Green Party faction (Bundestag) Totally Explained

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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.

The faction in the 10th Bundestag, 1983 - 1987

Scoring 5.6% in the federal parliamental elections in 1983, the Greens enter the Bundestag for the first time with a total of 28 seats. Faction members are rotated after two years in 1985 (with the exception of Petra Kelly and Gert Bastian), but the concept is abolished in May 1986 again. The executive board, elected by faction members on April 3 1984, consists 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)

The faction in the 11th Bundestag, 1987 - 1990

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

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)

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)

Thomas Wüppesahl (left the faction on January 26 1988)

The Green group in the 12th Bundestag, 1990 - 1994

In 1990, elections are held separately in former East and West Germany; in West Germany, the Green Party doesn't manage to gain enough votes to enter parliament, only scoring 4.8% instead of the necessary 5%, but in East Germany, the Greens gain a 6.1% share of the votes and 8 seats in the Bundestag. While a green presence in the 12th Bundestag is thus secured, the Greens can't form a faction, instead remaining a "group" (with less rights and a smaller budget). The members of the faction are:

Klaus-Dieter Feige

Ingrid Köppe

Vera Lengsfeld

Gerd Poppe

Christina Schenk (left the faction in 1994)

Werner Schulz

Wolfgang Ullmann

Konrad Weiß

The faction in the 13th Bundestag, 1994 - 1998

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

Volker Beck

Franziska Eichstädt-Bohlig

Uschi Eid

Angelika Köster-Loßack

Steffi Lemke

Vera Lengsfeld (left the faction in 1996 and became a member of the CDU faction)

Egbert Nitsch (1994 - 1996)

Gerd Poppe

Irmingard Schewe-Gerigk

Rainder Steenblock (1996 - 1998)

Margareta Wolf

The faction in the 14th Bundestag, 1998 - 2002

In 1998, the Green Party suffers slight losses, dropping down to 6.7%, but still manages to gain 47 seats in a larger parliament. For the first time it's possible to form a red-green government coalition with the election-winning SPD. The members of the faction are:

Volker Beck

Grietje Bettin (2000 - 2002)

Annelie Buntenbach

Ekin Deligöz

Amke Dietert-Scheuer (2002)

Thea Dückert

Franziska Eichstädt-Bohlig

Uschi Eid

Hans-Josef Fell

Andrea Fischer

Joschka Fischer

Katrin Göring-Eckardt

Rita Grießhaber

Gerald Häfner (2001 - 2002)

Angelika Köster-Loßack

Klaus Müller (1998 - 2000)

Claudia Roth (1998 - 2001)

Christine Scheel

Irmingard Schewe-Gerigk

Hans-Christian Ströbele

Sylvia Voß

Margareta Wolf

The faction in the 15th Bundestag, 2002 - 2005

While the ruling SPD suffers substantial losses during the 2002 parliamental elections and only barely manages to become the biggest faction in the Bundestag, the Green Party gains 1.9 points compared to the 1998 elections, for a total of 8.6%, yielding 55 seats. The members of the faction are:

Volker Beck

Franziska Eichstädt-Bohlig

Dr. Uschi Eid

Hans-Josef Fell

Joschka Fischer

Katrin Göring-Eckardt

Anja Hajduk

Thilo Hoppe

Fritz Kuhn

Irmingard Schewe-Gerigk

Rezzo Schlauch

Albert Schmidt

Werner Schulz

Petra Selg

Ursula Sowa

Rainder Steenblock

Silke Stokar

Hans-Christian Ströbele

Margareta Wolf

The faction in the 16th Bundestag, 2005 - Present

The ruling SPD/Green Party suffers losses during the 2005 parliamental elections leading to a Grand Coalition between the SPD and the CDU/CSU. The Green Party loses four seats to go from 55 to 51 and goes into opposition with the FDP and the Left Party. The members of the faction are:

Kai Gehring

Katrin Göring-Eckardt

Anja Hajduk

Priska Hinz

Thilo Hoppe

Ute Koczy

Fritz Kuhn

Elisabeth Scharfenberg

Christine Scheel

Irmingard Schewe-Gerigk

Dr. Gerhard Schick

Rainder Steenblock

Silke Stokar von Neuforn

Hans-Christian Ströbele

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