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79-554: The term "German Autumn" is derived from the 1978 film Deutschland im Herbst ( Germany in Autumn ), a collage of several documentaries by eleven directors of the " New German Cinema ." The film critically examines the state's reaction to terrorism from different perspectives. In 1977, the activities of the so-called second generation of the RAF reached their peak. However, the events before September are generally not considered to be part of

158-492: A "wage floor", after having expressly rejected minimum wages during the previous years. Psephologist and Merkel advisor Matthias Jung coined the term "asymmetric demobilisation" for the CDU's strategy (practised in the 2009, 2013 and 2017 campaigns) of adopting issues and positions close to its rivals, e.g. regarding social justice (SPD) and ecology (Greens), thus avoiding conflicts that might mobilise their potential supporters. Some of

237-530: A CDU/CSU–FDP coalition. This marked the first change of coalition partner by a Chancellor in German history and the first centre-right coalition government since 1998. CDU candidate Christian Wulff won the 2010 presidential election in the third ballot, while opposition candidate Joachim Gauck (a Protestant pastor and former anti-communist activist in East Germany, who was favoured even by some CDU members) received

316-693: A common youth organisation, the Junge Union , a common pupil organisation, the Schüler Union Deutschlands  [ de ] , a common student organisation, the Ring Christlich-Demokratischer Studenten and a common Mittelstand organisation, the Mittelstands- und Wirtschaftsvereinigung  [ de ] . The CDU and CSU are legally and organisationally separate parties; their ideological differences are sometimes

395-459: A number of "faithless" votes from the government camp. The decisions to suspend conscription (late 2010) and to phase out nuclear energy (shortly after the Fukushima disaster in 2011) broke with long-term principles of the CDU, moving the party into a more socially liberal direction and alienating some of its more conservative members and voters. At its November 2011 conference the party proposed

474-437: A result, the party claims to represent "Christian-social, liberal and conservative" elements. The CDU is generally pro-European in outlook. Black is the party's customary and historical electoral colour. Other colours include red for the logo, orange for the flag, and black-red-gold for the corporate design. Since the election defeat in the 2021 federal election, the CDU is in opposition at federal level. It previously led

553-466: A rise in support for the CDU in national polling, and her personal popularity was initially high. However, she suffered a sharp decline in popularity in the lead-up to the 2019 European Parliament election , in which the CDU/CSU suffered its worst ever result in a national election with just 29%. Kramp-Karrenbauer thereafter remained one of the least popular politicians nationally. The CSU's Manfred Weber

632-629: A source of conflict. The most notable and serious such incident was in 1976, when the CSU under Franz Josef Strauß ended the alliance with the CDU at a party conference in Wildbad Kreuth. This decision was reversed shortly thereafter when the CDU threatened to run candidates against the CSU in Bavaria. The relationship of CDU to the CSU has historic parallels to previous Christian-democratic parties in Germany, with

711-714: A special report on Deutschlandfunk announced that "all hostages have been freed. We do not yet know whether there were any dead or injured among them..." All 87 hostages were rescued, including four of the five crew members. Three of the hijackers were killed and one hijacker was seriously wounded. Shortly afterward, in the early morning hours of 18 October 1977, known as the "Night of death in Stammheim", RAF members Andreas Baader , Gudrun Ensslin , and Jan-Carl Raspe , who were imprisoned in Stuttgart-Stammheim supermax prison , reportedly took their own lives. Irmgard Möller , who

790-628: A total of thirteen years. In 1982, the FDP withdrew from the coalition with the SPD and allowed the CDU to regain power. CDU Chairman Helmut Kohl became the new Chancellor of West Germany and his CDU/CSU–FDP coalition was confirmed in the 1983 federal election . After the collapse of the East German government in 1989, Kohl—supported by the governments of the United States and reluctantly by those of France and

869-518: A variety of religions as well as non-religious individuals. The CDU's policies derive from political Catholicism , Catholic social teaching and political Protestantism as well as economic liberalism and national conservatism . The party has adopted more liberal economic policies since Helmut Kohl 's term in office as the Chancellor of Germany (1982–1998). As a conservative party, the CDU supports stronger punishments of crimes and involvement on

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948-507: Is a Christian democratic and conservative political party in Germany . It is the major party of the centre-right in German politics . Friedrich Merz has been federal chairman of the CDU since 31 January 2022. The CDU is the second largest party in the Bundestag , the German federal legislature, with 152 out of 736 seats, having won 18.9% of votes in the 2021 federal election . It forms

1027-405: Is bleeding from the forehead and welcomes him into her apartment. She sees his face on a newspaper among the headshots of wanted terrorists, but chooses not to inform on him. Directed by Hans Peter Cloos and Katja Rupé. Customs officers patrol a crossing between French and Germany. An unmarried couple driving through are stopped and have their identification papers checked. The guard speculates that

1106-455: Is heard at the funeral ceremony of Hanns-Martin Schleyer and when the three-pointed star flags at Daimler-Benz are at half-mast. After the funeral of Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe of the RAF, the film ends with the song " Here's to You " by Joan Baez and Ennio Morricone in homage to anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bart Vanzetti , while a young mother with her little daughter in

1185-641: Is mostly funded by taxpayer money. Both the CDU and the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU) originated after World War II, sharing a concern for the Christian worldview. In the Bundestag, the CDU is represented in a common faction with the CSU. This faction is called CDU/CSU , or informally the Union. Its basis is a binding agreement known as a Fraktionsvertrag between the two parties. The CDU and CSU share

1264-483: Is ongoing tolerance or cooperation of CDU at the local and district level with the right-wing radical AfD. CDU-head Friedrich Merz polarizes with political approaches to the AfD and called the CDU in 2023 one «Alternative with substance». Political observers from abroad say that the CDU's boundaries to the far-right are eroding. The party congress is the highest organ of the CDU. It meets at least every two years, determines

1343-463: The Heimatvertriebene associations (Germans who fled or were expelled from the eastern territories) who hoped for a return of or in these territories. Seven Bundestag members, including former vice chancellor Erich Mende , defected from the FDP and SPD to the CDU in protest against these treaties, depriving Brandt of his majority, and providing a thin majority for the CDU and CSU. In April 1972,

1422-489: The 2020 Thuringian government crisis . The Thuringian CDU had been perceived as cooperating with the Alternative for Germany (AfD) to prevent the election of a left-wing government, breaching the long-standing taboo in Germany surrounding cooperation with the far-right. Kramp-Karrenbauer was perceived as unable to enforce discipline within the party during the crisis, which she claimed was complicated by unclear positions within

1501-573: The CDU/CSU Bundestag faction, also known as the Union, with its Bavarian counterpart, the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU). The group's parliamentary leader is also Friedrich Merz . Founded in 1945 as an interdenominational Christian party, the CDU effectively succeeded the pre-war Catholic Centre Party , with many former members joining the party, including its first leader Konrad Adenauer . The party also included politicians of other backgrounds, including liberals and conservatives. As

1580-613: The Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) and the Christian Social Union (CSU), suspected that the ruling social-liberal coalition of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the Free Democratic Party (FDP) under Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt (SPD) was ideologically close to the terrorists. In response, the coalition accused the opposition of hysterical overreactions and of attempting to transform

1659-574: The European Union , the party opposes the entry of Turkey, preferring instead a privileged partnership. In addition to citing various human rights violations, the CDU also believes that Turkey's unwillingness to recognise Cyprus as an independent sovereign state contradicts the European Union policy that its members must recognise the existence of one another. The CDU has governed in four federal-level and numerous state-level Grand Coalitions with

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1738-646: The International Democracy Union , and the European People's Party (EPP). It is the largest party in the EPP with 23 MEPs . Ursula von der Leyen , the current President of the European Commission , is also a member of the CDU. Immediately following the end of World War II and the foreign occupation of Germany , simultaneous yet unrelated meetings began occurring throughout the country, each with

1817-483: The Social Democratic Party (SPD) as well as in state and local-level coalitions with the Alliance 90/The Greens . The CDU has an official party congress adjudication that prohibits coalitions and any sort of cooperation with either The Left or the Alternative for Germany . CDU officially prohibits any cooperation with the AfD , but does not clearly define what that means. In the eastern federal states , however, there

1896-489: The federal government from 1949 to 1969, 1982 to 1998, and 2005 to 2021. Germany's three longest-serving post-war Chancellors have all come from the CDU, more specifically: Helmut Kohl (1982–1998), Angela Merkel (2005–2021), and Konrad Adenauer (1949–1963). The party also currently leads the governments of six of Germany's sixteen states . The CDU is a member of the Centrist Democrat International ,

1975-430: The "dominant culture" imply "tolerance and living together". According to party analyst Stephan Eisel, her avoiding the values issue may have had the opposite effect as she failed to mobilize the party's core constituency. The CDU applies the principles of Christian democracy and emphasizes the "Christian understanding of humans and their responsibility toward God". However, CDU membership consists of people adhering to

2054-497: The 1960s (see Vergangenheitsbewältigung ), the CDU attracted conservative , anti-communist , former Nazis as well as Nazi collaborators into its higher ranks (like Hans Globke and Theodor Oberländer but also future CDU chairman and West German chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger ). A prominent member was theologian Eugen Gerstenmaier , who became Acting Chairman of the Foreign Board (1949–1969). The result of these meetings

2133-547: The CDU officially elected Merz as new party Chairman on 22 January 2022, and he assumed office on 31 January 2022. In October 2024, CDU again became proponents of nuclear energy , advocating reactivation of closed reactors and construction of new plants. Defunct Defunct In her 2005 campaign, Angela Merkel was unwilling to express explicitly Christian views while maintaining that her party had never lost its concept of values. Merkel and Bundestag President Norbert Lammert have been keen to clarify that CDU references to

2212-464: The CDU saw its chance to return to power, calling a constructive vote of no confidence . CDU chairman Rainer Barzel was almost certain to become the new Chancellor. But not all parliamentarians voted as expected (it was later revealed that two CDU/CSU deputies had been bribed by the East German Stasi ): Brandt won the vote and stayed in office. Thus, the CDU continued its role as opposition for

2291-415: The CDU supported, reluctantly, nonpartisan candidate Joachim Gauck. The CDU/CSU–FDP coalition lasted until the 2013 federal election , when the FDP lost all its seats in the Bundestag while the CDU and CSU won their best result since 1990, only a few seats short of an absolute majority. This was partly due to the CDU's expansion of voter base to all socio-structural groups (class, age or gender), partly due to

2370-425: The CDU was still "sufficiently conservative" or if it was "social-democratising". In March 2009, Merkel answered with the statement "Sometimes I am liberal, sometimes I am conservative, sometimes I am Christian-social—and this is what defines the CDU." Although the CDU/CSU lost support in the 2009 federal elections , their "desired partner" the FDP experienced the best election cycle in its history, thereby enabling

2449-546: The CDU. It is named after the first Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany and first president of the CDU. The foundation offers political education, conducts scientific fact-finding research for political projects, grants scholarships to gifted individuals, researches the history of Christian democracy and supports and encourages European unification , international understanding and development-policy cooperation. Its annual budget amounts to around 120 million euro and

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2528-772: The Code of Criminal Procedure ( Strafprozessordnung ) was amended to limit defendants to appoint a maximum of three defense attorneys. Germany in Autumn Germany in Autumn ( German : Deutschland im Herbst ) is a 1978 West German anthology film about the period of 1977 known as the German Autumn , which was dominated by incidents of terrorism. The film is composed of contributions from different filmmakers, including Rainer Werner Fassbinder , Alexander Kluge , Edgar Reitz , Bernhard Sinkel, Alf Brustellin, Hans Peter Cloos, Katja Rupé, Peter Schubert and Volker Schlöndorff . It

2607-532: The FDP and Greens, they continued their grand coalition with the SPD. In October 2018, Merkel announced that she would step down as leader of the CDU that December and not seek reelection, but wanted to remain as Chancellor until 2021. On 7 December 2018, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer was elected as federal chairwoman of the CDU. Kramp-Karrenbauer was considered Merkel's ideological successor, though holding more socially conservative positions, such as opposition to same-sex marriage . Kramp-Karrenbauer's election saw

2686-515: The Federal Republic of Germany ( West Germany ) into a police state . Despite these differences, at the beginning of the Schleyer kidnapping, Chancellor Schmidt convened the so-called Great Crisis Committee ( Großer Krisenstab ), which included members of all parliamentary groups in the West German Bundestag . Historian Wolfgang Kraushaar later described this period as an "undeclared state of emergency" ( state of exception ). One result of

2765-662: The German Autumn. On 7 April 1977, the Federal Prosecutor General Siegfried Buback , his driver Wolfgang Göbel, and the head of the Federal Prosecutor's Office's motor pool, Georg Wurster, were shot dead in their car by the RAF's " Ulrike Meinhof Commando" ( Kommando Ulrike Meinhof ) from a motorcycle in Karlsruhe . On 30 July 1977, Jürgen Ponto, the spokesman for the board of Dresdner Bank AG ,

2844-447: The Nazi government. Documentary footage appears later on in the film of the 1977 SPD conference in which speakers condemn the actions of left-wing terrorists. Gabi Teichert, from the earlier sequences, is in the audience studiously taking notes during a speech by Max Frisch . Directed by Alexander Kluge. A young woman is punched in an underground car park. Another young woman driving past

2923-572: The United Kingdom—called for German reunification. On 3 October 1990, the government of East Germany was abolished and its territory acceded to the territory of the Basic Law already in place in West Germany. The East German CDU merged with its West German counterpart and elections were held for the reunified country. Public support for the coalition's work in the process of German reunification

3002-523: The Western alliance made it harder to attract Protestant voters to the party, as most refugees from the former German territories east of the Oder river were of that faith, as were the majority of the inhabitants of East Germany . Therefore, the CDU was the dominant political party for the first two decades following the establishment of West Germany in 1949. The durable alliance that the party had established with

3081-425: The basic lines of CDU policy, approves the party program and decides on the statutes of the CDU. The CDU party congress consists of the delegates of the CDU regional associations, the foreign associations and the honorary chairmen . The state associations send exactly 1,000 delegates who have to be elected by the state or district conventions. The number of delegates that a regional association can send depends on

3160-530: The broadcast with a disclaimer, given the febrile political atmosphere and the play's exploration of death, authority and political resistance. After much debate they agree not to broadcast the play at all. Written by Heinrich Böll and directed by Volker Schlöndorff The film concludes with Kluge's footage from the funeral of Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe, which is attended by hundreds of protestors, some of whom are subsequently arrested. Directed by Alexander Kluge. The film begins and ends with

3239-409: The cross-party consensus was the "Contact Ban Act" ( Kontaktsperre ) passed in the autumn of 1977, which allowed for a contact ban for prisoners, including discussions with lawyers. SPD politician and lawyer Hubert Weber welcomed this act, stating that "The Federal Republic is not in a state of emergency," and thus it was wrong for the courts to strain the legal definition of an emergency. Additionally,

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3318-574: The discontent of some conservatives with the Merkel administration's handling of the European debt crisis (2009–14) and later the 2015 refugee crisis , lamenting a purported loss of sovereignty and control or even "state failure". Nearly 10 percent of early AfD members were defectors from the CDU. In 2017, the Bundestag voted to legalise same-sex marriage . Merkel had allowed the conscience vote to happen despite her personal objections. While she herself and

3397-613: The expense of concessions to the Soviet Union (USSR), depicting Adenauer as an instrument of both the Americans and the Vatican . The Western powers appreciated the CDU's right-ward slant, its commitment to capitalism, and its value as a pivotal oppositional force to the communists, thereby keeping consistent with US/UK foreign policy. In addition, Adenauer was also trusted by the British. However,

3476-423: The federal party congress. For this reason it is often called a small party congress . The CDU federal executive heads the federal party. It implements the resolutions of the federal party congress and the federal committee and convenes the federal party congress. The CDU Presidium is responsible for executing the resolutions of the federal executive committee and handling current and urgent business. It consists of

3555-508: The first Chairman of the party. In the beginning, it was not clear which party would be favored by the victors of World War II , but by the end of the 1940s the governments of the United States and of the United Kingdom began to lean more toward the CDU and significantly away from the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), especially due to geopolitical reasons. The latter was more nationalist and sought German reunification even at

3634-528: The first time in its history. The CDU and CSU were highly critical of Chancellor Willy Brandt 's "change through rapprochement" policy towards the Eastern bloc ( Ostpolitik ) and protested sharply against the 1970 treaties of Moscow and Warsaw that renounced claims to the former eastern territories of Germany and recognised the Oder–Neisse line as Germany's eastern border. The Union parties had close ties with

3713-426: The first woman and the first person from East Germany to lead the federal party. She remained the leader of the CDU for more than eighteen years. In the 2002 federal election , Merkel ceded the position of CDU/CSU's joint candidate for the chancellor's office to the leader of the sister party, Bavarian minister-president Edmund Stoiber . CDU and CSU polled slightly higher (29.5% and 9.0%, respectively), but still lacked

3792-681: The getaway car driven by Peter-Jürgen Boock , which was waiting in front of Pontos' villa. On 25 August 1977, an attack on the Federal Prosecutor's Office building in Karlsruhe failed. On 5 September 1977, the President of the Confederation of German Employers' Associations ( Bundesvereinigung der Deutschen Arbeitgeberverbände , BDA) and the Federation of German Industries ( Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie , BDI), Hanns Martin Schleyer ,

3871-402: The governing coalition in 1966 due to disagreements over fiscal and economic policy, Erhard was forced to resign. Consequently, a grand coalition with the SPD took over government under CDU Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger . The SPD quickly gained popularity and succeeded in forming a social-liberal coalition with the FDP following the 1969 federal election , forcing the CDU out of power for

3950-433: The incident, Franziska Busch, gets out of her car and thwarts the assailant. She then brings the victim home and takes care of her. The scene is accompanied by a song by Wolf Biermann . The RAF co-founder Horst Mahler is interviewed in prison by a TV company and claims that fascism continues to exist in West Germany after the Nazi era. He also unpicks the moral contradictions of left-wing terrorism. Franziska Busch watches

4029-875: The intention of planning a Christian-democratic party. Consequently, the CDU was established in Berlin on 26 June 1945 and in Rheinland and Westfalen in September of the same year. The founding members of the CDU consisted primarily of former members of the Centre Party , the German Democratic Party , the German National People's Party , and the German People's Party . In the Cold War , years after World War II up to

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4108-578: The interview footage in the TV studio auditorium where her boyfriend works. Busch begins to make propaganda films with a revolutionary group she is part of. They film the German singer Wolf Biermann performing 'Girl in Stuttgart' a monologue which questions the official version of events regarding the Stammheim death night . Directed by Bernhard Sinkel and Alf Brustellin. In Munich a woman is visited by an injured man who

4187-619: The leadership election was held in January 2021. Originally scheduled for April 2020, it was delayed multiple times due to the COVID-19 pandemic , and was ultimately held online. Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia Armin Laschet won the election with 52.8% of delegate votes. His main opponent Friedrich Merz , was seen as more right-wing, who won 47.2% of vote; Merz had also run against Kramp-Karrenbauer in 2018 and been defeated. Laschet's election

4266-408: The leading members of the federal executive board and is not an organ of the CDU in Germany. Before 1966, membership totals in the CDU organisation were only estimated. The numbers after 1966 are based on the total from 31 December of the previous year. In 2023, the CDU had 363.101 members. Notable suborganisations of the CDU are the following: The Konrad Adenauer Foundation is the think-tank of

4345-437: The liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP) as the leading tandem of several federal governments, and, implicitly, the strong partnership between Chancellor Adenauer and President Theodor Heuss enabled West Germany to thoroughly rebuild itself in the wake of World War II. Adenauer remained the party's leader until 1963, when former Minister of Economics Ludwig Erhard replaced him. As the Free Democratic Party (FDP) withdrew from

4424-434: The majority needed for a CDU–FDP coalition government and stayed in opposition. In 2005, early elections were called after the CDU dealt the governing SPD a major blow, winning more than ten state elections, most of which were landslide victories . The resulting grand coalition between the CDU/CSU and the SPD faced a serious challenge stemming from both parties' demand for the chancellorship. After three weeks of negotiations,

4503-411: The majority of the party's representatives voted against the proposal, a number of CDU deputies supported it. In the 2017 election , the CDU and CSU lost a large portion of their voteshare: With 26.8 percent of party list votes, the CDU received its worst result since 1949, losing more than fifty seats in the Bundestag (despite an enlargement of the parliament). After failing to negotiate a coalition with

4582-518: The memorial service for possession of a rifle, factory workers standing in silence to mark Schleyer's death, and hospitality staff at the memorial service preparing to serve snacks. Directed by Alexander Kluge. A series of dialogues between Rainer Werner Fassbinder and his mother, his ex-wife Ingrid Caven , his boyfriend Armin Meier and others reflecting on the news of the alleged suicides of RAF members Andreas Baader , Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe in

4661-451: The number of members of the association six months before the party congress and the result of the last federal election in the respective federal state. The foreign associations recognized by the federal executive committee each send a delegate to the party congress, regardless of their number of members. The federal committee is the second highest body and deals with all political and organizational matters that are not expressly reserved for

4740-469: The part of the Bundeswehr in cases of domestic anti-terrorism offensives. In terms of immigrants, the CDU supports initiatives to integrate immigrants through language courses and aims to further control immigration. Dual citizenship should only be allowed in exceptional cases. In terms of foreign policy , the CDU commits itself to European integration and a strong relation with the United States . In

4819-495: The party regarding cooperation with the AfD and The Left , which party statute holds to be equally unacceptable. While the Thuringia crisis was the immediate trigger for Kramp-Karrenbauer's resignation, she stated the decision had "matured some time ago", and media attributed it to the troubled development of her brief leadership. Kramp-Karrenbauer remained in office as Minister of Defence and interim party leader from February until

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4898-465: The party was split over issues of rearmament within the Western alliance and German unification as a neutral state. Adenauer staunchly defended his pro-Western position and outmaneuvered some of his opponents. He also refused to consider the SPD as a party of the coalition until he felt sure that they shared his anti-communist position. The principled rejection of a reunification that would alienate Germany from

4977-427: The party's electoral defeat in 1998, when he was succeeded by Wolfgang Schäuble . In the 1998 federal election , the CDU polled 28.4% and the CSU 6.7% of the national vote, the lowest result for those parties since 1949; a red–green coalition under the leadership of Gerhard Schröder took power until 2005. Schäuble resigned in early 2000 as a result of a party financing scandal and was replaced by Angela Merkel ,

5056-501: The personal popularity of Chancellor Merkel. After talks with the Greens had failed, the CDU/CSU formed a new grand coalition with the SPD. Despite their long-cherished slogan of "There must be no democratically legitimised party to the right of CDU/CSU", the Union has had a serious competitor to its right since 2013. The right-wing populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) was founded with the involvement of disgruntled CDU members. It drew on

5135-687: The pressure by hijacking the Lufthansa plane "Landshut" on 13 October 1977. After an odyssey through the Middle East and the murder of the pilot, Captain Jürgen Schumann, the plane landed at Mogadishu International Airport , the capital of Somalia . Here, the Landshut was stormed by the West German counter-terrorism unit GSG 9 on 18 October at around 00:05 Central European Time (CET). Later that morning,

5214-566: The promises in the CDU's 2013 election platform were seen as "overtaking the SPD on the left". While this strategy proved to be quite successful in elections, it also raised warnings that the CDU's profile would become "random", the party would lose its "essence" and it might even be dangerous for democracy in general if parties became indistinguishable and voters demotivated. President Wulff resigned in February 2012 due to allegations of corruption, triggering an early presidential election . This time

5293-543: The red jacket escapes public disturbances at Dornhalden cemetery. Below is scholarly commentary regarding this film. This article related to a German film of the 1970s is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Christian Democratic Union of Germany Defunct Defunct The Christian Democratic Union of Germany ( German : Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands [ˈkʁɪstlɪç demoˈkʁaːtɪʃə ʔuˈni̯oːn ˈdɔʏtʃlants] , CDU German pronunciation: [ˌtseːdeːˈʔuː] )

5372-463: The same quote from 'Frau Wilde (mother of five)', April 1945: ‘When cruelty has reached a certain point, it no longer matters who is responsible – it simply has to stop’. Frau Wilde had been buried alive after a bombardment and was speaking to an American army psycho-specialist. The musical theme of the film is an excerpt from the second movement in G major of the quartet in C major, Op. 76 No. 3 L'Empereur by Joseph Haydn . Mozart's Requiem in D minor

5451-641: The top-security prison of Stuttgart-Stammheim . Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. A history teacher called Gabi Teichert is questioning some of the curriculum she teaches, causing concern among her superiors. Narrated archive footage explores some of her research into German history, including the Mayerling incident , the German Military Railway, the Spartacist uprising , and the poisoning of Erwin Rommel by

5530-504: The two parties reached a deal whereby CDU received the chancellorship while the SPD retained 8 of the 16 seats in the cabinet and a majority of the most prestigious cabinet posts. The coalition deal was approved by both parties at party conferences on 14 November. Merkel was confirmed as the first female Chancellor of Germany by the majority of delegates (397 to 217) in the newly assembled Bundestag on 22 November. Since her first term in office, from 2005 to 2009, there have been discussions if

5609-399: The woman bears a resemblance to one of the wanted terrorists. They are eventually let through. Directed by Edgar Reitz. Documentary footage of the German army performing various land and air drills across the German countryside. Directed by Peter Schubert. A board of mostly male TV producers meet to discuss an upcoming televisation of Sophocles ' tragedy Antigone . They discuss preceding

5688-533: Was also imprisoned there, survived an alleged suicide attempt, sustaining multiple stab wounds to her chest. The kidnapped Hanns Martin Schleyer was subsequently murdered by his captors. His body was found on the evening of 19 October in the trunk of a green Audi 100 GL , parked on a side street in Mulhouse , Alsace , France, close to the German and Swiss border. During the German Autumn, West German political parties engaged in heated arguments. The opposition, comprising

5767-577: Was entered into the 28th Berlin International Film Festival , where it won a Special Recognition award. The following fictional and documentary sequences are loosely intertwined. The state memorial service of Hanns-Martin Schleyer , leading German industrialist and head of the Daimler-Benz corporation, kidnapped and killed by members of the RAF . Later we see a Turkish man arrested outside

5846-625: Was kidnapped in Cologne . His driver and three police officers were murdered. The kidnappers demanded the release of eleven imprisoned RAF terrorists. As the German government did not give in to the blackmail—unlike with the kidnapping of Peter Lorenz two years earlier—terrorists from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), allied with the Red Army Faction (RAF), tried to increase

5925-494: Was murdered in a failed kidnapping attempt. RAF member Susanne Albrecht , who knew Ponto personally, visited him accompanied by Brigitte Mohnhaupt and Christian Klar . Unaware of Albrecht's political radicalization, Ponto received her unsuspectingly at his private home on Oberhöchstadter Strasse in Oberursel . When Ponto resisted the kidnapping, Klar and Mohnhaupt shot him several times, fatally wounding him. The three then fled in

6004-472: Was reiterated in the 1990 federal election in which the CDU–FDP governing coalition experienced a clear victory. Although Kohl was re-elected, the party began losing much of its popularity because of an economic recession in the former GDR and increased taxes in the west. The CDU was nonetheless able to win the 1994 federal election by a narrow margin thanks to an economic recovery. Kohl served as chairman until

6083-565: Was seen as an affirmation of Merkel's leadership and the CDU's centrist orientation. On 7 October 2021, Armin Laschet, signaled that he would step down after a disastrous general election result, with the CDU suffering its worst ever general election result. A new leadership election was called in December and Friedrich Merz , of the right-wing faction of the CDU, was elected by a large majority of 62,1% of voters, defeating pro-Merkel candidates Norbert Röttgen and Helge Braun . The Congress of

6162-503: Was the Spitzenkandidat for the European People's Party in the 2019 European Parliament election. However, the EPP group ultimately nominated the CDU's Ursula von der Leyen as their candidate for President of the European Commission ; she was elected in July 2019, becoming the first woman to hold the office. Kramp-Karrenbauer resigned as party chair on 10 February 2020, in the midst of

6241-451: Was the establishment of an inter-confessional ( Catholic and Protestant alike) party influenced heavily by the political tradition of liberal conservatism . The CDU experienced considerable success gaining widespread support from the time of its creation in Berlin on 26 June 1945 until its first convention on 21 October 1950, at which future West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer was named

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