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Stahlhelm-Fraktion (German, 'Steel Helmet Faction') is the hard-line or right-wing faction of a political party in Germany, most notably the German CDU. The term refers to the hawkish, i.e. pro-military positions often taken by such groups and comes from the Stahlhelm, the steel helmet historically used by German soldiers. It was originally used of pro-military politicians in the Weimar Republic who were members of the Der Stahlhelm, an ex-servicemen's organisation which acted as the paramilitary wing of the German National People's Party. Some prominent members of this informal grouping (the name was coined by its opponents) such as Alfred Dregger had been members of the NSDAP during the war. Members of the CSU – even those ideologically similar to the Stahlhelm Fraktion – were usually not considered part of the group.

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  1. Ted Galen Carpenter, NATO at 40: Confronting a Changing World, Washington, DC: Cato Institute, 1990, ISBN 0-669-21698-4, p. 259: "The CDU-CSU is badly split over SNFs. Its Gaullist wing (the so-called Stahlhelm Fraktion) has argued that with the INFs gone, West Germany is dangerously singularized by the presence of U.S. SNFs. . . . The Stahlhelm Fraktion favors removing the SNFs and moving toward a closer Franco-German military relationship."
  2. Sebastian Fischer and Christine Xuân Müller, "Die Neo-Kons proben den Aufstand" (The Neo-Cons Test Resistance), Der Spiegel 2 February 2006 (in German): "Legendär die Aussprüche der sogenannten Stahlhelm-Fraktion in der CDU" (The statements of the so-called Stahlhelm-Fraktion in the CDU legendary), introducing a series of quotations on immigration.
  3. "Vier Abtrünnige stürzen Ypsilanti" (Four Defectors Dethrone Ypsilanti), Frankfurter Rundschau 3 November 2008 (in German): "Der rechte SPD-Parteiflügel ermögliche es, dass 'Vertreter der Stahlhelm-Fraktion der CDU weiter auf der Regierungsbank Platz nehmen dürfen'" (The right wing of the SPD is making it possible for "representatives of the Stahlhelm-Fraktion of the CDU to be able to take places in the government again").
  4. "Kaputtes Heer: Ex-Minister zerlegen die Darabos-Politik" (Washed-Up Army: Ex-Ministers Dissect Darabos Policies), Die Presse 11 February 2010 (in German): "Der Vertreter der 'Stahlhelm-Fraktion' der ÖVP" (The representative of the "Stahlhelm-Fraktion" of the ÖVP).
  5. James M. Diehl, Paramilitary Politics in Weimar Germany, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1977, ISBN 0-253-34292-9, p. 264: "Stahlhelm leaders hoped to form a sort of Stahlhelm party within the parties, a bloc of Stahlhelm deputies who could force the two conservative parties to take more intransigent positions. The attempt to create a Stahlhelm Fraktion failed miserably."
  6. https://www.fr.de/rhein-main/alfred-dregger-11387959.html
  7. https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/alfred-dregger-cdu-biografie-wolfram-pyta-nils-havemann-1.5762879
  8. https://www.kas.de/de/web/geschichte-der-cdu/personen/biogramm-detail/-/content/alfred-dregger


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