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The Christian Social Union in Bavaria (German: Christlich-Soziale Union in Bayern ⓘ, CSU) is a Christian democratic [6] [7] and conservative [7] [8] [9] [10] political party in Germany.
The Christian Social Union (CSU) and the Bavaria Party were founded after the Second World War. In programmatic terms they can be seen in part as successor organizations to the BVP, but the CSU is not a legal continuation or successor party to the BVP.
The CDU is the second largest party in the Bundestag, the German federal legislature, with 152 out of 736 seats, having won 18.9% of votes in the 2021 federal election. It forms the CDU/CSU Bundestag faction, also known as the Union, with its Bavarian counterpart, the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU). The group's parliamentary leader is ...
- A Historic Alliance
- Where CSU and CDU Differ
- CSU National Aspirations to Lead
The CSU was founded in October 1945, immediately after the end of World War II, at a time when, as Germany was essentially starting its political system from scratch, new conservative parties and associations were coalescing all over the country. But, whereas the other local conservative parties joined together in 1950 to form the CDU, the CSU chos...
The CSU is traditionally considered more socially conservative than the CDU, especially on religion and law enforcement: It still takes Bavaria's Catholic traditions seriously: In 2018, Markus Söder ordered that all public buildings hang a cross up prominently "as an expression of Bavaria's historical and cultural character." The Bavarian state pol...
On just two occasions, the CDU/CSU has put forward a CSU candidate for chancellor in national elections. Franz-Josef Strauss, a godfather-like figure in the party, ran in 1980, and Edmund Stoiber — after a tussle with then CDU leader Angela Merkel — threw his hat in the ring in 2002. Neither was successful. Strauss was extremely conservative and fa...
Christian Social Union (CSU), conservative German political party that was founded in Bavaria, Germany, in 1946 by various Roman Catholic and Protestant groups and is committed to free enterprise, federalism, and a united Europe operating under Christian principles.
Destruction such as that visited upon Germany during the course of the Second World War has rarely, if ever, been seen in the history of Europe. Such was the chaos when the ‘government’ of Admiral Doenitz surrendered in May 1945, that the former chief...
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Aug 1, 2007 · This article examines how the CSU set about constructing an integral Bavarian ( gesamtbayerisch) identity during the 1950s and early 1960s by articulating the diverse historical experiences of the region-state's localities and sub-regions as a common Bavarian heritage.
