Abstract
CDU / CSU: From the history of the alliance of two German parties
Highlights
Alliances, coalitions and agreements between parties are a common practice in political struggle for power
Under such extraordinary contradictory conditions, as it will be shown in the article, the two parts of Germany – the FRG and GDR – were created, each having its own constitution, political party system and electoral authorities formed by the citizens of these countries
In West Germany, the Christian parties, the CDU and the CSU, played the key role, having united in a single fraction at the federal level, which is still functional in modern Germany
Summary
Coalitions and agreements between parties are a common practice in political struggle for power. The fundamental issue prepared by the Hanns Seidel Foundation for the 50th anniversary of the CSU should be noted here, which comprehensively represents the activities of the Bavarian Christian Social Union.[8] Among the works on the history of the CDU, we will mention the monograph by Frank Bösch, Hans-Otto Kleinmann,[9] the ‘encyclopedia’ of Christian democracy – Lexikon zur Geschichte der Christlichen Demokratie in Deutschland,[10] memoirs of Konrad Adenauer, the first German chancellor and chairman of the CDU,[11] and the minister-president of the state of Bavaria Franz Josef Strauss, the long-standing leader of the CSU.[12] The published materials of the Economic Council of the CDU and the Parliamentary Council engaged in the development of the Basic Law for the future FRG have direct relation to the establishment of the alliance between the CDU and the CSU.[13]. It just so happens that tyranny, as noted by philosophers in antiquity, grows out of such a democracy
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