# National board of the CDU

The National Board of the CDU (German: CDU-Bundesvorstand, also translated as its Federal Board) is the highest permanent governing body of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany. The Board meets at least 6 times a year. The daily affairs of the party are the responsibility of the Presidium of the CDU.
The Board consists of the Leader of the CDU, the Secretary General, the Five Deputy Leaders, the treasurer, the honorary chairs, seven elected members of the presidium and 26 elected board members. If the position is held by a CDU member, the Board also consists of the Chancellor of Germany, the President or Vice President of the Bundestag, the chair of the CDU/CSU faction, the President of the European Parliament and the chair of the European People's Party.

## Current members

The CDU Minister Presidents of the federal states attend the meetings of the Presidium in an advisory capacity. In practice, the same applies to the Federal Managing Director, who, according to the statutes, only participates in the Executive Committee in an advisory capacity.

### Presidium of the CDU

since the election at the 36th Party Diet in 2024, the Presidium of the CDU's current members are:
Members of the Presidium of the CDU :
| Member | Party Office(s) |
| Ex officio members ||
| Friedrich Merz | Leader of the CDU Leader of the CDU/CSU group in the Bundestag |
| Carsten Linnemann | General Secretary of the CDU Chairman of the CDU's Program and Principles Commission |
| Silvia Breher | Deputy Leader of the CDU Leader of the Oldenburg CDU |
| Andreas Jung | Deputy Leader of the CDU |
| Michael Kretschmer | Deputy Leader of the CDU Leader of the CDU Saxony [de] |
| Karl-Josef Laumann | Deputy Leader of the CDU Chairman of the Christian Democratic Employees' Association |
| Karin Prien | Deputy Leader of the CDU Chairwoman of the Jewish Forum in the CDU |
| Julia Klöckner | Federal Treasurer of the CDU |
| Christina Stumpp | Deputy General Secretary of the CDU |
| Elected members of the Presidium ||
| Ines Claus [de] | Leader of the CDU group in the Landtag of Hesse |
| Ronja Kemmer | |
| Sebastian Fechner | Leader of the CDU in Lower Saxony Leader of the CDU group in the Landtag of Lower Saxony |
| Ina Scharrenbach [de] | |
| Sven Schulze | Leader of the CDU Saxony-Anhalt [de] |
| Jens Spahn | Deputy Leader of the CDU/CSU group in the Bundestag |
| Mario Voigt | State Chairman of the CDU Thuringia [de] Leader of the CDU group in the Landtag of Thuringia |
| Members by virtue of legislative office ||
| Yvonne Magwas | Vice President of the German Bundestag |
| Daniel Caspary | Leader of the CDU/CSU group in the European Parliament |
| Advisory Members ||
| Daniel Günther | |
| Reiner Haseloff | |
| Boris Rhein | |
| Kai Wegner | |
| Hendrik Wüst | |
| Philip Birdkenmaier | Federal Director of the CDU Germany |

### Federal Party Board

In addition to the members of the Presidium who also sit on the Federal Board, the other non-advisory members of the Federal Board include:
Members of the Federal Board of the CDU :
| Member | Party Office(s) |
| Membership Representative ||
| Friedrich Merz | General Secretary of the CDU Mecklenburg-Vorpommern |
| Elected members of the Federal Board ||
| Ruth Baumann | |
| Steffen Bilger | Deputy Leader of the CDU/CSU group in the Bundestag |
| Joe Chialo | |
| Birte Glißmann [de] | Whip of the CDU group in the Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein |
| Hermann Gröhe | Deputy Leader of the CDU/CSU group in the Bundestag |
| Serap Güler | |
| Elke Hannack [de] | |
| Stefan Heck | |
| Mechthild Heil | |
| Carina Hermann [de] | |
| Franziska Hoppermann | |
| Thomas Jarzombek | |
| Thomas Kufen | |
| Alexander Lorz [de] | |
| Henning Otte | |
| Jan Redmann | Leader of the CDU Brandenburg [de] Leader of the CDU group in the Landtag of Brandenburg |
| Bastian Schneider | |
| Marc Speicher | Membership representative of the CDU Saar [de] |
| Kim-Sarah Speer [de] | |
| Jessica Steiner | |
| Johannes Steiniger | |
| Johannes Volkmann | Chairman of the Lahn-Dill CDU district association |
| Astrid Wallmann [de] | |
| Wiebke Winter [de] | Deputy Leader of the CDU group in the Municipal Assembly of Bremen Deputy Chairwoman of KlimaUnion |
| Monica Wüllner | Deputy State Chairwoman of the Christian Democratic Employees' Association (CDA) Member of the CDA Federal Board |
| Paul Ziemiak | General Secretary of the North Rhine-Westphalia [de] |

## Historical party office holders
### General Secretaries of the CDU

* Bruno Heck 1967–1971
* Konrad Kraske 1971–1973
* Kurt Biedenkopf 1973–1977
* Heiner Geißler 1977–1989
* Volker Rühe 1989–1992
* Peter Hintze 1992–1998
* Angela Merkel 1998–2000
* Ruprecht Polenz 2000
* Laurenz Meyer 2000–2004
* Volker Kauder 2005
* Ronald Pofalla 2005–2009
* Hermann Gröhe 2009–2013
* Peter Tauber 2013–2018
* Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer 2018
* Paul Ziemiak 2018–2022
* Mario Czaja 2022–2023
* Carsten Linnemann, since 2023 (acting), elected May 2024

### Deputy Federal leader since 1990

* Lothar de Maizière 1990–1992
* Heinz Eggert 1992–1996
* Angela Merkel 1992–1998
* Erwin Teufel 1992–1998
* Norbert Blüm 1992–2000
* Christoph Bergner 1996–1998
* Volker Rühe 1998–2002
* Christian Wulff 1998–2010
* Annette Schavan 1998–2012
* Jürgen Rüttgers 2000–2010
* Christoph Böhr 2002–2006
* Roland Koch 2006–2010
* Norbert Röttgen 2010–2012
* Ursula von der Leyen 2010–2019
* Volker Bouffier 2010–2022
* Armin Laschet 2012–2021
* Julia Klöckner 2012–2022
* Thomas Strobl 2012–2022
* Jens Spahn 2021–2022
* Carsten Linnemann 2022–2023
* Silvia Breher since 2019
* Andreas Jung since 2022
* Michael Kretschmer since 2022
* Karin Prien since 2022
* Karl-Josef Laumann since 2024