The Christian Social Union in Bavaria is a Christian-democratic and conservative political party in Germany. Having a regionalist identity,the CSU operates only in Bavaria while its larger counterpart,the Christian Democratic Union (CDU),operates in the other fifteen states of Germany. It differs from the CDU by being somewhat more conservative in social matters,following Catholic social teaching. The CSU is considered the de facto successor of the Weimar-era Catholic Bavarian People's Party.
The Free Democratic Party is a liberal political party in Germany.
Germany is a democratic,federal parliamentary republic,where federal legislative power is vested in the Bundestag and the Bundesrat.
The Christian Democratic Union of Germany is a Christian-democratic and liberal-conservative political party in Germany. It is the major catch-all party of the centre-right in German politics.
Holger Börner was a German politician of the SPD.
Federal elections were held in West Germany on 14 August 1949 to elect the members of the first Bundestag,with a further eight seats elected in West Berlin between 1949 and January 1952 and another eleven between February 1952 and 1953. They were the first free federal elections in West Germany since 1933 and the first after the division of the country.
Federal elections were held in Germany on 18 September 2005 to elect the members of the 16th Bundestag. The snap election was called after the government's defeat in a state election,which caused them to intentionally lose a motion of confidence to trigger an early federal election. The outgoing government was a coalition of the centre-left Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and Alliance 90/The Greens,led by federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder. The election was originally intended for the autumn of 2006.
Eugen Karl Albrecht Gerstenmaier was a German Evangelical theologian,resistance fighter in the Third Reich,and a CDU politician. From 1954 to 1969,he served as President of the Bundestag. With a tenure of over 14 years,he is,as yet,the longest serving presiding officer of the German parliament and also the only person to preside over the Bundestag during four legislative periods.
Hermann Otto Solms is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP).
Federal elections took place on 27 September 2009 to elect the members of the 17th Bundestag (parliament) of Germany. Preliminary results showed that the Christian Democratic Union (CDU),its Bavarian sister party,the Christian Social Union (CSU),and the Free Democratic Party (FDP) won the election,and the three parties announced their intention to form a new centre-right government with Angela Merkel as Chancellor. Their main opponent,Frank-Walter Steinmeier's Social Democratic Party (SPD),conceded defeat. The Christian Democrats previously governed in coalition with the FDP in most of the 1949–1966 governments of Konrad Adenauer and Ludwig Erhard and the 1982–1998 governments of Helmut Kohl.
Ronald Pofalla is a German politician of the CDU and a manager. He was the Chief of Staff of the German Chancellery and a Federal Minister for Special Affairs from 2009 to 2013,in the second coalition government of Chancellor Angela Merkel. Since 2017,he is the CEO of the infrastructure department of Deutsche Bahn.
CDU/CSU,unofficially the Union parties or the Union,is a centre-right Christian-democratic political alliance of two political parties in Germany:the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) and the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU).
Bartholomäus Kalb is a German politician of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU).
Stephan Ernst Johann Mayer is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Social Union (CSU) who has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2002. In 2022,he briefly served as the Secretary General of the CSU,under the leadership of the party’s chairman Markus Söder.
Florian Pronold is a German lawyer and politician of the SPD who served as member of the German Bundestag from 2002 until 2021. From 11 July 2009 to 20 May 2017,he was state chairman of the SPD Bavaria.
Gunther Krichbaum is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) who has been a member of the German Bundestag since the 2002 elections.
Stephan Thomae is a German lawyer and politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Bavaria from 2009 till 2013 and since 2017.
Florian Toncar is a German lawyer and politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has been serving as Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Finance in the coalition government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz since 2021. He has served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Baden-Württemberg from 2005 until 2013 and since 2017.
Thomas Silberhorn is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Social Union (CSU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Bavaria since 2002.
