Talk:Christian Democratic Union (Germany)

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I am working on an infobox for the Christlich-Demokratische Union and I need to ask one question. What exactly is the political colour of the CDU? The website is quite centered on orange but the logo is only red (and white). Since red is famously the colour of the SPD, I was wondering if red was indeed the correct colour to associate the CDU with. Thanks! --Liberlogos 04:13, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

I believe black is the color of the CDU. john k 05:16, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

The colour of the CDU is indeed black. The government coalition of CDU/FDP is called Schwarz-Gelb (black/yellow). In ARD and ZDF exit polls the CDU is coloured black as well. --84.26.109.69 09:44, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

Why is this page at Christian Democratic Union of Germany? That's not its name, and Christian Democratic Union just redirects here, suggesting that there are no other CDUs with articles, and therefore no need to disambiguate. — Trilobite (Talk) 22:39, 30 May 2005 (UTC)

the party's color is black, although their website prints the logo in red. it's definitly NOT orange at all. -lori 22 March 2006

The party color (since end of 2003) is definitely orange. Black was never the party color, but was used by others for describing the party.--Mevsfotw 11:24, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

This has been the case with its predecessor, the Zentrumspartei, too. The black is thought to derive from the colour of priest's dresses, meaning to symbolize catholicism - though caholicism is not thought to be as influential on the CDU's political stance as maybe some decades ago; this is perhaps different regarding the CSU. --84.168.236.49 23:34, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

CDU is black! CSU can also be black, but mostly her colour is blue (because the flag of Bavaria white and blue)! 62.134.72.98 11:20, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

The color is black and red. Read pages 12 and 13 of http://www.ci.cdu.de/download/style-guide.pdf

[edit] CDU and the Lutheran Germany

What is the relationship between the Christian Democratic Union and the Lutheran Germany? How popular the party is among the Lutherans? --213.186.241.68 16:29, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

The CDU was founded as a non-confessional party. But the CDU is strong in the south and west of germany (catholic dominated regions) and weak in the protestantic north and east. According to a survey of the University of Berlin (2005) are 51 % of CDU-Members catholics, 33,3 % are protestants.Karsten11 18:31, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

CDU is open to ppl from all religions —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.164.218.141 (talk) 13:05, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] the platform

where is the platform of the party? I think that it is more important than a lot of information mentioned in the article.

Platform of any political party is the most important issue, for this platform the people elect it or refuse it. --Hasam 19:23, 10 November 2007 (UTC)