Green Party faction (Bundestag)

The German Green Party (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen) has been present in the German parliament (Bundestag) continuously since March 29, 1983 as a parliamentarian party.

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10th Bundestag (1983–1987)

Scoring 5.6% in the federal parliamentary elections in 1983, the Greens entered the Bundestag for the first time with a total of 28 seats. Faction members were rotated after two years in 1985 (with the exception of Petra Kelly and Gert Bastian), but the concept was abolished in May 1986 again. The executive board, elected by faction members on April 3, 1984, consisted of Annemarie Borgmann, Waltraud Schoppe, Antje Vollmer, Christa Nickels, Heidemarie Dann and Erika Hickel.

The members of the faction were:

  • Hendrik Auhagen (1985–1987)
  • Sabine Bard (1983–1985)
  • Gert Bastian (1983–1987, not a member of the faction from 1984 to 1986)
  • Marieluise Beck (1983–1985)
  • Dieter Burgmann (1983–1985)
  • Annemarie Borgmann (1985–1987)
  • Eberhard Bueb (1985–1987)
  • Heidemarie Dann (1985–1987)
  • Dieter Drabiniok (1983–1985)
  • Wolfgang Ehmke (1983–1985)
  • Uschi Eid (1985–1987)
  • Joschka Fischer (1983–1985)
  • Ulrich Fischer (1986–1987)
  • Horst Fritsch (1986–1987)
  • Gabriele Gottwald (1983–1985)
  • Klaus Hecker (1983)
  • Erika Hickel (1983–1985)
  • Hannegret Hönes (1985–1987)
  • Milan Horacek (1983–1985, successor of Klaus Hecker)
  • Willi Hoss (1983–1985)
  • Gert Jannsen (1983–1985)
  • Petra Kelly (1983–1987)
  • Hubert Kleinert (1983–1986)
  • Julius Kriszan (1983–1985)
  • Torsten Lange (1985–1987)
  • Norbert Mann (1985–1987)
  • Joachim Müller (1985–1987)
  • Christa Nickels (1983–1985)
  • Gabriele Potthast (1983–1985)
  • Jürgen Reents (1983–1985)
  • Christa Reetz (1983–1985)
  • Herbert Rusche (1985–1987)
  • Walter Sauermilch (1983–1985)
  • Henning Schierholz (1985–1987)
  • Otto Schily (1983–1986)
  • Christian Schmidt (1985–1987)
  • Dirk Schneider (1983–1985)
  • Waltraud Schoppe (1983–1985)
  • Walter Schwenninger (1983–1985)
  • Stefan Schulte (1985–1987)
  • Hans-Werner Senfft (1985–1987)
  • Eckhard Stratmann (1983–1985)
  • Hans-Christian Ströbele (1985–1987)
  • Heinz Suhr (1985–1987)
  • Willi Tatge (1986–1987)
  • Udo Tischer (1985–1987, left the faction in 1986)
  • Hans Verheyen (1983–1985)
  • Axel Vogel (1985–1987)
  • Roland Vogt (1983–1985)
  • Antje Vollmer (1983–1985)
  • Ludger Volmer (1985–1987)
  • Marita Wagner (1985–1987)
  • Gerd Werner (1985–1987)
  • Helmut Werner (1985–1987)
  • Karin Zeitler (1985–1987)

11th Bundestag (1987–1990)

In the 1987 parliamentary elections, the Green Party managed to increase its share of votes to 8.3%, gaining 44 parliament seats in the process. When the East German parliament, the Volkskammer, which was freely elected on March 18, 1990 for the first time, was disbanded in the process of the German reunification, another 7 seats were added as 7 members of the 21-member Volkskammer faction of the Green Party, elected by their peers, entered the Bundestag.

The members of the faction were:

  • Marieluise Beck-Oberdorf
  • Angelika Beer
  • Helga Brahmst-Rock
  • Hans-Joachim Brauer
  • Ulrich Briefs (left the faction in 1990)
  • Wolfgang Daniels
  • Thomas Ebermann (1987–1989)
  • Tay Eich (1989–1990)
  • Uschi Eid
  • Dora Flinner
  • Sieglinde Friess (1989–1990)
  • Charlotte Garbe
  • Gerald Häfner
  • Karitas Hensel
  • Imma Hillerich
  • Willi Hoss
  • Uwe Hüser
  • Petra Kelly
  • Hubert Kleinert
  • Wilhelm Knabe
  • Almut Kottwitz (1989–1990)
  • Matthias Kreuzeder
  • Verena Krieger (1987–1989)
  • Helmut Lippelt
  • Alfred Mechtersheimer
  • German Meneses-Vogl (1989–1990)
  • Christa Nickels
  • Jutta Oesterle-Schwerin
  • Ellen Olms (1987–1989)
  • Norbert Roske (1990)
  • Bärbel Rust
  • Hannelore Saibold
  • Gertrud Schilling
  • Otto Schily (left the faction in 1989 and became a member of the SPD faction)
  • Marieluise Schmidt (1989–1990)
  • Regula Schmidt-Bott (1987–1989)
  • Waltraud Schoppe
  • Peter Sellin (1987–1989)
  • Eckhard Stratmann
  • Manfred Such (1989–1990)
  • Maria Luise Teubner
  • Erika Trenz
  • Trude Unruh (left the faction in 1989)
  • Christa Vennegerts
  • Antje Vollmer
  • Ludger Volmer
  • Michael Weiß
  • Dietrich Wetzel
  • Heike Wilms-Kegel
  • Lieselotte Wollny
  • Thomas Wüppesahl (left the faction on January 26, 1988)

12th Bundestag (1990–1994)

In 1990, elections were held separately in former East and West Germany; in West Germany, the Green Party did not manage to gain enough votes to enter parliament, only scoring 4.8% instead of the necessary 5%, but in East Germany, the Greens gained a 6.1% share of the votes and 8 seats in the Bundestag. While a green presence in the 12th Bundestag was thus secured, the Greens could not form a faction, instead remaining a "group" (with less rights and a smaller budget).

The members of the faction were:

13th Bundestag (1994–1998)

4 years later, in 1994, the Greens managed to recover from their losses again, achieving 7.3% and entering the parliament with 48 seats. Antje Vollmer, long-time member of the faction, was elected as first Green Vice President of the Bundestag with the help of the CDU faction.

The members of the faction included:

14th Bundestag (1998–2002)

In 1998, the Green Party suffered slight losses, dropping down to 6.7%, but still managed to gain 47 seats in a larger parliament. For the first time it was possible to form a red-green government coalition with the election-winning SPD.

The members of the faction were:

15th Bundestag (2002–2005)

While the ruling SPD suffered substantial losses during the 2002 parliamentary elections and only barely managed to become the biggest faction in the Bundestag, the Green Party gained 1.9 points compared to the 1998 elections, for a total of 8.6%, yielding 55 seats.

The members of the faction were:

16th Bundestag (2005–2009)

The ruling SPD/Green Party suffered losses during the 2005 parliamentary elections leading to a Grand Coalition between the SPD and the CDU/CSU. The Green Party lost four seats to go from 55 to 51 and went into opposition with the FDP and the Left Party.

The members of the faction were:

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