leader for the CDU in the Landtag of Brandenburg) Emil Fuchs (Theologian) Karl Grobbel (co-founder of the Berlin Conference of European Catholics) Hubertus Guske (General Secretary of the Berlin Conference of European Catholics) Ernst Lemmer (co-chairman of the CDU in 1947) Angela Merkel (deputy spokesperson of Lothar de Maizière's government and the united Germany's first female Chancellor) Herbert Schirmer (Minister of Culture 1990) Max Sefrin (Deputy Prime Minister) Luitpold Steidle (Minister of Health Care) Heinrich Toeplitz (Supreme Court of the GDR) Heinz Winkler (Minister of Reconstruction) Electoral history See also Politics of East Germany National Front (East Germany) References External links Christlich Demokratische Union of the GDR from chronik der wende Peaceful Revolution Organizations of the Revolutions of 1989 Political parties in East Germany Political parties established in 1945 Political parties disestablished in 1990 Defunct political parties in Germany Defunct Christian political parties Christian socialist organizations Christian democratic parties in Germany 1945 establishments in Germany 1990 disestablishments in Germany Centrist parties in Germany