CDU Oder-Neisse

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The CDU Oder-Neisse was a regional association of the CDU that existed from 1950 to 1968 . It was intended as a regional association for the areas east of Oder and Neisse . The regional association was transformed into the Union of Expellees and Refugees in 1968 and renamed the East and Central German Association in 1981 . The regional association had no personal members and did not accept any natural persons individually, but only consisted of the representatives of the CDU regional expellee committees and the "regional commissioner Oder / Neisse" appointed by the other regional association boards.

history

The regional association was founded in 1950 at the founding party congress of the CDU in Goslar . The first chairman was Linus Kather . The transformation of the state association that took place in 1968 can be traced back to a change in the political party law , according to which state associations were only permitted according to the federal structures of the state.

criticism

Jürgen Echternach , CDU member and expellees, criticized in a 1963 article in the time the undemocratic structure of the national association. He criticized the fact that even as a refugee you could not acquire membership in the association, and that the association also represented expellees from areas that were not within the borders of 1937 within the German Reich .

He also objected to the fact that the board members as well as the "Landesbeauftragten Oder / Neisse" and honorary council members appointed in any number by the board of the Oder-Neisse regional association and honorary council members had the same voting rights as the elected representatives of the expellee committees, which ultimately meant that the board of the regional association had unlimited voting rights Power and could never have been voted out if there was agreement. Echternach saw in these conditions a violation of Article 21 of the Basic Law , which prescribes democratic party structures.

Echternach further criticized the high degree of influence that this state association, dominated by party functionaries, was then able to exert by sending many representatives to bodies in the federal CDU.

Chairperson

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of the CDU: Regional associations: CDU Oder-Neisse (1950–1968) . Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung homepage, November 8, 2011, accessed on November 17, 2013
  2. ↑ Jürgen Echternach: Something outside of democracy . The time 31/1963 of August 2, 1963, accessed on November 17, 2013