Christian Social Union

Christian Social Union   (Political party)
Abbreviation	CSU
Formation	1945
Headquarters	Munich, Germany
Interests	Conservatism
Interest of	Hanns Seidel Foundation
Member of	International Democrat Union
The largest political party in Bavaria.

The Christian Social Union (CSU) is a political party in Bavaria, Germany. It is affiliated with the Christian Democratic Union outside of Bavaria; at the federal level forming the CDU/CSU faction, called the Union.

Federal elections

In federal elections in Germany within Bavaria, one can only vote for the CSU, while outside of that state everyone else votes for the CDU. Votes of the two are then combined in the vote count.

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Helmut Schmidt	“Participants at Le Cercle meetings report that a major issue has been how to bring about the demise of West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's government. This issue dominated the last biannual meeting of Le Cercle that was hosted by the Hanns Seidel Foundation, the official think tank of opposition leader Franz Josef Strauss's Christian Social Union, in Munich last May. Le Cercle's participants have been able to carry out an inside-outside job to destroy the Schmidt coalition government since then. While Strauss's CSU carried out a heavy-handed wrecking job that included an implicit alliance with the Strasserite fascist Green Party, sources report that Helmut Sonnenfeldt and Henry Kissinger took the inside track since the ouster of Secretary of State Alexander Haig, threatening, cajoling, and misleading Schmidt into his disastrous pragmatic political course.”	Helmut Schmidt Scott Thompson	1982
The Philippines	“1995, Catholics for a Free Choice, 'Opus Dei: The Pope's Right Arm in Europe': "The Hanns-Seidel Foundation, based in Germany, is accredited with and receives funding from the European Union. The foundation is linked with the CSU (the Bavarian Christian Democrat) party of the late Fritz Pirkl, who was in the European Parliament and served on the boards of directors of Hanns-Seidel and the Rhine-Danube Foundation. Together with Limmat, Hanns-Seidel has funded Opus Dei’s extensive operations in the Philippines, including the Centre for Research and Communication. The centre’s "self-declared task is to form the future economic and political elite of the country," writes Opus Dei critic Peter Hertel. "Under President Corazon Aquino, Opus members have put a decisive stamp on the country’s Constitution."”	Joël van der Reijden ISGP	20 JL

 

Party Members

Politician	Born	Died	Description
Otto von Habsburg	20 November 1912	4 July 2011	Austrian deep politician, connected to Le Cercle, Opus Dei, Knights of Malta ...
Richard Jaeger	16 February 1913	15 May 1998	German politician
Horst Seehofer	4 July 1949
Hanns Seidel	12 October 1901	5 August 1961
Franz Josef Strauß	6 September 1915	3 October 1988	A deep politician and politician, a known attendee of Le Cercle, accused in connection with the Lockheed bribery scandals.
Markus Söder	5 January 1967		Bavarian politician first out with hard lockdowns in 2020. "The CIA's dream candidate".
Theo Waigel	22 April 1939