The Federation of Expellees is a non-profit organization formed in West Germany on 27 October 1957 to represent the interests of German nationals of all ethnicities and foreign ethnic Germans and their families who either fled their homes in parts of Central and Eastern Europe, or were forcibly expelled following World War II.
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.
The Christian Democratic Union of Germany was an East German political party founded in 1945. It was part of the National Front with the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) and a bloc party until 1989.
Martin Hohmann is a German lawyer and politician. He was a member of the German Parliament ("Bundestag") for the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU), from 1998 until 2005. Since 2017 he has again been a member of the German Parliament for the AfD.
The Landsmannschaft Schlesien - Nieder- und Oberschlesien e.V. is an organization of Germans born in the former Prussian provinces of Lower and Upper Silesia, and their descendants, who currently live in Germany. The Landsmannschaft Schlesien was established in March 1950 and is a member of the Federation of Expellees, and has its headquarters in Königswinter, North Rhine-Westphalia.
Thomas Dehler was a German politician. He was the Federal Republic of Germany's first Minister of Justice (1949–1953) and chairman of Free Democratic Party (1954–1957).
Roland Gewalt is a German politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament from 2005 until 2009. He has been a member of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany since 1980, which is affiliated with the Group of the European People's Party and European Democrats in the European Parliament. During his time in parliament, he was a member of the Committee on Transport and Tourism and the delegation for relations with South Africa. He was also a substitute for the Committee on Legal Affairs and the delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly.
Rainer Eppelmann, is a German politician. Known for his opposition in the German Democratic Republic, he became Minister for Disarmament and Defense in the last cabinet. He is now a member of the CDU.
CDU/CSU, unofficially the Union parties or the Union, is the 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).
Carsten Müller is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).
Mario Mettbach is a German politician from Hamburg, a former representative of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Party for a Rule of Law Offensive.
Waldemar Kraft was a German politician. A member of the SS in Nazi Germany, he served as Managing Director of the Reich Association for Land Management in the Annexed Territories from 1940 to 1945, administering parts of occupied Poland. After the war, he became a West German politician, sitting in the Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein from 1950 to 1953 and serving as Minister of Finance. He entered the Bundestag in 1953 and served as Federal Minister for Special Affairs in the Cabinet of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer from 1953 to 1956. He retired from the Bundestag in 1961.
Jürgen Hardt is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who currently serves as a member of the Bundestag.
Peter Michael Tauber is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag since 2009. From 16 December 2013 to 26 February 2018 he served as Secretary General of the CDU.
Heike Brehmer is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as member of the Bundestag and former district counselor of the district of Aschersleben-Staßfurt.
Karl Lamers is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and former member of the German Bundestag.
Hartmut Büttner is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and former member of the German Bundestag.
Erich G. Fritz is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and former member of the German Bundestag.
Peter Götz is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and former member of the German Bundestag.
Peter Wilhelm Brand was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and former member of the German Bundestag.
