CDU donations scandal
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The CDU donations scandal was a political scandal resulting from the illegal forms of party financing used by the German Christian Democratic Union during the 1990s. These included accepting hidden do
Walther Leisler Kiep, 1989
Helmut Kohl, 1987
Angela Merkel
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Angela Dorothea Merkel is a German stateswoman and retired politician who served as Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021. She is the only woman to have held the office and the only former East Germ
CDU donations scandal
…percent. As a consequence, two of the leading CDU figures of the 1980s and 1990s, Helmut Kohl and Wolfgang Schäuble lost their political influence, with Angela Merkel and Roland Koch emerging as the most powerful German conservative politicians. Politics of Germany…
Merkel in 2019
Merkel's paternal grandparents when engaged: Margarethe and her betrothed, Ludwik Marian Kaźmierczak, in his Polish Blue Army uniform
Lothar de Maizière and Merkel, 1990
Merkel in a CDU campaign poster, 1995