English name:

Free Democratic Party

Status:

Member (founding member)

Address:

Bundesgeschäftsstelle

Adenauerallee 266

53113 Bonn

Telephone:

00 49 228 5470

Fax:

00 49 228 547 298

E-mail:

politik@fdp.mhs.compuserve.com

Homepage on the World Wide Web:

http://www.liberale.de/

Leader:

Dr. Wolfgang Gerhardt

President:

Dr. Wolfgang Gerhardt

Secretary-General:

Dr. Guido Westerwelle

Treasurer:

Dr. Hermann Otto Solms

Director:

Martin Biesel

Press Officer:

Hans-Rolf Goebel

Chair of Foreign Affairs Committee:

Helmut Schäfer

Responsible for Women’s Issues:

Ursula Müller

International Relations Secretary:

Christoph Liedtke

- direct telephone number:

00 49 228 547 338

- direct fax number:

00 49 228 547 216

- direct e-mail address:

101511.1631@compuserve.com

Party Newspaper:

Liberale Depesche

- frequency and languages:

monthly

Foundation or Thinktank:

Friedrich Naumann Stiftung

- Director:

Rolf Berndt (President: Dr. Otto Graf Lambsdorff)

Date of the last general Elections:

16 October 1994

- Votes:

3257864

- Percentage:

6.9

- Number of seats in parliament:

47

- Date of the next general Elections:

27 September 1998

Membership:

69400

Parliamentary Group:

F.D.P. Fraktion Deutscher Bundestag

Bundeshaus

53113 Bonn

- Telephone

00 49 228 164 2390

- Fax

00 49 228 164 6456

- E-mail

100774.3627@compuserve.com 100774.3627@compuserve.com

Parliamentary Spokesperson(Foreign Policy):

Ulrich Irmer

Parliamentary Spokesperson(Defence):

Günther Nolting

Parliamentary Spokesperson(Human Rights):

Dr Irmgard Schwaetzer

Parliamentary Spokesperson(Int. Economic Affairs):

Dr. Otto Graf Lambsdorff

Government or Opposition:

In coalition with CDU/CSU

- Minister(s):

Dr. Klaus Kinkel (Foreign Affairs/Vice-Chancellor); Dr. Günther Rexrodt (Economics); Prof. Edzard Schmidt-Jortzig (Justice).

Information last updated on 24/02/98