Association of Christian Democratic Students
The Association of Christian Democratic Students (German: Ring Christlich-Demokratischer Studenten) is a German student organisation founded in 1951 and based in Berlin. It contains more than 100 groups at universities with 8,000 members in total. The RCDS is the largest and oldest existing political student association in Germany. It sees itself as a liberal and conservative student association. The national chairman of the RCDS is editor of the magazine "Civis mit Sonde".
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|---|---|
| Chairman: | Henrik Wärner |
| Co-chairman and Chief financial officer: | William Thelen |
| Co-chairman: | Sebastian Mathes |
| Managing director: | Matthias Metzen |
| Members: | about 8.000 (January 2008) |
| Organization: | 14 regional association, 87 groups |
| Website: | www.rcds.de |
The organisation stands politically near the Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union, two conservative German political parties. It is one of five founding members of the European Democrat Students, which arose from cooperation between RCDS and Swedish students that started in 1958 at RCDS's annual meeting in West Berlin.