Bocholt, Germany
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Bocholt is a city in the north-west of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, part of the district Borken. It is situated 4 km south of the border with the Netherlands. Suderwick is part of Bocholt and is s
Old Town hall
Melchior von Diepenbrock around 1850
Free Democratic Party
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The Free Democratic Party is a liberal political party in Germany. The FDP was founded in 1948 by members of former liberal political parties in Germany before World War II, namely the German Democrat
Bocholt, Germany
…The town features an attractive old town shopping area as well as a popular new shopping mall. The current mayor of Bocholt is Christian Mangen of the Free Democratic Party who has been serving as mayor since 2025. In the 2025 local elections he was supported by the FDP, the SPD and the City party of Bocholt. He was elected…
Theodor Heuss, first chairman of the FDP and first President of West Germany
"Schlußstrich drunter!"—FDP election campaign poster reading "Draw a line under it" before the 1949 Bundestag election in Hesse calling for a halt to "denazification, disenfranchisement, disempowerment, second class citizenship" and for "equality of civil rights"
Walter Scheel served as Foreign Minister, Vice Chancellor, Acting Chancellor and President of Germany.
FDP election poster for the 2013 federal election