Overview
- The CDU Mittelstandsunion submitted a party-conference motion to fundamentally bar new civil-servant appointments outside clearly defined sovereign tasks such as police, prosecutors and enforcement.
- Gitta Connemann argued the civil-servant status should become the exception again to avoid passing multibillion-euro pension burdens to younger generations.
- The proposal would end new tenure for teachers, drawing resistance inside the CDU, with Thuringia’s Mario Voigt promoting teacher tenure to tackle shortages.
- The paper also urges sufficient, transparent and intergenerational pension reserves, referencing research that pension-related outlays have risen by roughly 50% over a decade.
- Adoption is uncertain and will be decided at the CDU’s federal party conference on February 20–21 in Stuttgart, as teachers’ representatives condemn the plan as ill-timed given staffing gaps.