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She wants to "get involved for mutual success", he wants to "use his great experience for the party". Sonja Jacobsen (51) and Daniel Oetzel (35) are the names of the two candidates who are standing for election on Saturday for the party chairmanship of the Hamburg FDP. Whoever gets his way with the delegates faces a double challenge: For the Elbe Liberals, the next state election is about political survival - in a city-state that seems to be firmly in red-green hands. And on the other hand, the FDP has been struggling with internal trench warfare full of vanity, resentment and intrigues for decades, which it is finally time to settle.
At least in their own ranks, both Jacobsen and Oetzel are no strangers. Jacobsen – mother of two school children and a journalist by profession – is already acting as deputy state chairman and as parliamentary group leader in the Bergedorf district assembly. Oetzel, meanwhile – a civil servant in the city of Hamburg and a teacher for the subjects of history, PGW and biology – was a member of the Hamburg Parliament from 2015 to 2020 and is currently the district chairman of his party in Blankenese.
He has accompanied the last three citizenship and district election campaigns as a member of the state executive board, partly as a candidate, partly as a member of the election campaign committee and program commission - "always active on the street," says Oetzel and emphasizes: "I can justifiably say that I have a comprehensive idea of what's in store for us in the next two years and I'm therefore convinced that I can play my part in our success." how we are perceived and how we treat each other in the party". In the event of his election, Oetzel would like to "recognize, moderate and clear up conflicts before they escalate": "I don't duck away when things get difficult, I'm also there when the wind blows from the front."
Jacobsen promises the currently 2125 FDP members in Hamburg: "My idea of politics is not limited to the comfortable role of the fundamental opposition, which, like the CDU, jumps up on almost every citizens' initiative." From their point of view, liberals "always offer solutions", and they "I have the experience to enforce our positions," says Jacobsen. As an "experienced election campaigner" she wants to lead the Free Democrats through the crucial years to come. Because while the Liberals co-govern in the federal government, they are only represented in the citizenship by two non-attached MPs. The entry into the state parliament failed in 2020. The next state election is scheduled for 2025, with district elections a year earlier.
The replacement of the FDP leadership is necessary because the still incumbent head of state, Michael Kruse, will not run again. The 39-year-old justified the step with his work-intensive Bundestag mandate and the function as energy policy spokesman for his parliamentary group. But the bitter dispute between Kruse and four young liberals (JuLi), which has been going on for over a year, may also have led to the withdrawal. Kruse took over the chair from Katja Suding in 2021. The party has thus worn out 15 state leaders in the past 30 years.
The trigger for the most recent internal quarrel was that the former JuLi boss Carl Cevin-Key Coste had criticized Kruse's announcement of a lawsuit against the Hamburg Corona hotspot rules in spring 2022 as a "PR action and unworthy of a constitutional party". After further verbal accusations by and against the JuLis, the executive board started a party exclusion procedure against the four critics, which is why they in turn initiated arbitration proceedings with the support of the former Federal Minister of the Interior Gerhart Baum (FDP). On the advice of the party's arbitral tribunal, the brawlers reached a settlement at a conciliation meeting in early March. The handshake is essentially based on the fact that the state executive and the JuLis accuse each other of "no party-damaging behavior" anymore.
The two camps within the FDP are also reflected in the candidacies for the state presidency: while Jacobsen is considered a companion of the outgoing party leader Kruse, Oetzel is assigned to those Elbe liberals around the citizenship deputy Anna von Treuenfels-Frowein, who supported the rebellious JuLis in their uprising against Kruse supported. Now the delegates have the choice at the weekend.
The Christian Democrats will also elect a new party leadership on Monday. There, Dennis Thering (38) will now also direct the national association in addition to the parliamentary group, after the previous incumbent Christoph Ploß has cleared the way. With a view to the 2025 election, everything in the CDU is concentrating on Thering, who is also entering the race as the top candidate.
