But the red-green coalition also failed to get a majority, with the SPD losing votes, but polling 34. 2 % and the greens staying at 8. 1 %.

SPD may also stand for:

Strauß was also unable to defeat the SPD / FDP alliance.

Jürgen Schmude ( SPD ) succeeds Baum as Minister of the Interior, remaining also Minister of Justice.

Manfred Lahnstein ( SPD ) succeeds Lambsdorff as Minister of Economics, remaining also Minister of Finance.

Björn Engholm ( SPD ) succeeds Ertl as Minister of Food, Agriculture, and Forestry, remaining also Minister of Education and Science.

* 13 May 1971-Karl Schiller ( SPD ) succeeds Möller as Minister of Finance, remaining also Minister of Economics

Lauritz Lauritzen ( SPD ) succeeds Leber as Minister of Transport, Posts, and Communications, remaining also Minister of Construction.

On 23 February 1972, SPD deputy Herbert Hupka, who was also leader of the Bund der Vertriebenen, joined the CDU in disagreement with Brandt's reconciliatory efforts towards the east.

He also refused to consider SPD as a party of the coalition until he felt sure that they shared his anti-Communist position.

The SPD also tries to protect the society's disadvantaged with a welfare state.

Further south, the SPD also enjoys solid support in northern Hesse ( Hans Eichel was mayor of Kassel, then Hesse's minister president, then finance minister in the Schröder administration, while Brigitte Zypries served as Justice Minister ), parts of Palatinate ( Kurt Beck was party leader until 7 September 2008 ), the Saarland ( political home of one-time candidate for federal chancellor Oskar Lafontaine, defected from the SPD in 1999 ), and southwestern Baden ( Marion Caspers-Merk, Gernot Erler ).

* Gustav Bauer ( SPD ), 10 May 1921-14 November 1922 ; also Minister of the Treasury.

* Robert Schmidt ( SPD ), 13 August 1923-3 November 1923 ; also Minister for Reconstruction.

After graduation, he worked as a lawyer, then Staatsanwalt, a state prosecutor, and in 1919 he also became a member of the SPD.

He is also sometimes mentioned as a possible SPD candidate for the Chancellorship of Germany ( Kanzlerkandidatur ) in the next German federal election.

It has often supported the German Green Party, but the taz has also been critical of the SPD / Greens coalition government ( 1998 – 2005 ).

In the end, the Centre voted as planned in favour of the Enabling Act, as did all the other parties apart from the SPD, which was also the only party to speak against the act.

Liebknecht was a member of the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany ( USPD ), opposed to the merger with the KPD and the joining of the Comintern but also to the reunification of the party with the SPD, he continued the USPD as an independent party with Georg Ledebour until its merger into the Sozialistische Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands ( SAPD, " Socialist Worker's Party of Germany ") in 1931.

Ebert had ordered defense minister Gustav Noske, also a member of the SPD, to do so on January 6.

Upon leaving office on 21 November 2007, he was replaced as Vice-Chancellor by Frank-Walter Steinmeier and as Minister of Labor by Olaf Scholz, both of whom are also members of the SPD.

His popularity also showed itself in the General Elections of 1976, when he alone of all the SPD Munich candidates did not lose his constituency to the CSU.

As the war went on and the losses of human life rose week by week, SPD members began to question the adherence to the Burgfrieden (" truce ") of 1914 ; also, from 1916, the guidelines of German policy was ' de facto ' set not by the Emperor and the Imperial Government but by the Supreme Army Command () under the generals Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff.

The SPD, also called " MSPD " ( Majority Social Democrats ), was led by Friedrich Ebert.

The SPD EEPROM is accessed using SMBus, a variant of the I²C protocol.

* 1919 – Friedrich Ebert ( SPD ), is elected President of Germany.

He was replaced by Helmut Schmidt ( b. 1918 ), of the SPD, who served as Chancellor in 1974 – 1982.

He served as deputy chairman of the SPD party of Wuppertal, and was elected later on to the City Council ( 1964 – 1978 ), where he served as chairman of the SPD Group ( 1964 – 1967 ) and later as Mayor ( 1969 – 1970 ).

* Helmut Schmidt ( SPD ) – Chancellor

* Georg Leber ( SPD ) – Minister of Defense

* Hans Apel ( SPD ) – Minister of Finance

* Hans-Jochen Vogel ( SPD ) – Minister of Justice

* Walter Arendt ( SPD ) – Minister of Labour and Social Affairs

* Kurt Gscheidle ( SPD ) – Minister of Transport, Posts, and Communications

* Karl Ravens ( SPD ) – Minister of Construction

* Katharina Focke ( SPD ) – Minister of Youth, Family, and Health

* Hans Matthöfer ( SPD ) – Minister of Research and Technology

* Helmut Rohde ( SPD ) – Minister of Education and Science

* Erhard Eppler ( SPD ) – Minister of Economic Cooperation

* Egon Franke ( SPD ) – Minister of Intra-German Relations

* 4 July 1974 – Egon Bahr ( SPD ) succeeds Eppler as Minister of Economic Cooperation.

* Helmut Schmidt ( SPD ) – Chancellor

* Georg Leber ( SPD ) – Minister of Defense

* Hans Apel ( SPD ) – Minister of Finance

* Hans-Jochen Vogel ( SPD ) – Minister of Justice