Furthermore, the leader of the German Free Democratic Party ( FDP ), Philipp Rösler, serves as Vice-Chancellor of Germany and the leader of the British Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg, serves as Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

The FDP supports gay rights ; former party leader Guido Westerwelle is openly gay.

The CDU / CSU managed to get the FDP to defect from its coalition with the SPD in 1982, and thus CDU leader Helmut Kohl became Chancellor of West Germany.

Since 21 July 2005 Marianne Thomann-Stahl ( FDP ) is the leader of the administration ( Regierungspräsidentin ).

In the 2002 national election, he produced a flyer criticizing Ariel Sharon's actions against Palestinians and Michel Friedman's endorsement of those actions ; the flyer was regarded as " antisemitic " by some, and the debate surrounding these events led to Möllemann leaving the FDP in March 2003 and resigning his position as NRW party leader ; however, he kept his seat in the Bundestag without party affiliation, despite promises to resign from it.

In spite of support from the Premiers of Bavaria ( Edmund Stoiber ( CSU )) and Hesse ( Roland Koch ( CDU )), Schäuble did not receive the party ’ s nomination in the end because CDU leader Angela Merkel, other CDU politicians and the liberal FDP party spoke out against him.

FDP leaders had stated that they would rather remain in opposition than form a coalition with the SPD or the Greens ; outgoing Green leader Joschka Fischer also dismissed the possibility: " Can you really see Angela Merkel and Edmund Stoiber sitting round the table in dreadlocks?

Philipp Rösler is FDP chairman, having succeeded Guido Westerwelle, the party's second-longest serving chairman, in May 2011.

Because of the losses Guido Westerwelle had to resign as chair of the FDP in favor of Philipp Rösler, Federal Minister of Health, who was consequently appointed as vice chancellor.

** People: Guido Westerwelle ( Chancellor-Candidate of the FDP )

Wulff's candidacy for President of Germany in the 2010 presidential election was formally confirmed by Angela Merkel, Guido Westerwelle and Horst Seehofer, the heads of the CDU, FDP and CSU parties, during the evening of 2010.

Westerwelle joined the FDP in 1980.

This was the situation in Germany in 2005 when Angela Merkel became Chancellor: in early elections, the CDU / CSU did not garner enough votes to form a majority coalition with the FDP ; similarly the SPD and Greens did not have enough votes to continue on with their formerly ruling coalition.

After serving in several party offices, he was appointed Minister of the Interior by Chancellor Willy Brandt, whose Social Democratic Party was in coalition with the FDP, in 1969 ; in 1974, he became foreign minister and Vice Chancellor.

At the 1969 elections, again with Brandt as the leading candidate, the SPD became stronger, and after three weeks of negotiations, the SPD formed a coalition government with the smaller Free Democratic Party of Germany ( FDP ).

In 1969 Willy Brandt became German Chancellor as head of a SPD / FDP government.

Möllemann was initially a member of the CDU from 1962 to 1969, but later on became a member of the liberal FDP in 1970.

Hans-Dietrich Genscher, a leading FDP official, became Vice Chancellor and Foreign Minister.

In 27 March 1990 the NDPD became part of the Bund Freier Demokraten, a short-lived organization that eventually merged in the Free Democratic Party of Germany ( FDP ).

He became a member of FDP in 1991.

In October 1949 he fled to West-Berlin and became a member of the FDP.

Unlike most of the former German Democratic Party members, Nuschke did not take part in forming the LDPD / FDP, but became one of the co-founders of the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ) in June 1945, similarly to Ferdinand Friedensburg, Ernst Lemmer and Walther Schreiber.

In 1951 he became member of the liberal FDP, and from 1972 to 1998 he represented this party in the Federal Diet, the Bundestag.

Instead, the CDU formed a Grand coalition with the SPD, and the FDP entered the opposition.

The CDU continued its role as opposition until 1982, when the FDP ’ s withdrawal from the coalition with the SPD allowed the CDU to regain power.

The Green Party loses four seats to go from 55 to 51 and goes into opposition with the FDP and the Left Party.

The opposition parties, the ( Christian Democratic Union / Christian Social Union ( CDU / CSU ) and Free Democratic Party ( FDP ), however, had a majority of 624 members because they commanded more seats in the federal states.

The Social-liberal coalition of SPD and FDP had lost its majority after several Bundestag MPs ( like former FDP ministers Erich Mende and Heinz Starke or SPD partisan Herbert Hupka ) had left their party and become members of the CDU / CSU opposition to protest against Chancellor Willy Brandt's Neue Ostpolitik, especially against the de facto recognition of the Oder-Neisse line by the 1970 Treaty of Warsaw.

LYMEC is led by German politician Alexander Plahr ( FDP, Germany ), who was elected to a two-year term as LYMEC President in May 2010, and has a collective membership of over 200, 000 young liberal Europeans.

The FDP is led by Philipp Rösler and currently serves as the junior coalition partner to the Union ( Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union ) in the German federal government.

The FDP was founded in 1948 by members of the former liberal political parties existing in Germany before World War II, the German Democratic Party and the German People's Party.

In the national vote on 27 September 2009 the FDP increased its share of the vote by 4. 8 % to 14. 6 %, an all-time record so far.

Led by Finance Minister Otto Graf Lambsdorff ( 1926 – 2009 ) the FDP adopted the market-oriented " Kiel Theses " in 1977 ; it rejected the Keynesian emphasis on consumer demand, and proposed to reduce social welfare spending, and try to introduce policies to stimulate production and facilitate jobs.

On 1 October 1982, the CDU proposed a constructive vote of no confidence which was supported by the FDP.

In 1969, Brandt gained a small majority by forming a coalition with the FDP.

# The Filled Developmental Prototype ( FDP ) had 48 antenna units arrayed in six columns by eight rows, with 960 kW of transmitter power.

As the candidate of the two Christian Democratic sister parties, the CDU and the CSU, and the liberal FDP, Köhler was elected to his first five-year term by the Federal Assembly on 23 May 2004 and was subsequently inaugurated on 1 July 2004.

In 1969 Gerhard Schröder ran for the Office of the Federal President ( supported by CDU and NPD ), but he was beaten by Gustav Heinemann, the nominee of the SPD ( supported by FDP ), at the third ballot with 49. 4 % to 48. 8 % of the votes of the Federal Assembly.

In the 1969 election, the SPD — headed by Willy Brandt — gained enough votes to form a coalition government with the FDP.

D-dimer is a fibrin degradation product ( or FDP ), a small protein fragment present in the blood after a blood clot is degraded by fibrinolysis.

In October 1982 CDU chairman Helmut Kohl was elected Chancellor by a CDU / CSU and FDP majority in the Bundestag, while the FDP in 1980 still was on the side of the SPD.

The coalition of SPD and FDP wanted to be re-elected, with the SPD now led by Helmut Schmidt-the party's candidate for Chancellor.

A number of non-voting members ( elected in 1949: 2 CDU, 5 SPD, 1 FDP ; joined in February 1952 by: 3 CDU, 4 SPD, 4 FDP ) indirectly elected by the West Berlin legislature ( Stadtverordnetenversammlung ) are included below in parentheses.