CDU Saar

CDU Saar
Tobias Hans
Chairman	Tobias Hans
Deputy	Michael Adam Daniela Schlegel-Friedrich Nadine Schön Peter Strobel Stephan Toscani
Secretary General	Markus Uhl
Treasurer	Karl Rauber
executive Director	Patrick Waldraff
Honorary Chairman	Peter Müller
Establishment date	August 7, 1955
Place of foundation	Saarbrücken
Headquarters	Stengelstrasse 5 66117 Saarbrücken
Landtag mandates	24/51
Number of members	16,762 (as of end of 2016)
Website	www.cdu-saar.de

The CDU Saar is the regional association of the CDU in Saarland . From 1956 to 1985, the CDU continuously provided the Prime Minister in Saarland. From 1985 to 1999, the CDU was an opposition party in the Saarbrücken state parliament. Since 1999 the CDU Saar has again led the state government. The current state chairman of the CDU Saar is the Prime Minister of Saarland Tobias Hans .

Inner structure

The regional association is divided into the regional association, the seven district associations that coordinate the work of the CDU within the Saarland districts, 52 municipal or city associations for dealing with issues that affect the municipalities and 356 local associations for the political Work on the ground.

organs

The state party congress, which elects the members of the state executive board and its chairperson, acts as the highest body of the CDU regional association. The state board decides on the current policy of the CDU Saar, taking into account the resolutions of the state party conference. The chairmen of the executive state board manage the day-to-day business of the state board together with the state office.

There are also state committees to advise the state board on various political issues. The state technical committees also prepare the resolutions of the state executive board and the state party congress.

Members

In 1955, when the party was officially founded, the CDU Saar started out with around 15,000 members. This number then declined slightly and reached a minimum of around 13,000 members in 1958, after which it gradually rose with considerable fluctuations to over 30,000 members in 1979. In 2010 the number was again significantly lower at around 20,000 members and is currently falling further.

year	Number of members (rounded)
1955	15,000
1958	13,000
1960	15,000
1965	16,000
1970	18,000
1975	28,000
1979	31,000
2010	20,000
2015	17,338

history

Foundation phase

The regional association was founded on June 4, 1952 with the aim of integrating the Saar Protectorate into the federal territory, but was not confirmed as a political party by the then Saarland Ministry of the Interior. The CDU, chaired by Hubert Ney, saw itself as a Christian Democratic alternative to the ruling CVP . The aim of the CVP under Prime Minister Johannes Hoffmann was the state independence of the Saarland within the framework of a united Europe. The CDU Saar, on the other hand, campaigned with the nationalist slogan “No Europe without a fatherland” for the Saarland to join the Federal Republic of Germany . This made the CDU Saar an anti-constitutional party, as it fought against the close attachment to France prescribed in the Saarland's constitution .

Rejection of the Saar Statute in the 1955 referendum

The three-year illegality of the CDU on the Saar was only ended in August 1955, after the conditions for this had been given when the Saar Statute came into force on October 24, 1954. The CDU Saar refused to accept the Saar Statute in a bitter election campaign. The 67.7 percent “no” votes cast in the referendum on October 23, 1955 meant a clear victory for the Saar CDU over the CVP, which led to the resignation of the Hoffmann government.

In the state elections on December 18, 1955, the CDU Saar entered the Saarland state parliament for the first time and immediately with 14 seats as the strongest parliamentary group before the CVP with 13 seats .

The time under Hubert Ney (1955–1957) and Egon Reinert (1957–1959)

Hubert Ney was elected chairman of the Saarland CDU, which was still illegal at the time, in 1952. After being approved by the Saarland CDU in 1955, Ney was elected Prime Minister of Saarland. Together with the SPD and the DPS, Ney formed the so-called Heimatbund government . Because of his irreconcilable attitude towards the CVP, Ney came under fire within the CDU, which ultimately led to the loss of his offices as party chairman and head of government.

Successor in both positions was the previous Minister of Education, Egon Reinert , who campaigned for a reconciliation with the CVP and even accepted a CVP member, Ludwig Schnur, into his second cabinet . Reinert initially led the black-red-yellow coalition in his first cabinet from June 4, 1957 to February 26, 1959. However, this was given up in favor of a coalition of the CDU with the SPD and CVP. Reinert's tenure came to an abrupt end when he died in April 1959 as a result of a traffic accident. At that time, the CVP was also absorbed by the Saar CDU.

The time under Franz-Josef Röder (1959–1973)

Reinert's successor was Franz-Josef Röder . He also took over the offices of state party leader and prime minister in personal union . During his tenure, Röder devoted himself above all to the economic problems of the Saarland, which consisted in the connection to the Federal Republic and the then one-sided economic orientation of the Saarland on coal and steel . In addition to his duties as the head of the Saarland government, Röder also headed the Ministry of Culture from 1957 to 1965. While the CDU attained a supremacy position in the Saarland party landscape during the reign of Röder, Röder dominated his offices so strongly that too few new CDU executives were brought in. While in 1973 Werner Scherer took over the office of regional party leader von Röder, he remained Prime Minister until his death.

Röder led a black-red coalition government until January 17, 1961 . Under Röder's leadership, the CDU emerged from the state elections in 1960 with a 6.6 percentage point lead over the state SPD as the strongest political force. Röder then ended the alliance with the SPD and instead formed a black-yellow coalition with the FDP / DPS , which had a relatively narrow majority in the state parliament with one seat ahead of the opposition . In the state elections on June 27, 1965, the black and yellow state government was confirmed in office, although the lead of the state CDU over the Saarland SPD shrank to two percentage points. When the CDU was able to win the absolute majority of the state parliament mandates in the state elections in 1970, again with Röder as the top candidate , the coalition with the FDP / DPS was ended and a CDU sole government was formed.

The time under Werner Scherer (1973–1977 and 1985) and Werner Zeyer (1978–1985)

In Scherer's first term as chairman, the number of members of the regional association rose by 56% to 30,300 people. In the state elections in 1975, the CDU achieved its best state result to date; with regard to mandates, however, there was a stalemate between the CDU on the one hand and the SPD and FDP on the other. Röder initially formed a minority government . In the following, however, a tacit tolerance of the CDU government by the FDP developed. A black-yellow coalition was not formed again until 1977. In 1978 Werner Zeyer took over the office of regional party leader.

After the unexpected death of Prime Minister Röder in June 1979, Zeyer was also elected as the new head of government. In the state election on April 27, 1980, Zeyer stood for re-election as the top candidate of the CDU. The SPD was able to surpass the CDU for the first time and provide the strongest parliamentary group. However, Zeyer was again able to form an alliance with the FDP and remain Prime Minister at the head of the existing CDU-FDP coalition . The mining crisis fell during Zeyer's tenure as Prime Minister. He managed to save the Arbed Saarstahl group in Völklingen , which had come under pressure, through federal subsidies. The price for this was the increasing indebtedness of the Saarland.

After the SPD won an absolute majority in the state elections of March 10, 1985, Oskar Lafontaine (SPD) Zeyer took over as Prime Minister. After the election defeat, Scherer took over the state chairmanship again in June 1985, which he held until his death on October 27, 1985.

Opposition under Peter Jacoby (1986–1990) and Klaus Töpfer (1990–1995)

In 1985, after almost 30 years of uninterrupted governance, the Saar CDU began its unfamiliar role in the opposition, in which it was to remain until 1999. This initially meant a time of upheaval and rebuilding. On February 21, 1986, the previous deputy chairman Peter Jacoby took over the chairmanship of the CDU Saar. Günther Schwarz had already been elected chairman of the parliamentary group in March of the previous year, which also made him the leader of the opposition against the new Lafontaine government . In the state elections in Saarland in 1990 , the CDU of the Saarland stood with the then Federal Environment Minister Klaus Töpfer as the top candidate , who replaced Jacoby in the state party chair in the same year. However, the CDU did not succeed in breaking the absolute majority of the SPD in the state parliament and remained in the opposition. Peter Jacoby took over the chairmanship of the parliamentary group. In 1994, Töpfer took over the top candidacy again, but despite gains for the CDU and losses of votes for the SPD, he was unable to change government.

The time under Peter Müller (1995–2011) and Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (2011–2018)

Peter Müller was elected chairman of the CDU parliamentary group on April 12, 1994. In November 1995 he was elected chairman of the Saarland regional association. When the SPD lost its absolute majority in the state parliament in the 1999 state elections and Alliance 90 / The Greens and FDP failed to pass the five percent hurdle , the state CDU with its top candidate Peter Müller achieved an absolute majority of the seats. After 14 years of opposition to the state parliament, the CDU succeeded in providing the new Saarland Prime Minister with Peter Müller. In the 2004 state elections , the CDU, led by Müller, again won an absolute majority of the seats and was able to continue to govern without a coalition partner. In the state elections in Saarland in 2009, the state CDU lost its absolute majority. In addition, there was neither a black-yellow nor a red-red or red-green parliamentary majority. Although the Saarland Greens had also entered into exploratory talks with the SPD and the party Die Linke , Müller managed to form the first black-yellow-green government alliance at state level together with the FDP and the Greens . On January 22, 2011, Peter Müller announced that he would step down from both the state chairmanship of the CDU and the office of prime minister in the course of the year. At the same time, he proposed State Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer as successor in both positions.

On May 28, 2011, Kramp-Karrenbauer Müller succeeded him in the state chairmanship. On August 10, 2011, Kramp-Karrenbauer was elected Prime Minister of Saarland, but required two ballots and could not win all the votes of the coalition factions. Just six months later, on January 6, 2012, Kramp-Karrenbauer terminated the black-yellow-green alliance due to internal party disputes with the state FDP and declared that he would seek talks with the Saar SPD about the formation of a grand coalition . After the exploratory talks on the SPD's demand for new elections to be held parallel to the 2013 federal election failed, Kramp-Karrenbauer and SPD opposition leader Heiko Maas announced that the state parliament would be re-elected on March 25, 2012. The two party leaders showed willingness to form a grand coalition after the polls, then with a clear political situation. The interest was thus directed towards the performance of the large parties CDU and SPD, which were equal in the polls, in the new election and the resulting claim to have the prime minister in the envisaged government alliance. In the new election , however, there was a surprise: With a lead of almost 5 percentage points over the SPD and a small gain, the CDU clearly won. The Kramp-Karrenbauer II cabinet was then formed.

Before the state elections in Saarland in 2017 , the SPD received a tailwind in surveys from Martin Schulz's candidacy for chancellor . On the evening of the election, however, the Saar CDU prevailed as the strongest force in Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer's second top candidacy with 40.7 percent of the vote and missed the absolute majority in the state parliament by two seats. The Prime Minister then continued the grand coalition in the Kramp-Karrenbauer III cabinet .

The time under Tobias Hans (since 2018)

After Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer switched to federal politics as the new General Secretary of the CDU in February 2018, the previous parliamentary group leader Tobias Hans was elected as the new Prime Minister on March 1, 2018 and continued the grand coalition with the Hans cabinet . Hans was elected as the new state chairman on October 19, 2018 with a share of the vote of 96.4 percent at the 68th state party conference of the CDU Saar.

Chairperson

Surname		Beginning of the term of office	Term expires
	Hubert Ney	1952	1957
	Egon Reinert	May 19, 1957	April 23, 1959
(right)	Franz-Josef Röder	1959	1973
	Werner Scherer	March 1973	1977
	Werner Zeyer	1978	1985
	Werner Scherer	June 1985	October 27, 1985
	Peter Jacoby	February 21, 1986	1990
	Klaus Töpfer	1990	1995
	Peter Müller	November 1995	May 28, 2011
	Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer	May 28, 2011	19th October 2018
	Tobias Hans	19th October 2018	officiating

Parliamentary group

Group leaders

Former parliamentary group leader Jürgen Schreier (2007)

Former parliamentary group leader Klaus Meiser (2017)

Years	Chairman
January 18, 1956-25. January 1957	Wilhelm Kratz
January 25, 1957-18. March 1957	Erwin Albrecht
June 12, 1957-30. November 1959	Josef Schmitt
November 30, 1959–2. January 1961	Walter Lorang
1961-19. July 1965	Franz Schneider
July 19, 1965-1970	Jakob Feller
1970-26. February 1973	Alfred Wilhelm
February 26, 1973-14. January 1974	Konrad Schön
January 14, 1974–1. March 1977	Ferdi Behles
March 1, 1977–1980	Berthold Budell
October 1981 – July 1984	Werner Scherer
1984-1985	Günther Schacht
March 1985–1990	Günther Schwarz
1990-1994	Peter Jacoby
April 12, 1994-1999	Peter Müller
1999-2007	Peter Hans
August 21, 2007 – November 2009	Jürgen Schreier
November 2009-November 2015	Klaus Meiser
November 2015-March 2018	Tobias Hans
since March 2018	Alexander Funk

Current composition

In the 16th electoral term , the CDU parliamentary group is represented in the Saarland state parliament with a total of 24 members, including 6 women and 18 men .

Parliamentary group

Group Board (2017)

The board of the CDU parliamentary group in the Saarland state parliament consists of seven people:

• Alexander Funk , chairman of the parliamentary group
• Günther Heinrich , deputy chairman of the parliamentary group
• Helma Kuhn-Theis , deputy parliamentary group leader
• Hermann Scharf , deputy parliamentary group leader
• Dagmar Heib , deputy group leader
• Bernd Wegner , deputy group chairman
• Stefan Thielen , Parliamentary Managing Director

Other MPs

Klaus Bouillon , Petra Fretter , Sarah Gillen , Tobias Hans , Gabriele Herrmann, Ruth Meyer , Timo Mildau , Volker Oberhausen , Raphael Schäfer , Jutta Schmitt-Lang , Marc Speicher , Peter Strobel , Alwin Theobald , Stephan Toscani , Frank Wagner , Sascha Zehner , Alexander Zeyer

State election results

State election results

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State election results
year	be right	Seats	Top candidate
1955	25.4%	14th	Hubert Ney
1960	36.6%	19th	Franz-Josef Röder
1965	42.7%	23	Franz-Josef Röder
1970	47.8%	27	Franz-Josef Röder
1975	49.1%	25th	Franz-Josef Röder
1980	44.0%	23	Werner Zeyer
1985	37.3%	20th	Werner Zeyer
1990	33.4%	18th	Klaus Töpfer
1994	38.6%	21st	Klaus Töpfer
1999	45.5%	26th	Peter Müller
2004	47.5%	27	Peter Müller
2009	34.5%	19th	Peter Müller
2012	35.2%	19th	Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer
2017	40.7%	24	Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

Results in the federal election

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Bundestag election results
year	Number of votes	Share of votes	Seats
1957	183.423	33.3%	5
1961	284.255	49.0%	5
1965	295.257	46.8%	4th
1969	292,986	46.1%	4th
1972	316.955	43.4%	4th
1976	344,850	46.2%	4th
1980	313,709	42.3%	4th
1983	336.999	44.8%	4th
1987	299,329	41.2%	4th
1990	271.310	38.1%	4th
1994	250,978	37.2%	4th
1998	219.484	31.8%	3
2002	224,842	35.0%	3
2005	191,067	30.2%	3
2009	179.289	30.7%	4th
2013	212,366	37.8%	4th
2017	189,573	32.4%	3

Saarland member of the CDU in the Bundestag

Peter Altmaier (2005)

• since 1994: Peter Altmaier , Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy
• since 2009: Nadine Schön , deputy chairwoman of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group
• since 2017: Markus Uhl

Former member of the Saarland CDU in the Bundestag

• 1957: Karl Steinhauer (1902–1981)
• 1957: Manfred Schäfer (1921–1999)
• 1957: Franz-Josef Röder (1909–1979)
• 1957: Wilhelm Kratz (1905–1986)
• 1957: Franz Schneider (1920–1985)
• 1957–1961: Hermann Mathias Görgen (1908–1994)
• 1957–1964: Franz Ruland (1901–1964)
• 1957–1965: Albert Baldauf (1917–1991)
• 1957–1972: Leo Gottesleben (1909–1983)
• 1957–1972: Heinrich Draeger (1907–1991)
• 1961–1962: Eugen Huthmacher (1907–1967)
• 1961–1969: Johann Klein (1902–1976)
• 1964–1965: Josef Kurtz (1903–1970)
• 1965–1976: Josef Schmitt (1921–1996)
• 1969–1972: Franz-Lorenz von Thadden (1924–1979)
• 1972–1974: Werner Ferrang (1924–1974)
• 1972–1976: Kurt Thürk (1926–2002)
• 1972–1979: Werner Zeyer (1929–2000)
• 1974–1983 and 1985–1989: Doris Pack (* 1942)
• 1976–1985: Franz Josef Conrad (1944–1985)
• 1976–1994: Hans-Werner Müller (* 1942)
• 1979–1980: Rudolf Blügel (1927–1997)
• 1980–1994: Johannes Ganz (* 1932)
• 1983–1990: Werner Schreiber (* 1941)
• 1989–1994: Trudi Schmidt (* 1935)
• 1990–1998: Klaus Töpfer (* 1938), Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (1987–1994)
• 1994–1999: Peter Jacoby (* 1951)
• 1994–2005: Helmut Rauber (* 1945)
• 1998: Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (* 1962)
• 1999–2005: Albrecht Feibel (1940–2011)
• 2005: Peter Müller (* 1955)
• 2005–2009: Hermann-Josef Scharf (* 1961)
• 2005–2017: Anette Hübinger (* 1955)
• 2009–2017: Alexander Funk (* 1974)

Former member of the Saarland CDU in the European Parliament

Doris Pack (2009)

• 1989-2014: Doris Pack

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Peter Müller (LV CDU Saar) ( Memento from July 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ^ Oskar Niedermayer : Party members according to federal states. Federal Agency for Civic Education , July 8, 2017, accessed on August 25, 2017 . 
3. ↑ CDU state statutes from April 1977
4. ^ Gerhard Bauer: From the center to the CDU. P. 103.
5. ↑ Saar-CDU records loss of membership  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ Ute Kirch: Downward trend with exceptions: Most parties in Saarland lost members in 2015. Rheinische Post Mediengruppe , January 27, 2016, accessed on August 26, 2017 . 
7. ^ History of the CDU Saar - history of the regional association, article of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung
8. ↑ State elections 1947 to 2009 in Saarland ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2012 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. (PDF; 8 kB)  
9. ↑ History of the CDU Saar ( Memento of the original from September 3, 2017 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. 
10. ↑ Strong wear , Spiegel Online of October 10, 1994
11. ^ Biography of Peter Müller
12. ↑ Saar Prime Minister announces withdrawal , Spiegel Online
13. ↑ Müller announces resignation , sueddeutsche.de
14. ↑ Müller announces resignation , FOCUS
15. ^ Constitutional judge only "an option" for Peter Müller , stern.de
16. ^ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung : Kramp elected Prime Minister , August 10, 2011.
17. ↑ Jamaica coalition in Saarland failed  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Article in the Saarbrücker Zeitung from January 6, 2012  
18. ↑ New election after unsuccessful exploration Article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of January 20, 2012
19. ↑ Tobias Hans new state chairman of the CDU Saar CDU Saar October 19, 2018
20. ↑ Board of the Saarland CDU parliamentary group ( Memento of the original from October 16, 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.  
21. ^ Results of the state elections in Saarland
22. ↑ Results of the Bundestag elections ( Memento of the original from July 9, 2013 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.  

literature

• Gerhard Bauer: From the center to the CDU. Hundred years of Christian politics on the Saar. Book publisher Saarbrücker Zeitung, Saarbrücken 1981, ISBN 3-922807-07-0

Web links

• CDU Saar
• CDU parliamentary group in the Saarland state parliament
• Names and dates from six decades of party work , pp. 324–330 (Ed .: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung , 2012)