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 and a bloc party until 1989.
CDU poster showing Otto Nuschke and reading 20 years of CDU and Christians in service of peace and Socialism
Exterior of Neue Zeit building, rear view, with the Berlin Wall in the foreground, 1984.
Lothar de Maizière
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Lothar de Maizière is a German former politician of the Christian Democratic Union. In 1990, he served as the head of the first and only democratically elected government of East Germany, holding this
Christian Democratic Union (East Germany)
…Erich Honecker was deposed in favour of Egon Krenz in October 1989. On 2 November 1989, Götting was deposed by inner party reformers. In December 1989 Lothar de Maizière, a lawyer and deputy chairman of the Evangelical Church Synod of East Germany, was elected chairman. From that point on the party deposed (and later…
de Maizière in the aftermath of the 1990 East German general election