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Pirate Party Germany
Sign in to saveAlso known as Piratenpartei Deutschland, Piratenpartei, Piraten, German Pirate Party
political party in Germany
Key facts
- Leader
- Lilia Kayra Kuyumcu ( de )
- Founded
- 10 September 2006 ; 19 years ago ( 2006-09-10 )
- Headquarters
- Berlin
- Youth wing
- Young Pirates
- Membership 12 april 2026
- 4,116
- Ideology
- Pirate politics , E-democracy , Direct democracy , Social liberalism , Anti-corruption
- European parliament group
- Greens/EFA
- International affiliation
- Pirate Parties International
- European political alliance
- European Pirate Party
- Colours
- Orange Black White
- Bundestag
- 0 / 630
- European parliament
- 0 / 96
- State parliaments
- 0 / 1,821
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- political party
- Official name
- Piratenpartei Deutschland
- Participant in
- 2009 European Parliament election in Germany
- Country
- Germany
- Founded by
- Christof Leng
- Headquarters
- Berlin
- Subsidiary
- europe beyond division
- Official website
- www.piratenpartei.de
- Motto
- Freiheit. Würde. Teilhabe.
- Political ideology
- pro-Europeanism
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- IPv6 routing prefix
- 2a01:4f8:a0:5382::/64
- Commons category
- Piratenpartei Deutschland
- member of
- European Pirate Party
- topic's main category
- Category:Pirate Party Germany
- inception
- 2006-09-10
- social media followers
- 6500
- Commons gallery
- Piratenpartei Deutschland
- location of formation
- c-base
- native label
- Piratenpartei Deutschland
- member category
- Category:Pirate Party Germany politicians
- youth wing
- europe beyond division
- short name
- PIRATEN
- political alignment
- syncretic politics
- uses
- Schulze method
- member count
- 6318
- official wiki URL
- wiki.piratenpartei.de
- website account on
- Friendica
- P8168
- Three Rivers Stadium
- number of seats in assembly
- 0
- sRGB color hex triplet
- FF820A
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Encyclopedic overview
The Pirate Party Germany (German: Piratenpartei Deutschland), commonly known as Pirates (German: Piraten), is a political party in Germany founded in September 2006 at c-base. It states general agreement with the Swedish Piratpartiet as a party of the information society; it is part of the international movement of pirate parties and a member of the Pirate Parties International.
In 2011 and 2012, fuelled by overlapping support from the international Occupy Movement, the party succeeded in attaining a high enough vote share to enter four state parliaments (Berlin, North Rhine-Westphalia, Saarland and Schleswig-Holstein) and the European Parliament. However, their popularity rapidly declined thereafter and by 2017 they had no representation in any of the German state parliaments. Their European Parliament members, Felix Reda (2014-2019) and his successor, Patrick Breyer (2019-2024), were in the European Pirate Party (founded 21 March 2014), which, in turn, is in the Greens–European Free Alliance group. Together with Marcel Kolaja, Markéta Gregorová and Mikuláš Peksa from the Czech Pirate Party, Breyer built up the European Pirate Party's team for the European Parliament in Brussels.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pirate Party Germany” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.