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9 unusual facts about CDU/CSU


CDU/CSU

The CSU is only organised in the German state of Bavaria and only fields candidates in elections within Bavaria (in German Bundestag and European Parliament elections, it only runs for Bavarian mandates), while the CDU correspondingly has only subsidiaries outside of Bavaria and only runs in the other 15 states.

Eduard Oswald

A member of the Christian Social Union he was nominated by the CDU/CSU parliamentary faction to succeed Gerda Hasselfeldt.

Friedrich Merz

Friedrich Merz (born 11 November 1955) is a German lawyer and politician, a former Member of the European Parliament (1989–1994), a former member of the Bundestag (1994–2009), and a former chairman of CDU/CSU parliamentary group (2000–2002).

Jens Spahn

Since the summer of 2012 Spahn is, along with twelve other CDU/CSU MPs, committed to defending tax law equality for couples registered in a civil partnership.

Michael Glos

From 1993 to 2005, he was chairman of the CSU parliamentary group and deputy chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group.

Recognition of same-sex unions in Germany

Members of the ruling coalition of Union parties and Free Democratic Party voted against the proposal while opposition parties Social Democratic Party, Greens, and The Left supported it.

Attempts to give equal rights to registered partners or to legalise marriage for same-sex couples have generally been blocked by the CDU/CSU.

CDU/CSU, the senior member party of Germany's coalition government is opposed to the legalisation of same-sex marriage.

Wolfgang von Stetten

As a member of parliament, he served on the justice committee and as CDU/CSU spokesman for several years.


1993 Atlantic hurricane season

Forecasts of hurricane activity are issued before each hurricane season by Dr. William M. Gray and his associates at Colorado State University (CSU) and the Weather Research Center (WRC).

1997 Atlantic hurricane season

Forecasts of hurricane activity are issued before each hurricane season by noted hurricane experts such as Dr. William M. Gray and his associates at Colorado State University (CSU).

Andreas Birkmann

Birkmann is a member of the city council of Gernsbach, and is Deputy Chairman of the CDU and member of the Board of the urban community of the CDU in Gernsbach.

Brandenburg state election, 2009

Entering the election, the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and Christian Democratic Union (CDU) governed together in a grand coalition headed by Minister-President Matthias Platzeck (SPD).

Buchenwald Resistance

The main members were Hermann Brill of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) as chairman, Dr. Werner Hilpert from the Zentrumspartei, later the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Ernst Thape from the SPD and Walter Wolf of the Communist Party (KPD).

Carsten Müller

As a student in 1986 Müller joined the Young Union and from 1989 to 1990 was the CDU Chairman of the Student Union in Lower Saxony.

Charles Sturt University Study Centres

Also known as the “CSU Study Centres”, they operated in conjunction with Study Group Australia.

Conrad Fink

On the 14 December Fink joined the CSU in protest against a merger between the Bayernpartei and the Zentrumspartei.

CSU Aurel Vlaicu Arad

CSU Aurel Vlaicu Arad is a Romanian semi-professional rugby union club from Arad, which will play the 2011 season in Romanian Rugby Championship, the first division of Romanian rugby.

CSU/DSU

The WIC (WAN Interface Card) may contain an integrated CSU/DSU that can be inserted into a router slot.

Customer service unit

In telecommunication, a customer service unit (CSU) is a device that provides an accessing arrangement at a user location to either switched or point-to-point, data-conditioned circuits at a specifically established data signaling rate.

Dahn

Heiner Geißler (*1930), politician (Christian Democratic Union (CDU)), had his office in Dahn

Deutsch-Arabische Gesellschaft

The president of the organisation is the Bavarian environmental minister Otto Wiesheu (CSU), who took over from the FDP politician Jürgen Möllemann in 2003.

Dirk Elbers

After the death of former Lord Mayor, Joachim Erwin, who died in office, on 2 June 2008 Elbers was a candidate for the CDU to become mayor.

Free International University

Interviews with Hans Peter Bull (SPD), Heiko Hoffmann (CDU), Gerald Häfner (Grüne), Joseph Beuys and Direkte Demokratie, das Kunstwerk Omnibus für Direkte Demokratie approx.

Gaussig House

After the property was expropriated in 1945, it was used by the Red Army and later by the CDU.

Heinrich Hellwege

Heinrich Peter Hellwege (born August 18, 1908 in Neuenkirchen; died October 4, 1991 in Neuenkirchen) was a German politician (DHP, DP and CDU).

Heinrich Pickel

He was elected chairman of the CDU district (Mayen) in 1951 and was a member of the District Board and the Landtag of Rhineland-Palatinate from 1947 to 1963.

Heinrich Windelen

He came as a refugee to West Germany following The Expulsion in 1945, and became a member of the CDU in 1946.

Hesse state election, 2009

The candidates for the office of minister-president in 2009 were the incumbent Roland Koch of the CDU; the new Hesse SPD party leader, Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel; Tarek Al-Wazir for the Greens; Jörg-Uwe Hahn for the FDP; and Willi van Ooyen for the Linke.

Jakob Kaiser

In 1947 during the Ahlen conference – a joint conference of West and East German CDU leaders – Kaiser's plan of nationalisation of key industries and other moderate leftwing ideas were adopted by the party.

James Woodward

James F. Woodward American professor of physics and history, CSU Fullerton, California, USA

Jolene Koester

In spring 2006, CSU Chancellor Charles B. Reed and the Board of Trustees completed their its second three-year performance evaluation of President Koester.

Leitkultur

Friedrich Merz, then leader of the Christian-Democratic CDU in the Bundestag wrote an article for Die Welt, rejecting multiculturalism, and advocated controls on immigration and compulsory assimilation in a German core culture.

Ludwig Scholz

Ludwig Scholz (30 June 1937 in Juliusberg, Landkreis Oels, Lower Silesia, now Dobroszyce, Oleśnica County, Poland, – 20 September 2005 in Nuremberg, Bavaria) was a German politician of the CSU and the mayor of Nuremberg.

Manfred Christ

Christ joined the CSU in 1958 and was a member of the Young Union from 1958 to 1976, also serving on its local executive committees.

Network Italy

In January 1994 its members joined the Italian People's Party (PPI) and, a year later, they founded the United Christian Democrats (CDU), along with Rocco Buttiglione.

North Rhine-Westphalia state election, 1990

The CDU chose Norbert Blüm, federal minister for labour and social affairs, as their candidate for the office of Minister-President because due to an absence of 24 years from power at that time, the party lacked charismatic leaders on the state level.

Notizen aus der Provinz

Like Hildebrandt's later program, Scheibenwischer, the Notizen were frequently attacked by conservative politicians, most notably by those of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria (CSU) and the Christian Democratic Union which served only to increase its popularity.

Ole Schröder

Ole Schröder (born 27 August 1971 in Rellingen) is a German politician and member of the CDU.

Peter Harry Carstensen

Carstensen was the CDU's candidate for premier of Schleswig-Holstein in the state election of 20 February 2005, but the coalition of the CDU and the Free Democratic Party (FDP) failed to obtain a majority by some 700 votes.

Popetown

Edmund Stoiber, leader of the CSU, also demanded more severe punishments for slander of religious feelings.

Prostitution in Germany

In 2003, German CDU politician Michel Friedman, popular TV talk show host and then assistant chairman of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, became embroiled in an investigation of trafficking women.

Rhineland-Palatinate state election, 2006

The SPD was expected to profit from the personality of Kurt Beck, while the CDU ran again with their leader Christoph Böhr, who had already lost the 2001 election.

Roger Asmussen

From 1974 to 1987 he was CDU regional chairman in Dithmarschen.

Smoking ban

After this restriction was criticized as being "too harsh" by some members of the governing party CSU, it was relaxed one year later.

Smoking in Germany

Nevertheless, discontent against the new rules was blamed for the disappointing electoral results of the long-time leading party - CSU - in the 2008 election.

Tommie Hill

In 2008 Hill was one of two defensive team captains, who finished his CSU career by earning New Mexico Bowl Defensive Player of the Game, started all 13 contests at his familiar right defensive end position and made 30 tackles (14 solo) and three sacks, five tackles for loss, two interceptions, two more passes broken up, one fumble recovery and a blocked kick.

Vettweiß

14 seats in the local parliament are held by the CDU (Christian Democratic Union), 7 are held by the BI (local citizens' initiative), 4 by the SPD (Social Democrats) and one each by the FDP (Free Liberals) and the Greens.

Werner Münch

Dr. Werner Münch (born 25 September 1940 in Bottrop, Province of Westphalia) is a German politician (CDU).

William M. Gray

After the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, Gray announced that he was stepping back from the primary authorship of CSU's tropical cyclone probability forecasts, passing the role to Philip J. Klotzbach.

Wolfgang Böhmer

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Böhmer (born 27 January 1936 in Dürrhennersdorf, Upper Lusatia) is a German politician (CDU) and former Minister-President of Saxony-Anhalt from 16 May 2002 to 19 April 2011.


see also

History of Germany since 1990

In 2002, Edmund Stoiber was the candidate for Chancellor for the CDU/CSU, the first time a CSU politician was chancellor candidate since the candidacy of Franz Josef Strauss in 1980.

Ronald Pofalla

In September 2011 he seriously insulted Wolfgang Bosbach, senior group leader of the CDU/CSU-group in the Bundestag after an in-house discussion about the enhancement of the European Financial Stability Facility.

From 2004 to 2005 he was deputy chairman of the CDU/CSU's parliamentary group in the Bundestag, and served as the Secretary General of the CDU from 2005 to 2009, when he was appointed to cabinet, succeeding Thomas de Maizière as Chief of Staff.