Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht - Für Vernunft und Gerechtigkeit

What Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht - Für Vernunft und Gerechtigkeit does

Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht – Für Vernunft und Gerechtigkeit e.V. is a registered non-profit association (eingetragener Verein) headquartered in Karlsruhe (Lorenzstr. 29, 76135 Karlsruhe) and registered in Mannheim under VR 703822, established in 2023 to prepare for the formation of a new political party in Germany. It operates as the supporting civil-society vehicle for the Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht – Vernunft und Gerechtigkeit (BSW) party that was officially founded on January 8, 2024, and pursues a four-pillar platform of economic reason, social justice, peace, and freedom aimed at voters who feel unrepresented by Germany's established parties.

The organization runs on a 6-employee core team and finances its operations entirely through donations from supporters, processed via the Twingle fundraising platform and PayPal with a disclosed minimum contribution of 1 Euro. Its product surface is conventional: a primary content website (buendnis-sahra-wagenknecht.de), a Brevo/Sendinblue-managed newsletter, an online donation system, and official profiles on Facebook, X, YouTube, and Instagram. There is no proprietary technology; the stack is assembled from standard SaaS vendors, including PayPal for payments, Twingle for donation form and campaign analytics, and Brevo for email automation, with GDPR-compliant data processing disclosed in the public privacy policy.

The go-to-market is event- and parliamentary-driven: a Bundestag parliamentary group of ten elected representatives formed on December 12, 2023 distributes the platform through speeches, votes, and press conferences, while grassroots organizers across German states recruit supporters, stage rallies, and collect donations. Customer segments are German voters disillusioned with established parties and former DIE LINKE members and supporters, addressed through online supporter registration, donation-driven funding, and direct parliamentary representation as the primary political distribution channel.

Name

Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht - Für Vernunft und Gerechtigkeit

Legal name

BSW – Für Vernunft und Gerechtigkeit e.V.

Website

https://buendnis-sahra-wagenknecht.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

2023

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht – Für Vernunft und Gerechtigkeit e.V. is a registered German non-profit association supporting the BSW political party, serving German voters disillusioned with established parties through donations, parliamentary representation, and grassroots organizing since 2023.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Political Advocacy

NAICS

Political Organizations (81394), Political Organizations (813940)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Human Rights & Anti-Discrimination Organizations (BPAGAFAB)

akta.pro secondary industry

International & Local Implementing NGOs (HLAJAKAD)

Keywords

• Political association
• Party founding
• Political advocacy
• Civic engagement
• Parliamentary representation

Headquarters

HQ city

Karlsruhe

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Donations and Fundraising: The organization generates revenue through donations from supporters. The privacy policy mentions using Twingle GmbH as a fundraising platform for managing donations and campaigns. Donations are used to support the party founding process, election campaigns, and organizational structure building. Donation data is processed according to German Party Law (PartG) transparency requirements.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

The Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht – Für Vernunft und Gerechtigkeit e.V. is a registered German non-profit association founded to prepare the establishment of a new political party and to influence political will-formation in civil society. It operates the party's official information website, a supporter newsletter, and a donation platform, while supporting a parliamentary group of ten members in the German Bundestag advocating economic reason, social justice, peace, and freedom.

Product overview

Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht – Für Vernunft und Gerechtigkeit is a political association (eingetragener Verein) founded to support the formation of a new political party in Germany. The organization operates a public website serving as its primary communication platform, offering political information across four main themes (Economic Reason, Social Justice, Peace, Freedom), a newsletter subscription service, and an online donation/fundraising system. The portfolio consists of the main website with content management, email-based newsletter distribution, and integrated digital fundraising capabilities through third-party platforms.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht Official Website

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• Freie Wähler: German political association that successfully built a regional-to-federal party trajectory, holding seats in the Bundestag and several state parliaments. A relevant comparable for BSW as a non-traditional party that grew from local associations into national representation on a moderate, anti-establishment platform.
• Piratenpartei Deutschland: German pirate party that surged into multiple state parliaments around 2011-2012 before declining. Relevant as a cautionary comparable for BSW's expansion risks: a digitally-organized, protest-driven German party that achieved rapid early traction but failed to sustain institutional power.

Regional players

• Christlich-Soziale Union (CSU): Conservative Bavarian sister party to the CDU that operates only in one German state while retaining Bundestag seats. Comparable to BSW as a regionally-rooted political brand that nonetheless competes at the federal level, illustrating alternative paths to parliamentary relevance.

Broad incumbents

• Freie Demokratische Partei (FDP): Classical liberal German party with established Bundestag representation. Comparable as a small established party that regularly hovers near the 5% threshold and has recently exited and re-entered the Bundestag, illustrating the fragility of small-party parliamentary status that BSW now faces.
• Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD): Germany's oldest major party and traditional home of social-justice and workers'-rights politics. BSW explicitly positions itself as capturing working-class voters who feel abandoned by the SPD, making it the establishment party BSW most directly competes against for the same voter segment.
• Bündnis 90/Die Grünen: Established German party with Bundestag representation, federal and state-level organization, and decades of institutional history. Comparable as a left-of-center political organization competing for similar social-justice and progressive voters, but with vastly more resources and parliamentary power.
• Christlich Demokratische Union (CDU): Germany's largest center-right party and traditional governing force. Operates as a comparable institutional benchmark for what a sustained, professionalized German political party looks like in terms of organization, fundraising, and Bundestag presence.

Direct peers

• Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht - Vernunft und Gerechtigkeit (Partei): The official political party founded on January 8, 2024, which the association was set up to support. Strictly speaking, the party is the campaign vehicle while the e.V. is the civil-society vehicle; they are functionally one organization with two legal forms.
• Die LINKE: BSW's direct pre-split parent organization. Founded in 2007 as the merger of PDS and WASG, Die LINKE is a left-wing German party whose departure of Wagenknecht and 15 MPs in 2023 founded BSW. Same left-political space, same German political system, same electoral base.
• Alternative für Deutschland (AfD): Right-wing populist party founded in 2013 that successfully scaled from protest vehicle to major Bundestag faction. AfD is the most relevant comparable for BSW's likely trajectory: a new German party that broke into the Bundestag, cultivated a charismatic figure, and attempted to capture a protest voter niche.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/buendnis_sahraw
• YouTubeyoutube.com/@BuendnisSahraWagenknecht
• Facebookfacebook.com/BuendnisSahraWagenknecht
• Instagraminstagram.com/buendnis_sahrawagenknecht
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/b%C3%BCndnis-sahra-wagenknecht-f%C3%BCr-vernunft-und-gerechtigkeit-e-v

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

Frequently asked questions about Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht - Für Vernunft und Gerechtigkeit