Party of Reason
Party of Reason Partei der Vernunft | |
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| Leader | Friedrich Dominicus |
| General Secretary | Dirk Hesse |
| Deputy leaders | Enrico Pietzsch, Charles Krüger |
| Executive director | Maria Zanke |
| Treasurer | Alexander Malchow |
| Additional executive committee members | Georg Semmler, Stefanie Kaiser, Lilia Kalaschnikova |
| Founded | 30 May 2009 |
| Headquarters | Markgrafenstr. 15 76646 Bruchsal Germany |
| Membership (2011) | > 1,000 |
| Ideology | Austro-libertarianism Euroscepticism Right-libertarianism |
| International affiliation | International Alliance of Libertarian Parties, |
| Colors | |
| Slogan | "Wir lieben Freiheit." (We love liberty.) |
| Bundestag | 0 / 709
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| Regional Parliaments | 0 / 1,855
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| European Parliament | 0 / 96
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| Website | |
| www.parteidervernunft.de | |
The Party of Reason (German: Partei der Vernunft, PdV) is a libertarian political party in Germany founded in May 2009 by Oliver Janich.
The party's policies are based on the Austrian School of economics. It campaigns for libertarian positions, including a minimal state and free markets. It supports various positions such as not believing in anthropogenic global warming.
In September 2013, the PDV, together with libertarian parties from Spain (Party of Individual Freedom), France (Liberal Democratic Party) and the Netherlands (Libertarian Party) signed the Utrecht Declaration and Covenant of European Classical Liberal and Libertarian Parties, establishing the European Party for Individual Liberty (EPIL).