Christian Democratic Union (East Germany)

Christian Democratic Union of Germany Christlich-Demokratische Union Deutschlands
Leader	Andreas Hermes (first) Lothar de Maizière (last)
Founded	26 June 1945
Dissolved	2 October 1990
Merged into	Christian Democratic Union
Headquarters	East Berlin
Newspaper	See list Neue Zeit (federal) Der Demokrat Der Neue Weg Märkische Union Thüringer Tageblatt Die Union
Membership (1987)	140,000[1]
Ideology	post-Wende:[2]  • Christian democracy  • Liberal conservatism  • Anti-communism  • German unionism pre-Wende:  • Christian socialism[3]  • Bloc party politics[4]  • Social conservatism
National affiliation	Democratic Bloc (1945–1950) National Front (1950–1990) Alliance for Germany (1990)
Colors	Blue, yellow
Party flag
Politics of East Germany Elections

The Christian Democratic Union of Germany (German: Christlich-Demokratische Union Deutschlands, CDU) was an East German political party founded in 1945. It was part of the National Front with the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) and a bloc party until 1989.

It contested the free elections in 1990 as an arm of the West German Christian Democratic Union, into which it merged after German reunification later that same year.