War ended in May 1945 . Political activity outside the Nazi party was no longer expressly illegal . The victorious powers had already agreed among themselves that the western two thirds of Germany should be divided into military occupation zones . The southwest of the country , including Linz am Rhein , was administered as the French occupation zone . Since her marriage the former Else Peerenboom had chosen to be identified simply by her married name as Else Missong , but she now also returned to active politics , using for her public life the doubled name " Else Peerenboom-Missong " or " Else Missong-Peerenboom " . ( Sources differ over the sequence . ) She resumed contact with former colleagues from the old Centre Party . The goal was nothing less than the creation of a postwar Centre Party , but this time the party should be interdenominational . As a Roman Catholic party the old Centre party had effectively ruled itself out of contention in the Protestant north and east of Germany ( and in northern Bavaria ) , thus reducing its political weight nationally . In addition , the industrial scale of the ethnic cleansing east of the Oder – Neisse line meant that even the traditionally catholic Rhineland was now home to large numbers of Protestants among the refugees . In June 1945 Peerenboom-Missong participated in the " ( pre - ) founding congress " of the Rhineland region Christian Democratic Union ( CDU party ) , held at the Kolping House ( '' " Kolpinghaus " '' ) in Cologne . She became a member of the new party 's Inter-zonal Unification Committee ( '' " Zwischen-Zonen-Verbindungsausschuss " '' ) . However , as far as the military authorities were concerned the founding of political parties - at least of national political parties - was not expressly permitted in the French zone till 21 December 1945 . On 31 January 1946 Peerenboom-Missong was there for the founding of the Christian Democratic Party for Rhineland-Hessen-Nassau
already agreed among themselves
Yalta Conference
Else Peerenboom-Missong