No Chancellor has ever come from the CSU, although Franz Josef Strauss and Edmund Stoiber were CDU / CSU candidates for Chancellor in the 1980 election and the 2002 election, respectively, which were both won by the SPD.

Adenauer's leading role in the CDU of the British zone won him a position at the Parliamentary Council of 1948, called into existence by the Western Allies to draft a constitution for the three western zones of Germany.

By the time the first national elections were held in the Federal Republic in 1949, Kiesinger had joined the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ) and won a seat in the Bundestag, the West German parliament.

The CDU / CSU won 48. 8 %, while the FDP won 7. 0 %.

On 18 March 1990, the PDS lost significant influence in the first free elections in GDR history ; the Alliance for Germany coalition, led by the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ), won the election.

The last election was held on March 26, 2006 and both ridings were won by the CDU: Dr. Stefan Scheffold ( Schwäbisch Gmünd ) and Winfried Mack ( Aalen ).

Free and secret communal ( local ) elections were held in the GDR on 6 May, and the CDU again won most of the available seats.

Although Schumacher's SPD won the most seats of any single party in the election ( though the CDU and its sister party, the CSU, together won more seats ), the CDU was able to form a coalition government with the Free Democratic Party, the Christian Social Union, and the German Party, and Adenauer was voted Chancellor.

The first free elections in West Germany were held in 1949, which were won by the Christian Democratic Party of Germany ( CDU ) ( conservatives ) by a slight margin.

The Alliance won the most votes in the election, winning 48. 2 % of votes cast ( CDU 40. 9 %; DSU 6. 3 %; DA 0. 9 %), and would control 192 of 400 seats in the Volkskammer.

Peter Brüser, a CDU member and also formerly that party ’ s candidate, won in the municipal election as an independent by a great margin over CDU candidate Antonius Halbe.

The opposition in the Hessian state government claimed that these funds were used in particular for the financing of Roland Koch's electoral campaign ( CDU Prime Minister of Hesse ), and tried to have the election ( which he won ) voided ; this attempt failed, however.

Since 2003 the CDU had won more and more states, whereas the SPD suffered a string of heavy defeats.

Since 1990, the CDU has been in government in the Saxon Landtag and has usually won most of the votes.

After CDU and FDP won a majority of seats in the election on 22 May 2005, they formed a coalition to take over government from the former SPD and Green party coalition led by Peer Steinbrück.

He was accused by many in the CDU / CSU of offering " half-hearted " support to Angela Merkel, with some even accusing him of being reluctant to support a female candidate from the East.

Although the GAL had to agree to the deepening of the Elbe River, the construction of a new coal-fired power station and two road projects they had opposed, they also received some significant concessions from the CDU.

The conservative CDU opposition party in the Bundestag refused the Basic Treaty because they thought that the government gave away some Federal positions too easily.

His campaign help for the Christian Democratic Union of Germany ( CDU ) prompted some of his former comrades to call him a Wryneck ( German term: Wendehals ; a bird that can turn its head 180 degrees ; popular term used to mock Communists who have turned capitalist ).

In a Parliament debate some days later, Jürgen Gehb, CDU Speaker for law politics, said that " we will try to continue working with you, but with minimal contact to your backside ".

After the election Mettbach and most of the other members left the party, some of them joining the CDU.

Others, like Nooke, who left some time later, resented the growing cooperation with Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ) of East Germany, which had formerly been a party in the socialist dominated democratic block of parties and mass organisations and had supported the totalitarian regime.

The growth of the Party throughout the country allowed many members to integrate the electoral lists of the CDU, some being elected to very different tasks.

In December 2003, the Bundesrat, dominated by the opposition CDU party, blocked some of the reforms on political grounds until several compromises were reached, many of which put a particularly painful twist-for those affected, for example the unemployed or the ill-on the measures taken.

The rest were divided between those ( some two-fifths of respondents ) who thought that only people ‘ who really committed something ’ were responsible and should pay, and those ( 21 percent ) who thought ‘ that the Jews themselves were partly responsible for what happened to them during the Third Reich .’ When the restitution agreement was debated in the Bundestag on March 18th 1953, the Communists voted against, the Free Democrats abstained and both the Christian Social Union and Adenauer ’ s own CDU were divided, with many voting against any Wiedergutmachung ( reparations ).

Previous to the election, some analysts had predicted that a CDU victory might result from disenchanted SPD voters staying home, but the turnout figures appear to reject this scenario.

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.

The l, eader of the parliamentary group within CDU / CSU for expelled, relocated and German minorities, Klaus Brähmig, believes that research on Wolf children should be intensified: " The president gives an important sign of solidarity by meeting Wolf children, whose fate is not well known in Germany.

Unlike the CDU, the Liberal Democratic Party was firmly for private ownership and opposed to nationalization of important private enterprises.

" Chancellor Angela Merkel nominated Baden-Wuerttemberg ( BW ) Minister President Guenther Oettinger as EU Energy Commissioner primarily to remove an unloved lame duck from an important CDU bastion.

It operates only in the state of Bavaria, while its larger sister party, the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ), operates in the other 15 states of Germany.

He enjoys considerably more support in his home state of Bavaria than in the rest of Germany, where CDU chairwoman Angela Merkel is more popular.

In April 2008, following the 2008 Hamburg state election, the Green-Alternative List ( GAL ) in Hamburg entered into a coalition with the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ), the first such state-level coalition in Germany.

After negotiations, the Saarland Greens rejected the option of a left-wing ' red-red-green ' coalition with the SPD and The Left ( Die Linke ) in order to form a centre-right state government with the CDU and Free Democratic Party ( FDP ), a historical first time that a Jamaica coalition has formed in German politics.

In June 2010, in the first state election following the victory of the CDU / CSU and FDP in the 2009 federal election, the " black-yellow " CDU-FDP coalition in North Rhine-Westphalia under Jürgen Rüttgers lost its majority.

Many of Brandt's reforms met with resistance from state governments ( dominated by CDU / CSU ).

In addition to citing various human rights violations, the CDU also believes that Turkey's unwillingness to recognise Cyprus as an independent, sovereign state contradicts the EU policy that its members must recognise the existence of one another.

In 2005 early elections were called after the CDU dealt the governing SPD a major blow, winning more than ten state elections, most of which were landslide victories.

In 1973, when Kohl became chair of the national CDU, Vogel succeeded him as state party chair in Rhineland-Palatinate.

A member of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany ( CDU ), she was president of the People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic from April to October 1990 and as such the last head of state.

However, he unexpectedly lost the state elections in February 1999 to Roland Koch's CDU and lost his office.

* Kurt Biedenkopf in the CDU parliamentary group in the state parliament of Saxony

In the state elections in 1999, the CDU began collecting signatures to document the resistance in the population to plans of the federal government to make dual citizenship easier for foreigners to obtain.

In June 2011, the Senate of Hamburg, following CDU losses in state elections around the country, also announced its intention to introduce a same-sex marriage bill in the Bundesrat, the federal representation of the German states.

* Sabine Bergmann-Pohl ( CDU ), 1990-1991, last East German head of state

After the federal CDU scandal came to light, the state CDU party of Hesse's involvement became known.

From 1971 until 1989, he was chairman of the CDU in the state of Schleswig-Holstein.

During that time, Götting came to hold a number of influential positions within the East German state: from 1949 to 1963, he served as the Chairman of the CDU faction in the People's Chamber ; from 1958 to 1963 as Deputy Prime Minister of the GDR ; and from 1963 to November 1989 Götting served as Deputy Chairman of the Council of State, a position equivalent in rank to the vice-presidency of the GDR.

Seat results -- SPD in red, CDU in black, Greens in green, FDP in yellowThe Hessen state election, 2003, was conducted on February 2, 2003, to elect members to the Landtag ( state legislature ) of Hessen.

Here he was party spokesperson for economic issues from 1990 to 1999, deputy leader from 1997 to 1999 and leader of the CDU in the state parliament from February 23, 1999 to June 2, 2000.

In 2009 Henning Otte ( CDU ) was directly elected, having been on the state list ( place 19 ) since 2005.