文章阐述了德国社民党一个多世纪的发展历程，认为该党自产生之日起，就在德国政党政治中成为不可或缺的一极，该党在１９９８年选举中获胜，一跃而成为联邦议院第一大党，并与绿党组成了联邦德国有史以来第一届“红绿联盟”的联邦政府，从而可以在跨世纪的德国政党政治舞台上一展雄姿。文章还分析了社民党当前所面临的一些问题 The article expounds the development history of the German Socialist Democrats for more than a century and considers that the party has become an indispensable pole in the party politics of Germany since its birth. The party won the 1998 election and leapfrogged to become the Federal House The first major party, together with the Greens, formed the first federal federation of “Red and Green Alliance” in the history of the German Federal Republic so that it could exert its influence on the political arena of the German political parties across the century. The article also analyzes some of the issues that the Social Democratic Party currently faces