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
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
Wolfgang Joachim Kubicki is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party of Germany who has been chairman of the FDP since 2026.
Free Democratic Party
…3 seats and increased its vote share by 3.2% in the 2017 Schleswig-Holstein state election. This success was often credited to their state chairman Wolfgang Kubicki. They also managed to re-enter the government under a Jamaica coalition. In the 2017 federal election the party scored 10.7% of votes and re-entered…
Kubicki with his wife in 2016