East German CDU Politicians
- Sabine Bergmann-Pohl (Last Head of State of the GDR)
- Emil Fuchs (Theologian)
- Karl Grobbel (Co-founder of the Berlin Conference of European Catholic's)
- 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)
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