CDU Hamburg

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CDU Hamburg
CDU LV Hamburg.svg
Chairman Roland Heintze
Deputy Christoph de Vries
Anke Frieling
Natalie Hochheim
Christoph Ploß
Treasurer Peter Wenzel
executive Director Oliver Thiel
Honorary Chairwoman Franz Beyrich
Erik Blumenfeld
Dirk Fischer
Establishment date October 1, 1945 (as CDP)
Place of foundation Hamburg
Headquarters Leinpfad 74
22299 Hamburg
Landtag mandates
15/123
Number of members 6,979 (as of end of 2016)
Website cduhamburg.de

The CDU Hamburg is the regional association of the CDU in Hamburg . In 1946, 1953 to 1957 and 2001 to 2011, the party provided the First Mayor and thus the head of government and city of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. The regional association has around 7,000 members (as of the end of 2016) with almost 40 percent women (as of March 2016) and has been in opposition again since 2011 .

History of the regional association

Founding time

On August 14, 1945 the "Working Group of Christian Democratic Groups" was founded in Hamburg. Later they chose the self-designation “Christian Democratic Party” (CDP). Franz Beyrich was appointed first chairman. With Rudolf Petersen , who joined the CDU on June 26, 1946, the party provided a Hamburg mayor for the first time.

First opposition period (1946–1949)

In the general election in Hamburg in 1946 , the CDU was the second strongest force behind the SPD with 26.7% . Because of the majority voting rights in Hamburg at the time , the CDU only received 16 of the 110 seats, while the SPD achieved a three-quarters majority of the seats. Mayor was Max Brauer (SPD). Since the coalition negotiations with the state SPD failed, the Christian Democrats went into the opposition.

Period of electoral alliances (1949–1957)

After initial disputes with the FDP , the replacement of the SPD-led government in 1949 was the common goal of Christian Democrats and Liberals . For example, the CDU and FDP, together with the DKP-DRP, ran for the 1949 state elections as the Father City Association of Hamburg (VBH). Even before the election, a common parliamentary group was formed. After the general election that took place in the same year, in which a combination of majority and proportional representation was used, a joint parliamentary group was to be formed again, but the allies were unable to agree on this. Four years later, the CDU and FDP, together with the German Party (DP) and the Federation of Expellees and Disenfranchised (BHE) , competed as the Hamburg bloc in the mayor elections , in which the Hamburg bloc succeeded in gaining an absolute majority in the Hamburg bourgeoisie to achieve. Kurt Sieveking (CDU) subsequently became head of government in Hamburg . In 1956, the SPD and DP agreed on a constructive vote of no confidence in Mayor Sieveking, but this failed because the agreements between the SPD and DP were not kept.

44 years of opposition (1957-2001)

In the Hamburg state election in 1957 , which was a pure proportional representation, the CDU and FDP again ran their own lists . With 32.2% of the vote, however, the Christian Democrats were again only able to provide the second strongest state parliament representation behind the Social Democrats . The FDP also entered into a social-liberal coalition , which again pushed the CDU into the opposition role. The previous First Mayor, Kurt Sieveking, took over the chairmanship of the parliamentary group and came up again four years later as the top candidate of his party.

In the following township elections in 1961 , 1966 and 1970 , 1974 and 1978 , with the exception of 1974, the SPD achieved an absolute majority and, despite this fact, temporarily formed a coalition with the FDP. For these reasons, it was not possible for the CDU to obtain government participation during this time.

Walther Leisler Kiep (1981)

It was not until June 1982 that the CDU with top candidate Walther Leisler Kiep was able to overtake the SPD independently in terms of votes and seats in a state election in Hamburg. However, because neither a grand coalition nor a tolerance of a single SPD government through the Green Alternative List Hamburg came about, a new election was called for December 1982 , from which the Christian Democrats emerged weakened, while the Social Democrats were able to win an absolute majority again. A comparable situation occurred in the state elections in 1986 and the new election a year later. At the end of the 1980s, the CDU in Hamburg had around 14,000 members.

In the 1993 general election , the Hamburg CDU suffered its worst result in the city-state to date. 80 days before the election, the Statt party was founded by former CDU members, among others, and was elected to the citizenry. In the same year Ole von Beust took over the chairmanship of the parliamentary group. In 1997 he joined his party's top candidate. Beust succeeded in increasing his party's result to 30.7%, but the Christian Democrats had to remain in the opposition, while the SPD politician Ortwin Runde formed a red-green coalition in Hamburg for the first time .

State government under Ole von Beust (2001-2010) and Christoph Ahlhaus (2010-2011)

When neither a red-green nor a black-yellow majority came about in the Hamburg state elections in 2001 , Ole von Beust formed a civic bloc coalition with the FDP and the right-wing Conservative Rule of Law Party , which was the first to run for the citizenship election with Ronald Schill as the top candidate and won 19.4% of the vote straight away. While Beust became head of government, Schill took over the duties of the second mayor and the justice senator. When Beust decided in August 2003 to dismiss Schill's Interior Councilor Walter Wellinghausen for illegal sideline activities, Schill accused the head of government of having a sexual relationship with Justice Senator Roger Kusch and threatened him with an end to the coalition. Schill was then dismissed as interior senator. As a result, the civic bloc coalition broke and new elections were held.

Beust emerged from the state elections in Hamburg in 2004 much stronger. The state CDU led by him achieved an increase of 21 percentage points and achieved an absolute majority in the mandate, while the former coalition partners FDP and the Rule of Law Offensive party failed to meet the five percent hurdle with 2.8% and 0.4% respectively . Schill, who now, with the support of the right-wing populist party Pro Deutsche Mitte - Initiative Pro D-Mark, tried to recapture citizenship, failed. During the following legislative period, Ole von Beust led a single CDU government .

Ole von Beust as First Mayor of Hamburg (2008)

In the 2008 general election , the CDU lost an absolute majority, but remained the strongest parliamentary group. The FDP missed the citizenship. However, since there was no red-green majority and the leading candidate of the SPD, Michael Naumann , rejected a grand coalition as well as a toleration of a red-green minority government by the left , the CDU agreed with the GAL on the formation of the first black -Green coalition at the state level. The new coalition suffered an initial ordeal when the GAL Senator for Urban Development and the Environment, Anja Hajduk , had to approve the construction of the Moorburg coal-fired power plant, contrary to the beliefs of the Green Party. After the lost referendum against the primary school reform , von Beust announced his resignation from the office of First Mayor of Hamburg on August 25, 2010.

The successor to the long-standing Hamburg Senate President was the previous Interior Senator, Christoph Ahlhaus , who initially relied on a black-green majority. In November 2010 the Greens in Hamburg declared the government alliance with the CDU to be over. From then on, Ahlhaus led a minority government.

Opposition since 2011

State election 2011

In the early state elections in 2011 , Ahlhaus had to admit defeat to its challenger Olaf Scholz (SPD), as the CDU almost halved its result from 2008 and achieved its worst result of all time, while the Social Democrats achieved the absolute majority of the citizenship seats. After the election defeat, the then head of the country, Frank Schira, also announced his resignation. In 2011 he was followed by Marcus Weinberg .

Citizenship election 2015

The top candidate for the 2015 mayor election was parliamentary group leader Dietrich Wersich . With 15.9% of the state vote lists, the CDU sank to a new historical low and thus has 20 of 121 members of the 21st Hamburg parliament . The CDU won at least one direct mandate in all 17 constituencies and two in the Alstertal-Walddörfer constituency . As in the 2011 state election, the strongholds of the CDU remain in the constituencies of Alstertal-Walddörfer, Süderelbe and Bergedorf . After the general election, Weinberg announced that he would make his office available as state chairman. On March 31, 2015, Roland Heintze was elected as his successor.

Citizenship election 2020

In the 2020 citizenship election, the CDU lost around a third of its share of the vote and, with 11.2%, had to accept its second-worst result in a state election since the party was founded and the worst in 68 years - at that time 9.0% in the citizenship elections in Bremen in 1951 . Also their current top candidate, the CDU member of the Bundestag Marcus Weinberg , the former top candidate Dietrich Wersich, the state chairman Roland Heintze and JU boss Philipp Heissner missed the entry into the citizenship, as 15 CDU direct mandates were won in the constituencies and the party - according to national votes - a total of only 15 seats.

Chair of the regional association

The former chairman of the regional association Dietrich Rollmann (1973)
The then chairman of the regional association Jürgen Echternach (1978)
Years Chairman
October 1945 – November 1945 Franz Beyrich
1945 Johannes Speckbötel
1945-1946 Otto Wilhelm Wendt
1946-1948 Max Ketels
1948-1954 Hugo Scharnberg
1954-1956 Joseph of Fisenne
1956-1958 Hugo Scharnberg
1958-1968 Erik Blumenfeld
1968-1973 Dietrich Rollmann
1974-1992 Jürgen Echternach
1992-2007 Dirk Fischer
2007-2010 Michael Freytag
2010-2011 Frank Schira
2010-2015 Marcus Weinberg
since 2015 Roland Heintze

Citizenship Group

Previous group chairmen

Former parliamentary group leader Erik Blumenfeld (left) at a reception for parliamentarians from Vietnam (1968)
Years Chairman
October 1946 – early 1949 Walther Fischer
September 27, 1949-1949 Paul de Chapeaurouge 1
1949-1955 Erik Blumenfeld 2
1955-1957 Wilhelm Güssefeld 3
1957-1962 Kurt Sieveking
1962-1970 Wilhelm Witten
1970-1980 Jürgen Echternach
1980-1989 Hartmut Perschau
1989-1993 Rolf Kruse
1993-2001 Ole von Beust
2001-2004 Michael Freytag
2004-2008 Bernd Reinert
2008-2011 Frank Schira
2011-2015 Dietrich Wersich
2015-2020 André Trepoll
since 2020 Dennis Thering

1) Group leader of the Father City Association of Hamburg (VBH)

2) From 1953 to 1955 as parliamentary group leader of the Hamburg block (HB)

3) Group leader of the Hamburg block (HB)

Parliamentary group

Dennis Thering in the courtyard of Hamburg City Hall 2017
Dennis Thering 2017

The board of the CDU parliamentary group in Hamburg's citizenship consists of 8 people:

Other MPs

Stephan A. Gamm , Eckard H. Graage , Andreas Greuteck , Sandro cap , Ralf Niedmers , Birgit Stöver

Results of the citizenship elections

Citizenship election results
in percent
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
Results of the citizenship elections
year be right Seats
1946 26.7% 16
1949 1 -, - 22nd
1953 2 -, - 36
1957 32.2% 41
1961 29.1% 36
1966 30.0% 38
1970 32.8% 41
1974 40.6% 51
1978 37.6% 51
1982 (June) 43.2% 56
1982 (December) 38.6% 48
1986 41.9% 54
1987 40.5% 49
1991 35.1% 44
1993 25.1% 36
1997 30.7% 46
2001 26.2% 33
2004 47.2% 63
2008 42.6% 56
2011 21.9% 28
2015 15.9% 20th
2020 11.2% 15th

1) as part of the Father City Association of Hamburg (VBH), which received 34.5% of the vote and 40 seats.
2) as part of the Hamburg block (HB), which received 50.0% of the vote and 62 seats.

Results in the federal election

Bundestag election results
in percent
35%
30%
25%
20%
15%
10%
5%
0%
Bundestag election results
year Number of votes Share of votes Seats
1949 178,786 19.7% 3
1953 389.335 36.7% 7th
1957 432,262 37.4% 7th
1961 380,613 31.9% 6th
1965 446.133 37.6% 7th
1969 397.246 34.0% 6th
1972 411,974 33.3% 5
1976 418.994 35.9% 5
1980 345.005 31.2% 4th
1983 414.055 37.6% 5
1987 388,517 37.4% 5
1990 359,333 36.6% 6th
1994 343,398 34.9% 5
1998 291,756 30.0% 4th
2002 270,318 28.1% 4th
2005 272,418 28.9% 3
2009 246,667 27.8% 4th
2013 285 927 32.1% 5
2017 266,312 27.2% 4th

Member of the CDU Hamburg in the Bundestag

Rudiger Kruse

The regional association of the CDU in Hamburg is currently represented by four members in the German Bundestag .

In December 2016, the creation of the state list for the 2017 federal election caused a sensation: Herlind Gundelach lost a fight candidate for third place against former member of the city council Christoph de Vries and was elected to fifth place. She is the only woman on the promising places. The occupation caused great criticism from the Women's Union and political opponents.

First mayor of Hamburg with party membership in the CDU

The following politicians were members of the CDU in the position of First Mayor of Hamburg.

Hamburg Citizen Prize

The Hamburg CDU has been awarding the Hamburg Citizens' Prize since 1982 to honor role models of human and democratic behavior and common sense in the Federal Republic of Germany . Peter von Zahn was co-founder of the award . A main prize, a recognition prize and, since the 21st century, the Peter von Zahn Memorial Prize are awarded. The award is donated by the members of the CDU Hamburg in the European Parliament and the German Bundestag , in the Hamburg citizenship and in the district assemblies . It is endowed with 1,500 euros. A jury , which until 2002 also included Lutz Mohaupt , decides on the award of the prize . In the past, key speakers at the award ceremony included Peter-Harry Carstensen , Helmut Kohl , Norbert Lammert , Karl Cardinal Lehmann and Angela Merkel as well as Günther Oettinger . In 2013 the Hamburg Citizens' Prize was awarded for the 25th time. The keynote speaker in April 2013 was Peter Altmaier . In October 2014, Dagmar Schipanski gave the keynote address at the award ceremony. Jens Spahn followed her as the keynote speaker at the end of September 2016 . The keynote speaker in November 2018 was Ralph Brinkhaus .

Individual evidence

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  4. Civic Alliances With Moderate Success Article in Die Welt (September 25, 2001)
  5. 1956 Adenauer saved the bourgeois senate in Die Welt (September 4, 2003)
  6. ^ Beust, Ole von (Carl-Friedrich Arp Ole Freiherr von Beust) , article of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung
  7. In the future at eye level? , on neue-deutschland.de on February 14, 2011
  8. Hamburg CDU relies on FDP and Schill , rp-online.de
  9. Mayor von Beust dismisses Roland Schill , faz.net
  10. Von Beust dismisses Senator for the Interior Schill , abendblatt.de
  11. ^ Naumann rejects the grand coalition in Hamburg , on Spiegel Online on April 29, 2007
  12. Linke vies for the SPD , on Spiegel Online on February 24, 2008
  13. GAL approved Moorburg , on n-tv.de on September 30, 2008
  14. Hamburg Mayor von Beust resigned , on merkur-online.de on July 18, 2010
  15. Ahlhaus elected mayor , on sueddeutsche.de on August 25, 2010
  16. GAL ends black-green coalition , on Spiegel Online , on November 28, 2010
  17. SPD wins absolute majority in Hamburg , on tagesspiegel.de on February 20, 2011
  18. After the election defeat: CDU state chairman Schira resigns  ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Altona.info article from February 22, 2011@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.altona.info  
  19. Statistics Office North: Analysis of the state election on February 15, 2015 in Hamburg - preliminary results ( Link ), accessed on February 21, 2015
  20. Roland Heintze. Hamburg's new CDU boss promises a "clear edge". In: FAZ March 31, 2015. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
  21. Elected candidates of the 22nd Hamburg citizenship. February 24, 2020, accessed February 24, 2020 .
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  24. Ole von Beust , on whoswho.de
  25. Board of the CDU parliamentary group in the Hamburg Parliament , accessed on April 27, 2020.
  26. ^ Results of the state elections in Hamburg
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  29. ^ Homepage of the CDU regional group Hamburg in the German Bundestag. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 14, 2016 ; accessed on December 14, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.landesgruppe-hamburg.de
  30. CDU moves into the Bundestag election with men. (HTTPS) In: ndr.de. December 9, 2016, accessed December 14, 2016 .
  31. Marcus Weinberg should head the CDU list. (HTTPS) In: ndr.de. November 20, 2016, accessed December 14, 2016 .
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  33. Hamburger Bürgerpreis will be awarded , accessed on September 30, 2016.
  34. St. Pauli Buccaneers ( Memento from October 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on September 30, 2016.
  35. Citizens' Prize 2000 is awarded to the Hamburg donation parliament , accessed on September 30, 2016.
  36. CDU awards 17th Hamburg Citizens' Prize , accessed on September 30, 2016.
  37. Citizen Award 2006 goes to Rüdiger Nehberg , accessed on September 30, 2016.
  38. Imeyer new chairman of the jury for the Hamburg Citizens' Prize , accessed on September 30, 2016.
  39. Football Saved Our Lives , accessed September 30, 2016.
  40. Hamburger Bürgerpreis 2014 , accessed on September 30, 2016.
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