SME and Economic Union

Older poster of the middle class association of the CDU Westfalen-Lippe

Federal Chairman Carsten Linnemann (2018)

The Mittelstands- und Wirtschaftsunion ( MIT ) (until September 27, 2019: Mittelstands- und Wirtschaftsvereinigung der CDU / CSU ) is an association of the Union's parties . According to its own statements, it advocates the principles of the social market economy modeled on Ludwig Erhard . At the same time, it represents the interests of entrepreneurs , self-employed and freelancers within the party . It is traditionally one of the most influential associations in the Union. The federal chairman is the CDU member of the Bundestag, Carsten Linnemann .

history

After it already since 1949 various combinations of the medium had been within the CDU and CSU economy, formed in parallel in both parties in 1954 SME Committee of the CSU and the Subcommittee on SME issues of the CDU . These were brought together under the spokesman for medium-sized companies, Kurt Schmücker, to form a joint committee based in Bonn . In 1956, the SME Association emerged from this committee. It was granted the status of an independent association at the CDU federal party conference. In 1995 this association of small and medium-sized enterprises merged with the economic association. The 14th Federal SME Conference on September 27, 2019 decided to change the name to “SME and Economic Union”. The abbreviation MIT was retained.

The Mittelstands- und Wirtschaftsvereinigung sees itself as the organizational union of medium-sized and politically interested persons such as tradespeople, craftsmen, entrepreneurs, members of the liberal professions as well as service providers who are responsible in the economy, science and administration. MIT stands for a free economic and social order, for the social market economy based on initiative and personal responsibility. In the Mittelstand parliamentary group (PKM) within the Bundestag faction of the CDU and CSU, 161 members (as of June 2018), many of them in leading positions, are committed to solving medium-sized problems. In addition, the PKM acts as a liaison body between the CDU / CSU parliamentary group and medium-sized organizations, in particular the chambers and associations of medium-sized businesses and MIT.

MIT publishes its member magazine Mittelstandsmagazin six times a year .

Regional associations

MIT poster for the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia in 2000

The Mittelstands- und Wirtschaftsunion is a joint organization of the CDU / CSU, but the Bavarian regional association bears the name Mittelstands-Union and is a working group of the CSU. The regional associations are in some cases further subdivided into district, district, city and local associations. There is also a foreign association in Belgium.

Regional association	State chairman	Members
Baden-Württemberg	Oliver Zander	2,997
Bavaria ( Mittelstands-Union )	Franz Pschierer	3,946
Berlin	Christian Graeff	901
Brandenburg	Uwe Feiler	334
Bremen	Kai Stadium	77
Hamburg	Götz T. Wiese	210
Hesse	Marco Reuter	1,839
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	Dietrich Monstadt	251
Lower Saxony	Werner Lübbe	4,641
North Rhine-Westphalia	Hendrik Wüst	6,543
Rhineland-Palatinate	Gereon Haumann	796
Saarland	Sarah Gillen	349
Saxony	Markus Reichel	461
Saxony-Anhalt	Detlef Gürth	416
Schleswig-Holstein	Stefan Lange	522
Thuringia	Gerd Albrecht	400

Federal Chairperson

Beginning	The End	Federal Chairperson
1956	1970	Kurt Schmücker
1970	1977	Egon Lampersbach
1977	1987	Gerhard Zeitel
1987	1993	Elmar Pieroth
1993	1996	Klaus E. Bregger
1996	1997	Hansjürgen Doss
1997	2005	Peter Rauen
2005	2013	Josef Schlarmann
2013		Carsten Linnemann

See also

• Economic Council of the CDU

Web links

Commons : Mittelstands- und Wirtschaftsvereinigung  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Homepage of the SME and Economic Union (MIT)
• News from the Virtual District Association of the SME and Economic Union (MIT)
• Homepage of the Mittelstands-Union Bayern (MU)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Federal Board. SME and Economic Union, accessed February 28, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Andreas Mihm: Carsten Linnemann will lead the Union economic wing in the future. In: faz.net. October 11, 2013, accessed December 11, 2014 . 
3. ↑ SME and Economic Union MIT abbreviates names online at www.mit-bund.de, accessed on November 17, 2019.
4. ↑ ^{a b} History of MIT ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ Small and medium- sized parliamentary group. Task, self-image and goals of the PKM . In: CDU / CSU parliamentary group . Archived from the original on April 29, 2014. Retrieved March 26, 2015.
6. ↑ Small and medium- sized parliamentary group (PKM) ( Memento of the original from January 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ Working groups, working groups, commissions of the CSU ( Memento of the original from September 4, 2011 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. 
8. ↑ Foreign associations. Retrieved February 28, 2020 . 
9. ↑ regional associations. Retrieved February 27, 2020 . 
10. ↑ Medium- sized and business association of the CDU / CSU (ed.): Event book . Annual report for the 14th Federal SME Day on September 27 and 28, 2019. p. 146 ( mit-bund.de [PDF]).