SPD Bavaria
The SPD Bavaria, Landesverband Bayern, Social Democratic Party of Germany is the Bavarian State Association of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. In February 2018, it was the second largest state association of a party in Bavaria with 62,122 members.
The chairwoman is Natascha Kohnen, Secretary General is Uli Grötsch.History
The SPD Bavaria has a rich history, which dates back to 1866, when a workers' education club in Nuremberg was founded as the first Social Democratic institution. In 1881, Karl Grillenberger won the first Reichstag mandate for the SPD in Bavaria, also in Nuremberg. 1887 the SPD in the Kingdom of Bavaria joined for the first time the election to the Chamber of Deputies of the Kingdom, and received 2.1 percent of the vote, but no seat. In 1888, the Social Democratic newspaper of Münchener Post was founded.
The history of the SPD Bayern as a separate organization began with the first party conference of the SPD in Bavaria, which met on the initiative of Georg von Vollmar in 1892 in Reinhausen near Regensburg. The party congress decided that the SPD would take part in the state elections in 1893 and passed an election program.Chairpeople
| Jahre | Vorsitzender |
| 1892–1918 | Georg von Vollmar |
| 1918–1933 | Erhard Auer |
| 1946–1947 | Lisa Albrecht |
| 1946–1947 | Wilhelm Hoegner |
| 1947–1963 | Waldemar von Knoeringen |
| 1963–1972 | Volkmar Gabert |
| 1972–1977 | Hans-Jochen Vogel |
| 1977–1985 | Helmut Rothemund |
| 1985–1991 | Rudolf Schöfberger |
| 1991–2000 | Renate Schmidt |
| 2000–2003 | Wolfgang Hoderlein |
| 2003–2009 | Ludwig Stiegler |
| 2009–2017 | Florian Pronold |
| 2017– | Natascha Kohnen |
