Democratic Forum of Germans in Romania

Democratic Forum of Germans in Romania Romanian: Forumul Democrat al Germanilor din România German: Das Demokratische Forum der Deutschen in Rumänien/Demokratisches Forum der Deutschen in Rumänien
President	Paul-Jürgen Porr
Leader in the Chamber of Deputies	Ovidiu Victor Ganț
Managing director[a]	Benjamin Józsa
Founded	28 December 1989 (28 December 1989) in Sighișoara/Schäßburg[1]
Headquarters	Sibiu, Sibiu County, Transylvania, Romania
Membership	c. 40,000 (2004) c. 20,000[b][2]
Ideology	German minority interest Christian democracy Conservative liberalism
National affiliation	National Minorities Parliamentary Group
International affiliation	Federal Union of European Nationalities[3]
European Parliament group	EPP-ED (January–November, 2007)
Colours	Red-burgundy
Senate	0 / 136
Chamber of Deputies	1 / 330
European Parliament	0 / 33
Mayors	5 / 3,176
County Councillors	5 / 1,340
Local Council Councillors	68 / 39,900
Website
www.fdgr.ro

The Democratic Forum of Germans in Romania (German: Das Demokratische Forum der Deutschen in Rumänien or Demokratisches Forum der Deutschen in Rumänien, DFDR; Romanian: Forumul Democrat al Germanilor din România, FDGR; in short Forumul German or Das Forum) is a political party (legally recognized as an association of public utility according to the governmental decision HG 599 as per 4 June 2008) organised on ethnic criteria representing the interests of the German minority in Romania.^[4][5][6]

Initially, the FDGR/DFDR was a cultural association representing the culture of the German community in Romania, but it subsequently became a moderately successful local political party (especially amongst Romanian voters as well), most notably in parts of Transylvania (central Romania) and Banat (south-western Romania). Consequently, the counties where the FDGR/DFDR obtained the highest political scores in many local elections after 1989 are Sibiu (German: Kreis Hermannstadt) and Timiș (German: Kreis Temesch) respectively.

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