Kurt Beck (born February 5, 1949) is a German politician and since 1994 the prime minister of the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz), serving as President of the Bundesrat in 2000/01. He was officially elected as chairman of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) on May 14 2006 with the approval of 95 % of the delegates. He succeeded Matthias Platzeck who resigned on April 10, 2006 due to medical reasons

Roland Koch (born March 24 1958 in Frankfurt am Main), German politician, has been Minister-President of Hesse since April 7 1999, immediately becoming President of the Bundesrat completing the term began by Hans Eichel, his predecessor as Minister President, who became Federal Minister of Finance. In 1979 he became the youngest person to hold the office of chair of the CDU youth group in the Main-Taunus district.

Klaus Wowereit (born October 1, 1953 in Berlin) is a German politician, member of the SPD (Social Democratic Party), and has been the mayor of Berlin since the 2001 state elections. He served as President of the Bundesrat in 2001/02. His SPD-led coalition was re-elected in the 2006 elections. He is also sometimes mentioned as a possible SPD candidate for the Chancellorship of Germany ("Kanzlerkandidat"), …

Alfred Gusenbauer has been Chancellor of Austria since January 2007 and the leader of the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) since 2000. Gusenbauer was born in Sankt Pölten in the state of Lower Austria. He was educated at a high school in Wieselburg and studied political science, philosophy and jurisprudence at the University of Vienna, where he gained a doctorate in political science. He has spent his whole professional life in politics, …

Dieter Althaus (born in Heilbad Heiligenstadt, Thuringia, on June 29, 1958) is a German politician (CDU). Althaus was a teacher of Physics and Mathematics at the Polytechnical High School in Geismar, Thuringia, between 1983 and 1989, where he became deputy headteacher in 1987. Since 1985 Althaus has been a member of the CDU, …

Peter Harry Carstensen (born 12 March 1947 in Elisabeth-Sophien-Koog, on the Nordstrand coast of the state of Schleswig-Holstein) is a German politician, in the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party. Since 2005 he has been premier of the state of Schleswig-Holstein, serving as President of the Bundesrat in 2005/06.

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Böhmer is a German politician (CDU) and Minister-President of Saxony-Anhalt since May 16 2002. He served as President of the Bundesrat in 2002/03.

Erwin Teufel is a German politician of the CDU. He was minister-president of Baden-Württemberg from 1991 to 2005, serving as President of the Bundesrat in 1996/97. Teufel is an honorary member of A.V. Cheruskia Tübingen, a catholic student fraternity that is member of the Cartellverband.

Henning Scherf (born 31 October, 1938 in Bremen) is a German lawyer and politician. He was the Mayor of Bremen from 4 July 1995 to 8 November 2005. After studying law and social sciences from 1958 - 1962 in Berlin, Hamburg and Freiburg he worked for a protestant students association (Evangelisches Studentenwerk) until 1964. He has been a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany since 1963. In 1968 Scherf got his law doctorate from University of Hamburg.

Prof. Dr. Kurt Hans Biedenkopf is a German politician. He was "Ministerpräsident" of the Free State of Saxony (one of Germany's federal states) from 1990 until 2002, as such serving as President of the Bundesrat in 1999/2000.

Lothar Späth is a German politician of the CDU. From 30 August 1978 to 13 January 1991 he was minister-president of Baden-Württemberg and chairman of the CDU Baden-Württemberg, serving as President of the Bundesrat in 1984/85. Later on he worked for Jenoptik AG until 1996. Then he became president of the Industrie- und Handelskammer East-Thuringia in Gera.

Bernhard Vogel is a German politician (CDU). Vogel was born in Göttingen. He was Minister-President of Rhineland-Palatinate from 1976 to 1988, where he was succeeded by Carl-Ludwig Wagner, and of Thuringia from February 5, 1992 to June 5, 2003, where he was succeeded by Dieter Althaus. He is the only person to have been premier of two different German federal states. His brother is the SPD politician Hans-Jochen Vogel.

Hans-Ulrich Klose is a German politician from the Social Democratic Party and is now 2007 member of the German Federal Diet ("Bundestag"). Klose was the First Mayor ("Erster Bürgermeister") of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg from 1974 up to 1981, serving as President of the Bundesrat in 1979/80.

Siegfried Kampl is an Austrian politician. Kampl is the mayor of the town of Gurk, and a member of the Federal Council of Austria (the "Bundesrat"). Kampl was born in Steuerberg, in the Austrian state of Carinthia. He completed the agricultural vocational school and an agricultural technical school. He married Elizabeth Bucher in 1960.

Hans Karl Filbinger was a conservative German politician and a leading member of the Christian Democratic Union in the 1960s and 1970s, serving as the first chairman of the CDU Baden-Württemberg and vice chairman of the federal CDU. He was Minister President of Baden-Württemberg from 1966 to 1978 and as such served as President of the Bundesrat in 1973/74.

Gerhard Stoltenberg (September 29, 1928 - November 23, 2001) was a German politician (CDU) and minister in the cabinets of Ludwig Erhard, Kurt Georg Kiesinger and Helmut Kohl. He also was minister-president of the German state (Land) of Schleswig-Holstein. He served as President of the Bundesrat in 1977/78.

Björn Engholm is a Lübeck born German SPD politician. He was Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein, 1988-1993 and leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, 1991-1993. Engholm was elected Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein in 1987, in the wake of the Barschel affair, serving as President of the Bundesrat in 1988/89.

Henning Voscherau (born August 13, 1941 in Hamburg) is a German notary and Social Democratic politician. He was the "First Mayor" of his home city from 1988 to 1997, serving as President of the Bundesrat in 1990/91.

Walter Momper (born February 21, 1945) is a German politician and former Mayor of Berlin. Whilst Governing Mayor he served as President of the Bundesrat in 1989/90. He was born in Sulingen (near Bremen), Lower Saxony and is a member of the SPD (Social Democrats).

Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf (born May 6, 1893 in Neuenkirchen, Hadeln, Niedersachsen; died December 21, 1961 in Göttingen) was First Minister of Lower Saxony from 1946 to 1955 and from 1959 to 1961. He served as the third President of the Bundesrat from 07 September 1951 to 06 September 1952. nds:Hinnerk Willem Kopp

Holger Börner was a German politician of the SPD. He was Minister-President of Hesse from 1976 until 1987. As such he served as President of the Bundesrat in 1986/87, but only served until the Landtag elections of 24 April 1987 Afterwards (until 2003) he was chairman of the ":de:Friedrich Ebert Stiftung", the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, also known as (FES).

Reinhold Maier was a German politician and the leader of FDP 1957-1960. In Weimar Republic Maier was member of the German Democratic Party (DDP). In 1945 he belongs to the founders of the Democratic People's Party (DVP) which is now the Baden-Württemberg-Organisation of the FDP. From 1946 to 1952 he was Prime Minister of Württemberg-Baden and then until 1953 Prime Minister of the new Baden-Württemberg. He served as President of the Bundesrat in 1952/53.

Walter Wallmann (born 24 September 1932) is a German politician who has served as Lord Mayor of Frankfurt (1977-1986) and Minister-President of Hesse (1987-1991). As Minister-President he also served as President of the Bundesrat in from May to October 1987. He is a member of the Christian Democratic Union.

Klaus Schütz was a German politician and former Mayor of Berlin from 1967 to 1977, serving as President of the Bundesrat in 1967/68. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD).

Alfons Goppel (October 1 1905 - December 24 1991) was a German politician of the CSU party. He was Bavarian minister for the interior (1958-1962) and prime minister of Bavaria (1962-1978), serving as President of the Bundesrat in 1972/73. In 1974 he gained the highest election victory for the CSU in Bavarian history with 62.1% of the votes. One of his sons, Thomas Goppel, is now Minister of Science, Research and the Arts in the present Bavarian cabinet of Edmund Stoiber.

Alfred Gomolka (born 21 July 1942 in Breslau) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament for Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. He is a member of the conservative Christian Democratic Union, part of the European People's Party. As Minister President of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Dr Gomolka served as President of the Bundesrat from 1 November 1991 to 19 March 1992.

Adolf Schärf was from 1957 to his death the president of the Republic of Austria. As an educated lawyer, he had been the secretary of the social democratic president of the Nationalrat during the years of the first republic (1918-1934) and served on the Bundesrat 1933-1934. After the fall of the Republic in 1934 and twice during the Nazi occupation, he served time as a political prisoner. However in 1938 he aryanized the office of Arnold Eisler, …

Alfred Kubel was a German politician and member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. During Adolf Hitler's rule, Kubel resisted the Nazi government. After World War II, in 1946, he became Prime Minister of Brunswick (Braunschweig). He served on the Volkswagen Group's advisory board from 1965 to 1970, and held the position of Prime Minister of Lower Saxony from 1970 to 1976. and served as President of the Bundesrat in 1974/75.

Dietrich Stobbe was a German politician. As Mayor of Berlin between 1977 and 1981 he also served as President of the Bundesrat in 1978/79. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD).

Leopold Gratz was an Austrian politician. Born in Vienna, Gratz was a law graduate and a member of the Austrian Social Democratic Party (SPÖ). From 1963 to 1966 he was a member of the Bundesrat, from 1970 to 1971 Federal Minister of Education and the Arts. From 1966 to 1973 and from 1986 to 1989 he served as a member of the Nationalrat, from 1971 to 1973 as the leader of the Socialist group in parliament.

Herbert Bösch is an Austrian social democratic politician. He is Member of the European Parliament since 1995. He studied sociology and politology at the University of Konstanz. After finishing his studies he was employed in the administration of the federal state capital Bregenz. From 1989 to 1994 he was Member of the Federal Council of Austria ("Bundesrat") for the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ), …

Princess Franziska von Starhemberg born October 24, 1875 in Vienna - died April 27, 1943 in Darkov (Bad Darkau) (today part of Karviná), was an Austrian politician. She was born as Franziska Gräfin von Larisch-Mönnich and came from one of the oldest and most prominent noble families of Austria. She married Prince ("Fürst") Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg and thus married into another very famous and prestigious aristocratic family.

Karl Arnold (March 21, 1901 - June 29, 1958) was a German politician. He was Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia from 1947 to 1956. He was President of the Bundesrat and as such acting head of state of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949, before the election of President Theodor Heuss.

Kai-Uwe von Hassel (21 April 1913 - 8 May 1997) was a German politician from Schleswig-Holstein associated with the CDU party. Hassel was born in Gare, German East Africa (current Tanzania). In 1954-1963 he was Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein. From 1955-1956, he was President of the German Bundesrat. He was closely associated with Ludwig Erhard's two Chancellorships, serving as Minister of Defense from 16 October 1963 to 1 December 1966.

Dr. Harald Ringstorff (born September 25 1939 in Wittenburg) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and minister-president of the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. He has been heading a coalition government of SPD and PDS (now Left Party) from 1998 until 2006, and since then is heading a coalition between SPD and CDU. He is the current President of the German Bundesrat, serving for the term 2006/07.