Free Democratic Party (Germany)
The Free Democratic Party is a liberal political party in Germany.
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.
Christian Lindner is the party chairman, having succeeded Philipp Rösler in December 2013.
The German Democratic Party was a liberal political party in the Weimar Republic, considered centrist or centre-left. Along with the right-liberal German People's Party, it represented political liberalism in Germany between 1918 and 1933. It was formed in 1918 from the Progressive People's Party and the liberal wing of the National Liberal Party, both of which had been active in the German Empire.
Friedrich Naumann c. 1911
Marie-Elisabeth Lüders
Otto Geßler
Funeral celebration for Walther Rathenau, the murdered DDP minister of foreign affairs, 1922