Christian Democratic Union: References & Edit History
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The CDU’s early history and the role of Konrad Adenauer are the subject of Arnold J. Heidenheimer, Adenauer and the CDU (1960). The party’s first two decades in power are discussed in Geoffrey Pridham, Christian Democracy in Western Germany (1977). The CDU’s first period in opposition and its changing foreign policy are examined in Clay Clemens, Reluctant Realists: The Christian Democrats and West German Ostpolitik (1989).
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| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| Add new Web site: CORE - How and Why Parties Respond to Membership Decline: The Case of the SPD and the CDU (PDF). | Jan 24, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Frontiers - Frontiers in Political Science - Power struggles in the German Christian Democrats. The dynamics of three consecutive leadership contests. | Sep 19, 2025 | ||
| Updated with results of February 2025 election. | Feb 25, 2025 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Mar 20, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: GlobalSecurity.org - Christian Democratic Union. | Jan 13, 2023 | ||
| Updated for the 2021 general election. | Sep 28, 2021 | ||
| Updated for the SPD's approval of a new grand coalition with the CDU-CSU. | Mar 05, 2018 | ||
| Updated to mention the formation of the grand coalition government with the SPD. | Dec 16, 2015 | ||
| Noted results of September 2013 federal election. | Sep 23, 2013 | ||
| Updated with the formation of Germany's new coalition government. | Oct 28, 2009 | ||
| Updated with the party's victory in the 2009 election. | Oct 07, 2009 | ||
| Article revised. | Jan 19, 2006 | ||
| Article revised. | Jan 25, 2002 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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