The Christian Democratic Union of Germany is a Christian democratic and conservative political party in Germany, active in only 15 of 16 states, as its "sister party" Christian Social Union in Bavaria
1949 election poster of the CDU reading "We cannot do magic — but we can work/do our job. Help us. Vote for CDU. Germany is at stake!"
1949 election poster of the CDU reading "The Rescue: CDU"
Poster for the 1957 West German federal election reading "No experiments" and featuring then Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. This was the only federal election in which the CDU obtained an absolute majority in the Bundestag.
East German CDU leader Lothar de Maizière (left) with West German CDU leader Helmut Kohl in September 1990
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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 from former East
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