CDU Baden-Württemberg

CDU Baden-Württemberg
CDU Baden-Württemberg
Chairperson	Manuel Hagel
Founded	15 January 1971
Ideology	Christian democracy Liberal conservatism Pro-Europeanism
Political position	Centre-right
National affiliation	Christian Democratic Union of Germany
Colours	Black
Landtag of Baden-Württemberg	42 / 154
Bundestag delegation	33 / 102
Website
	www.cdu-bw.de
	Politics of Baden-Württemberg; Elections;

The CDU Baden-Württemberg (CDU BW or CDU BaWü) is the political party with the most members in the German state of Baden-Württemberg and the second largest state party (in German, Landespartei or Landesverband) of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany with almost 65,000 members. Its chairman is Thomas Strobl, who succeeded Stefan Mappus after the lost 2011 election.

Its predecessors were the Badische Christlich-Soziale Volkspartei (BCSV), the Christlich-demokratische Partei (CDP), and the Christlich-Soziale Volkspartei.

The state party was founded in January 1971, when the state parties of CDU Nordbaden, Südbaden, Nordwürttemberg, and Württemberg-Hohenzollern merged into a single party. The first chairman was Hans Filbinger.

The CDU has been the governing party of Baden-Württemberg continuously from 1953 to 2011, the year Winfried Kretschmann of the Alliance '90/Greens won the regional state elections.

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