CDU in Lower Saxony
| CDU in Lower Saxony | |||
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| Chairman | Bernd Althusmann | ||
| Deputy |
Fritz Güntzler Lena Düpont Reinhold Hilbers |
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| Secretary General | Sebastian Lechner | ||
| Treasurer | Barbara Havliza | ||
| Managing Director | Christian Meyer | ||
| Honorary Chairman |
Otto Fricke † Richard Langeheine † Wilfried Hasselmann † |
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| Establishment date | 1968 | ||
| head office | Hindenburgstrasse 30 30175 Hanover |
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| Landtag mandates |
50/137 |
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| Number of members | 59,372 (as of June 30, 2018) | ||
| Website | www.cdu-niedersachsen.de | ||
The CDU in Lower Saxony is the regional association of the CDU in Lower Saxony . It was founded in 1968 and is divided into the regional associations Braunschweig, Hanover and Oldenburg. With almost 60,000 members, the CDU is the party with the largest number of members in Lower Saxony.
The former Prime Ministers Ernst Albrecht (1976–1990), Christian Wulff (2003–2010) and David McAllister (2010–2013) came from the ranks of the CDU in Lower Saxony.
structure
structure
The CDU regional association in Lower Saxony is not viewed by the party as a regional association. This title is claimed by its members, the three regional associations Braunschweig , Hanover and Oldenburg . According to the CDU statute, it is not an organizational union of state associations according to Section 7 (1) sentence 4 of the Law on Political Parties , but rather itself fulfills the characteristics of a regional association of the party (according to sentence 1 of the same paragraph). The CDU in Lower Saxony is thus outside the otherwise applicable organizational levels of the party.
LV Braunschweig
LV Hannover
LV Oldenburg
The regional association of Hanover is divided into the district associations Elbe-Weser, Hanover, Hildesheim, northeast Lower Saxony, East Frisia and Osnabrück-Emsland. The district association of Hanover also includes the CDU in the area of the former state of Schaumburg-Lippe . The regional associations of Braunschweig and Oldenburg are largely on an equal footing with the regional associations of the Hanover regional association.
| Regional association | District Association | Chairman |
|---|---|---|
| Braunschweig | Frank Oesterhelweg | |
| Hanover | Elbe-Weser | Enak Ferlemann |
| Hanover | Maria Flachsbarth | |
| Hildesheim | Uwe Schünemann | |
| Northeast Lower Saxony | Michael Grosse-Brömer | |
| Osnabrück-Emsland | Mathias Middelberg | |
| Ostfriesland | Reinhard Hegewald | |
| Oldenburg | Silvia Breher |
organs
The state party congress, which elects the members of the state executive and the members of the state party court, acts as the highest body of the CDU in Lower Saxony .
The state executive decides on the current policy of the CDU in Lower Saxony, taking into account the resolutions of the state party congress.
The state party court decides on statutory questions, election challenges, party exclusion proceedings, etc.
Furthermore, there are state committees and working groups as organs of the executive board.
story
The regional association of Oldenburg was founded on March 11, 1946 in Oldenburg . This was preceded by a number of local start-ups. The first district association of the Union was founded on November 19, 1945 under the name "Christian Democratic Party" in the district of Vechta . While the party was built up quickly in South Oldenburg and the party soon had significant membership numbers, the situation in Protestant North Oldenburg was more difficult. Here the “Democratic Union” was formed as a bourgeois rallying party. With the consolidation of the party landscape, this party dissolved at the beginning of 1946. Most of the members joined the Union, some went to the FDP.
In Braunschweig , the district association for the city and district of Goslar was founded as the first district association on October 25, 1945. In the Protestant Braunschweig the conditions for the Union were not as favorable as in the Catholic countries. The regional association of Braunschweig, founded on December 7, 1945, received almost 30% of the votes in the first elections.
A regional association was founded in the province of Hanover on November 18, 1945. Bernhard path became regional chairman. The Hanover regional association included the formerly independent Schaumburg-Lippe.
In 1950, a loose cooperation between the three regional associations to form the "CDU in Lower Saxony" was agreed. This association was chaired by Adolf Cillien (1950–1960) and Otto Fricke (1960–1968). A merger to form a unified regional association failed mainly due to the resistance of the Oldenburg regional association. Its state chairmen Hermann Ehlers (1952–1954) and August Wegmann (1955–1965) insisted on the independence of their “CDU Duchy of Oldenburg”. In 1968 there was an effective merger to form an umbrella organization. The state associations ceded extensive rights to the CDU in Lower Saxony , so that they are in fact equal to the district associations of the CDU Hanover. For reasons of tradition, however, they continued to insist on being able to call themselves a regional association.
Chairperson
| Years | Chairman |
| 1968-1990 | Wilfried Hasselmann |
| 1990-1994 | Josef Stock |
| 1994-2008 | Christian Wulff |
| 2008-2016 | David McAllister |
| 2016- | Bernd Althusmann |
Honorary Chairwoman
| Years | Honorary Chairman |
| 1968-1972 | Otto Fricke |
| 1974-1995 | Richard Langeheine |
| 1990-2003 | Wilfried Hasselmann |
Group chairmen
| Years | Chairman |
| 1959-1965 | Alois Scherf |
| 1965-1970 | Bruno Brandes |
| 1970-1976 | Wilfried Hasselmann |
| 1976-1982 | Bruno Brandes |
| 1982-1986 | Werner Remmers |
| 1986-1988 | Josef Stock |
| 1988-1994 | Jürgen Gansäuer |
| 1994-2003 | Christian Wulff |
| 2003-2010 | David McAllister |
| 2010-2017 | Bjorn Thümler |
| 2017 | Bernd Althusmann |
| since 2017 | Dirk Toepffer |
State election results
| year | voices | Seats |
|---|---|---|
| 1947 | 19.9% | 30th |
| 1951 | 23.7% | 35 |
| 1955 | 26.6% | 43 |
| 1959 | 30.8% | 51 |
| 1963 | 37.7% | 62 |
| 1967 | 41.7% | 63 |
| 1970 | 45.7% | 74 |
| 1974 | 48.8% | 95 |
| 1978 | 48.7% | 83 |
| 1982 | 50.7% | 87 |
| 1986 | 44.3% | 69 |
| 1990 | 42.0% | 67 |
| 1994 | 36.4% | 67 |
| 1998 | 35.9% | 62 |
| 2003 | 48.3% | 91 |
| 2008 | 42.5% | 68 |
| 2013 | 36.0% | 54 |
| 2017 | 33.6% | 50 |
literature
- Arnold Fratzscher : The CDU in Lower Saxony: Democracy from the very beginning ; Lower Saxony State Center for Political Education, 1971.
- Henning Krüger: 60 years of the CDU parliamentary group in the Lower Saxony state parliament ; Hanover 2007.
- Rolf Zick : The CDU in Lower Saxony - a chronicle ; Sankt Augustin 2008.
Web links
- Official website of the CDU in Lower Saxony
- CDU parliamentary group
- History of the CDU in Lower Saxony
- Names and dates from six decades of party work , pp. 164–221 (Ed .: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung , 2012)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ralf E. Krüger: Almost all parties in Lower Saxony gain members - except for the CDU. HAZ, July 11, 2018, accessed January 31, 2019 .
- ↑ Statutes brochure of the CDU Germany ( Memento of the original from May 27, 2019 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on April 2, 2019 (PDF)
- ↑ Articles of Association. In: CDU in Lower Saxony. Accessed April 2, 2019 (German).
- ^ Results of the state elections in Lower Saxony
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