Key facts
- Abbreviation
- FW
- Chairman
- Hubert Aiwanger
- Deputy chairpersons
- Manfred Petry , Gabi Schmidt , Gregor Voht , Engin Eroglu , Denise Wendt
- Federal managing director
- Arnold Hansen
- Federal treasurer
- Christa Hudyma
- Founded
- 1965 ; 61 years ago ( 1965 ) (as Bundesverband ), 24 January 2009 ( 2009-01-24 ) (as a party)
- Headquarters
- Mühlenstraße 13, Ganderkesee , Germany
- Youth wing
- Young Free Voters
- Membership 2020
- 6,225
- Ideology
- Conservatism Regionalism
- Political position
- Centre to centre-right
- European affiliation
- European Democratic Party
- European parliament group
- Renew Europe
- Colours
- Orange , Azure
- Bundestag
- 0 / 630
- European parliament
- 3 / 96
- State parliaments
- 41 / 1,891
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- political party
- Participant in
- 2009 European Parliament election in Germany
- Country
- Germany
- Headquarters
- Ganderkesee
- Chairperson
- Hubert Aiwanger
- Official website
- www.freiewaehler.eu
- Political ideology
- liberal conservatism
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- Commons category
- Freie Wähler
- member of
- European Democratic Party
- Mastodon instance URL
- freiewaehler.social
- inception
- 2009-01-24
- member count
- 6225
- sRGB color hex triplet
- 009599
- native label
- Freie Wähler
- political alignment
- centre-right
- location of formation
- Würzburg
- social media followers
- 96
- P8168
- Pringle
- short name
- FREIE WÄHLER
- affiliation
- Free Voters
- number of seats in assembly
- 3
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Encyclopedic overview
Free Voters (German: Freie Wähler, FW) is a political party in Germany. It originates as an umbrella organisation of several Free Voters Associations (Freie Wählergemeinschaften), associations of people which participate in an election without having the status of a registered party. These associations are usually locally-organised groups of voters in the form of a registered association (eV). In most cases, Free Voters campaign only at local government level, standing for city councils and for mayoralties. Free Voters tend to achieve their most successful electoral results in rural areas of southern Germany, appealing most to conservative voters who prefer local decisions to party politics. Free Voter groups are active in all of the states of Germany, except for Brandenburg, where the Brandenburg United Civic Movements/Free Voters is an equivalent party distinct from the Free Voters in cooperation with the Free Voters.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Free Voters” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.