- Jürgen Rüttgers
Jürgen Rüttgers is a German politician (CDU) and Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia, widely known for his views on immigration and the famous phrase "Kinder statt Inder" ("children instead of Indians") which was a media interpretation of "Statt Inder an die Computer müssen unsere Kinder an die Computer" ("instead of Indians in front of computers, our children must be in front of computers"), …
- Heide Simonis
Heide Simonis (born July 4 1943 in Bonn as Heide Steinhardt) is a German politician. She is a member of the SPD. She was Minister President of Schleswig-Holstein from 1993 to 2005, the first woman to hold this post in Germany's history. On March 17 2005 Simonis failed to be reelected as Minister President of Schleswig-Holstein in 4 consecutive ballots by the Landtag (parliament) of Schleswig-Holstein.
- Reinhard Bütikofer
Reinhard Hans Bütikofer is a German politician for the Alliance 90/The Greens party and one of the two current party leaders, together with Claudia Roth. Bütikofer was born in Mannheim and grew up in Speyer. He studied philosophy, sinology and history in Heidelberg, but did not finish his studies. He was engaged in the student's movement and one of the "K groups", the maoistic "Kommunistischer Bund Westdeutschland" (KBW).
- Harald Ringstorff
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.
- David McAllister
David James McAllister is a German politician (CDU). He is leader of the parliamentary group in the regional parliament (German "Landtag") of Lower Saxony. McAllister was born as son of a German mother an a Scottish father. Since August 2003 he has been married with his wife Dunja. The couple has two daughters. In 1989 McAllister finished school.
- Bodo Ramelow
Bodo Ramelow (born February 16, 1956 in Osterholz-Scharmbeck) is a German politician of the Left Party. He is deputy chairman of his party's group in the Bundestag. The former chairman of the labor union HBV, Ramelow was elected into the Landtag in the Free State of Thuringia in 1999 as a member of the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS; since renamed the Left Party).
- Andreas Hofer
Andreas Hofer was a Tyrolean innkeeper and patriot. He was the leader of a rebellion against Napoleon's forces. Andreas Hofer was born 1767 in St. Leonhard in Passeier, South Tyrol (now part of Italy). His father was an innkeeper of "Sandwirt" inn and Andreas followed in his footsteps when he inherited the establishment. He also traded wine and horses in northern Italy and learned the language. He married Anna Ladurner.
- Norbert Geis
Norbert Geis is a German politician. He is a member of the CSU. Geis studied Philosophy,Theology and Law at the Universities of Freiburg and Würzburg. Since 1970 he has worked as a freelancing lawyer in Aschaffenburg. In 1967 Geis joined the Junge Union and the CSU.Since 1972 he has been chairman of the CSU in the administrative district of Aschaffenburg.
- Holger Börner
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).
- Wilhelm Leuschner
Wilhelm Leuschner was a social-democratic politician who opposed the Third Reich until he was murdered. Wilhelm Leuschner, a stove fitter's son, was born in 1890. His father's name was also Wilhelm Leuschner, and his mother's name was Marie. Leuschner grew up in poverty. In 1903, he began an apprenticeship as a wood sculptor. After finishing this in 1907, he joined the trade union and, on the occasion of the Youth Style Exhibition, he moved to Darmstadt, …
- Dieter Salomon
Dr. Dieter Salomon (born August 9, 1960 in Melbourne, Australia) is a German politician and current mayor of Freiburg im Breisgau. He is a member of the Alliance '90/The Greens.
- Alfred Dregger
Alfred Dregger was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Dregger was born in Münster. After graduating from a school in Werl, Dregger entered the German Wehrmacht in 1939. He served until the end of the war rising to the rank of officer. In 1946 he began studying law, eventually achieving a doctorate in 1950.
- Johannes Hoffmann
Johannes Hoffmann (July 3, 1867 - december 15, 1930) was a Bavarian Minister-President and member of the SPD. Born in Ilbesheim, near Landau, he was a Protestant and in 1908, he was elected member of the Landtag. After the revolution of November 1918, he served as Minister of Education under prime minister Kurt Eisner and later succeed him as the first freely elected Bavarian Minister President. Ousted from Munich by the Bavarian Soviet Republic, …
- Jo Leinen
Jo Leinen (born April 6, 1948 in Bisten) is a German Member of the European Parliament. He was elected on the SPD ticket and sits with the Party of European Socialists group. Before his political career he was a practising lawyer. He was Minister of the Environment in the State of Saarland (1985-1994) then a Member of the Landtag of Saarland until 1999. He has been President of the Union of European Federalists since 1997.
- Gerhard Wagner
Gerhard Wagner (born 18 August 1888 in Neu-Heiduk, Upper Silesia, now in Poland; died 25 March 1939 in Munich) was the first Reich Doctors' Leader ("Reichsärzteführer") in the time of Nazi Germany. Born a surgery professor's son, he studied medicine in Munich and served as a doctor at the front in World War I (1914 - 1918). Among other things, he was awarded the Iron Cross, first class. From 1919, Wagner ran his own medical practice in Munich, …
- Eva Lichtenberger
Dr Eva Lichtenberger (born 1 July 1954 in Zams) is an Austrian politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Austrian Green Party, part of the European Greens. Lichtenberger attended the academy of education in Innsbruck from 1972 - 1974. At the University of Innsbruck, she studied psychology and art history from 1975 - 1982 and political science and psychology, where she graduated with a philosophical doctor's degree, from 1982 - 1987.
- Siegfried Kampl
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.
- Hermann Brill
Dr. Hermann Louis Brill was a German politician (SPD). Brill was born in the small town of Gräfenroda, Thuringia on February 9 1895 as the son of a tailor; after finishing school, he attended the "Herzog-Ernst-Seminar" in Gotha to become a teacher. His political career began in 1918, when he entered the USPD; less than two years later, he became a member of the Thuringian parliament (Landtag) for the first time, which he stayed until 1933.
- Hans-Christoph Seebohm
Hans-Christoph Seebohm (b. 4 August 1903 in Emanuelssegen, Upper Silesia; died 17 September 1967 in Bonn) was a German politician (Deutsche Partei and CDU). He was a member of Lower Saxony's Landtag from 1946 until 1951, and from 1949 until his death he was a member of the Bundestag for the constituency of Harburg. From 1946 until 1948 he held the office of Minister for Reconstruction, Labour and Health in Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf's Lower Saxon state government.
- Hans Vogel
Hans Vogel was a German politician and chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) along with Arthur Crispien and Otto Wels from 1931 to 1933. After the NSDAP came to power in 1933, he became one of the leaders of the social democratic exile organization Sopade. After attending the "Volkshochschule" in Fürth, Vogel, the son of a merchant and shoemaker, complete an apprenticeship as wood sculptor assistant in 1897.
- Georg Ratzinger
Georg Ratzinger (born April 3, 1844 in Rickering at Deggendorf, died December 3, 1899 in Munich) was a German Catholic priest, political economist, social reformer, author and politician. Ratzinger was a pupil at the gymnasium at Passau during the years 1855-63, studied theology at Munich, 1863-67, and was ordained priest in 1867. In 1868 he received the degree of Doctor of Theology at Munich. During the following years he devoted himself partly to pastoral, …
- Otto Nuschke
Otto Nuschke (23 February, 1883-27 February, 1957) was an East German Christian Democratic politician. He was born in Frohburg. In 1910 he was elected General Secretary of the liberal Progressive People's Party ("Fortschrittliche Volkspartei") of Kassel. In the same year he became chief editor of the Berliner Tageblatt and in 1915 co-editor of the "Berliner Volkszeitung".
- Emil Carlebach
Emil Carlebach (July 10, 1914 - April 9, 2001) was a Hessian "Landtag" (state parliament) member, a writer, and a journalist. He was born and died in Frankfurt am Main.
- Martin Mussgnug
Martin Mussgnug (born February 22, 1936 in Heidelberg, died February 2, 1997 in Singen (Hohentwiel)) was a German politician and former leader of the National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD). He first came to prominence in 1956 when he set up the "Bund Nationaler Studenten", a far right student organisation that was banned in 1963. Whilst leading this group he became involved with the Deutsche Reichspartei, …
- Alex Möller
"Alexander Johann Heinrich Friedrich Möller", known as Alex Möller was a German politician (SPD). Möller was a member of the Landtag of Baden-Württemberg from 1946 to October 5, 1961, when he was elected to the Bundestag. His successor was Walther Wäldele. Möller stayed in the Bundestag up to 1976. From 1969 to 1971, Möller served as Federal Minister of Finance in the Cabinet of Willy Brandt.
- Karl Steinhoff
Karl Steinhoff was a Minister-President ("Ministerpräsident") of the German state ("Land") of Brandenburg, then part of East Germany, and later served as East Germany's Minister of the Interior. Born in Herford, Steinhoff studied law from 1910 through 1921 at the Universities of Freiburg, Munich, Königsberg, Berlin, and Münster, earning his doctorate in 1921.
- Kurt Seibt
Kurt Seibt (13 February 1908 in Berlin - 21 June 2002) was chairman of the Central Revision Commission of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany ("Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands"; SED) and East Germany's Minister for Direction and Control of Regional and District Councils. Seibt completed training as a metal spinner in 1922-1926 and worked until 1933 as a civil engineering worker and a stone setter. In 1922, he joined the Socialist Worker Youth, …
- Wojciech Korfanty
Wojciech Korfanty (20 April 1873 - 17 August 1939) was a Polish nationalist activist, journalist and politician, serving as member of the German "Reichstag", the Prussian "Landtag" and, later on, in the Polish "Sejm". Briefly, he also was a paramilitary leader. He is known for organizing Polish uprisings in Upper Silesia.
- Ernst Goldenbaum
Ernst Goldenbaum (15 December 1898-13 March 1990) was an East German politician. He was born in Parchim. During World War I he served as a military and he participated in the German November Revolution. In 1919 he joined the left-wing USPD and a few years later the Communist Party of Germany. From 1923 to 1925 he was a member of the city council of Parchim and from 1924 to 1932 he was a member of the Landtag of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.
- Bernhard Bästlein
Bernhard Bästlein was a German Communist and resistance fighter against the Nazi régime. Bästlein's roots were in a social-democratic family, and he was a precision mechanic by trade. In 1911, he joined the Socialist Worker Youth, and in 1914 the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). In the First World War, he spent two years as a soldier on the Western Front. In 1918, he switched to the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD), …
- Werner Lorenz
Werner Lorenz was a German Waffen-SS general, an SS-Obergruppenführer, and a leader of the "Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle" (sometimes translated "Repatriation Office for Ethnic Germans"), an organization charged with settling ethnic Germans in the Reich from other parts of Europe. A forest warden's son, he went to a cadet school and served in World War I as a cavalry officer and pilot. Afterwards, until June 1919, he worked as a border guard and a farmer.
- Max Winkler
Max Winkler was Mayor of Graudenz (now Grudziądz, Poland), Reich Trustee and Reich Commissioner for German Cinema. Born 7 September 1875 in Karresch (West Prussia, now Poland), Winkler, who came from a family of teachers, was working for the postal service by 1891, and as of 1914, he was a city councillor in Graudenz, and by November 1918, the mayor. From 1919 he was a member of the "Landtag" in Prussia for the German Democratic Party, …
- Heinrich Schwarz
Heinrich Schwarz was a Prussian politician. Member of Landtag from 1849-1952. Offical in Lubsza region from 1839 till his death. Highly respected by both Catholic Polish and Protestant German citizens of the region.
- Heinz Reinefarth
Heinrich Reinefarth (commonly known as Heinz Reinefarth, December 26, 1903-May 7, 1979) was a German official and military officer during and after World War II. During the Warsaw Uprising his troops committed numerous war atrocities. After the war Reinefarth became the mayor of the town of Westerland and member of the Schleswig-Holstein Landtag. He was never held responsible for war crimes.
- Karl Weinrich
Karl Weinrich (born 2 December 1887 in Molmeck; died 22 July 1973 in Hausen (Hesse)) was NSDAP Gauleiter of Kurhessen. Karl Weinrich was a member of the Nazi Party from August 1922. From 1925 to 1927 he was the NSDAP's Gau Treasurer. From 1930 to 1933 he was a member of the Prussian "Landtag", and as of 12 November 1933 a member of the Reichstag for the electoral district of Hesse-Nassau. He was from 1928 to 1943 Gauleiter of Kurhessen.
- Fritz Bracht
Fritz Bracht (born 18 January 1899 in Heiden, part of Lage near Detmold; died 9 May 1945 in Bad Kudowa, nowadays Kudowa Zdrój, Poland, suicide) was Nazi Gauleiter of Upper Silesia. After training as a gardener, Bracht performed military service beginning in 1917, and was deployed at the front until the end of the First World War. Thereafter, he found himself a prisoner of the British, until 1919.
- Karl Rudolf Friedenthal
Karl Rudolf Friedenthal (September 15, 1827, Breslau - March 7, 1890, died on his estate, Giesmannsdorf, near Neisse/Nysa) was a Prussian statesman. He was a nephew of Markus Bär Friedenthal, the author, and later became a convert to Christianity. He attended the gymnasium at Neisse (1839-44), studied law at Breslau, Heidelberg, and Berlin, and became (1854) "Kammergerichtsassessor".
- Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorf
Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorf was a German career police officer who served both the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich. In 1932 he held the post of leader of the Sturmabteilung in Berlin. General Kurt von Schleicher was Chancellor of Germany. Von Helldorf's first recorded involvement in politics was at this time, when Schleicher, who was having difficulties in creating a majority in the Reichtag, informed Helldorf that "wanted to change his course".
- Anna Freisler
Anna Freisler (d. 1997) was the wife of Roland Freisler, the infamous judge and chairman of the Nazi "Volksgerichtshof" (People's court), who died in 1945 during an air raid in Berlin. In 1985 there was a scandal about the widow who had been living under an assumed name in Munich since the end of World War II. It turned out that in 1974 her pension had been raised by about 400 DM.
- William Joseph Behr
William Joseph Behr, German publicist and writer, was born at Salzheim. He studied law at Würzburg and Göttingen, became professor of public law in the university of Würzburg in 1799, and in 1819 was sent as a deputy to the Landtag of Bavaria. Having associated himself with the party of reform, he was regarded with suspicion by the Bavarian king Maximilian I and the court party, although favoured for a time by Maximilian's son, …