CDU Bremen

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CDU Bremen
CDU LV Bremen.svg
Chairman Carsten Meyer-Heder
Deputy Yvonne Averwerser
Jens Eckhoff
Peter Skusa
Treasurer Berend Jürgen Erling
executive Director Heiko Strohmann
Honorary Chairman Bernd Neumann
Establishment date 1946
Place of foundation Bremen
Headquarters Am Wall 135
28195 Bremen
Landtag mandates
24/84
Number of members 2101 (as of November 2019)
Website www.cdu-bremen.de

The CDU Bremen is the regional association of the CDU in Bremen . It had around 2,300 members at the end of 2016.

organization

The regional association of Bremen is divided into the three district associations Bremen -Stadt, Bremen-Nord and Bremerhaven. There are 20 city district and 14 local associations.

Apron organizations

There are a number of organizations that are close to the CDU Bremen and also organize events here:

program

The current election manifesto of the CDU Bremen was adopted on February 23, 2015.

State chairman

Carsten Meyer-Heder (2019)
Years Chairman
1946-1947 Johann Hardly
1947-1951 Emil Rex
1951-1952 Martin-Heinrich Wilkens
1952-1954 Heinrich Barth
1954-1968 Jules Eberhard Noltenius
1968-1974 Ernst Müller-Hermann
1974-1979 Uwe Hollweg
1979-2008 Bernd Neumann
2008-2011 Thomas Röwekamp
2011–2012 Rita Mohr-Lüllmann
2012-2019 Jörg Kastendiek
since 2019 Carsten Meyer-Heder

Bremen citizenship

CDU member of the Bremen citizenship

CDU election results

The names of the elected representatives are included in the lists of legislative terms.

Results of the state elections
year be right Seats Lists
1946 18.9% 12 1st WP.
1947 22.0% 24 2nd WP.
1951 9.0% 9 3rd WP.
1955 18.0% 18th 4th WP.
1959 14.8% 16 5th WP.
1963 28.9% 31 6th WP.
1967 29.5% 32 7th WP.
1971 31.6% 34 8th WP.
1975 33.8% 35 9th WP.
1979 31.9% 33 10th WP.
1983 33.3% 37 11th WP.
1987 23.4% 25th 12th WP.
1991 30.7% 32 13th WP.
1995 32.6% 37 14th WP.
1999 37.1% 42 15th WP.
2003 29.8% 29 16th WP.
2007 25.7% 23 17th WP.
2011 20.1% 20th 18th WP.
2015 22.4% 20th 19th WP.
2019 26.7% 24 20th WP.

Group leaders

The current CDU parliamentary group leader in the Bremen citizenship, Thomas Röwekamp
Years Chairman
1946-1947 Ernst Degenhardt
1947-1949 Johannes Degener
1949-1951 Ernst Müller-Hermann
1952-1955 Johannes Kühne
1955-1957 Rudolf Rübberdt
1957-1959 Friedrich Carl Marwede
1959-1963 Karl Krammig
1963-1971 Hans-Hermann Sieling
1971-1975 Günter Klein
1973-1987 Bernd Neumann
1987-1989 Reinhard Metz
1989-1995 Peter Kudella
1995-1999 Ronald-Mike Neumeyer
1999-2003 Jens Eckhoff
2003-2005 Jörg Kastendiek
2005-2007 Hartmut Perschau
since 2007 Thomas Röwekamp

Bundestag

Bernd Neumann (2008), former member of the Bundestag and honorary chairman

The Bremen CDU MPs in the German Bundestag have always been elected via the state list since 1949:

Johannes Degener (1951–1952), Ernst Müller-Hermann (1952–1980), Karl Krammig (1953–1961 and 1965–1972), Reinhard Metz (1976–1987), Wolfgang Hinrichs (1983–1987), Bernd Neumann (1987 –2013), Günter Klein (1990–1994), Michael Teiser (1994–1998), Elisabeth Charlotte Motschmann (since 2013), Bettina Hornhues (2013–2017)

history

Foundation phase

On November 17, 1945, the Christian Democratic Party Wesermünde , later CDU Bremerhaven, was founded.

On June 26, 1946, the US military governor authorizes the establishment of the CDU regional association. The first state chairman was Johann Kaum, who was also CDU chairman of Bremen until 1949. The Bremen headquarters of the CDU was at Werrastrasse No. 10 (according to another source No. 9). Founding members of the Bremen Democratic People's Party (BDV), which existed at the end of 1945 , also joined the CDU. The number of members of the CDU was to reach that of the BDV a few months later. From 1946 to 1948, Ernst Müller-Hermann was regional manager of the CDU.

The young generation of the CDU, later the Junge Union , published a bulletin from the Action Committee for CDU members up to 35 years of age on November 28, 1946 .

Citizenship

In 1946, in the first election for citizenship (Landtag, only Bremen, 1st electoral period ), the CDU received 12 seats with 18.8% of the vote. Ernst Degenhardt was the first CDU parliamentary group leader.

In 1947, the CDU was unable to assert itself in the citizenry by proposing an equal coexistence of community and denominational schools and the introduction of Protestant and Catholic religious instruction as a regular compulsory subject in state schools. In 1947, the CDU advertised on posters with the slogan: "Rejects this denazification system of snooping, denouncing and terror as reactionary and undemocratic and choosing CDU list 2".

The CDU was initially able to increase its share of the vote to 19 and 22%, respectively, but suffered the worst election result in 1951 with only 9.1% and 9 seats. After that, the CDU gained 18% and 15% of the vote to reach around 29% in 1963. In 1975 it achieved around 34% and in 1999 the best result with 37% and 42 mandates. Thereafter, the proportion of votes fell significantly to 20.4% and 20 mandates in 2011 with a slight increase in 2015 (22.4%, 20 mandates).

The members of parliament who have represented the CDU for 20 and more years include Ralf Bergen , Klaus Bürger , Reinhard Ehlers , Wolfgang Erfurth , Wilhelm Filzen , Rudolf Gaßdorf , Marianne Hänecke , Paul Jackisch , Günter Klein , Peter Kudella , Elisabeth Motschmann , Helmut Pflugradt , Bernd Ravens , Wolfgang Schrörs , Wedige von der Schulenburg , Bernt Schulte , Heinrich Schumacher , Hans-Hermann Sieling , Georg Urban and J. Henry Wilhelms .

For the 2019 general election, the Bremen CDU nominated Carsten Meyer-Heder, a top candidate who only joined the CDU after the intended candidacy was announced.

Bundestag elections

In the first federal election in 1949 , the Bremen CDU received 16.9% of the votes in the Bundestag and won a mandate that Johannes Degener occupied until the end of 1951; he was followed until 1980 by the parliamentary group leader of the CDU parliamentary group Ernst Müller-Hermann .

senate

From 1951 to 1955, the CDU was represented for the first time in Senate Kaisen IV with Senators Johannes Degener (until 1952), Martin-Heinrich Wilkens (until 1952) and Helmut Yström . From 1955 to 1959 Jules Eberhard Noltenius was Deputy President of the Senate, Mayor and Senator for Ports, Shipping and Transport in the Kaisen V Senate . Erich Zander , Johannes Degener (until 1958) and Karl Krammig (from 1958) were the other senators. Only from 1995 to 2007 ( Senate Scherf I , Senate Scherf II , Senate Scherf III , Senate Böhrnsen I ) was the CDU with the mayors Ulrich Nölle (1995–1997), Hartmut Perschau (1997–2004) and Thomas Röwekamp (until 2007) as well as senators and other members of the Senate again represented in the Senate.

European Parliament

In the first elections to the European Parliament in 1979, the CDU Bremen received around 33% of the vote. Ernst Müller-Hermann was a member of the 1st European Parliament from 1979 to 1984 .

Special personalities

Karl Carstens from Bremen had been a member of the CDU since 1955. He previously worked for Mayor and Justice Senator Theodor Spitta (BDV / FDP) from 1945 to 1947, and from 1949 to 1954 legal advisor to the Bremen Senate and as Bremen State Councilor and representative of Bremen at the federal level. Carstens was Federal President of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1979 to 1984 .

Bernd Neumann , state chairman of the Junge Union from 1967 to 1973, was state chairman of the CDU Bremen from 1979 to 2008 and thus the longest-serving state chairman of the CDU nationwide. He became Parliamentary State Secretary in 1991 and State Minister in the Federal Chancellery in 2005 and Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media . He has been honorary chairman of the CDU Bremen since 2008.

literature

  • Bastian Bullwinkel: The Bremen CDU . In: Lothar Probst (Ed.): Political institutions, parties and elections in the state of Bremen (= politics and participation . Vol. 5). Lit, Berlin a. a. 2011, ISBN 978-3-643-11145-6 , pp. 55-58.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ How the Bremen parties grew and shrunk in 2019. January 6, 2020, accessed January 7, 2020 .
  2. ^ Website of the KAS.
  3. ↑ Bremen CDU adopts election program ( Memento from March 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ).
  4. ↑ Harry Gabcke , Renate Gabcke, Herbert Körtge, Manfred Ernst: Bremerhaven in two centuries. Volume 2: From 1919 to 1947. Nordwestdeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, Bremerhaven 1989/1991, ISBN 3-927857-37-8 , p. 139.
  5. ^ Karl Marten Barfuß, Hartmut Müller, Daniel Tilgner (eds.): History of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen from 1945 to 2005. Volume 1: 1945-1969. Edition Temmen , Bremen 2008, ISBN 978-3-86108-575-1 , p. 28.
  6. ^ Karl Marten Barfuß, Hartmut Müller, Daniel Tilgner (eds.): History of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen from 1945 to 2005. Volume 1: 1945-1969. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2008, ISBN 978-3-86108-575-1 , p. 29.
  7. ^ Karl Marten Barfuß, Hartmut Müller, Daniel Tilgner (eds.): History of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen from 1945 to 2005. Volume 1: 1945-1969. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2008, ISBN 978-3-86108-575-1 , p. 41.
  8. ^ Karl Marten Barfuß, Hartmut Müller, Daniel Tilgner (eds.): History of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen from 1945 to 2005. Volume 1: 1945-1969. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2008, ISBN 978-3-86108-575-1 , p. 68.
  9. ↑ Top candidate Meyer-Heder leads CDU in the state election in Buten un within May 26, 2018