The Party for Labour, Environment and Family – Christians for Germany (German

German language

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: AUF – Partei für Arbeit, Umwelt und Familie – Christen für Deutschland, also AUF-Partei) was founded on 26 January 2008 in Berlin

Berlin

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. AUF also means "upward".

The party has indicated that it has a realistic political, social-Christian profile and wants marriage and family at the center of their policies. It is a member of European Christian Political Movement

European Christian Political Movement

The European Christian Political Movement, abbreviated to ECPM, is a political party at European level that unites national parties from across Europe that share Christian democratic politics. The member parties are generally more socially conservative and Eurosceptic than the European People's...

 (ECPM), a Christian-based European political association.
AUF was the result of "Aufbruch 2009" (Awakening 2009) emanated from the ECPM Congresses in 2004 and 2005. Every Deputy Chairman brought his political experience from his party. This were the Centre Party

Centre Party (Germany)

The German Centre Party was a Catholic political party in Germany during the Kaiserreich and the Weimar Republic. Formed in 1870, it battled the Kulturkampf which the Prussian government launched to reduce the power of the Catholic Church...

, the Ecological Democratic Party

Ecological Democratic Party

The Ecological Democratic Party is an environmentalist political party in Germany. It was founded in 1982 by former members of the German Green Party. The ÖDP combines issues which are not often found together: a focus on state financial support for families and childrearing, and a belief in the...

 (ÖDP) and Walter Weiblen, who realised his experiences from Party of Bible-abiding Christians

Party of Bible-abiding Christians

The Party of Bible-abiding Christians is a conservative evangelical minor political party in Germany. It was founded in 1989. It is against same-sex marriage and legality of abortion...

 (PBC) until his resignation as National Chairman in November 2008. Peter Schneider (AUF) became his successor on 17 January 2009. The party got first seats in local representations by changing of party membership. 2009 the party was admitted to the European elections. It organized campaign events with Eva Herman

Eva Herman

Eva Herman is a German author and television presenter. She worked as a news presenter on the nationwide Tagesschau news programme from 1989 to 2006 and also presented various other television programmes for the Norddeutscher Rundfunk until 2007...

, Christa Meves and the publicist Martin Lohmann.

The manner of attempting to establish a common Christian Party is described as authoritarian and undemocratic by the PBC.