East German Green Party
Green Party Grüne Partei | |
|---|---|
| Founded | 9 February 1990 |
| Dissolved | 3 December 1990 |
| Merged into | Alliance 90/The Greens |
| Headquarters | East Berlin, East Germany |
| Ideology | Green politics |
| Political position | Centre-left |
The Green Party (German: Grüne Partei) in East Germany was founded in February 1990. At the first free Volkskammer elections it stood with the Independent Women's Association (Unabhängige Frauenverband) and received 2.0% of the vote. They received 8 seats but could not resolve how to allocate them. The Women's Association pulled out and the Green Party formed a joint parliamentary group with Bündnis 90.
The party was constituted on 24 November 1989 during the political upheavals of 1989, and from September 1990 used the name The Greens (Die Grünen). It merged on 3 December 1990 with the West German Greens (with the Saxon branch initially remaining outside the merger).
The Green Party developed largely out of the Green–Ecological Network Arche (Grün-Ökologisches Netzwerk Arche), founded in 1988 as a GDR-wide environmental opposition network. During 1989 it announced plans to contest future elections with a green list independent of the National Front’s unified list, an early attempt in the GDR to challenge the National Front’s monopoly on parliamentary representation.