CDU Hessen
| CDU Hessen | |||
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| Chairman | Volker Bouffier | ||
| Deputy |
Patrick Burghardt Eva Kühne-Hörmann Lucia Puttrich |
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| Secretary General | Manfred Pentz | ||
| Treasurer | Hans-Dieter Brenner | ||
| Honorary Chairman | Roland Koch | ||
| Establishment date | November 25, 1945 | ||
| Place of foundation | Frankfurt am Main | ||
| Headquarters | Frankfurter Strasse 6 65189 Wiesbaden |
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| Landtag mandates |
40/137 |
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| Number of members | 38,456 (as of end of 2016) | ||
| Website | www.cduhessen.de | ||
The CDU Hessen is the second largest state association of a party in Hesse and with around 38,500 members at the end of 2016 the fifth largest state association of the CDU . The Chairman is Prime Minister Volker Bouffier and the Secretary General is Manfred Pentz . The association is based in Wiesbaden . The regional office there is named after the former chairman Alfred Dregger .
organization
The CDU Hessen is divided into 6 district associations, which in turn are organized into 26 district associations and 426 city, community and local associations.
2014–2019 program
The current election program of the CDU Hessen “On the way together - ideas for the future of Hessen. Future program 2014-2019 ”was decided at the 106th state party conference of the CDU Hessen on July 6, 2013 in Offenbach am Main.
For the planned new constitutional protection law and for the planned amendment of the Hessian police law , the CDU parliamentary group received the negative BigBrotherAward in the politics category together with the green parliamentary group in the Hessian state parliament in 2018 . Laudator Rolf Gössner judged: Your legislative initiative contains a dangerous collection of serious surveillance authorizations that deeply encroach on fundamental rights and threaten the democratic constitutional state.
Program 2008-2013
The CDU Hessen program “Courageous. Modern. Human. Government program 2008-2013 “was decided at the 99th state party conference of the CDU Hessen on November 3rd, 2007 in Stadtallendorf . In the Hessian state politics, the CDU takes the following positions:
In school policy , the Union stands for the freedom of choice for parents between the structured school system and the comprehensive school . It aims to expand voluntary all-day offers across the board. The focus of school policy is the effort to strengthen the performance of schools. This includes the central high school diploma , the further improvement of the equipping of schools with teachers and the quality assurance of teaching . The higher education policy in recent years was the dispute over tuition fees determined. After these were abolished in 2008 with the votes of the SPD, Greens and Left Party, Roland Koch announced that he did not want to reintroduce them.
In terms of economic policy , the CDU considers the expansion of the Frankfurt and Kassel airports and the expansion of the infrastructure, for example the transport network of motorways and federal highways, to be necessary. One focus of the program is the promotion of North Hesse . In financial policy , the Union is calling for a halt to national debt , a reduction in the state financial equalization system (in which Hesse is the largest net payer) and a reduction in bureaucracy.
To ensure a safe and inexpensive energy supply, an energy mix including nuclear energy is necessary. This requires an extension of the life of the Biblis nuclear power plant . The use of nuclear energy is also part of the concept for climate-friendly energy generation. Further aspects are the promotion of energy efficiency and biomass . According to the will of the Union in Hessen, the expansion of wind energy in Hesse should take place “with a sense of proportion”.
In domestic and security policy , a continuation of the reinforcement of the police is called for. The CDU continues to focus on the controversial issues of video surveillance of public places and voluntary police service . Another focus is the consistent punishment of juvenile delinquency.
history
founding
After the Second World War , the American occupation forces formed the state of Greater Hesse from the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau and the People's State of Hesse . Rheinhessen and four former Nassau districts in the French occupation zone fell to Rhineland-Palatinate . On August 27, 1945, the military government permitted the formation of parties at the district level and on November 23, 1945 at the state level.
Therefore, on November 25, 1945, the CDU's Hessen State Association was founded. In advance of this, local party branches had formed in many cities and districts. B. On August 20, 1945 the CDU Kassel or on September 15, 1945 the Christian Democratic Party in Frankfurt. The names were initially diverse: the German construction movement Darmstadt, the Christian People's Association in the Rheingau and other variants of a Christian-Democratic party. Following the example of the Berlin party organization, the name was then standardized to 'CDU' when the state association was founded. Werner Hilpert became the first state chairman.
The CDU saw itself as a cross-denominational party. Nevertheless, the majority of the members were Catholic at the time. At the end of 1945, 477 of 599 members of the CDU Frankfurt, a city with an evangelical character, were Catholic. The CDU had a correspondingly difficult time building up the party in the Protestant areas of northern and central Hesse. In the Protestant parts of the country, she tried to make it clear through election campaigns that the CDU was not the continuation of the former Center Party of Hesse , but a new, non- denominational party. The state executive, elected on November 25, 1945 and confirmed at the state party congress on May 30, 1946, therefore had strict parity in terms of denomination. Werner Hilpert (Catholic, formerly the center) as state chairman stood by Erich Köhler (Protestant, formerly DVP ). Unlike the CDU North Rhine-Westphalia , which had to face competition from the re-established Center Party in the state elections (the center was there in the state parliament until 1958), the CDU Hessen had no competition from this side, as the Center Party in Hesse was not closed Took up state elections.
The CDU did not only want to appeal to voters with Christian ties, but also to the entire bourgeois spectrum. In addition to liberals from the former DDP , these were above all former supporters of the DVP and DNVP as well as the formerly strong peasant parties in rural areas in the Weimar Republic . While the proportion of former NSDAP -members of the CDU Hesse was low, many former found resistance fighters in its ranks: Werner Hilpert , the first state chairman, was once in the Buchenwald concentration camp detained Cuno Raabe from Fulda belonged to the resistance circle around Carl Friedrich Goerdeler and Maria Sevenich , who only belonged to the CDU for a short time (until 1948), was sentenced to death by the National Socialists in 1934.
The later Federal Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano was also a well-known founding member of the Hessian CDU .
The CDU as a left regional association under Werner Hilpert (1947–1952)
In the local elections at the beginning of 1946 , the CDU achieved 36.9% of the vote and was clearly behind the Social Democrats, who had achieved 43.2%. The election to the state assembly advising the constitution confirmed this picture: The SPD received 44.3% of the votes, the KPD 9.7%, so that there was a mathematical majority over the so-called 'bourgeois parties'. The CDU came in second with 37.3%. During the discussion of the constitution of the State of Hesse , the Union was therefore unable to assert its most important demands.
The economic policy (see Socialization Article 41 ), the structure of the state, in which the CDU demanded the introduction of a second chamber, a Hessian Senate , and the school policy, in which the CDU advocated the possibility of denominational schools, were controversial. In September 1946, the majority of the SPD and KPD in the state assembly advising the constitution, against the votes of the LDP and CDU, approved the SPD draft constitution. However, large parts of the SPD were dissatisfied with the procedure, because on the one hand the consent of the population to the constitution was not assured and, moreover, the CDU as a potential coalition partner should not be alienated. Therefore, on September 30, 1946, a compromise was reached between the SPD and the CDU. With regard to the Socialization Article and the Senate, the Union accepted the SPD position. On the question of school and religious policy, she prevailed. The constitution as a whole was approved in a referendum in December 1946 by 76.4% of the electorate and the articles of socialization by 72%.
In the state elections in Hesse in 1946 , the Union achieved an even worse result with 31%. As a result, a grand coalition of the SPD and CDU was formed. Werner Hilpert became Deputy Prime Minister on the cabinet floor . In the following years there were numerous conflicts between the Hessian and the federal CDU. The capital issue was a conflict . Here the Hesse CDU supported the proposal to choose Frankfurt as the provisional federal capital, but could not prevail in the Parliamentary Council . The conflict over future coalitions was more serious. While Konrad Adenauer and the federal CDU relied on their own majorities and bourgeois coalitions, the Hessian state association advocated the establishment of large coalitions and consequently oriented itself in terms of content to the positions of the SPD. The "Frankfurt Guidelines", the first program of the CDU Frankfurt, had already called for Christian socialism . The CDU Hessen was considered "by some bourgeois voters as a" left "people's party".
The supporters of an economic and social policy regulated as little as possible by the state and those of a more nationally oriented policy found a home above all in the FDP, which appeared in Hesse as the LDP .
The result of the state elections in Hesse in 1950 , in which this orientation could be voted on, was disastrous for the CDU. Only 19% of voters gave their vote to the Union. In return, the LDP (in list connection with the All-German Bloc / Federation of Expellees and Disenfranchised ) achieved 31.8% of the votes. The SPD could form a government on its own.
The CDU under Wilhelm Fay (1952–1967)
Wilhelm Fay , a member of the Center Party during the Weimar period, replaced Werner Hilpert in the state chairmanship in 1952. Fay had been a member of the NSDAP from 1937. The time of the former resistance fighters against National Socialism in the CDU Hessen came to an end.
Politics in Hesse was determined by Prime Minister Georg August Zinn and the SPD in the 1950s and early 1960s . In the state elections in 1954 , the CDU had improved noticeably with an election result of 24.1% and the SPD slightly lost with 42.6%. The FDP, on the other hand, had lost more than 10 percentage points and was the real loser in the election. The BHE, with which Zinn then formed a coalition, entered the state parliament for the first time as an independent party. The state elections in 1958 resulted in an increase in the CDU's share of the vote to 32.0% - certainly mainly due to the catastrophic election result for the FDP: from 20.5% to 9.5% - but the SPD / BHE coalition was included Winning votes for the SPD with almost unchanged results for the BHE confirmed and had a clear majority. Zinn's popularity even led to absolute majorities in the SPD in 1962 and 1966. With the state elections in 1966 , the CDU had hit a new low. Only 26.4% of voters made their mark with the Christian Democrats. The NPD had taken away votes on the right-wing fringe and entered the state parliament with 7.9%.
During the years of Wilhelm Fay's chairmanship, the CDU Hessen built up its party organization. The number of members could be increased from 9,000 to 23,500. This created the basis for local political work. In 1956, of the 23,000 local political mandates, only 1,700 went to the Union. In 1960 the CDU managed to get 30% of the mandates, at least in the cities and districts. But the CDU's claim to be able to present candidates in every village was still far from being met.
Alfred Dregger's era (1967–1982)
After the electoral defeat in 1966, the newly elected state chairman Alfred Dregger stood at the Eltville state party conference on December 2, 1967 with the promise: "We want to win the majority in Hesse!" Alfred Dregger managed to weld the regional association together into a closed and aggressive unit. A visible sign was the campaign poster in the state election campaign in 1970, in which Alfred Dregger was depicted not as a person but as the head of his team marching forward. Criticized by the press as Django for its resemblance to a movie poster , the vote increased by 13 percentage points. In addition to the innovative election campaign (for the first time the Union had commissioned opinion polls and used them in the election campaign), the new role of the opposition in the federal government was also the trigger for this election victory. Added to this were the losses of the NPD, which was no longer elected to the state parliament. In addition, the BHE (after all, 4.3% in 1966) was no longer a candidate.
Dregger continued the consistent opposition policy and thereby acquired the reputation of a conservative hardliner. The CDU achieved a sensational election victory in 1974 when it became the strongest party with 47.5% and only remained just below the absolute majority in the mandate. Even if the takeover of government was not achieved because the FDP, following its election statement, continued the social-liberal coalition , the will to win announced in Eltville in 1967 was now taken seriously.
In terms of content, the main controversy in Hessen in the 1970s was on two issues: regional reform and school policy. A reorganization of the Hessian communities and districts has been on the political agenda since the mid-1960s. The state government had given the local authorities until 1972 to voluntarily join forces to form larger units. When this alone did not lead to the desired result, the state parliament forcibly regulated further mergers by law and thus triggered a wave of indignation in many places, from which the CDU as opposition benefited. The example of the city of Lahn , which was formed from the cities of Gießen and Wetzlar , 15 km apart, was particularly extreme . The SPD / FDP state government dissolved the city of Lahn in 1979. The other changes were later no longer revised by CDU-led governments.
The second central issue of state politics was school policy. The attempt by the SPD-led government to abolish the structured school system in favor of the comprehensive school met with massive resistance from the parents concerned to the policy of the Minister of Education, Ludwig von Friedeburg . Roland Koch later said: "Ludwig von Friedeburg has probably brought more members to the CDU than anyone else". The resistance of the CDU and parents was ultimately so great that the state government led by the SPD refrained from the forced introduction of comprehensive schools and accepted the continued existence of the tripartite school system. One of the main reasons for this was that the majority of the district assemblies (the districts are school bodies in Hesse ) were dominated by the CDU. In terms of content, the CDU Hessen positioned itself as a consistent opposition to the framework guidelines for social theory and the associated abolition of history lessons .
The result of these disputes was a landslide victory for the Union in the local elections in Hesse in 1977 . A large number of places that the SPD had ruled for many years now fell to the Union. The reference to the so-called red felt , which was attached to the donation affair of the Frankfurt SPD and the Helaba scandal by the CDU , certainly contributed to this . Particularly sensational was the election victory in Frankfurt, where Walter Wallmann became mayor, and the result in the “city of Lahn”, in which the CDU achieved 30.2 percentage points and came to 50.7%.
The state elections of 1978 turned out to be disappointing for the CDU, however, as it was unable to maintain the result of 1974, but even lost it slightly, while the social-liberal coalition held its own with almost unchanged results. In the state elections that took place in September 1982 , however, all opinion polls predicted a victory for the CDU and a government majority, especially since the FDP had spoken out in favor of a coalition with the CDU. However, the end of the social-liberal coalition in the federal government led to solidarity with the SPD and an election disaster for the FDP, which left the state parliament for the first time in Hesse, while the CDU stagnated. The SPD tried to make the election a protest against politics in Bonn and successfully advertised against the “betrayal” of the FDP. Neither the CDU nor the SPD could achieve a majority. With the entry of the Greens into the state parliament, the "Hessian conditions" came about. Alfred Dregger announced his resignation as state chairman on election night.
Even if the Dregger era did not lead to the hoped-for change of government, the CDU was still able to rise to a real people's party in Hesse: when Dregger took office, it had around 22,000 members, and in 1982, when Dregger resigned from his chairmanship, over 71,000. Even if the parties generally had high increases in membership numbers in the 1970s, the growth of the Hessian Union exceeded the average number by far.
From “Hessian Conditions” to the Wallmann government
At the state party conference of the Hessian CDU on December 18, 1982, Walter Wallmann , who, in contrast to Dregger, was considered a liberal, was elected as the new state chairman by a large majority. In the country, Holger Börner ruled with a minority cabinet, since the majority situation, without the participation of the Greens, would only have enabled a grand coalition. However, this was not the aim of the SPD, as the Union, as the strongest party, would have claimed the post of Prime Minister. From case to case, Börner tried to achieve changing majorities in the state parliament, but this led to unstable and so-called " Hessian conditions ". This led to new elections in which the CDU relied on a coalition with the FDP. A second vote campaign by the FDP made it possible for it to re-enter the state parliament, but led to a significant loss of votes for the CDU, which fell below 40% for the first time since 1970. The SPD, with its top candidate Holger Börner, was by far the strongest party. The CDU and FDP together had just as little a majority as the SPD alone, for a majority was needed, since a social-liberal coalition was as unrealistic as a grand coalition, the Greens. After a period of tolerance, Börner formed the first red-green coalition .
Both the tolerance phase and the coalition time were determined by the conflict between “Fundis” and “Realos” on the part of the Greens and various conflicts between the coalition partners SPD and Greens. The CDU and the press close to it spoke of the "red-green chaos". The local election result in 1985 could not be understood as a vote against red-green. Although the CDU remained the strongest force in the municipalities, it fell from 47.6% to 41.1% in the rural districts and cities. The winner was the SPD.
The dominant theme of the CDU in this legislative period was school policy again. The state government introduced the “ support level ” in the 5th and 6th grades at all schools . Against this policy, the Union relied on "freedom of school", i. H. the freedom to choose between the support level and the direct transition to secondary school after the 4th grade. The “Citizens' Action Free School Choice”, initiated and supported by the CDU, collected over 200,000 signatures against the law and sued the state court against the compulsory promotion level.
With the Chernobyl accident in 1986, nuclear policy moved even more into the focus of Hessian politics. Walter Wallmann became the first Federal Environment Minister and the Red-Green coalition in Hesse broke up in the dispute over the Hanau nuclear company Alkem .
The 1987 state election led to the CDU taking over government for the first time. The election result was extremely tight: 49.9% for the CDU and FDP versus 49.6% for the SPD and the Greens resulted in a majority of 2 votes in parliament. The new CDU / FDP coalition under Walter Wallmann implemented its promise of school freedom with the "Law to Restore Free School Choice in the State of Hesse". Other focal points of the work were the strengthening of municipal and state investments and economic development.
The agreed between the SPD and CDU raising the parliamentary diets was evaluated by the public as a scandal. The parties had to refrain from the increase and Landtag President Jochen Lengemann (CDU) resigned in 1987. In the local elections on March 12, 1989, the Union collapsed. 34.3% (after 41.1% in 1985 and even 47.6% in 1981) were in line with the national trend, but were also commented on as a warning to state politics. Once again, the election result in Frankfurt was an indicator: the CDU not only lost the local elections and the post of mayor, with 6.6% the NPD also moved into the Römer and thus competed with the CDU from the right.
After the turnaround in 1989/90, the state party formed a partnership with the party structure in neighboring Thuringia and supported them in the upcoming election campaigns.
Opposition party in the Kanther era
The 1991 state election was overshadowed by the Second Gulf War , which began three days earlier, and resulted in a majority for red-green in another very narrow election result. The CDU appointed Manfred Kanther as opposition leader instead of the elected Prime Minister Wallmann , who prevailed in the vote in the parliamentary group with 30 to 16 votes against Roland Koch , who had started with the concept of a dual leadership (Koch as parliamentary group leader, Karlheinz Weimar as state chairman).
In the following years the CDU was able to re-establish itself in the municipalities. The direct election of mayors initiated by Walter Wallmann led to a series of electoral victories in the following years, including in Kassel , where Georg Lewandowski was unexpectedly elected mayor in 1993, and the Union candidates were also mayors in Marburg and Rüsselsheim . Even if the CDU was unsuccessful in the local elections of March 7, 1993 with 32%, it achieved a great local political success on June 25, 1995 with the election of Petra Roth as Lord Mayor of Frankfurt.
In the election campaign for the state elections in 1995 , the CDU relied on the line represented by Kanther. Kanther, who saw Dregger as his role model, had earned the reputation of a staunch conservative as Federal Minister of the Interior. In addition to school policy, the main topics of the election campaign were therefore the fight against crime and the economy. After the successful elections to the European Parliament on June 12, 1994 and the Bundestag election in 1994 , the CDU hoped to again achieve a government majority in the state elections. Although the CDU was again the strongest parliamentary group with 39.2%, the losses of the SPD were more than compensated for by gains by the Greens, so that the red-green coalition was confirmed for another four years. Roland Koch became the new leader of the parliamentary group and opposition leader
- Election posters of the CDU Hessen 1995
Government Koch I.
The 1999 state elections brought another change of government in Hesse. From the Union's point of view, the starting conditions for this were poor. In the 1998 federal election , Helmut Kohl was voted out of office after 16 years as chancellor. The pollsters predicted a clear victory for Red-Green in the state elections. The basis for the Union's election victory was that the Hessian CDU took advantage of the discomfort in parts of the population about the plan of the red-green federal government to generally allow dual citizenship in the future and tried to get the public against it by means of a signature campaign . It succeeded in collecting a large number of signatures against the reform of German citizenship law and in turning public opinion in favor of the Union. The CDU received 43.4% of the vote in the election and was able to elect Roland Koch as Prime Minister with the FDP.
At the beginning of 2000 the Hessian CDU got into a serious crisis, the CDU donation affair . In 1983 Kanther had transferred a total of 8 million DM from the state CDU abroad. Over time, some of these funds were disguised as “legacies” or loans that flowed back to the Hessen CDU. According to all those involved, Kanther and the then treasurer Casimir Johannes Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg had kept the knowledge of the funds to themselves and informed neither Koch nor Wallmann about it. Because of this donation affair, Kanther was finally sentenced to a fine for infidelity at the expense of the CDU Hessen.
Because of the incomplete statement of accounts , the party had to pay a fine of 41.3 million DM, which weakened it financially for a long time. The loss of credibility was even more serious, since Kanther, both as party leader and as interior minister, had stood for “law and order” and was now convicted as a criminal. Koch had declared in January that he wanted to clear up the donation affair "as brutally as possible", but had to admit himself that he had not told the truth, since despite repeated inquiries, he had backdated a loan agreement for 2 million DM, the cash flow in the party accounts should justify, had kept silent. Since then, its credibility has also been damaged.
During this legislative period, the Koch government created 3,000 additional teaching positions in order to remedy the missed lessons that the Hessian CDU had criticized in the 1999 state election campaign. Another focus was transport policy. The state government pushed ahead with a number of infrastructure projects, such as the expansion of the federal motorway 49 or the federal motorway 44 , significantly increased the state funding for road construction and took measures to reduce congestion as part of the Hessen 2015 traffic jam-free project.
Government Koch II
The relatively positive evaluation of the Hessian state politics in connection with the positive overall (federal) political mood for the Union led to the best result of 48.8% that the CDU had achieved in Hesse in the 2003 state elections . It thus achieved an absolute majority of the mandates in the state parliament and from then on formed a sole government.
In order to consolidate the state budget, an austerity program was presented, with which a total of one billion euros should be saved. Among other things, the program provided for an extension of the civil servants' working hours to 42 hours per week and the withdrawal of Hesse from the collective bargaining community of German states , and general tuition fees were introduced. During the discussion about the expansion of Frankfurt Airport , the Hessian state government, which had advocated an expansion from the beginning, tried to mediate the interests of the airport, airlines and residents. The controversial issue was the reduction or ban on night flights, which was not enforced. The Koch government approved the expansion in December 2007.
Before the state elections in 2008 , all polls showed losses for the CDU, but a majority for black and yellow. As in 1999, the CDU tried to reverse the trend with a polarizing campaign, now against a possible red-red-green majority ("Ypsilanti, Al-Wazir and the communists!") And the discussion of juvenile delinquency. This strategy was completely unsuccessful this time, the party lost 12 percentage points and achieved the worst result in over 40 years with 36.8%. A majority could not be achieved with the FDP either. The SPD and the Greens also did not have their own majority. Since the FDP refused to hold talks with the SPD about a possible traffic light coalition and a grand coalition under Koch's leadership was ruled out because of the polarization in the election campaign, “Hessian conditions” prevailed again, albeit under different auspices. The SPD top candidate Andrea Ypsilanti then moved away from her statement before the election that she would not be elected Prime Minister with the votes of the left . Due to the refusal of the SPD MP Dagmar Metzger to vote for Ypsilanti under these circumstances, Roland Koch remained in office. After the attempt to form a government in November 2008 by Ypsilanti finally failed, the state parliament dissolved and the CDU ran again in the early state elections in Hesse in 2009 with Roland Koch as the top candidate.
From the Koch III government to Volker Bouffier
With a result of 37.2%, the Hessian CDU was the strongest party in the 2009 state elections, more than ten percent behind the SPD, which experienced an election disaster, but surprisingly and contrary to the opinion polls, it was unable to benefit from the SPD's dramatic losses: It received fewer votes than in 2008 and only gained marginally in percentage terms. The election winners were the FDP and the Greens. The CDU and FDP received a majority and formed a coalition led by Roland Koch. That his position was not strengthened by the outcome of the election and that he himself was controversial in circles of the CDU and FDP was shown in the election for Prime Minister, in which he received four fewer votes than the CDU and FDP had mandates. He switched to business a year later. In June 2010 Volker Bouffier became regional chairman of the CDU, in August of the same year Prime Minister. He continued the coalition with the FDP.
In the local elections in Hesse in 2011 , the Hessian CDU with 33.7% remained the strongest municipal force ahead of the SPD , but suffered losses of 4.8 percentage points.
The 2013 state election brought the CDU a slight gain, but the coalition lost its majority due to the dramatic losses of the FDP, whereupon, after lengthy negotiations, the first black-green coalition was formed in a country and Bouffier was re-elected Prime Minister on January 18, 2014 ( see also Bouffier II cabinet ).
- Logos of the CDU Hessen over time
1970s
1980s
Variation in the 1987 election campaign
1990s
2000s logo
Logo in 2013
Logo 2014
Logo today
people
Party leader
| Years | Chairman |
| 1945–1952 | Werner Hilpert |
| 1952-1967 | Wilhelm Fay |
| 1967-1982 | Alfred Dregger |
| 1982-1991 | Walter Wallmann |
| 1991-1998 | Manfred Kanther |
| 1998-2010 | Roland Koch |
| since 2010 | Volker Bouffier |
Group leaders
| Years | Chairman |
| Advisory State Committee | Erich Koehler |
| Provincial assembly advising the constitution | Erich Koehler |
| 1946-1947 | Erich Koehler |
| 1947-1949 | Heinrich von Brentano |
| 1949-1950 | Georg Stieler |
| 1950-1952 | Werner Hilpert |
| 1952-1966 | Erich Großkopf |
| 1966-1970 | Hans Wagner |
| 1970-1972 | Alfred Dregger |
| 1972-1974 | Hans Wagner |
| 1974-1987 | Gottfried Milde |
| 1987-1990 | Hartmut Nassauer |
| 1990-1991 | Roland Koch |
| 1991-1993 | Manfred Kanther |
| 1993-1999 | Roland Koch |
| 1999-2003 | Norbert Kartmann |
| 2003-2005 | Franz Josef Jung |
| 2005-2014 | Christean Wagner |
| 2014-2020 | Michael Boddenberg |
| since 2020 | Ines Claus |
Country manager / general secretary
| Years | Chairman |
| 1945-1947 | Bruno Dörpinghaus |
| 1947-1948 | Ludwig Wagner |
| 1948-1960 | Willy Wolfermann |
| 1960-1961 | Wilhelm Henke |
| 1961-1967 | Hans Henderkes |
| 1968-1970 | Joachim Lehmann |
| 1970-1987 | Manfred Kanther (from 1980 also Secretary General) |
| 1987-1991 | Franz Josef Jung (also General Secretary) |
| 1991-1999 | Siegbert Seitz |
| 1999-2009 | Michael Boddenberg (General Secretary) |
| 2009-2014 | Peter Beuth (General Secretary) |
| since 2014 | Manfred Pentz (Secretary General) |
Results of the state elections from 1946
| year | Share of votes | Seats | Top candidate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1946 | 30.9% | 28 | Werner Hilpert |
| 1950 | 18.8% | 12 | Werner Hilpert |
| 1954 | 24.1% | 24 | Wilhelm Fay |
| 1958 | 32.0% | 32 | Wilhelm Fay |
| 1962 | 28.8% | 28 | Wilhelm Fay |
| 1966 | 26.4% | 26th | Wilhelm Fay |
| 1970 | 39.7% | 46 | Alfred Dregger |
| 1974 | 47.3% | 53 | Alfred Dregger |
| 1978 | 46.0% | 53 | Alfred Dregger |
| 1982 | 45.6% | 52 | Alfred Dregger |
| 1983 | 39.4% | 44 | Walter Wallmann |
| 1987 | 42.1% | 47 | Walter Wallmann |
| 1991 | 40.2% | 46 | Walter Wallmann |
| 1995 | 39.2% | 45 | Manfred Kanther |
| 1999 | 43.4% | 50 | Roland Koch |
| 2003 | 48.8% | 56 | Roland Koch |
| 2008 | 36.8% | 42 | Roland Koch |
| 2009 | 37.2% | 46 | Roland Koch |
| 2013 | 38.3% | 47 | Volker Bouffier |
| 2018 | 27.0% | 40 | Volker Bouffier |
State office
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The regional office of the CDU Hessen is located in Wiesbaden at Frankfurter Straße 6. The listed building was built around 1868. In 2010 the CDU decided to rename the building the Alfred Dregger House.
literature
- Hans-Otto Kleinmann : History of the CDU 1945-1982. Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-421-06541-1 ; Hesse's CDU is shown on pages 38–44, 228–230 and 286–287.
- Bernd Heidenreich and Werner Wolf: The way to the strongest party 1945-1995 / 50 years CDU Hessen , Wiesbaden 1995, ISBN 3-8046-8827-6 .
- Heinrich Rüschenschmidt: Foundation and beginnings of the CDU in Hessen , Darmstadt 1981, ISBN 3-88443-130-7 .
- Arijana Neumann and Josef Schmid: The Hessen-CDU: Combat association and government party , in: Wolfgang Schroeder: Parties and party system in Hessen , ISBN 978-3-531-16003-0 , pages 107-141 ( online )
- Günter letter , Klaus Gotto: The foundation of the union. Traditions, origins and representatives (history and state 245/255), Munich.
- Joachim Rotberg: Between Left Catholicism and Bourgeois Collection. The beginnings of the CDU in Frankfurt am Main 1945-1946 , Frankfurt am Main 1999.
Web links
- CDU Hessen (website of the regional association)
- History of the CDU Hessen (website of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation)
- Names and dates from six decades of party work , pp. 113–149 (Ed .: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung , 2012)
Footnotes
- ^ Oskar Niedermayer : Party members according to federal states. Federal Agency for Civic Education , July 8, 2017, accessed on August 25, 2017 .
- ↑ Future program 2014-2019 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ↑ https://bigbrotherawards.de/2018/politik-cdu-gruene-landtag-hessen
- ↑ Government program 2008-2013 ( Memento of the original from September 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ^ Heinrich Rüschenschmidt: Foundation and first years: The CDU Hessen under Werner Hilpert 1945-1952 ; in: Bernd Heidenreich and Werner Wolf : The way to the strongest party 1945-1995 / 50 years CDU Hessen , Wiesbaden 1995, ISBN 3-8046-8827-6 , page 15
- ↑ Helmut Berding (ed.): The emergence of the Hessian constitution of 1946: a documentation , 1996, ISBN 392224498X , page XXV-XXVII
- ↑ Wolf-Arno Kropat : Denazification, co-determination, freedom from school fees: Hessische Landtagdebatten 1947-1950 , 2004, ISBN 3-930221-13-6 , page 16
- ^ Reinhard Frommelt: Willing to participate and have to oppose: The CDU Hessen under Wilhelm Fay 1952-1967 ; in: Bernd Heidenreich and Werner Wolf: The way to the strongest party 1945-1995 / 50 years CDU Hessen, Wiesbaden 1995, ISBN 3-8046-8827-6 , pages 37-57
- ↑ Arijana Neumann and Josef Schmid: The Hessen-CDU , page 108
- ↑ Müller Vogg 2002, page 132
- ↑ Werner Wolf: New beginning and struggle for the majority. The CDU Hessen under Alfred Dregger 1967-1982; in: Bernd Heidenreich and Werner Wolf: The way to the strongest party 1945-1995 / 50 years CDU Hessen, Wiesbaden 1995, ISBN 3-8046-8827-6 , pages 59-93
- ↑ Arijana Neumann and Josef Schmid: Die Hessen-CDU :, page 119
- ↑ Nice time . In: Der Spiegel . No. 16 , 1987, pp. 28-30 ( online ).
- ↑ CDU / FDP coalition agreement (PDF; 1.2 MB)
- ↑ Patrick Opdenhövel: New departure: The CDU Hessen under Manfred Kanther since 1991 ; in: Bernd Heidenreich and Werner Wolf: The way to the strongest party 1945-1995 / 50 years CDU Hessen, Wiesbaden 1995, ISBN 3-8046-8827-6 , pages 125-154
- ↑ Die Welt, September 3, 2003
- ^ Results of the state elections in Hesse
CDU Baden-Württemberg | Bavaria: not represented (see CSU ) | CDU Berlin | CDU Brandenburg | CDU Bremen | CDU Hamburg | CDU Hessen | CDU Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania | CDU in Lower Saxony | CDU North Rhine-Westphalia | CDU Rhineland-Palatinate | CDU Saar | CDU Saxony | CDU Saxony-Anhalt | CDU Schleswig-Holstein | CDU Thuringia
Currently represented in the state parliament: CDU Hessen | Alliance 90 / The Greens Hesse | SPD Hessen | AfD Hessen | FDP Hessen | Die Linke Hessen
Historically represented in the state parliament: KPD Hessen | GB / BHE Hessen | NPD Hessen