Special Organizations
· Junge Union
“Young Union” of Germany is the combined youth organization of the two conservative German political parties CDU and CSU. Membership of this organization may only be between 14 and 35 years of age. It defines itself as an organization that aims at increasing awareness about the CDU/CSU’s political goals and representing other interests .
· Christian Democratic Employees Association (CDA)
The CDA was created after WWII by the Christian trade unionist. The official establishment of the CDA was in 1946. The CDA today covers pension, health and family policy, in addition to labor and social policy.
· Evangelical Working Group
The EAK was founded in 1952. Today, the EAK’s role is facilitating contact with Protestant churches and their members. The actual trigger for the formation of the EAK was the dispute between Konrad Adenauer and Gustav Heinemann, a leading Protestant-evangelical member of the Christian-democrats (CDU) at that time, on the issue of rearmament. Heinemann, who opposed the rearmament of (western) Germany for religious and conscience reasons, had resigned as interior minister. He had formed the All-German People’s Party (Gesamtdeutsche Volkspartei which was seen as a serious challenge to the CDU. Heinemann was also provost of the Synod of the Evangelical Church in Germany and also one of the leading Protestant representatives in Germany. This alarmed the Protestant Union politicians. The failure of the Gesamtdeutschen Volkspartei of the election in 1953 was seen by the CDU as a success of the newly formed EAK.
· Association of Christian Democratic Students (Ring of Christian Democratic Students)
This is a German student organization founded in 1951. The RCDS is the largest and oldest existing political student association in Germany. Its focus was initially in the former Soviet Occupation Zone (SBZ). After the student councils fell apart in the GDR and the Free German You was declared the only support focused CDH groups work increasingly to the Federal Republic and Berlin. Many fled from the Soviet Zone and GDR activists so they then found new university groups in the West. In 1951 it was named the Christian Democratic Students.
Sources:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Democratic_Union_(Germany)#Special_organizations September 15,2012
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