Free Democratic Party (West Germany) (1990: Two Germanies)

The Free Democratic Party (German: Freie Demokratische Partei, FDP) is a West German Liberal political party founded in 1948. The party was mainly formed out of members from the Weimar era parties, the social-liberal German Democratic Party and the national-liberal German People's Party.

Through the post-war era, the FDP have played the role as the main third-party, after the CDU and the SPD. It have collaborated with both parties, but mostly with the CDU. The 1980s and 1990s would see the Greens and the Republicans gain representation in the Bundestag, making the FDP one of many third-parties.

The party's ideology is officially liberalism, with a focus on a conservative and economic liberalism. Economically, it is more right-wing than the CDU, but between the CDU and SPD on social issues.

Current leader of the FDP are Christian Lindner.