Social Democratic Party of Germany (1990: Two Germanies)

The Social Democratic Party of Germany (German: Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands, SPD) is a West German Social Democratic political party founded in 1863, the oldest still remaining political party in the country. The party was founded as a socialist party, under the Bismarck era.

The party have since then become more moderate, mostly dropping socialism for social democracy. But as the main left-wing party in West Germany, often the only such party in the Bundestag, and how the election system in Germany is, it have developed factions.

In the post-war era, the SPD was for the most part the second biggest party, under the CDU. But with the failure to unite East and West Germany laying on the christian democrats, it allowed SPD to come into a dominating position through the 1990s and 2000s.

Current leader, Olaf Scholz are the current Chancellor of Germany, and succeeded former leader Gerhard Schröder in 2010.