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The Federal Republic of Germany has a plural multi-party system. Historically, the largest by members and parliament seats are the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), with its sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU) and Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). Germany also has a number of other parties, in recent history most importantly the Free Democratic Party (FDP), Alliance 90/The Greens, The Left, and more recently the Alternative for Germany (AfD). The federal government of Germany often consisted of a coalition of a major and a minor party, specifically CDU/CSU and FDP or SPD and FDP, and from 1998 to 2005 SPD and Greens. From 1966 to 1969, from 2005 to 2009, from 2013 to 2021 and since 2025, the federal government consisted of a coalition of the two major parties, called a grand coalition.
Coalitions in the Bundestag and state legislatures are often described by party colors. Party colors are red for the Social Democratic Party, green for Alliance 90/The Greens, yellow for the Free Democratic Party, purple (officially red, which is customarily used for the SPD) for the Left, light blue for the AfD, and black and blue for the CDU and CSU respectively.
Current parties
thumb|Party membership in Germany (since 1945; East German parties joined in 1990)
Parties represented in the Bundestag
{| class="wikitable sortable sort-under-center"
! colspan="4" | Party
!
! Ideology
! Political<br/>position
! Leader(s)
! MdBs
! MEPs
! MdLs
! EU<br />party
! EP<br />group
! Membership
|-
!
! style="background-color: " |
|
| Christian Democratic Union<br />
| CDU
|
|
| Friedrich Merz
|
|
|
| EPP
| EPP
| 363,100
|-
! style="background-color: " |
| center|75x75px
| Christian Social Union in Bavaria<br />
| CSU
|
| Centre-right
| Markus Söder
|
|
|
| EPP
| EPP
| 131,000
|-
! colspan=2 style="background-color: " |
| center|75x75px
| Alternative for Germany<br />
| AfD
|
| Far-right
|
|
|
|
| ESN
| ESN
| 46,881
|-
! colspan=2 style="background-color: " |
| center|75x75px
| Social Democratic Party of Germany<br />
| SPD
| Social democracy
| Centre-left
|
|
|
|
| PES
| S&D
| 365,190
|-
! colspan=2 style="background-color: " |
| center|75x75px
| Alliance 90/The Greens<br />
| Grüne
|
| Centre-left
|
|
|
|
| EGP
| G/EFA
| 166,000
|-
! colspan=2 style="background-color: " |
| center|75x75px
| The Left<br />
| Linke
|
| Left-wing
|
|
|
|
| PEL
| GUE/<wbr/>NGL
| 102,412
|-
! colspan=2 style="background-color: " |
| center|75x75px
| South Schleswig Voters' Association<br />
| SSW
|
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| Christian Dirschauer
|
|
|
| EFA
| G/EFA
| 3,216
|}
Parties represented in the European Parliament
{| class="wikitable sortable sort-under-center"
! colspan="3" | Party
!
! Ideology
! Political<br/>position
! Leader(s)
! MEPs
! MdLs
! European<br />party
! EP<br />group
! Membership
|-
! style="background-color: " |
| style=text-align:center|60px
| Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance<br />
| BSW
|
| Left-wing<br/>to far-left
|
|
|
|
| NI
| 3,000
|-
! style="background-color: " |
| center|60x60px
| Free Democratic Party<br />
| FDP
|
| Centre-right
| Christian Dürr
|
|
| ALDE
| RE
| 70,000
|-
! style="background-color: " |
|center|60px
| Free Voters<br />
| FW
|
| Centre-right
| Hubert Aiwanger
|
|
| EDP
| RE
| 6,225
|-
! style="background-color: " |
| center|60px
| Volt Germany<br />
| Volt
|
| Centre-left
|
|
|
| VOLT
| G/EFA
| 8,572
|-
! style="background-color: " |
| center|60px
| Die PARTEI<br />
| Die PARTEI
|
| Left-wing
| Martin Sonneborn
|
|
|
| NI
| 51,078
|-
! style="background-color: " |
| center|60px
| Ecological Democratic Party<br />
| ÖDP
| Green conservatism
| Centre-right
| Christian Rechholz
|
|
| EFA
| EPP
| 8,035
|-
! style="background-color: " |
|center|60px
|Party of Progress<br />
|
| Centre-left
| Lukas Sieper
|
|
|
| NI
| 800
|-
! style="background:;" |
| center|60px
| Family Party of Germany<br />
| Familie
|
|
| Helmut Geuking
|
|
| ECPM
| EPP
| 705
|-
! style="background:;" |
| center|60px
| Human Environment Animal Protection Party<br />
| PMUT
|
| Left-wing
|
|
|
| APEU
| GUE/<wbr/>NGL
| 2,400
|-
|}
Parties only represented in state parliaments
{| class="wikitable unsortable"
|-
! colspan="3" | Name
!
! Ideology
! Political position
! Result in 2021 federal election
! Leader(s)
! MdLs
! State(s)
!
!
! Membership
|-
! style="background:;" |
| center|75x75px
| Alliance Germany<br />
| BD
| Conservatism
| Centre-right to right-wing
| - (did not exist)
| Steffen Grosse
|
| Bremen
| -
| ECR
| 1,000
|-
! style="background:#0A3C5B;" |
|center|75x75px
|Values Union<br />
|WU
|
|Right-wing
| – (did not exist)
|Hans-Georg Maaßen
|
|Lower Saxony
| –
| –
|4,000
|}
Minor parties
{| class="wikitable sortable unsortable"
|- "
! colspan="3" | Name
!
! Leader(s)
! Ideology
! Political position
! EP group
! Membership
|-
! style="background:#7F2982;" |
|style=text-align:center|75x75px
|Action Citizens for Justice<br />
|ABG
|Alfred Dorn
|Direct democracy<br />Alternative medicine<br />Right-wing populism<br />Nationalism
|Right-wing
|
|121
|-
! style="background:#3AAF4A;" |
|style=text-align:center|center|75x75px
|Action Party for Animal Welfare<br />
|Tierschutz hier!
|Thomas Schwarz
|Animal rights<br />Animal welfare
|Single-issue
|
| 50
|-
! style="background:#0000FF;" |
| center|75x75px
| Alliance C – Christians for Germany<br />
| Bündnis C
| Karin Heepen & Ole Steffes
| Conservatism<br />Christian fundamentalism
| Right-wing
| ECPM
| 1,078
|-
! style="background:#3D499A;" |
|
| Alliance for Human Rights, Animal and Nature Protection<br />
| Tierschutzallianz
| Josef Fassl
| Animal rights
| Single-issue
|
| 97
|-
! style="background:#EE8041;" |
| center|75x75px
| Alliance for Innovation and Justice<br />
| BIG
| Haluk Yildiz
| Political Islam
|
|
| 2,000
|-
! style="background:#1E5EA5;" |
| center|75x75px
| Alliance of German Democrats<br />
| AD-Demokraten
| Ramazan Akbaş
| Conservatism<br />Political Islam
|
|
|2,500
|-
! style="background:#4A8541;" |
|
| AlphaHHP<br />
| AlphaHHP
|
| Anti-vaccination
|
|
|
|-
! style="background:#000;" |
| center|75x75px
| Anarchist Pogo Party of Germany<br />
| APPD
| Peter Vehreschild
| Satire
| Apoliticism
|
| 2,512
|-
! style="background:#E5241F;" |
| center|75x75px
| Arminius – Association of the German People<br />
| Arminius – Bund
| Johann Thießen
| Russia German interests<br />German nationalism<br />Neo-nazism
| Far-right
|
|40
|-
!
|
|Awakening Peace-Sovereignty-Justice<br />
|Aufbruch
|
|Russophilia <br />Antimilitarism<br />Anti-Atlanticism
|Right-wing
|
|
|-
! style="background:#FCD21D;" |
|
|Association for Freedom and Humanity<br />
|
|Anton Stucki
|Liberalism
|
|
|40
|-
! style="background:#0C8AA8;"|
| center|75x75px
| Basic Income Alliance<br />
| BGE
| Martin Sonnabend
|
| Single-issue
|
| 350
|-
! style="background:#E8E000;" |
|style=text-align:center|center|75x75px
|<br />
|GFA
|Uwe Bjorck
|Universal basic income
|Single-issue
|
| 27
|-
! style="background:#98f5ff;"|
| center|75x75px
| Bavaria Party<br />
| BP
| Florian Weber
| Autonomism<br />Bavarian nationalism<br />Regionalism<br />Conservatism
| Centre-right
| EFA
| 3,926
|-
! style="background:#343f40;"|
| center|75x75px
| Bergpartei, die "ÜberPartei"<br />
| B*
| Yanachasca Laso Solari
| Post-left anarchy<br />Dadaism
| Far-left
|
| 229
|-
! style="background-color: #FACA26" |
| center|75x75px
| Brandenburg United Civic Movements/Free Voters<br />
| BVB/FW
| Péter Vida
| Regionalism
|<!-- Please do NOT add a political position here unless it can be or is cited with a reliable third-party source either here or on the party's page. -->
|
|910
|-
! style="background: " |
| center|75x75px
| German Centre Party<br />
| ZENTRUM
| Christian Otte
|
| Centre-right
|
| 300
|-
! style="background:" |
| center|75x75px
| Climate List Germany<br />
| KL
| Fabian Aisenbrey, Doris Vollmer
| Climate change mitigation
|
|
|234
|-
!
|
|Citizens for Germany<br />
|BfD
|
|Direct democracy
|
|
|
|-
! style="background:#F07E18;" |
|style=text-align:center|center|75x75px
|Citizens for Progress and Change<br />
|BFW
|Uwe Hück
|Progressivism
|Centre-left
|
| 170
|-
! style="background:#005FA6;"|
|style=text-align:center|center|75x75px
|Civic and Economic-Ecological Union<br />
|BWUnion
|
|Liberalism<br />Nationalism
|
|
|
|-
! style="background:#1f4569;"|
|style=text-align:center|center|75x75px
| Civil Rights Movement Solidarity<br />
| BüSo
| Helga Zepp-LaRouche
| LaRouche movement
| Syncretic
|
| 556
|-
! style="background:red;" |
| center|75x75px
| Communist Party<br />
| KP
| Central Committee
| Communism<br />Marxism–Leninism<br />Anti-revisionism
| Far-left
|
|
|-
! style="background:red;" |
| center|75x75px
| Communist Party of Germany<br />
| KPD
| Torsten Schöwitz
| Communism<br />Marxism–Leninism<br />Anti-revisionism<br />Stalinism
| Far-left
|
| 165
|-
! style="background:#068E91;" |
|style=text-align:center|center|75x75px
|Democratic Alliance for Diversity and Awakening<br />
|DAVA
|Teyfik Ozcan
|Turkish minority interests<br />Erdoğanism
|
|
|1,000
|-
! style="background:#69C0B2;" |
|style=text-align:center|center|75x75px
|Democratic Union of Germany<br />
|DVD
|Werner Krüger
|Reformism<br />Direct democracy<br />Universal basic income
|
|
|
|-
! style="background:#051060;" |
|
|Democratic Liberal LEAGUE<br />
|LIGA
|Thomas H. Stütz
|Conservatism
|Centre-right
|
|
|-
!
|style=text-align:center|center|75x75px
|Democracy DIRECT!<br />
|DIE DIREKTE!
|Christian Rombeck
|Direct democracy
|
|
| 34
|-
!
|
|Democratic Left<br />
|DL
|Eckehart Ehrenberg
|Democratic socialism
|Left-wing
|
| 43
|-
! style="background:#BA121B;" |
|
|<br />
|ÖkoLinX
|
|Grassroots democracy<br />Eco-socialism<br />Anti-fascism
|Left-wing to far-left
|
| 350
|-
! style="background:#CC0518;" |
|style=text-align:center|center|75x75px
|Ecological-Left Liberal Democratic Party<br />
|ÖLDP
|Bérangère Bultheel
|Social democracy<br />Social liberalism<br />European Federalism
|Centre-left
|
| 70
|-
! style="background:#FCE500;" |
|style=text-align:center|center|75x75px
|Educate Berlin!<br />
|Bildet Berlin!
|Florian Bublys, Tamara Adamzik
|Education reform
|Single-issue
|
| 50
|-
! style="background:#DB3028;" |
|style=text-align:center|center|75x75px
|<br />
|LIEBE
|
|European federalism<br />Subsidized marriage
|
|
| 53
|-
! style="background:orange;"|
| center|75x75px
| Feminist Party The Women<br />
| DIE FRAUEN
| Renate Schmidtsdorff-Aicher
| Feminism
|
|
| 400
|-
! style="background:#ABCDEF;" |
|
|Free Citizens' Union<br />
|FBU
|Walter Pfleiderer
|National liberalism<br />Conservatism<br />Nationalism
|Right-wing
|
|
|-
! style="background:#60608D;" |
|style=text-align:center|center|75x75px
|Free Horizon<br />
|FREiER HORIZONT
|Norbert Schumacher
|Anti-Wind turbine
|Single-issue
|
|40
|-
!! style="background:#169340;" |
|style=text-align:center|center|75x75px
| Free Saxons<br />
| FS
| Martin Kohlmann
| Saxon monarchism<br />Regionalism
| Right-wing to Far-right
|
|1,200
|-
! style="background:#FFFFFF;" |
| center|75x75px
| <br />
| Volksabstimmung
| Helmut Fleck
| Direct Democracy<br />Nationalism
| Right-wing
|
| 350
|-
! style="background:#15748F;"|
|style=text-align:center|center|75x75px
|Future.<br />
|Z.
|Lasse Lorenzen
|Regionalism
|
|
| 112
|-
! style="background:#007AB4;" |
|style=text-align:center|center|75x75px
|<br />
|future!
|Stephan Bublitz
|Youth interests
|
|
|
|-
! style="background:#004101;" |
|style=text-align:center|center|75x75px
|Garden Party<br />
|Gartenpartei
|Roland Zander
|Pro-Allotment<br />Environmentalism
|
|
| 349
|-
! style="background:#005397;" |
|style=text-align:center|center|75x75px
|German Centre<br />
|DM
|Sven Hüther
|Right-wing populism<br />Anti-vaccination
|Right-wing
|
| 500
|-
!
|style=text-align:center|center|75x75px
|German Conservatives<br />
|Deutsche Konservative
|Dieter Jochim
|Conservatism<br />National conservatism
|Centre-right to right-wing
|
| 380
|-
! style="background:#F24E40;"|
| center|75x75px
| German Communist Party<br />
| DKP
| Patrik Köbele
| Communism<br />Marxism–Leninism
| Far-left
|
| 2,850
|-
! style="background:#217172;" |
| center|75x75px
| German Land Economy<br />
| DLW
| Benjamin Meise
| Farmer interests
|
|
| 15
|-
! style="background:#0000FF;"|
| center|75x75px
|German Party – The Freedomites<br />
|DP
|Gerd-Uwe Dahlmann
|National conservatism<br />German nationalism<br />Right-wing populism
|Right-wing
|
|250
|-
! style="background:#A1B459;" |
|style=text-align:center|center|75x75px
|German Sports Party<br />
|DSP
|Michael Möller
|Grassroots democracy<br />Sport for social development<br />Anti-Doping
|
|
|
|-
! style="background:#90D2F5;"|
| center|75x75px
| German Social Union<br />
| DSU
| Roberto Rink
| National conservatism<br />Social conservatism
| Right-wing
|
| 1,060
|-
! style="background:#24890D;"|
|
|Germans Originating from all of Germany (Autochthons)<br />
|AGsD
|Horst Zaborowski
|Nationalism<br />Irredentism<br />Direct democracy
|
|
|
|-
! style="background:"|
| center|75x75px
| Grassroots Democratic Party of Germany<br />
| dieBasis
| Reiner Fuellmich, Viviane Fischer
| Anti-lockdown<br />Anti-vaccination
|
|
| 18,988
|-
! style="background:#333399;" |
|style=text-align:center|center|75x75px
|Good-People-Party<br />
|Gut-Menschen
|Carl Philipp Trump
|
|Left-wing
|
|
|-
! style="background:#209CC9;" |
|style=text-align:center|center|75x75px
|Human Economy Party<br />
|Humanwirtschaft
|Dieter Müller
|Freiwirtschaft
|
|
|110
|-
! style="background:#EE6600;" |
|style=text-align:center|center|75x75px
|Human world - for the well-being and happiness of all<br />
|MENSCHLICHE WELT
|Michael Moritz
|Progressive utilization theory<br />Anti-vaccination<br />Pacifism
|
|
| 669
|-
! style="background:#FF9900;" |
|style=text-align:center|center|75x75px
|INDEPENDENTS for citizen-friendly democracy<br />
|UNABHÄNGIGE
|Werner Fischer
|Non-partisan democracy<br />Direct democracy
|
|
| 86
|-
! style="background:#F98113;" |
| center|75x75px
| Liberal Democrats – The Social Liberals<br />
| LD
| Bernd Grothkopp
| Social liberalism
|
|
| 100
|-
! style="background:#D2175E;" |
|
|Lobbyists for Children<br />
|LfK
|Johanna Nelkner, Fabio Libonati
|Children's rights
|
|
| 100
|-
!
| center|75x75px
| Lusatian Alliance<br />
|
| Hannes Wilhelm-Kell
| Regionalism<br />Progressivism<br />Ethnic minority interests
|
|
|90
|-
! style="background:#C1121C;" |
| center|75x75px
| Marxist–Leninist Party of Germany<br />
| MLPD
| Gabi Fechtner
| Marxism–Leninism<br />Communism
| Far-left
|
| 2,800
|-
!
| center|75x75px
| Mindful Democrats<br />
| Die Achtsamen
|
|
|
|
|
|-
! style="background:#792F9D;" |
|style=text-align:center|center|75x75px
|Modern Social Party<br />
|MSP
|
|
|
|
|
|-
! style="background:#19A8E8;" |
| center|75x75px
| mut<br />
| mut
| Claudia Stamm
| Social liberalism
| Centre-left
|
| 400
|-
! style="background:#EF3C1F;" |
|style=text-align:center|center|75x75px
|MERA25<br />
|MERA25
|Julijana Zita
|Progressivism<br />Direct democracy
|Left-wing
|DiEM25
|2,000
|-
! style="background-color:#A51218;" |
|style=text-align:center|center|75x75px
|National Democratic Party of Germany<br />
|NPD
|Lennart Schwarzbach
|Neo-Nazism
|Far-right
|
|
|-
!
|style=text-align:center|center|75x75px
|neo. Wellbeing for all<br />
|neo.
|Jörg Gastmann
|Economic Balance System<br />Universal basic income<br />Grassroots democracy
|
|
|
|-
! style="background:#023820;" |
|style=text-align:center|center|75x75px
|New Strength Party<br />
|NSP
|Sara Storch, Christoph Thews
|Neo-Nazism
|Far-right
|
|100
|-
! style="background:#00858C;" |
|style=text-align:center|center|75x75px
|One for all - Party<br />
|Eine für Alle
|
|Grassroots democracy
|
|
| 13
|-
! style="background:#ff4c4c;" |
| center|75x75px
| Party for Franconia<br />
| DIE FRANKEN
| Robert Gattenlöhner
| Regionalism
|
|
| 237
|-
! style="background-color: " |
| center|75x75px
| Party for Rejuvenation Research<br />
|
| Felix Werth
| Single-issue politics
|Single-issue
|
| 289
|-
! style="background:#FF00FF;" |
| center|75x75px
| Party of Humanists<br />
| PdH
|Felicitas Klings
|Humanism<br />Secularism<br />Civil libertarianism<br />Social liberalism
|
|
| 2,350
|-
! style="background:#FEED01;" |
| center|75x75px
| Party of Reason<br />
| PdV
| Friedrich Dominicus
| Right-libertarianism<br />Euroscepticism
| Right-wing
| EPIL
| 352
|-
! style="background:#2D71C1;" |
|style=text-align:center|center|75x75px
|PETO<br />
|PETO
|Lydia Hannawald
|Youth interests
|
|
|400
|-
! style="background-color: " |
| center|75x75px
| Pirate Party Germany<br />
| PIRATEN
| Borys Sobieski
|
| Centre-left
| Greens/EFA
| 5,541
|-
! style="background-color: #092A88" |
|style=text-align:center|center|75x75px
|Renters Party<br />
|MIETERPARTEI
|Anke Hahn, Hartmut Bräunlich
|Anti-high rent
Tenant rights
|Centre-left
|
| 50
|-
! style="background:#008D5D;"|
|style=text-align:center|center|75x75px
|Saxon People's Party<br />
|SVP
|Mirko Schmidt
|Nationalism
| Far-right
|
|
|-
!
|style=text-align:center|center|75x75px
|SGV – Solidarity, Equity, Change <br />
|SGV
|
|Anti-corruption
|
|
|
|-
! style="background:#FF0040;" |
| center|75x75px
| Socialist Equality Party<br />
| SGP
| Ulrich Rippert
| Trotskyism
| Far-left
|
| 276
|-
!
|
|Standing up socially just intelligent party<br />
|Aufstehenpartei
|Paul Weiler
|Left-wing populism
|Centre-left to Left-wing
|
|
|-
! style="background:#63B8FF;" |
|style=text-align:center|center|75x75px
|Statt Party<br />
|STATT
|Robert W. Hugo
|Populism
|
|
|200
|-
|
|
|Transnational Unity, Solidarity, and Libertarianism Advocates<br />
|TESLA
|Norbert Wiesweg
|Sinti and Romani interests
|
|
|
|-
! style="background:;" |
| center|75x75px
| The Justice Party – Team Todenhöfer<br />
|
| Jürgen Todenhöfer
| Anti-militarism<br />Populism
|
|
|5,314
|-
!
| center|75x75px
| The Glass clear<br />
| DGK
| Marie-José Velonjara
| Social democracy<br />Populism
|
|
|
|-
! style="background:#FF5826;" |
|style=text-align:center|center|75x75px
|The Federals<br />
|DIE FÖDERALEN
|Maren Zaidan
|Liberalism<br />Federalism<br />Progressivism
|
|
|
|-
! style="background:#DF0979;" |
|style=text-align:center|center|75x75px
|The Grays – For all Generations<br />
|Die Grauen
|Michael Schulz
|Intergenerationality
|
|
| 135
|-
! style="background-color: " |
| center|75x75px
| The Homeland<br />
| HEIMAT
| Peter Schreiber
| Neo-Nazism<br />Ultranationalism<br />Pan-Germanism<br />Anti-immigration<br />Revanchism
| Far-right
| APF
| 3,000
|-
! style="background:#E30D19;" |
|
|The House of Germany<br />
|DHD
|Egbert Besler
|Constitutionalism<br />Social democracy
|
|
|
|-
! style="background:#488CCB;" |
|style=text-align:center|center|75x75px
|The Reformers<br />
|REFORMER
|Erich Schuster
|Liberalism<br />Pro-Europeanism
|
|
|
|-
! style="background:#0B6623;" |
| center|75x75px
| The III. Path<br />
|III. Weg
| Matthias Fischer
| Neo-Nazism<br />Strasserism<br />Ethnic nationalism<br />German nationalism<br />Hard Euroscepticism
| Far-right
|
| 642
|-
!
|
|The Modernity<br />
|
|Martin Martens
|Centrism
|Centre
|
|
|-
! style="background:#F5A222;" |
|style=text-align:center|center|75x75px
|The New Centre<br />
|NM
|Christoph Hörstel
|Sovereignism<br />Euroscepticism<br />Anti-vaccination<br />Russophilia
|Right-wing
|
|
|-
! style="background:#0AA9AB;" |
|style=text-align:center|center|75x75px
|The New Democrats<br />
|
|
|Security
|
|
|
|-
! style="background:#FFA420;" |
|style=text-align:center|center|75x75px
|The Libertarians<br />
|DIE LIBERTÄREN
|Dr. Mathias Hummel
|Libertarianism<br />Laissez-faire<br />Economic liberalism
|
|
|
|-
! style="background:white;" |
|style=text-align:center|center|75x75px
|THE OTHERS<br />
|sonstige
|
|Democratic confederalism<br />Progressivism<br />Anti-militarism
|Left-wing
|
| 171
|-
! style="background:#D02E00;" |
|style=text-align:center|center|75x75px
|The Party of Sorbians<br />
|PDS
|Lars Krause
|Political satire<br />Sorbian Separatism<br />Anti-militarism
|
|
|
|-
! style="background:#E71F71;" |
|style=text-align:center|center|75x75px
|The Pink/ Alliance21<br />
|BÜNDNIS21
|
|Anti-corruption
|
|
| 450
|-
! style="background:#0062A6;" |
| center|75x75px
| The Republicans<br />
| REP
| Tilo Schöne
| German nationalism<br />National conservatism<br />Euroscepticism<br />Social conservatism
| Right-wing
|
|4,533
|-
! style="background:#252A6D;" |
|
|The Sharks – Party with bite<br />
|HAIE
|Jan Heie Erchinger
|Pragmatism
|Centre
|
|
|-
!
|
|The Peace Party<br />
|
|Mahmoud Ahmed
|Pacifism
|
|
|
|-
! style="background:#E66346;" |
| center|75x75px
| The Urbans. A HipHop Party<br />
| du
| Niki Drakos, Raphael Hillebrand
| Social justice<br />Environmentalism
|
|
| 303
|-
! style="background:#EE82EE;" |
| center|75x75px
| The Violets<br />
| Die Violetten
| Irene Garcia Garcia
| Spiritualism<br />Direct democracy<br />Environmentalism
|
|
| 678
|-
! style="background:#0083C2;" |
|style=text-align:center|center|75x75px
|Thuringian Homeland Party<br />
|THP
|Timo Pradel
|
|
|
| 56
|-
! style="background:;" |
| center|75x75px
| We Citizens<br />
| LKR
| Jürgen Joost
|
|Centre-right to right-wing
| ECR Party
| 1,000
|-
! style="background:yellowgreen;"|
| center|75x75px
| V-Partei³ – Party for Change, Vegetarians and Vegans<br />
| V³
| Roland Wegner
| Animal rights<br />Environmentalism
|
|
| 1,200
|-
! style="background:#1B779C;"|
|style=text-align:center|center|75x75px
|Waying C<br />
|
|Andreas Epp
|Christian democracy<br />Conservatism
|Right-wing
|
| 74
|-
!
| center|75x75px
| WiR2020<br />
| W2020
| Wolfgang Romberg, Sonja Früh
| Anti-vaccinationism<br />Anti-lockdown
|
|
|4,600
|-
|}
Historical parties
Defunct parties in the Federal Republic of Germany
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! colspan="2" |Logo
!Name
!
!Leader(s)
!Ideology
!
!
!Note
|-
!style="background:#808080;" |
|
|50Plus The Generation-Alliance<br />
|50Plus
|Hans Werner Müller
|Right-wing populism
|2004
|2009
|
|-
!
|
|Action Democratic Progress<br />
|ADF
|Collective leadership
|Communism
|1968
|1969
|
|-
!
|
|Action Group Fourth Party<br />
|AVP
|Christian Ernst Dietrich Bahner
|National conservatism
|1975
|1978
|
|-
! style="background:#F0C219;" |
|center|75x75px
|Action Group of Independent Germans<br />
|AUD
|August Haußleiter (1968–1980)
|German nationalism<br />Environmentalism<br />Neutrality
|1965
|1980
|Merged into The Greens
|-
! style="background:#005B9A;" |
|center|75x75px
|Active Democracy direct<br />
|ADd
|
|Direct democracy<br />E-democracy
|2011
|2016
|
|-
! style="background:#C3C318;" |
|center|75x75px
|All-German Bloc/League of Expellees and Deprived of Rights<br />
|GB/BHE
|Waldemar Kraft (1951–1954)
|National conservatism<br />German nationalism<br />Expellee interests
|1950
|1961
|Merged into DP
|-
!
|
|All-German Party of Germany<br />
|GPD
|Frank Seiboth, Herbert Schneider
|National conservatism<br />German nationalism<br />Expellee interests
|1961
|1981
|Merger of GB/BHE and DP
|-
! style="background:#757F42;" |
|
|All-German People's Party<br />
|GVP
|Gustav Heinemann
|Anti-<br />Christian democr<sup><nowiki/></sup>acy<br />Anti-militarism<br />Neutrality
|1952
|1957
|Split from CDU, merged into SPD
|-
! style="background:#870024;" |
|center|75x75px
|Alliance for Health, Peace and Social Justice<br />
|AGFG
|Matthias Rath
|Alternative medicine
|2005
|2009
|
|-
!
|center|75x75px
|Alliance of Germans, Party for Unity, Peace and Freedom<br />
|BdD
|Josef Weber (1964–1968)
|Anti-<br />Anti-militarism<br />Neutrality
|1953
|1968
|Merged into DFU
|-
!
|center|75x75px
|Alliance of the Centre<br />
|ADM
|Hans Weide
|Conservatism
|2004
|2012
|Merged into Deutsche Konservative
|-
!
|center|75x75px
|Automobile Taxpayers Party<br />
|ASP
|
|Motorist interests
|1993
|2002
|
|-
! style="background:#469CDB;" |
|
|Awakening of German patriots – Central Germany<br />
|ADPM
|Benjamin Przybylla
|Right-wing populism<br />National conservatism<br />Nationalism
|2019
|2020
|
|-
!
|
|Awakening for civil rights, freedom and health<br />
|AUFBRUCH
|Hans Christoph Scheiner
|Anti-wireless expansion<br />Alternative medicine
|1998
|2012
|
|-
! style="background:#00BFFF;" |
|center|75x75px
|Christian Centre<br />
|CM
|Josef Happel
|National conservatism<br />Christian conservatism<br />Social conservatism
|1988
|2016
|Still exists as a think tank
|-
! style="background:#FFCC00;" |
|center|75x75px
|Christian Falangist Party of Germany<br />
|CFPD
|
|Falangism<br />Zionism
|2006
|2009
|
|-
!
|
|Christian League - The Party for Life<br />
|LIGA
|Ewald Jaksch
|Christian right<br />Conservatism
|1985
|1995
|
|-
! style="background:#0000AA;" |
|
|Citizens for Mecklenburg-Vorpommern<br />
|BMV
|Michael Bertram
|Conservatism<br />Regionalism
|2018
|2018
|Split from AfD, merged into Free Voters
|-
! style="background-color: #800080 |
|center|75x75px
|Citizens for Thuringia<br />
|BfTh
|Ute Bergner
|Right-wing populism
|2020
|2024
|Merged into Values Union
|-
! style="background:#FB2C4C;" |
|center|75x75px
|Communist League of West Germany<br />
|KBW
|Joscha Schmierer (1973–1982)
|Maoism
|1973
|1985
|
|-
! style="background:#FF0000;" |
|center|75x75px
|Communist Party of Germany (Roter Morgen)<br />
|KPD (Roter Morgen)
|
|Communism<br />Marxism–Leninism<br />Anti-revisionism<br />Hoxhaism
|1985
|2011
|Split from KPD/ML
|-
! style="background:#D50000;" |
|center|75x75px
|Communist Party of Germany/Marxists–Leninists<br />
|KPD/ML
|Ernst Aust (1968–1983)
|Communism<br />Marxism–Leninism<br />Anti-revisionism<br />Hoxhaism
|1968
|1986
|Newspaper still exists
|-
! style="background:#D10000;"|
|center|75x75px
|Communist Party of Germany<br />
|KPD
|Max Reimann (1948–1956)
|Communism<br />Marxism–Leninism
|1918
|1956
|Banned in 1956
|-
! style="background:indigo;" |
| center|75x75px
| Democracy in Motion<br />
| DiB
| Julia Beerhold, Alexander Plitsch
| Democratic socialism
| 2017
| 2025
|
|-
! style="background:#FF9700;"|
|center|75x75px
|Democratic Gay/Lesbian Party - The People's Party<br />
|DSLP
|Thomas Mosmann
|Homonationalism<br />Anti-Islam
|2013
|2016
|
|-
! style="background:#DB3414;"|
|center|75x75px
|Democratic Left<br />
|DL
|
|Socialism
|1967
|1970
|
|-
!
|
|Democratic Socialists<br />
|DS
|
|Eurocommunism
|1982
|1991
|
|-
! style="background:#FF6600;"|
|center|75x75px
|Democratic Party of Germany<br />
|DPD
|Markus Giersch
|Socialism of the 21st century<br />Universal basic income<br />Grassroots democracy
|2009
|2015
|
|-
!
|center|75x75px
|Drivers' and Peoples' Interest Party<br />
|AViP
|Andreas Uhing
|Motorist interests<br />Euroscepticism
|2011
|2016
|
|-
!
|
|Drivers' and Citizens' Interest Party<br />
|APD
|Anton K. Marth
|Motorist interests
|1988
|2002
|
|-
!
|
|Equality Party<br />
|G
|
|
|1973
|1978
|
|-
!
|
|European Federalist Party<br />
|EFP
|Karl Hahn
|European federalism
|1964
|1994
|
|-
!
|
|European Workers-Party<br />
|EAP
|Helga Zepp-LaRouche
|LaRouche movement
|1974
|1986
|Succeeded by Patrioten
|-
!
|
|Expellee and Migrants Party of Germany – Unity<br />
|DIE EINHEIT
|Dimitri Rempel
|Russophilia<br />Conservatism<br />Expellee interests
|2013
|?
|
|-
! style="background:#EDB800;"|
|
|Federation for a Complete Germany<br />
|BGD
|Horst Zaborowski
|Revanchism<br />Nationalism
|1990
|2017
|Merged with AGsD
|-
! style="background:#FF9A33;" |
|center|75x75px
|<br />
|FBM
|Andreas Koch
|Regionalism
|2011
|2025
| Merged into PdF
|-
!
|
|Free Citizens' Initiative<br />
|FBI
|Dr. Thomas Kernebeck
|Direct democracy
|1994
|?
|
|-
!
|
|Free German People's Party<br />
|FDVP
|
|Nationalism
|2000
|2003
|Split from DVU, merged into DP
|-
! style="background:;"|
|center|75x75px
|Free German Workers' Party<br />
|FAP
|Friedhelm Busse (1988–1995)
|Neo-Nazism<br />Strasserism
|1979
|1995
|Banned in 1995 (as organization)
|-
! style="background:#058B8C;" |
| center|75x75px
| <br />
| FPA
| Luca Piwodda
| Participatory democracy
|2018
|2024
| Merged into PdF
|-
! style="background:#006DB0;"|
|center|75x75px
|Free Union<br />
|FU
|Danny Hoffmann
|Conservatism<br />Direct democracy<br />Economic liberalism
|2009
|2019
|
|-
! style="background:green;" |
| center|75x75px
| The Frisians<br />
| FRIESEN
| Ralf Bieneck
| Ethnic minority interests
| 2007
|2023
|
|-
! style="background:#1A1712;"|
|center|75x75px
|German Community<br />
|DG
|August Haußleiter (1952–1965)
|German nationalism<br />Anti-militarism<br />Revanchism<br />Neutrality
|1949
|1965
|Merged into AUD
|-
! style="background:#FF9E13;" |
|
|German Democratic Party<br />
|ddp
|Thorsten Sandvoß
|Third way<br />Universal basic income
|2004
|2015
|
|-
! style="background:black;" |
|center|75x75px
|German Empire Party<br />
|DRP
|Heinrich Kunstmann<br />Adolf von Thadden<br />Alexander Andrae
|Neo-Nazism (after 1952)<br />Pan-Germanism<br />German nationalism
|1950
|1956
|Merger of DRP and NDP
|-
!
|
|German Freedom Party<br />
|DFP
|Heinrich Kunstmann
|German nationalism<br />Strasserism<br />Neutrality
|1962
|1964
|Split from DRP, merged into AUD
|-
! style="background:#0A61B0;" |
|center|75x75px
|German Freedom Party<br />
|DIE FREIHEIT
|Michael Stürzenberger
|Classical liberalism<br />Direct democracy<br />Right-wing populism<br />Hard Euroscepticism
|2010
|2016
|
|-
!
|
|German-Hanoverian Party<br />
|DHP
|Hans Wilhelm Griemsmann
|Conservatism<br />Federalism
|1953
|1962
|Split from 1947 DP, rejoined remnant-DP
|-
! style="background:grey;" |
|center|75x75px
|German Party<br />
|DP
|Heinrich Hellwege
|German nationalism<br />National conservatism<br />Constitutional monarchism
|1947
|1961
|
|-
!
|
|German Party<br />
|DP
|Adolf von Thadden (after 1967)
|National conservatism
|1961
|1980
|Founded by former members of the 1947 DP
|-
! style="background:#8B1C62;" |
|center|66x66px
|German Peace Union<br />
|DFU
|
|Pacifism<br />Neutrality<br />Anti-militarism
|1960
|1984/90
|
|-
! style="background:#CC0000;" |
|center|75x75px
|German People's Union<br />
|DVU
|Matthias Faust (2009–2011)
|Pan-Germanism<br />National conservatism<br />Right-wing populism
|1971/87
|2011
|Split from and merged into NPD
|-
! style="background:#EF2C18;" |
|center|75x75px
|German Protestant League<br />
|DEUPROLIGA
|
|Christian democracy
|2020
|2023
|
|-
! style="background:#CE0606;" |
|center|75x75px
|German Reconstruction Party<br />
|<nowiki>D|A|P</nowiki>
|Tobias Stober
|D-Mark reintroduction
|2017
|2019
|
|-
! style="background:#727876;" |
|center|75x75px
|German Social Movement<br />
|DSB
|Karl-Heinz Priester
|Neo-fascism<br />Corporatism<br />Pan-European nationalism
|1949
|1970s
|Merged into FSVP
|-
! style="background:black;" |
|center|75x75px
|German Social Union<br />
|DSU
|Otto Strasser
|Strasserism<br />Revolutionary nationalism
|1956
|1962
|
|-
!
|
|German Solidarity - Union for the Environment and Life Protection<br />
|Öko-Union
|Horst Götting
|National conservatism
|1978
|1997
|Split from AVP
|-
!
|
|German Union<br />
|DU
|Siegfried Zoglmann
|National liberalism
|1971
|1980
|
|-
!
|
|Gray Panthers<br />
|Graue Panther
|Georg Schulte
|Green politics<br />Senior citizens interests
|1989
|2008
|
|-
! style="background:#FE7E00;" |
|center|75x75px
|Humanist Party<br />
|HP
|
|New Humanism<br />Social liberalism<br />Grassroots democracy
|1984
|2006
|
|-
! style="background:#CFEFEE;" |
|center|75x75px
|Independent Workers' Party (German Socialists)<br />
|UAP
|Ulrich Villmow (1995–2014)
|Strasserism<br />Neue Rechte<br />European federalism<br />Democratic socialism
|1962
|2014
|Split from DSU, unofficial successor
|-
!
|
|Independent Workers' Party of Germany<br />
|UAPD
|
|Titoism<br />Trotskyism
|1950
|1952
|
|-
! style="background:#FFFF00;" |
|
|Kreuzberg Patriotic Democrats/Realistic Center<br />
|KPD/RZ
|Hans Joachim Grimm
|Satire<br />Anti-fascism
|1988
|2016
|Merged into Die PARTEI
|-
! style="background:#FF8000;" |
|center|75x75px
|Labour and Social Justice – The Electoral Alternative<br />
|WASG
|Klaus Ernst<br />Thomas Händel<br />Christine Buchholz<br />Axel Troost
|Democratic socialism<br />Trade unionism
|2005
|2007
|Merged into The Left
|-
!
|
|League of German Communists<br />
|BDK
|
|Communism<br />Marxism–Leninism
|1972
|?
|Split from DKP
|-
!
|
|Liberal People's Party<br />
|FVP
|Franz Handlos
|National conservatism<br />Social conservatism
|1985
|1992
|Split from The Republicans
|-
! style="background:#0185CD;" |
|
|Maritime Union of Germany<br />
|MUD
|Konrad Fischer
|Fishermans' interests<br />Social democracy<br />Euroscepticism
|2011
|2012
|
|-
!
|
|Mature Citizens<br />
|Mündige Bürger
|Erika Herbst
|National conservatism<br />Alternative medicine<br />Esotericism
|1975
|1994
|
|-
!
|
|Motorist and citizens' interest party in Germany<br />
|APD
|Anton K. Marth (1988–1995)
|Motorist interests
|1988
|2002
|
|-
! style="background:#F40905;" |
|center|75x75px
|Muslim Democratic Union<br />
|MDU
|Bilal Uwe Wilbert
|Islamism<br />Salafism
|2010
|2014
|Merged into BIG
|-
!
|
|National Democratic Empire Party<br />
|NDRP
|
|Neo-Nazism
|1950
|1951
|Merger of multiple smaller parties,<br />succeeded by Young Party
|-
!
|
|National Liberal Action<br />
|NLA
|Erich Mende
|National liberalism
|1970
|1971
|
|-
!
|
|National Party of Germany<br />
|NPD
|Moritz von Faber (1956–62)<br />Wolf Ewert (1952–56)<br />Erwin Mebus (1950–52)
|Neutralism<br />National Bolshevism
|1950
|1962
|
|-
!
|
|Natural Law Party<br />
|NATURGESETZ
|
|Transcendental Meditation
|1992
|2004
|
|-
!
|
|New consciousness - The holistic-esoteric party of Germany<br />
|Bewußtsein
|
|New-Age movement<br />Esotericism
|1989
|?
|
|-
! style="background:black;" |
|center|75x75px
|New National Party<br />
|NNP
|Jens Tholen
|Civic nationalism<br />Social liberalism<br />Anti-fascism
|2014
|2015
|
|-
!
|center|75x75px
|Noise torture-Environment-Politics-Honest<br />
|LUPe
|Klaus Zimmer
|Anti-Noise pollution
|2013
|2016
|
|-
! style="background:#FF8C01;" |
|center|75x75px
|Parent Party<br />
|Eltern
|Werner Jock
|Parents' interests
|2005
|2010
|
|-
! style="background:#63B8FF;" |
|center|75x75px
|Party for a Rule of Law Offensive<br />
|PRO
|Ronald Schill (2000–2003)
|Right-wing populism<br />Conservatism
|2000
|2007
|Commonly known as Schill-Partei
|-
!
|
|Party for Labour, Environment and Family<br />
|AUF
|
|Conservatism<br />Christian fundamentalism
|2008
|2015
|Merged into Alliance C
|-
! style="background:#F57E13;"|
|center|75x75px
|Party of Bible-abiding Christians<br />
|PBC
|Gerhard Heinzmann
|Christian right<br />Pentecostalism<br />Christian fundamentalism
|1989
|2015
|Merged into Alliance C
|-
! style="background:#8B1C62;"|
|center|75x75px
|Party of Democratic Socialism<br />
|PDS
|Lothar Bisky (2003–2007)
|Democratic socialism<br />Left-wing populism
|1989
|2007
|Merged into The Left
|-
! style="background:#F06000;"|
|center|75x75px
|Party of Non-Voters<br />
|Nichtwähler
|Werner Peters
|Protest party<br />Direct democracy
|1998
|2016
|
|-
! style="background:#FF4545;"|
|
|Party of those willing to work and the socially disadvantaged<br />
|PASS
|Frank Knüppel (1998–2000)
|Protest party<br />Unemployed interests
|1993
|2009
|
|-
!
|
|Patriots for Germany<br />
|Patrioten
|Helga Zepp-LaRouche
|LaRouche movement<br />National conservatism
|1986
|1992
|Succeeded by BüSo
|-
!
|
|Peace List<br />
|FRIEDEN
|1984–1986:<br />Mechtild Jansen<br />Manfred Coppik<br />Hans Mausbach
|Peace movement
|1984
|1989
|
|-
! style="background:#FE6500;" |
|center|75x75px
|Pensioners' Party of Germany<br />
|RENTNER
|Günter Pfeiffer
|Senior citizens interests
|2002
|2016
|
|-
! style="background:#FF6918;" |
|center|75x75px
|Pensioners' Party<br />
|RRP
|Manfred Link
|Senior citizens interests
|2007
|2016
|
|-
!
|
|Pro Germany Citizens' Movement<br />
|pro Deutschland
|Manfred Rouhs
|Right-wing populism
|2005
|2017
|
|-
! style="background:#1F6AA0;" |
|
|Pro NRW<br />
|pro NRW
|Markus Beisicht
|Right-wing populism<br />Anti-immigration<br />Anti-Islam
|2007
|2019
|
|-
!
|
|Posadist Communist Party<br />
|
|Paul Schulz
|Posadism
|1969
|2005
|
|-
!
|
|Sarazzist Party ━ For Referendums<br />
|SPV
|Kai Schulze
|Sarrazism<br />Direct democracy
|2010
|2011
|
|-
! style="background:#D83A52;"|
|
|Social People's Party<br />
|SVP
|Ronny Grubert
|Neo-Nazism<br />Militancy
|1999
|1999
|Split from NPD
|-
! style="background:#CD2C00;"|
|
|Social People's Party of Germany<br />
|SVD
|Wolfgang Staschen
|Social democracy<br />Anti-immigration
|1984
|1984
|
|-
! style="background:#C80000;"|
|center|75x75px
|Socialist Reich Party<br />
|SRP
|Otto Ernst Remer<br />Fritz Dorls<br />Gerhard Krüger
|Neo-Nazism
|1949
|1952
|Banned in 1952
|-
! style="background:#DC241F;"|
|center|75x75px
|Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin<br />
|SEW
|Gerhard Danelius (1962–1978)
|Communism<br />Marxism–Leninism
|1962
|1991
|Split from SED
|-
!
|
|Spartacus League<br />
|SpB
|
|Trotskyism
|1974
|1980s
|
|-
! style="background:#DA251C;"|
|center|75x75px
|Red October<br />
|RO
|
|Communism<br />Marxism–Leninism
|2002
|2009
|Split from KPD (RO)
|-
! style="background:#DC0000;"|
|
|Revolutionary Socialist League<br />
|RSB
|
|Trotskyism
|1994
|2016
|Merged into ISO
|-
! style="background:#120980;"|
|center|75x75px
|The Blue Party<br />
|Blaue #TeamPetry
|Frauke Petry
|National conservatism<br />National liberalism<br />Euroscepticism
|2017
|2019
|Split from the AfD
|-
! style="background:#800080;"|
|
|The Grays – Gray Panthers<br />
|GRAUE
|
|Anti-Ageism<br />Green politics<br />Senior citizens interests
|1989
|2008
|Split into Die Grauen and Graue Panther
|-
! style="background:#553A26;" |
| center|75x75px
| The Right<br />
|Die RECHTE
| Christian Worch
| Neo-Nazism<br />Ultranationalism<br />Pan-Germanism<br />Anti-immigration<br />Historical revisionism
| 2012
|2025
|
|-
! style="background:#FF6297;" |
|center|75x75px
|The Social Liberals<br />
|SL
|Mikael Horstmann
|Social liberalism<br />European federalism
|2014
|2021
|Still exists as a think tank
|-
! style="background:#000000;" |
|center|75x75px
|The Ungovernable - Autonomous List<br />
|U/AL
|
|Anti-fascism<br />Direct action
|1989
|2009
|
|-
! style="background:#0000FF;" |
|center|75x75px
|Union of Free Citizens<br />
|BFB
|Manfred Brunner
|National liberalism<br />Right-wing populism
|1994
|2000
|
|-
!
|
|Union of Free Germany<br />
|BFD
|
|Right-wing populism
|1973
|1977
|
|-
!
|center|75x75px
|United Socialist Party<br />
|VSP
|
|Socialism
|1986
|2000
|
|-
!
|
|West German Women's Peace Movement<br />
|WFFB
|Klara Marie Faßbinder
|German reunification<br />Anti-militarism<br />Pacifism
|1952
|1974
|
|-
!
|
|Woman's Party<br />
|Frauen
|Sibylle Schücking-Helfferich
|Feminism
|1979
|1989
|
|-
! style="background:#63B8FF;" |
|center|75x75px
|Work for Bremen and Bremerhaven<br />
|AFB
|
|Centrism
|1995
|2004
|
|-
! style="background:#000000;" |
|center|75x75px
|Workers' Party of Germany<br />
|PdAD
|Michael Koth
|Juche<br />National Bolshevism
|1995
|1998
|
|-
! style="background:#10BBA3;" |
|center|75x75px
|Workers' Party of Germany<br />
|PdAD
|Simon Bärmann
|Social democracy<br />Progressive conservatism
|2017
|2020
|
|-
!
|
|Young Party<br />
|
|
|Neo-Nazism<br />Neutrality
|1951
|1951/2
|
|-
! style="background:#CC0001;"|
|center|75x75px
|Youth and Development Party of Germany<br />
|JED
|Till Müller, Lukas Ostermann
|Youth interests<br />Social liberalism<br />Cannabis legalization
|2017
|2019
|
|}
Defunct parties in Allied-occupied Germany
Parties that were founded during the allied occupation and dissolved during or before 1950.
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! colspan="2" |Logo
!Name
!
!Leader(s)
!Ideology
!
!
!Note
|-
! style="background:gold" |
|
|Democratic Party of Germany<br />
|DPD
|Theodor Heuss, Wilhelm Külz
|Liberalism
|1947
|1948
|Succeeded by FDP and LDPD
|-
!
|
|Democratic People's Party<br />
|DVP
|Theodor Heuss
|Liberalism
|1946
|1948
|Merged into FDP
|-
!
|
|German Conservative Party - German Right Party<br />
|DKP-DRP
|Wilhelm Jaeger (1947–1949)
|National conservatism
|1946
|1950
|Merged into DRP and DP
|-
!
|
|German Conservative Party<br />
|DKP
|Eldor Borck, Otto Schmidt-Hannover
|National conservatism
|1946
|1950
|Merged into DKP-DRP
|-
!
|
|German Reconstruction Party<br />
|DAP
|
|Monarchism<br />German nationalism
|1945
|1946
|Merged into DKP-DRP
|-
!
|
|Lower Saxony State Party<br />
|NLP
|
|Regionalism<br />Christian conservatism<br />Establishment of Lower Saxony
|1945
|1947
|Merged into DP
|-
!
|
|National Democratic Party<br />
|NDP
|Heinrich Leuchtgens
|National conservatism
|1945
|1950
|Only active in Hesse, merged into DRP
|-
! style="background:#FF6600;" |
|center|75px
|Radical Social Freedom Party<br />
|RSF
|Richard Batz, Peter Thielen
|Freiwirtschaft<br />Border abolition<br />Decentralization
|1946
|1950
|Succeeded by HUMANWIRTSCHAFT
|}
Parties in East Germany
{| class="wikitable"
! colspan="2" |Bloc
! colspan="2" |Logo
!Name
!
!Ideology
!Note
|-
! rowspan="5" style="background:#FF0000;" |
| rowspan="5" |Democratic Bloc and National Front
! style="background:#DC241F;" |
| center|75x75px
| Socialist Unity Party of Germany<br />
| SED
| Stalinism<br />Communism<br />Marxism–Leninism
|"Leading Role" per 1968 Constitution, succeeded by PDS
|-
! style="background:#216CE5;" |
|center|75x75px
|Christian Democratic Union of Germany<br />
|CDUD
|Christian socialism<br />Social conservatism
|Merged into the CDU
|-
! style="background:#FFA500;" |
|center|75x75px
|Liberal Democratic Party of Germany<br />
|LDPD
|Liberal socialism
|Merged into Association of Free Democrats (partly)
|-
! style="background:#008000;" |
|center|75x75px
|Democratic Farmers' Party of Germany<br />
|DBD
|Agrarianism<br />Agrarian socialism
|Merged into CDUD
|-
! style="background:#FFD700;" |
|center|75x75px
|National Democratic Party of Germany<br />
|NDPD
|Conservatism<br />National conservatism<br />Socialism
|Merged into FDP
|}
During transition (1989–90)
{| class="wikitable"
! colspan="3" |Alliance
! colspan="2" |Logo
!Name
!
!Ideology
!Note
|-
! rowspan="3" style="background:#008000;" |
| rowspan="3" |center|75x75px
| rowspan="3" |Alliance 90
! style="background:black;" |
| center|75x75px
| Democracy Now<br />
| DJ
| Democratic socialism
| rowspan="3" |Merged into Alliance 90/The Greens
|-
! style="background:black;" |
|center|75x75px
|Initiative for Peace and Human Rights<br />
|IFM
|Anti-Communism
|-
! style="background:black;" |
|center|75x75px
|New Forum<br />
|NF
|Progressivism
|-
! rowspan="3" style="background:#2483BB;" |
| rowspan="3" |center|75x75px
| rowspan="3" |Alliance for Germany
! style="background:#216CE5;" |
|center|75x75px
|Christian Democratic Union of Germany<br />
|CDUD
|Christian democracy<br />Social conservatism<br />Anti-communism
|Merged into the CDU
|-
! style="background:black;" |
|center|75x75px
|Democratic Awakening<br />
|DA
|Liberal democracy<br />Christian democracy
|Merged into CDUD
|-
! style="background:#6495ED;" |
|center|75x75px
|German Social Union<br />
|DSU
|National conservatism<br />Christian democracy<br />Social conservatism
|Still exists, see Minor parties
|-
! rowspan="3" style="background:#FFED00;" |
| rowspan="3" |center|75x75px
| rowspan="3" |Association of Free Democrats
! style="background:#FFA500;" |
|center|75x75px
|Liberal Democratic Party of Germany<br />
|LDPD
|Liberalism
| rowspan="3" |Merged into FDP
|-
! style="background:#FFD700;" |
|center|75x75px
|German Forum Party<br />
|DFP
|Liberalism
|-
!
|center|75x75px
|Free Democratic Party<br />
|F.D.P.
|Liberalism
|-
! colspan="3" rowspan="6" |
! style="background:#008000;" |
|center|75x75px
|Democratic Farmers' Party of Germany<br />
|DBD
|Agrarianism
|Merged into CDUD
|-
! style="background:#008000;" |
|center|75x75px
|Green Party<br />
|Die Grünen
|Green politics
|Merged into Alliance 90/The Greens
|-
! style="background:#FFD700;" |
|center|75x75px
|National Democratic Party of Germany<br />
|NDPD
|Centrism<br />National liberalism
|Merged into FDP
|-
! style="background:#FA0015;" |
|center|75x75px
|Social Democratic Party in the GDR<br />
|SPD
|Social democracy
|Merged into SPD
|-
! style="background:#FF0000;" |
|center|75x75px
|Socialist Unity Party of Germany━Party of Democratic Socialism<br />
|SED-PDS
|Democratic socialism
|Later renamed to PDS
|-
! style="background:#800080;" |
|center|75x75px
|United Left<br />
|VL
|Communism<br />Trotskyism<br />Socialism
|
|}
Parties in the Saar Protectorate
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! colspan="2" |Name
!
!Ideology
!Active
!Note
|-
! style="background:#11BB44;" |
| Christian People's Party of Saarland<br />
| CVP
| Christian democracy<br />Conservatism
| 1946–1959
| Later merged with the CDU
|-
! style="background:#008BC6;" |
|Christian Social Union<br />
|CSU-S
|Christian democracy<br />Conservatism
|1955–1959
|Unofficial counterpart of the CSU
|-
! style="background:#8B0000;" |
|Communist Party of Saarland<br />
|KP
|Communism<br />Marxism–Leninism
|1945–1957
|Counterpart of the KPD
|-
! style="background:#FFFF00;" |
|Democratic Party of Saarland<br />
|DPS
|Conservative liberalism<br />National conservatism
|1946–1957
|Later merged into the FDP
|-
!
|German Democratic Union<br />
|DDU
|Left-wing politics
|1955–1968
|Later merged with the DFU
|-
! style="background:#E3000F;" |
|German Social Democratic Party<br />
|DSP
|Social democracy
|1952–1956
|Split from the SPS, later merged with the SPD
|-
! style="background:#FF0000;" |
|Social Democratic Party of Saarland<br />
|SPS
|Social democracy<br />Democratic Socialism
|1946–1956
|Counterpart of the SPD
|-
!
|Supranational European People's Party Saar<br />
|ÜEVPS
|
|1955–?
|
|}
Parties in Weimar Republic
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! colspan="2" |Logo
!Name
!
!Ideology
!Political position
!Active
!Note
|-
! style="background:#98F5FF;"|
| center|75px
| Bavarian People's Party<br />
| BVP
| Political Catholicism<br />Bavarian regionalism<br />Conservatism<br />Constitutional monarchism
| Right-wing
| 1918–1933
|
|-
! style="background:black;"|
| center|75px
| Centre Party<br />
| Zentrum
| Christian democracy<br />Political Catholicism
| Centre to centre-right
|1870–
|
|-
! style="background:grey;"|
|
| Christian Social People's Service<br />
| CSVD
| Agrarainism<br />Conservatism<br />Political Protestantism
| Centre-right
|1929–1933
|
|-
! style="background:#D10000;"|
| center|75px
| Communist Party of Germany<br />
| KPD
| Communism<br />Marxism–Leninism
| Far-left
|1918–1956 (West)<br />1918–1946 (East)
|Banned in West Germany, merged in East Germany
|-
! style="background:#8B0000;"|
|
| Communist Party of Germany (Opposition)<br />
| KPO
| Communism<br />Luxemburgism
| Left-wing, Far-left
|1929–1939
|
|-
!
|
| Conservative People's Party<br />
| KVP
| Conservatism<br />Christian democracy
| Right-wing
|1930–1933
|
|-
! style="background:#FFCC00;"|
|
| German Democratic Party<br />
| DDP
| Social liberalism<br />Progressivism
| Centre-left
|1918–1930
|
|-
! style="background:#63B8FF;"|
| center|75px
| German National People's Party<br />
| DNVP
| Monarchism<br />Proto-fascism<br />National conservatism<br />German nationalism
| Right-wing to Far-right
|1918–1933
|
|-
! style="background:#1874CD;"|
| center|75px
| German People's Party<br />
| DVP
| National liberalism<br />Conservative liberalism<br />Economic liberalism<br />Constitutional monarchism
| Centre-right
|1918–1933
|
|-
! style="background:#000000;"|
| center|75px
| German Völkisch Freedom Party<br />
| DVFP
| German nationalism<br />Völkisch movement
| Far-right
|1922–1925
|
|-
! style="background:#63B8FF;"|
|
|German State Party<br />
|DStP
|Liberalism<br />Nationalism<br />Corporatism
|Centre-right
|1930–1933
|Short-lived merger of the DDP and Young German Order
|-
! style="background:#000000;"|
|center|75px
|German Workers' Party<br />
|DAP
|Pan-Germanism<br />German nationalism<br />Volksgemeinschaft
|Far-right
|1919–1920
|Predecessor of the Nazi Party
|-
! style="background:#C40000;"|
|center|75px
|Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany<br />
|USPD
|Democratic socialism<br />Centrist Marxism<br />Pacifism
|Left-wing
|1917–1931
|
|-
! style="background:#964B00;"|
|center|75px
|National Socialist German Workers' Party<br />
|NSDAP
|National Socialism
|Far-right
|1920–1945
|Sole legal party of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. Banned after World War II
|-
! style="background:#C40000;"|
|center|75px
|Socialist Workers' Party of Germany<br />
|SAPD
|Democratic socialism<br />Centrist Marxism
|Far-left
|1931–1945
|
|}
Parties founded before World War I
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|- "
! colspan=2 | Name
!
! Ideology
!Active
|-
! style="background:white;"|
| Bavarian Peasants' League
| BB
| Agrarianism
|1893–1933
|-
! style="background-color: " |
| Centre Party
| Zentrum
| Christian democracy
|1870–
|-
! style="background-color:;"|
| Christian Social Party
| CSP
| Traditionalist conservatism<br />Christian democracy
|1878–1918
|-
! style="background:white;"|
| Democratic Union
| DV
| Liberalism<br />Laïcité
|1908–1918
|-
! style="background-color:;"|
| Free Conservative Party
| FKP
| National conservatism
|1867–1918
|-
! style="background-color:;"|
| Free-minded People's Party
| FVP
| Liberalism<br />Progressivism<br />Parliamentarism<br />Laicism
|1893–1910
|-
! style="background-color:;"|
| Free-minded Union
| FV
| National liberalism
|1893–1910
|-
! style="background-color:;"|
| General German Workers' Association
| ADAV
| Social democracy<br />Democratic socialism
|1863–1875
|-
! style="background-color:;"|
| German Conservative Party
| DKP
| Conservatism<br />Anti-liberalism<br />Anti-Catholicism
|1876–1918
|-
! style="background:black;"|
| German Fatherland Party
|DVLP
| German nationalism<br />Monarchism<br />Militarism<br />Volksgemeinschaft
|1917–1918
|-
! style="background:#A9DD86;"|
| German-Hanoverian Party
| DHP
| Conservatism<br />Federalism
|1867–1933
|-
! style="background-color:;"|
| German People's Party
| DtVP
| Social liberalism<br />Federalism<br />Laïcité<br />Parliamentarism
|1868–1910
|-
! style="background-color:;"|
| German Progress Party
| DFP
| Liberalism<br />Federalism
|1861–1884
|-
! style="background:;"|
| German Free-minded Party
| DFP
| Liberalism<br />Progressivism<br />Parliamentarism<br />Laïcité
|1884–1893
|-
! style="background:;"|
| Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany
| USPD
| Democratic socialism<br />Centrist Marxism<br />Pacifism
|1917–1931
|-
! style="background:;" |
|Lassallean General German Workers' Association
|LADAV
|Social democracy<br />Lassallism
|1867–1873
|-
! style="background:;"|
| Liberal Union
| LV
| Liberalism<br />Parliamentarism<br />Classical liberalism<br />Economic liberalism<br />Conservative liberalism
|1880–1884
|-
! style="background:;"|
| National Liberal Party
| NLP
| National liberalism
|1867–1918
|-
! style="background:;"|
| National-Social Association
| NSV
| Christian socialism<br />Social liberalism<br />Nationalism
|1896–1903
|-
! style="background:;"|
| Progressive People's Party
| FVP
| Social liberalism<br />Parliamentarism<br />Laïcité
|1910–1918
|-
! style="background:;"|
| Social Democratic Party of Germany
| SPD
| Social democracy
|1875–present
|-
! style="background:;"|
| Social Democratic Workers' Party of Germany
| SDAP
| Social democracy<br />Marxist socialism
|1869–1875
|}
See also
- Lists of political parties; categories by country and ideology.
- History of Germany since 1945
- Liberalism in Germany
Notes
References
External links
- Political Parties (Germany) - List of German political parties since 1949
- Collection of all currently recognized political parties by the Federal Returning Office
- List of all registered political parties in the Federal Republic of Germany between 1969 and 2023 by the Federal Returning Office
- Overview of the elections since 1946 (Übersicht der Wahlen seit 1946) on the website of the Tagesschau - Election results in Germany since 1946 on state, federal and European levels (German descriptions, but graphics and data can be accessed without these).