Party of Humanists

The underlying ideology is evolutionary humanism.^[2] The core themes of the Humanist Party are science and education, the right of self-determination of the individual, and secularization.^[3] For example, the party supports the liberal and self-responsible use of drugs,^[4] supports legal voluntary euthanasia^[5][6] and is against circumcision of children.^[7] The party also supports the implementation of universal basic income.^[3]

Currently, the Party of Humanists is the only party in Germany that specifically targets non-religious people, freethinkers, and atheists as voters.^[8]

Programme

Health and science

• Compulsory health insurance should only cover evidence based medicine, not pseudomedicine such as homeopathy
• Legalization of active euthanasia under specific circumstances
• Legalization of all drugs, but only for adults and with more prevention measures such as education, drug-checking, regulated production and sale^[9]
• Openness towards new technology and impartial assessment of the harms benefits, e. g. with respect to genome editing^[10] and stem cell research
• Reduction of antibiotic use in livestock farming in order to avoid emerging resistances
• Funding for in-vitro-meat research

EU and military

• Founding of a united European Federal Republic. Today's national states shall be converted into strong sovereign regions.^[11]
• Rejection of a compulsory military service year for young adults
• Establishing a united European military

Economy

• Simplification of the tax system by eliminating exemptions as well as cutback on unnecessary subsidies
• Deregulation of shop opening hours on Sundays
• Trialing and implementation of universal basic income

Climate

• Stopping the nuclear energy phase-out in Germany and utilization of new reactor types to combat climate change

Social topics

• Legalization of surrogate motherhood
• Legalization of sex work, modeling after New Zealand
• Legalization of abortion regardless of gestation age, modeling after Canadian abortion laws

Freedom of speech and the Internet

• Repeal of upload-filters and protection of net-neutrality

Religion

• Complete separation of church and state
• Introduction of unified ethics education instead of compulsory religious education in schools^[12]
• Removing references to god from the constitution and other laws
• Prohibition of medically not-indicated religious circumcision in children unable to consent

The party emerged from a Facebook group called "Initiative Humanismus" with over 700 members. One year after the decision to establish a party, the Party of Humanists was founded on 4 October 2014 in Berlin.^[13][14] On 21 March 2017, the Party held a joint press conference along with the Pirate Party Germany, the Liberal Democrats, the New Liberals, the Transhuman Party Germany, and the youth organization of The Left to announce a "socialliberale proclamation" and better cooperation among the participating organizations.^{[15][16][17][18][19]}

The current federal executive committee of the Party of Humanists consists of eleven members:^[20]

• Lasse Schäfer (Party Leader)
• Dominic Ressel (General Secretary)
• Stephan Wiedenmann (Treasurer)
• Axel Börold
• Ole Teschke
• Sascha Klughardt
• Andreas Stirner
• Josephine Keller
• Felicitas Klings
• Jochen Sieck
• Maximilian Pindl
• Ricardo Reitz

• Offizielle Website der Partei der Humanisten (Official website of the Party German)
• Leitbild der Partei der Humanisten (Mission Statement of the Party German, English, Esperanto)
• Grundsatzprogramm der Partei der Humanisten (Principle program of the Party German)