Manuel Hagel is realigning the CDU in Baden-Württemberg: the AfD is the main opponent, securing prosperity is the most important goal.

ZThe leadership of the Baden-Württemberg CDU met for a church service on Sunday morning in the parish church of St. Kilian. This had symbolic and practical advantages for the CDU state chairman Manuel Hagel, who has been in office for three months: the chapel was built for the lay people, it served the common people, which is a good sign for the last remaining people's party. It is also heated.

Since 2007, the CDU has been trying to generate at least a fraction of the attention with its closed meetings in the former Cistercian monastery near Heilbronn that the Bavarian CSU was able to generate with its meetings in the Seeon monastery or, earlier, in Wildbad Kreuth. There was even talk of a Swabian “Kreuthle”. Stefan Mappus, the later unsuccessful Prime Minister, even said 17 years ago at the beginning of the conference that his regional association would soon be more important in the south than the CSU.