succeeded by Young Party | |||
| National Liberal Action Nationalliberale AktionScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
NLA | Erich Mende | National liberalism | 1970 | 1971 | |||
| National Party of Germany Nationale Partei DeutschlandsScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
NPD | Moritz von Faber (1956–62) Wolf Ewert (1952–56) Erwin Mebus (1950–52) |
Neutralism National Bolshevism |
1950 | 1962 | |||
| Natural Law Party Naturgesetz-Partei, Aufbruch zu neuem BewusstseinScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
NATURGESETZ | Transcendental Meditation | 1992 | 2004 | ||||
| New consciousness - The holistic-esoteric party of Germany Neues Bewußtsein die ganzheitlich-esoterische Partei DeutschlandsScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Bewußtsein | New-Age movement Esotericism |
1989 | ? | ||||
| New National Party Neue Nationale ParteiScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
NNP | Jens Tholen | Civic nationalism Social liberalism Anti-fascism |
2014 | 2015 | |||
| Noise torture-Environment-Politics-Honest Lärmfolter-Umwelt-Politik-ehrlichScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
LUPe | Klaus Zimmer | Anti-Noise pollution | 2013 | 2016 | |||
| Parent Party ElternparteiScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Eltern | Werner Jock | Parents' interests | 2005 | 2010 | |||
| Party for a Rule of Law Offensive Partei Rechtsstaatlicher OffensiveScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
PRO | Ronald Schill (2000–2003) | Right-wing populism Conservatism |
2000 | 2007 | Commonly known as Schill-Partei | ||
| Party for Labour, Environment and Family AUF - Partei für Arbeit, Umwelt und Familie - Christen für DeutschlandScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
AUF | Conservatism Christian fundamentalism |
2008 | 2015 | Merged into Alliance C | |||
| Party of Bible-abiding Christians Partei Bibeltreuer ChristenScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
PBC | Gerhard Heinzmann | Christian right Pentecostalism Christian fundamentalism |
1989 | 2015 | Merged into Alliance C | ||
| Party of Democratic Socialism Partei des Demokratischen SozialismusScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
PDS | Lothar Bisky (2003–2007) | Democratic socialism Left-wing populism |
1989 | 2007 | Merged into The Left | ||
| Party of Non-Voters Partei der NichtwählerScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Nichtwähler | Werner Peters | Protest party Direct democracy |
1998 | 2016 | |||
| Party of those willing to work and the socially disadvantaged Partei der Arbeitswilligen und Sozial SchwachenScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
PASS | Frank Knüppel (1998–2000) | Protest party Unemployed interests |
1993 | 2009 | |||
| Patriots for Germany Patrioten für DeutschlandScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Patrioten | Helga Zepp-LaRouche | LaRouche movement National conservatism |
1986 | 1992 | Succeeded by BüSo | ||
| Peace List Die FriedenslisteScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
FRIEDEN | 1984–1986: Mechtild Jansen Manfred Coppik Hans Mausbach |
Peace movement | 1984 | 1989 | |||
| Pensioners' Party of Germany Rentner Partei DeutschlandScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
RENTNER | Günter Pfeiffer | Senior citizens interests | 2002 | 2016 | |||
| Pensioners' Party Rentnerinnen- und Rentner-ParteiScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
RRP | Manfred Link | Senior citizens interests | 2007 | 2016 | |||
| Pro Germany Citizens' Movement Bürgerbewegung pro DeutschlandScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
pro Deutschland | Manfred Rouhs | Right-wing populism | 2005 | 2017 | |||
| Pro NRW Bürgerbewegung pro NRWScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
pro NRW | Markus Beisicht | Right-wing populism Anti-immigration Anti-Islam |
2007 | 2019 | |||
| Posadist Communist Party Posadistische Kommunistische ParteiScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Paul Schulz | Posadism | 1969 | 2005 | ||||
| Sarazzist Party ━ For Referendums Sarazzistische Partei – für VolksentscheideScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
SPV | Kai Schulze | Sarrazism Direct democracy |
2010 | 2011 | |||
| Social People's Party Soziale VolksparteiScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
SVP | Ronny Grubert | Neo-Nazism Militancy |
1999 | 1999 | Split from NPD | ||
| Social People's Party of Germany Soziale Volkspartei DeutschlandsScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
SVD | Wolfgang Staschen | Social democracy Anti-immigration |
1984 | 1984 | |||
| Socialist Reich Party Sozialistische Reichspartei DeutschlandsScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
SRP | Otto Ernst Remer Fritz Dorls Gerhard Krüger |
Neo-Nazism | 1949 | 1952 | Banned in 1952 | ||
| Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin Sozialistische Einheitspartei WestberlinsScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
SEW | Gerhard Danelius (1962–1978) | Communism Marxism–Leninism |
1962 | 1991 | Split from SED | ||
| Spartacus League SpartacusbundScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
SpB | Trotskyism | 1974 | 1980s | ||||
| Red October Roter OktoberScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
RO | Communism Marxism–Leninism |
2002 | 2009 | Split from KPD (RO) | |||
| Revolutionary Socialist League Revolutionär Sozialistischer Bund/Vierte InternationaleScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
RSB | Trotskyism | 1994 | 2016 | Merged into ISO | |||
| The Blue Party Die blaue ParteiScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Blaue #TeamPetry | Frauke Petry | National conservatism National liberalism Euroscepticism |
2017 | 2019 | Split from the AfD | ||
| The Grays – Gray Panthers Die Grauen – Graue PantherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
GRAUE | Anti-Ageism Green politics Senior citizens interests |
1989 | 2008 | Split into Die Grauen and Graue Panther | |||
| The Right Die RechteScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Die RECHTE | Christian Worch | Neo-Nazism Ultranationalism Pan-Germanism Anti-immigration Historical revisionism |
2012 | 2025 | |||
| The Social Liberals Die SozialliberalenScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
SL | Mikael Horstmann | Social liberalism European federalism |
2014 | 2021 | Still exists as a think tank | ||
| The Ungovernable - Autonomous List Die Unregierbaren – Autonome ListeScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
U/AL | Anti-fascism Direct action |
1989 | 2009 | ||||
| Union of Free Citizens Bund freier BürgerScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
BFB | Manfred Brunner | National liberalism Right-wing populism |
1994 | 2000 | |||
| Union of Free Germany Bund Freies DeutschlandScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
BFD | Right-wing populism | 1973 | 1977 | ||||
| United Socialist Party Vereinigte Sozialistische ParteiScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
VSP | Socialism | 1986 | 2000 | ||||
| West German Women's Peace Movement Westdeutsche FrauenfriedensbewegungScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
WFFB | Klara Marie Faßbinder | German reunification Anti-militarism Pacifism |
1952 | 1974 | |||
| Woman's Party FrauenparteiScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Frauen | Sibylle Schücking-Helfferich | Feminism | 1979 | 1989 | |||
| Work for Bremen and Bremerhaven Arbeit für Bremen und BremerhavenScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
AFB | Centrism | 1995 | 2004 | ||||
| Workers' Party of Germany Partei der Arbeit DeutschlandsScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
PdAD | Michael Koth | Juche National Bolshevism |
1995 | 1998 | |||
| Workers' Party of Germany Partei der Arbeit DeutschlandsScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
PdAD | Simon Bärmann | Social democracy Progressive conservatism |
2017 | 2020 | |||
| Young Party Junge ParteiScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Neo-Nazism Neutrality |
1951 | 1951/2 | |||||
| Youth and Development Party of Germany Jugend- und Entwicklungspartei DeutschlandsScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
JED | Till Müller, Lukas Ostermann | Youth interests Social liberalism Cannabis legalization |
2017 | 2019 | |||
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Defunct parties in Allied-occupied Germany
Parties that were founded during the allied occupation and dissolved during or before 1950.
| Logo | Name | <templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />Abbr.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Leader(s) | Ideology | <templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />Est.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | <templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />Diss.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic Party of Germany Demokratische Parte DeutschlandsScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
DPD | Theodor Heuss, Wilhelm Külz | Liberalism | 1947 | 1948 | Succeeded by FDP and LDPD | ||
| Democratic People's Party Demokratische VolksparteiScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
DVP | Theodor Heuss | Liberalism | 1946 | 1948 | Merged into FDP | ||
| German Conservative Party - German Right Party Deutsche Konservative Partei – Deutsche RechtsparteiScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
DKP-DRP | Wilhelm Jaeger (1947–1949) | National conservatism | 1946 | 1950 | Merged into DRP and DP | ||
| German Conservative Party Deutsche Konservative ParteiScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
DKP | Eldor Borck, Otto Schmidt-Hannover | National conservatism | 1946 | 1950 | Merged into DKP-DRP | ||
| German Reconstruction Party Deutsche AufbauparteiScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
DAP | Monarchism German nationalism |
1945 | 1946 | Merged into DKP-DRP | |||
| Lower Saxony State Party Niedersächsische LandesparteiScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
NLP | Regionalism Christian conservatism Establishment of Lower Saxony |
1945 | 1947 | Merged into DP | |||
| National Democratic Party Nationaldemokratische ParteiScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
NDP | Heinrich Leuchtgens | National conservatism | 1945 | 1950 | Only active in Hesse, merged into DRP | ||
| Radical Social Freedom Party Radikal-Soziale FreiheitsparteiScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
RSF | Richard Batz, Peter Thielen | Freiwirtschaft Border abolition Decentralization |
1946 | 1950 | Succeeded by HUMANWIRTSCHAFT | ||
Parties in East Germany
| Bloc | Logo | Name | <templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />Abbr.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Ideology | Note | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic Bloc and National Front | Socialist Unity Party of Germany Sozialistische Einheitspartei DeutschlandScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
SED | Stalinism Communism Marxism–Leninism |
"Leading Role" per 1968 Constitution, succeeded by PDS | |||
| Christian Democratic Union of Germany Christlich-Demokratische Union DeutschlandsScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
CDUD | Christian socialism Social conservatism |
Merged into the CDU | ||||
| Liberal Democratic Party of Germany Liberal-Demokratische Partei DeutschlandsScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
LDPD | Liberal socialism | Merged into Association of Free Democrats (partly) | ||||
| Democratic Farmers' Party of Germany Demokratische Bauernpartei DeutschlandsScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
DBD | Agrarianism Agrarian socialism |
Merged into CDUD | ||||
| National Democratic Party of Germany National-Demokratische Partei DeutschlandsScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
NDPD | Conservatism National conservatism Socialism |
Merged into FDP | ||||
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During transition (1989–90)
| Alliance | Logo | Name | <templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />Abbr.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Ideology | Note | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alliance 90 | Democracy Now Demokratie JetztScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
DJ | Democratic socialism | Merged into Alliance 90/The Greens | ||||
| Initiative for Peace and Human Rights Initiative für Frieden und MenschenrechteScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
IFM | Anti-Communism | ||||||
| New Forum Neues ForumScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
NF | Progressivism | ||||||
| Alliance for Germany | Christian Democratic Union of Germany Christlich-Demokratische Union DeutschlandsScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
CDUD | Christian democracy Social conservatism Anti-communism |
Merged into the CDU | ||||
| Democratic Awakening Demokratischer AufbruchScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
DA | Liberal democracy Christian democracy |
Merged into CDUD | |||||
| German Social Union Deutsche Soziale UnionScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
DSU | National conservatism Christian democracy Social conservatism |
Still exists, see Minor parties | |||||
| Association of Free Democrats | Liberal Democratic Party of Germany Liberal-Demokratische Partei DeutschlandsScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
LDPD | Liberalism | Merged into FDP | ||||
| German Forum Party Deutsche ForumparteiScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
DFP | Liberalism | ||||||
| Free Democratic Party Freie Demokratische ParteiScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
F.D.P. | Liberalism | ||||||
| Democratic Farmers' Party of Germany Demokratische Bauernpartei DeutschlandsScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
DBD | Agrarianism | Merged into CDUD | |||||
| Green Party Grüne ParteiScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Die Grünen | Green politics | Merged into Alliance 90/The Greens | |||||
| National Democratic Party of Germany National-Demokratische Partei DeutschlandsScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
NDPD | Centrism National liberalism |
Merged into FDP | |||||
| Social Democratic Party in the GDR Sozialdemokratische Partei in der DDRScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
SPD | Social democracy | Merged into SPD | |||||
| Socialist Unity Party of Germany━Party of Democratic Socialism Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands━Partei des Demokratischen SozialismusScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
SED-PDS | Democratic socialism | Later renamed to PDS | |||||
| United Left Vereinigte LinkeScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
VL | Communism Trotskyism Socialism |
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Parties in the Saar Protectorate
Script error: No such module "Labelled list hatnote".
| Name | <templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />Abbr.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Ideology | Active | Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christian People's Party of Saarland Christliche Volkspartei des SaarlandesScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
CVP | Christian democracy Conservatism |
1946–1959 | Later merged with the CDU | |
| Christian Social Union Christlich-Soziale UnionScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
CSU-S | Christian democracy Conservatism |
1955–1959 | Unofficial counterpart of the CSU | |
| Communist Party of Saarland Kommunistische Partei SaarScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
KP | Communism Marxism–Leninism |
1945–1957 | Counterpart of the KPD | |
| Democratic Party of Saarland Demokratische Partei des SaarlandesScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
DPS | Conservative liberalism National conservatism |
1946–1957 | Later merged into the FDP | |
| German Democratic Union Deutsche Demokratische UnionScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
DDU | Left-wing politics | 1955–1968 | Later merged with the DFU | |
| German Social Democratic Party Deutsche Sozialdemokratische ParteiScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
DSP | Social democracy | 1952–1956 | Split from the SPS, later merged with the SPD | |
| Social Democratic Party of Saarland Sozialdemokratische Partei des SaarlandesScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
SPS | Social democracy Democratic Socialism |
1946–1956 | Counterpart of the SPD | |
| Supranational European People's Party Saar Übernationale Europäische Volkspartei saarScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
ÜEVPS | 1955–? | |||
Parties in Weimar Republic
Script error: No such module "Labelled list hatnote".
| Logo | Name | <templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />Abbr.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Ideology | Political position | Active | Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bavarian People's Party Bayerische VolksparteiScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
BVP | Political Catholicism Bavarian regionalism Conservatism Constitutional monarchism |
Right-wing | 1918–1933 | |||
| Centre Party Deutsche ZentrumsparteiScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Zentrum | Christian democracy Political Catholicism |
Centre to centre-right | 1870– | |||
| Christian Social People's Service Christlich-Sozialer VolksdienstScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
CSVD | Agrarainism Conservatism Political Protestantism |
Centre-right | 1929–1933 | |||
| Communist Party of Germany Kommunistische Partei DeutschlandsScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
KPD | Communism Marxism–Leninism |
Far-left | 1918–1956 (West) 1918–1946 (East) |
Banned in West Germany, merged in East Germany | ||
| Communist Party of Germany (Opposition) Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands (Opposition)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
KPO | Communism Luxemburgism |
Left-wing, Far-left | 1929–1939 | |||
| Conservative People's Party Konservative VolksparteiScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
KVP | Conservatism Christian democracy |
Right-wing | 1930–1933 | |||
| German Democratic Party Deutsche Demokratische ParteiScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
DDP | Social liberalism Progressivism |
Centre-left | 1918–1930 | |||
| German National People's Party Deutschnationale VolksparteiScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
DNVP | Monarchism Proto-fascism National conservatism German nationalism |
Right-wing to Far-right | 1918–1933 | |||
| German People's Party Deutsche VolksparteiScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
DVP | National liberalism Conservative liberalism Economic liberalism Constitutional monarchism |
Centre-right | 1918–1933 | |||
| German Völkisch Freedom Party Deutschvölkische FreiheitsparteiScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
DVFP | German nationalism Völkisch movement |
Far-right | 1922–1925 | |||
| German State Party Deutsche StaatsparteiScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
DStP | Liberalism Nationalism Corporatism |
Centre-right | 1930–1933 | Short-lived merger of the DDP and Young German Order | ||
| German Workers' Party Deutsche ArbeiterparteiScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
DAP | Pan-Germanism German nationalism Volksgemeinschaft |
Far-right | 1919–1920 | Predecessor of the Nazi Party | ||
| Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany Unabhängige Sozialdemokratische Partei DeutschlandsScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
USPD | Democratic socialism Centrist Marxism Pacifism |
Left-wing | 1917–1931 | |||
| National Socialist German Workers' Party Nationalsozialistische Deutsche ArbeiterparteiScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
NSDAP | National Socialism | Far-right | 1920–1945 | Sole legal party of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. Banned after World War II | ||
| Socialist Workers' Party of Germany Sozialistische Arbeiterpartei DeutschlandsScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
SAPD | Democratic socialism Centrist Marxism |
Far-left | 1931–1945 | |||
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Parties founded before World War I
See also
- Lists of political parties; categories by country and ideology.
- History of Germany since 1945
- Liberalism in Germany
Notes
References
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External links
- Political Parties (Germany) - List of German political parties since 1949
- Collection of all currently recognized political parties by the Federal Returning Office Template:In lang
- List of all registered political parties in the Federal Republic of Germany between 1969 and 2023 by the Federal Returning Office Template:In lang
- Overview of the elections since 1946 (Übersicht der Wahlen seit 1946) on the website of the Tagesschau - Election results in Germany since 1946 on state, federal and European levels (German descriptions, but graphics and data can be accessed without these).
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