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16 unusual facts about CSU


CDU/CSU

The CSU is only organised in the German state of Bavaria and only fields candidates in elections within Bavaria (in German Bundestag and European Parliament elections, it only runs for Bavarian mandates), while the CDU correspondingly has only subsidiaries outside of Bavaria and only runs in the other 15 states.

Conrad Fink

On the 14 December Fink joined the CSU in protest against a merger between the Bayernpartei and the Zentrumspartei.

CSU/DSU

The WIC (WAN Interface Card) may contain an integrated CSU/DSU that can be inserted into a router slot.

Eduard Oswald

A member of the Christian Social Union he was nominated by the CDU/CSU parliamentary faction to succeed Gerda Hasselfeldt.

Friedrich Merz

Friedrich Merz (born 11 November 1955) is a German lawyer and politician, a former Member of the European Parliament (1989–1994), a former member of the Bundestag (1994–2009), and a former chairman of CDU/CSU parliamentary group (2000–2002).

Jens Spahn

Since the summer of 2012 Spahn is, along with twelve other CDU/CSU MPs, committed to defending tax law equality for couples registered in a civil partnership.

Michael Glos

From 1993 to 2005, he was chairman of the CSU parliamentary group and deputy chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group.

Recognition of same-sex unions in Germany

Members of the ruling coalition of Union parties and Free Democratic Party voted against the proposal while opposition parties Social Democratic Party, Greens, and The Left supported it.

Attempts to give equal rights to registered partners or to legalise marriage for same-sex couples have generally been blocked by the CDU/CSU.

CDU/CSU, the senior member party of Germany's coalition government is opposed to the legalisation of same-sex marriage.

Ronald Pofalla

In September 2011 he seriously insulted Wolfgang Bosbach, senior group leader of the CDU/CSU-group in the Bundestag after an in-house discussion about the enhancement of the European Financial Stability Facility.

From 2004 to 2005 he was deputy chairman of the CDU/CSU's parliamentary group in the Bundestag, and served as the Secretary General of the CDU from 2005 to 2009, when he was appointed to cabinet, succeeding Thomas de Maizière as Chief of Staff.

Smoking ban

After this restriction was criticized as being "too harsh" by some members of the governing party CSU, it was relaxed one year later.

Smoking in Germany

Nevertheless, discontent against the new rules was blamed for the disappointing electoral results of the long-time leading party - CSU - in the 2008 election.

WAN Interface Card

A WIC has a built-in channel service data unit (CSU/DSU) interface to connect to a digital circuit and provide error correction and line monitoring.

Wolfgang von Stetten

As a member of parliament, he served on the justice committee and as CDU/CSU spokesman for several years.


1990 Atlantic hurricane season

Forecasts of hurricane activity are issued before each hurricane season by noted hurricane experts such as Dr. William M. Gray and his associates at Colorado State University (CSU).

1993 Atlantic hurricane season

Forecasts of hurricane activity are issued before each hurricane season by Dr. William M. Gray and his associates at Colorado State University (CSU) and the Weather Research Center (WRC).

2005–06 Cleveland State Vikings men's basketball team

The win against Rochester College raised CSU's all-time record in the building to 123–21.

2011 Atlantic hurricane season

These include forecasters from the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)'s National Hurricane and Climate Prediction Center's, Philip J. Klotzbach, William M. Gray and their associates at Colorado State University (CSU), Tropical Storm Risk, and the United Kingdom's Met Office.

Alois Hundhammer

After being released in 1945 he worked with Karl Scharnagl, Josef Müller, and Fritz Schäffer to establish the Christian Social Union of Bavaria (CSU).

Catanduanes State Colleges

Located in the provincial capital Virac, CSU primarily serves Catandunganons, the residents of Catanduanes.

Charles Sturt University Study Centres

Also known as the “CSU Study Centres”, they operated in conjunction with Study Group Australia.

Charles Sturt University and Study Group signed the agreement to open the Charles Sturt University Study Centres in March 2001 and work together to provide CSU undergraduate and postgraduate degree programs at these Study Centre locations.

CSU Aurel Vlaicu Arad

CSU Aurel Vlaicu Arad is a Romanian semi-professional rugby union club from Arad, which will play the 2011 season in Romanian Rugby Championship, the first division of Romanian rugby.

Customer service unit

In telecommunication, a customer service unit (CSU) is a device that provides an accessing arrangement at a user location to either switched or point-to-point, data-conditioned circuits at a specifically established data signaling rate.

Deutsch-Arabische Gesellschaft

The president of the organisation is the Bavarian environmental minister Otto Wiesheu (CSU), who took over from the FDP politician Jürgen Möllemann in 2003.

Donald E. Williams, Jr.

In approving the legislation, Governor M. Jodi Rell said, "If there is a crown jewel in this bonding bill, it is the program that will continue the glorious transformation of higher education in Connecticut. That transformation began with ‘UConn 2000’ and continues today with ‘CSU 2020.’"

History of Germany since 1990

In 2002, Edmund Stoiber was the candidate for Chancellor for the CDU/CSU, the first time a CSU politician was chancellor candidate since the candidacy of Franz Josef Strauss in 1980.

House of Guttenberg

Karl-Theodor Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg (born 1971), German CSU politician, former Federal Minister of Commerce and Minister of Defense in the Merkel Cabinets

James Woodward

James F. Woodward American professor of physics and history, CSU Fullerton, California, USA

Jolene Koester

In spring 2006, CSU Chancellor Charles B. Reed and the Board of Trustees completed their its second three-year performance evaluation of President Koester.

Kultur- und Sozialstiftung Internationale Junge Orchesterakademie

Dagmar Wöhrl, MdB (CSU), who is parliamentary undersecretary at the ministry of economic affairs and technology

Ludwig Scholz

Ludwig Scholz (30 June 1937 in Juliusberg, Landkreis Oels, Lower Silesia, now Dobroszyce, Oleśnica County, Poland, – 20 September 2005 in Nuremberg, Bavaria) was a German politician of the CSU and the mayor of Nuremberg.

Ludwig Stiegler

In July 2005 he said that the only thing that came to his mind in relation to the CDU/CSU's slogan during the election campaign Sozial ist, was Arbeit schafft! ("Social is that which creates work") was the line at the door to Nazi Germany's death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau: "Arbeit macht frei" ("Work makes free").

Manfred Christ

Christ joined the CSU in 1958 and was a member of the Young Union from 1958 to 1976, also serving on its local executive committees.

Notizen aus der Provinz

Like Hildebrandt's later program, Scheibenwischer, the Notizen were frequently attacked by conservative politicians, most notably by those of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria (CSU) and the Christian Democratic Union which served only to increase its popularity.

Popetown

Edmund Stoiber, leader of the CSU, also demanded more severe punishments for slander of religious feelings.

Roland Cantzler

Cantzler joined the CSU, becoming involved with their youth wing, the Young Union (JU) and was Regional Deputy Chair of the JU for Nuremberg.

Tommie Hill

In 2008 Hill was one of two defensive team captains, who finished his CSU career by earning New Mexico Bowl Defensive Player of the Game, started all 13 contests at his familiar right defensive end position and made 30 tackles (14 solo) and three sacks, five tackles for loss, two interceptions, two more passes broken up, one fumble recovery and a blocked kick.

William M. Gray

After the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, Gray announced that he was stepping back from the primary authorship of CSU's tropical cyclone probability forecasts, passing the role to Philip J. Klotzbach.

In 2005, for example, both the CSU team and NOAA significantly underestimated the actual hurricane totals despite issuing updated estimates as late as August of that year.