Christian democratic workforce
The Christian Democratic Workforce (CDA) is an association of the CDU with a focus on "social policy". Another competing self-designation is also "CDU social committees".
The CDU social committees emerged from the Christian social movement and claim to provide a home for the Christian social within the CDU. The Christian Socials are one of the three big party wings within the CDU alongside the Liberals and the Conservatives.
The seat is Berlin , until 1999/2000 Königswinter .
history
After the Second World War , the CDA was founded mainly by former Christian trade unionists in the working-class strongholds of North Rhine-Westphalia . The official establishment of the CDA took place in 1946 in the Kolping House in Herne. In the early years, the CDA was primarily concerned with the social question , i. H. the material security of employees and their position in the company are in the foreground. Since the association adopted its first basic program with the Offenburg Declaration in 1967 , it has increasingly turned to questions of society as a whole. In addition to labor and social policy, the work of the CDA now focuses on pension, health and family policy.
structure
Inner structure
Sub-organizations of the CDU social committees are u. a. their youth organization , the Young CDA , formerly Young Workers (JA) , as well as the working groups women in the CDA , Christian-social work , AG DGB , AG ver.di , AG dbb and AG Deutscher Bundeswehrverband . The Junge CDA was also launched in Herne at the founding meeting in 1947. It is organized in 15 regional associations. All members of the CDA are automatically members of the boys CDA up to the age of 35 .
The CDA works closely with the CSU workers' union .
Chairperson
- 1947–1949: Johannes Albers
- 1949–1958: Jakob Kaiser
- 1958: Karl Arnold
- 1958–1963: Johannes Albers
- 1963–1977: Hans Katzer
- 1977–1987: Norbert Blüm
- 1987-1993: Ulf Fink
- 1993: Werner Schreiber
- 1994–2001: Rainer Eppelmann
- 2001-2004: Hermann-Josef Arentz
- 2004–2005: Gerald Weiß
- since 2005: Karl-Josef Laumann
In CDU-led governments at federal and state level, at least the minister of social affairs or labor has traditionally been provided by senior members of the CDA. Ursula von der Leyen, however, was only an ordinary member during her time as Federal Minister for Labor and Social Affairs from 2009 to 2013; its parliamentary state secretary Ralf Brauksiepe, on the other hand, is CDA deputy federal chairman.
Regional associations
Regional association | Chairperson | Members |
---|---|---|
Baden-Württemberg | Christian Bäumler | |
Berlin | Claudia Skrobek | |
Brandenburg | Anja Schmollack | |
Bremen | Heike Menz | |
Hamburg | Egbert von Frankenberg | |
Hesse | Matthias Zimmer , Member of the Bundestag | |
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania | Wolfgang Isbarn | |
Lower Saxony | Max Matthiesen | |
Braunschweig | Uwe Lagosky | |
Hanover | Gerhard Schrader | |
Oldenburg | Thomas Decker | |
North Rhine-Westphalia | Dennis Radtke , MEP | |
Rhineland-Palatinate | Jessica Weller , MdL | |
Saarland | Marc Speicher , MdL | |
Saxony | Alexander Krauss , Member of the Bundestag | |
Saxony-Anhalt | Wigbert Schwenke | |
Schleswig-Holstein | Werner Kalinka | |
Thuringia | Thadaeus King |
Known members
- Sandra Ahrens
- Peter Altmaier
- Gertrud Aretz
- Jürgen Augustinowitz
- Sabine Bächle-Scholz
- Georg Badeck
- Rainer Bensch
- Gustav Bergemann
- Konrad Birkholz
- Theodor Blank
- Antje Blumenthal
- Norbert Blüm
- Kurt Böckmann
- Maria Böhmer
- Wolfgang Börnsen
- Peter Brakelmann
- Bernhard Brinkert
- Leonhard Brockmann
- Heinz Budde
- Anette Bunse
- Albert Burger
- Otto Michael Buss
- Thomas Colditz
- Eberhard Dall'Asta
- Heike Dederer
- Hans Derben
- Ursula Doppmeier
- Brigitte Dreyer
- Wolf-Dietrich Drevs
- Wolfgang Erler
- Karl-Heinz Exner
- Dieter Fischer
- Nikolaus Fleckenstein
- Ansgar Focke
- Johannes Fröhlings
- Torsten Geerdts
- Willi Gehring
- Heiner Geissler
- Angelika Gemkow
- Regina Görner
- Konrad Grundmann
- Horst Günther
- Kurt Härzschel
- Armin Houses
- Lothar Hampe
- Elke Hannack
- Heinz Hausmann
- Martin Heix
- Clemens Henzler
- Robert Hochbaum
- Karl-Heinz Hoffmann
- Emilie Hucht
- Moritz Hunzinger
- Dieter Hussing
- Heinz Jansen
- Karlheinz Jansen
- Elfriede Kaiser-Nebgen
- Dietmar Katzy
- Walter Kern
- Hubert Kleff
- Alfons Klein
- Hugo Klein
- Rita Klöpper
- Klaus Köberle
- Wolfgang Kölker
- Dagmar King
- Ingbert Koppermann
- Kordula Kovac
- Karl Krammig
- Andreas Krautscheid
- Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer
- Alexander Krauss
- Werner Kruger
- Max artist
- Heinz Küpper
- Peter Kudella
- Hans-Georg Kuhn
- Bernhard Kurpiers
- Armin Laschet
- Karl-Josef Laumann
- Thomas Lenz
- Ursula von der Leyen
- Sascha Lucht
- Josef Lukowiak
- Wilhelm Adam Lulay
- Thomas Mann
- Harald Menges
- Winfried Menrad
- Theo Michaely
- Patrick Moreau
- Adolf Muller
- Elmar Nass
- Claudia Middendorf
- Timo Mildau
- Hermann Mühlbeyer
- Alfons Müller
- Günter Niederbremer
- Paul Noessler
- Josef Otte
- Ingrid Pahlmann
- Sylvia Pantel
- Günther-Martin Pauli
- Joachim Paulick
- Thomas Pietzsch
- Rainer Prachtl
- Josef Reinert
- Klaus Riegert
- Werner Ringkamp
- Franz Romer
- Antonius Rüsenberg
- Helmut S. Ruppert
- Ines Saborowski-Richter
- Hermann Sandkämper
- Wilhelm Sante
- Erhard Schäfer
- Alois Schätzle
- Günther Schacht
- Heribert Scharrenbroich
- Karl Schiewerling
- Michael Schmelich
- Gabriele Schmidt
- Heinrich Schmidt
- Christa Schroeder
- Sven Schulze
- Uwe Schummer
- Roland Seffrin
- Ingrid Sehrbrock
- Heinz Soénius
- Michael-Ezzo Solf
- Hans-Jürgen Stutzer
- Rudolf Sube
- Bernhard Tacke
- Bernhard Tenhumberg
- Willi Tilger
- Bruno Timm
- Karl-Heinrich Trageser
- Georg Urban
- Franz Varelmann
- Karl Vecsey
- Kerstin Vieregge
- Wolfgang Vogt
- Günter Volmer
- Christel Wagner-Watzlawski
- Maria Weber
- Peter White
- Hans Wellmann
- Eva Maria Welskop-Deffaa
- Peter Wichtel
- Franz Wieser
- Karin Wolff
- Michael Wonneberger
- Willi Zylajew
- Matthias Zimmer
Future price
The Christian-Democratic workforce awarded a “Future Prize” from 1997 to 2005, the other awards of which were taken over by the Forum Future initiative , which is close to the CDU .
Prize winners are:
- 1997: Jürgen Rüttgers
- 1998: Jean-Claude Juncker
- 1999: Horst Teltschik
- 2000: no award
- 2001: Lothar Späth
- 2002: Reinhard Mohn
- 2003: Angela Merkel
- 2004: Hubert Burda
- 2005: Franz Beckenbauer
See also
- Conservatives at Work , the counterpart to the CDA in the British Conservative Party
Web links
- Christian democratic workforce
- Women in the CDA
- Young CDA
- child-friendly A campaign by CDA Germany ( Memento from April 10, 2010)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christian Democratic Workers' Union (CDA) on cdu.de
- ↑ The cradle of the CDA is in Cologne. In: cda-bund.de , accessed on May 1, 2019.
- ^ [1] Curriculum Vitae of Brauksiepe
- ^ Page 369 The European Union after Lisbon: Constitutional Basis, Economic Order and External Action by Hermann-Josef Blanke, Stelio Mangiameli
- ↑ CDA Future Prize Bertelsmann Patriarch Mohn awarded , Manager Magazin March 4, 2002
- ↑ CDU boss honored with “Future Prize” from the social committees Rheinische Post , October 10, 2003
- ↑ Beckenbauer awarded the CDA Future Prize , Braunschweiger Zeitung April 22, 2005