Political Attitudes (August 1956)

Attitudes to armament of the FRG and reunification as well as
evaluation of government and parties.

Topics: Satisfaction with the government of Adenauer and general
reputation of the federal chancellor as well as his significance for
the CDU; attitude to a professional army and the length of compulsory
military service; judgement on the personnel strength of the Federal
German Armed Forces and the attitude of NATO alliance partners to the
FRG; attitude to reunification (scale); personal willingness to make
sacrifices and political willingness to make concessions on the
reunification question; party preference (Sunday question); membership
in clubs, organizations and trade unions as well as offices taken on;
political interest; self-assessment of social class.

Among men: participation in the two world wars as soldier.

Demography: age (classified); sex; marital status; religious
denomination; school education; household income; state; refugee
status.

Interviewer rating: social class and willingness of respondent to
cooperate; number of contact attempts; city size.

Also encoded were age of interviewer and sex of interviewer.