Die Beteiligung der CDU an der Umgestaltung der DDR in den fünfziger Jahren
This paper on the politics of the Christian Democratic Union in the GDR in the fifties describes 1) the development of the party from 1945 to 1949 (including the fact that the Christian Democrats organized German-wide, without reference to zones of occupation or the bloc politics then beginning), an...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | German |
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
1990
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Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte
Year: 1990, Volume: 3, Issue: 1, Pages: 125-151 |
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| Summary: | This paper on the politics of the Christian Democratic Union in the GDR in the fifties describes 1) the development of the party from 1945 to 1949 (including the fact that the Christian Democrats organized German-wide, without reference to zones of occupation or the bloc politics then beginning), and 2) the decision in 1949-50 of vast parts of the CDU to practise the 1945-formulated confession to a "new democracy" as socialist democracy (which really meant election of the basis of common lists and the acceptance of the leading role of the SED). This basic decision, called by the CDU a "historical decision" at that time (and conceived as such until 1989), established the conditions under which the then chairman of the CDU, Otto Nuschke–an old bourgeois-democratic member of the parliament – could try to develop a relatively independent policy based upon Christian-democratic principles. Nuschke's efforts took place during two phases: 1) from 1950 to 1954, a time of increasing Stalinistic control in the GDR (and its first crisis in 1953) that dominated the policies of new national union in Gemany; and 2) from 1954 to 1958, when national policy lost its importance (under the influence of NATO and the Warsaw Pact) and Stalinism was called into question by the 20th assembly ot the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Especially in the cases of middle-class policy and church policy (specifically analyzed here), the paper shows the relatively independent policy of the CDU, climaxing in 1956, when CDU policy succeeded (for fifteen years) in saving private ownership of the means of production by integration into socialist conditions of production. The 9th assembly of the CDU in 1958 concluded political-ideological lines of orientation from the above-named conditions and also the spiritual circumstances of the time, stamped by secularism generally and especially in the GDR. This summarizes the experiences of the party's policy in the fifties. In an epiloque the author notes that this effort at historical analysis attempted to meet and has been overtaken by the history of our own times. |
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| ISSN: | 2196-808X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte
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