Rhineland-Palatinate is a western state of Germany. It covers 19,846 km2 (7,663 sq mi) and has about 4.05 million residents. It is the ninth largest and sixth most populous of the sixteen states. Mainz is the capital and largest city. Other cities are Ludwigshafen am Rhein,Koblenz,Trier,Kaiserslautern,Worms,and Neuwied. It is bordered by North Rhine-Westphalia,Saarland,Baden-Württemberg and Hesse and by France,Luxembourg and Belgium.
The Landtag of Rhineland-Palatinate is the state diet of the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate.
Kurt Beck is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD),who served as the 7th Minister President of Rhineland-Palatinate from 1994 to 2013 and as the 55th President of the Bundesrat in 2000–01. In May 2006,he succeeded Matthias Platzeck as chairman of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD). He resigned from that post in September 2008.
Flammersfeld is a municipality in the district of Altenkirchen,in Rhineland-Palatinate,Germany. It is situated in the Westerwald,approx. 35 km north of Koblenz.
Hochspeyer is a municipality in the district of Kaiserslautern,in Rhineland-Palatinate,Germany. It is situated in the Palatinate forest,approx. 10 km east of Kaiserslautern.
Sabine Bätzing-Lichtenthäler is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been leading her party’s group in the State Parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate since 2021. She is the first woman in this position.
Minfeld is a municipality in the district of Germersheim,in Rhineland-Palatinate,Germany.
The politics of Rhineland-Palatinate takes place within a framework of a federal parliamentary representative democratic republic,where the Federal Government of Germany exercises sovereign rights with certain powers reserved to the states of Germany including Rhineland-Palatinate. The state has a multi-party system where the two main parties are the center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the center-left Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).
Marie-Luise "Malu" Dreyer is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who served as the 8th minister-president of Rhineland-Palatinate from 2013 to 2024. She is the first woman to hold this office. She served a one-year-term as president of the Federal Council from 1 November 2016 –31 October 2017,which made her deputy to the president of Germany while in office. She was the second female president of the Federal Council and the sixth woman holding one of the five highest federal offices in Germany. On 19 June 2024 she announced her resignation from the office of minister-president with effect from 10 July.
Wilhelm Boden was a German lawyer,civil servant and politician. From 1946 to 1947 he was the first Minister President of Rhineland-Palatinate.
The 2016 Rhineland-Palatinate state election was held on 13 March 2016 to elect the members of the Landtag of Rhineland-Palatinate. It was held on the same day as the Baden-Württemberg state election and Saxony-Anhalt state election. The incumbent coalition government of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and The Greens led by Minister-President Malu Dreyer was defeated. The SPD remained the largest party,and formed a "traffic light coalition" with the Free Democratic Party (FDP) and The Greens. Dreyer was subsequently re-elected as Minister-President.
Roger Lewentz is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) who served as State Minister of the Interior in the governments of successive Ministers-President Kurt Beck (2011–2012) and Malu Dreyer (2012–2022) of Rhineland-Palatinate
Angelika Glöckner is a German politician (SPD) and a member of the German Bundestag since 2014.
The 2021 Rhineland-Palatinate state election was held on 14 March 2021 to elect the 18th Landtag of Rhineland-Palatinate. The outgoing government was a "traffic light coalition" of the Social Democratic Party (SPD),Free Democratic Party (FDP),and The Greens led by Minister-President Malu Dreyer.
Anne Spiegel is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens. She served as Federal Minister for Family Affairs,Senior Citizens,Women and Youth in the cabinet of Chancellor Olaf Scholz since 8 December 2021;she announced her resignation on 11 April and was dismissed by the President on 25 April 2022
Fritz Rudolf Körper is a German politician and member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). He was a member of the German Bundestag from 1990 to 2013,parliamentary state secretary to the Federal Minister of the Interior from 1998 to 2005 and Deputy Chairman of the SPD parliamentary group from 2005 to 2009.
The Third Dreyer cabinet was the state government of Rhineland-Palatinate from 18 May 2021 until 10 July 2024. It was sworn in on 18 May after Malu Dreyer was elected as Minister-President of Rhineland-Palatinate by the members of the Landtag of Rhineland-Palatinate. It was the 25th Cabinet of Rhineland-Palatinate.
Doris Maria Ahnen is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as Minister for Finance in the state government of Rhineland-Palatinate since 2014. Prior to that she served as the Minister for Education,Research and Culture since 2001. She has been a part of the State Parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate since the 2006 elections. She is also a member of the German Bundesrat for Rhineland-Palatinate.
The Schweitzer cabinet has been the government of the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate since July 2024. On 10 July 2024,the Landtag of Rhineland-Palatinate elected Alexander Schweitzer as Minister-President,receiving three more votes than the coalition factions supporting him actually have;thus,he was also elected by opposition MPs in the secret ballot. Schweitzer's cabinet was then appointed and confirmed by the Landtag. The Schweitzer Cabinet replaced the third Dreyer cabinet.
