Alliance for Germany
Alliance for Germany Allianz für Deutschland | |
|---|---|
| Leader | Lothar de Maizière |
| Founded | 5 February 1990 |
| Dissolved | 2 October 1990 |
| Merged into | Christian Democratic Union |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Centre-right to right-wing |
| Member parties | |
The Alliance for Germany (German: Allianz für Deutschland) was an electoral alliance in East Germany. It consisted of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Democratic Awakening and German Social Union. The German Forum Party was invited to join, but it declined.
The Alliance was formed to contest the 1990 East German general election, the first and only free election in the country's history. It ran on a platform of expediting German reunification and won a plurality of the seats in the Volkskammer. It led a coalition government that lasted until reunification, with Lothar de Maizière of the CDU serving as minister-president of East Germany.