CDU MEETING AT ERFURT

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 18, 2002
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: May 18, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY East Germany
SUBJECT CDU Meeting at Erfurt
DATE OF INFO.
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1. On 19 March 1954, a conference of Kress chairmen of the CDU organizations of
Bezirk Erfurt was held in Erfurt. At this conference the IVth SED Congress
in Berlin was discussed. The discussion was wound up by a statement that the
East German CDU rec;dgrtized the leading role played by the SED in East Germany.
Like the BED, the CDU professed socialism and the ec.onelMetc ideas of Marx and
Engels. Source stated-that Pastor Delfs from Hainrode,-a , SED member, had pointed
out that Christians' had,a wider scope of activity in a socialist state. In
this rjopect Delfs referred to Heinemann!d Gesamtdontsche Volkspartei in
West Germany.
2. All CDU functionaries who attended, the conference at Erfurt were obliged to comment
in writing, on the following topLos:
a. The article publ,.uhed.by CDU Secretary General Goettiig in the CDU press
under the heading "The IVth BED Conkrebs";
b. Draft of the now BED statute; '
a. What does the CDU expect of the IVth BED Congress?
It was resolved the;t these topics were to be discussed at party rallies by all
locale of the CDU.
3. The oha#rmen of the meeting denounced.. the indifference prevailing among the
CDU membership. pointed out that only 10 percent of the 900 pArty members in
Weimar attended party rallies although 516 of them were government officials. The
speaker demanded. teat these indifferent elements should be eliminated from government
employment since they were so grossly negligent in the fulfillment of their duties
towards tk:0 party. Orders had been given that Kreis secretaries of the SED`be
henceforth invited: to conferences of the CDU Kreis delegates. It was furthermore
stated that CDU factory groups were to be dissolved. The recognition of the BED
as the leading party in East Germany ruled out a predominant position of CDU
factory groups in industrial enterprises. The members of deactivated CDU factory
groups were to be organized into 10-man groups within local CDU organizations.
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