Dieter Althaus is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He served as the 3rd Minister President of Thuringia from 2003 to 2009. In 2003/04 he was the 58th President of the Bundesrat.
Carsten Christoffer Linnemann is a German economist and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been a member of the German Bundestag since the 2009 election,representing Paderborn. Since 2022,he has been one of five deputy chairs of the CDU,under the leadership of chairman Friedrich Merz.
Marco Wanderwitz is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). From 2018 until 2021,he served as Parliamentary State Secretary in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Johann David Wadephul is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been a member of the German Parliament since 2009.
Mike Mohring is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).
Ralph Brinkhaus is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He served as parliamentary leader of the CDU/CSU group in the Bundestag from 2018 to 2022.
The 2018 Christian Democratic Union leadership election took place during the party's 31st Congress in Hamburg at the Messehallen convention center on 7–8 December following Angela Merkel's decision in October 2018 not to stand for party leader at the 2018 party conference following the party's bad performance in the 2018 Hessian state election and the party's consistently low numbers in national polls.
The 2019 Thuringian state election was held on 27 October 2019 to elect the members of the 7th Landtag of Thuringia. The outgoing government was a coalition consisting of The Left,the Social Democratic Party (SPD),and The Greens,led by Minister-President Bodo Ramelow.
Olav Gutting is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag since 2002.
The next election to the Landtag of Thuringia is scheduled for 1 September 2024.
Andreas Jung is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Baden-Württemberg since 2005.
Patricia Lips is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag for Odenwald in the state of Hesse since 2002.
Mathias Middelberg is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Lower Saxony since 2009.
Sepp Müller is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Saxony-Anhalt since 2017.
Tankred Schipanski is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Thuringia from 2009 until 2021.
Peter Weiß is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Baden-Württemberg from 1998 until 2021.
Ulrich Lange is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Bavaria since 2009.
The 2020 Thuringian government crisis,also known as the Thuringia crisis,was triggered by the election of Thomas Kemmerich (FDP) as Thuringian Minister President with votes from the AfD,CDU and FDP on February 5,2020. The election attracted considerable national and international attention because,for the first time in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany,a Minister President was elected with votes from a far-right populist party,in this case the AfD.
Tilman Moritz Kuban is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the German Bundestag since 2021. He was also the chairman of the CDU’s youth organisation,the Young Union (JU),from 2019 until 2022.
The December 2021 Christian Democratic Union leadership election was held in December 2021. The leader of the party was elected indirectly by a party convention,for the first time the CDU held a vote by the membership to decide the candidate which the party's executive board proposed to the party convention. Though the convention is not obliged to elect the proposed candidates,the membership vote is considered politically binding. The online vote of members was from 4 December to 16 December 2021 and the convention in Hanover on 21 and 22 January 2022 formalised the election.
