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Political parties operating in Germany, connected through the PoliticaHub knowledge graph.
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green political party in Germany
Germany's Greens grew out of the peace, anti-nuclear, feminist, and environmental movements of the late Cold War and became one of Europe's most consequential green parties. Their history is also the story of institutionalization: from protest politics and internal battles between radicals and realists to cabinet office, coalition bargaining, and responsibility for energy, economic, and foreign policy in government. In modern Germany the Greens represent more than climate politics alone; they are a major urban progressive party with clear positions on Europe, migration, civil liberties, and state-led decarbonization.
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Political party in the German Empire
Alternative for Germany began in 2013 as a Eurosceptic protest against eurozone bailouts but quickly transformed into Germany's main far-right party. The anti-euro professors and market liberals who founded it were displaced by a harder nationalist, anti-immigration, anti-establishment current whose strongest bases emerged in eastern Germany after the 2015 refugee crisis. Its rise has destabilized the party system not because it governs, but because every other major party has had to reorganize strategy around the question of how to isolate or confront it.
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German party founded in 2024 by Sahra Wagenknecht. Combines left-wing economics with cultural conservatism and opposition to military support for Ukraine.
The Christian Democratic Union is the principal party of Germany's postwar center-right and, together with its Bavarian sister party CSU, one of the two main architects of the Federal Republic. It was founded after 1945 to build a broad Christian democratic alternative to both Nazism and confessional fragmentation, combining market economics, social partnership, anti-communism, and European integration. The CDU's long years in government under Konrad Adenauer, Helmut Kohl, and Angela Merkel gave it a reputation as the default governing party of modern Germany, even as the Merz era has pushed it into sharper confrontation over migration and the AfD firewall.
political party in Weimar Germany
Bavaria's ruling party (CSU). Sister party to the CDU, more conservative. Has governed Bavaria almost uninterrupted since 1957. Forms a joint parliamentary group with CDU.
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political party (2020–2024) in Germany
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political party in Germany (1967–1970)
far-right political party in West Germany
German democratic socialist party. Emerged from East Germany's SED. Has struggled since the BSW split in 2024, losing most of its Bundestag seats in 2025.
German satirical political party
German political party mainly active in Hamburg
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German liberal party (FDP) advocating free markets, civil liberties, and fiscal conservatism. Coalition partner 2021-2024 before being dismissed.
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former political party in West Germany
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Hoxhaist Communist party whose leadership is exiled in Germany
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nazi Germany government bureau persecuting homosexuals
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Russian collaborationist organization
Germany's oldest party (SPD). Centre-left, rooted in the workers' movement. Part of many coalition governments.
The SPD is Germany's oldest major party and one of the foundational parties of European social democracy. Founded in 1863, it survived anti-socialist laws, Weimar crisis, Nazi repression, postwar reconstruction, and the transformation from a workers' party into a broad center-left governing formation. Its history runs through the creation of the welfare state, Willy Brandt's Ostpolitik, Gerhard Schröder's controversial labor-market reforms, and the ongoing struggle to hold together labor, progressive urban voters, and a party identity shaped by government responsibility.
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defunct minor German political party
Marxist revolutionary movement in Germany during World War I
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political association in Germany.
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German subsidiary of the pan-European political party Volt Europa
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