The German Bundesrat is a legislative body that represents the sixteen Länder of Germany at the federal level. The Bundesrat meets at the former Prussian House of Lords in Berlin. Its second seat is located in the former West German capital of Bonn.
Ronald Barnabas Schill is a former German judge,the founder of the German political parties Party for a Rule of Law Offensive and Pro DM/Schill. He served as the Senator of the Interior and Second Mayor in the government of Hamburg from 2001 to 2003.
Hans-Jochen Vogel was a German lawyer and a politician for the Social Democratic Party (SPD). He served as Mayor of Munich from 1960 to 1972,winning the 1972 Summer Olympics for the city and Governing Mayor of West Berlin in 1981,the only German ever to lead two cities with a million+ inhabitants. He was Federal Minister of Regional Planning,Construction and Urban Development from 1972 to 1974,and Federal Minister of Justice from 1974 to 1981. He served as leader of the SPD in the Bundestag from 1983 to 1991,and as Leader of the Social Democratic Party from 1987 to 1991. In 1993,he co-founded the organisation Gegen Vergessen –Für Demokratie. He was a member of the National Ethics Council of Germany from its beginning in 2001.
Ole von Beust is a former German politician who was First Mayor of Hamburg from 31 October 2001 to 25 August 2010,serving as President of the Bundesrat from 1 November 2007 on for one year. He was succeeded as mayor by Christoph Ahlhaus.
The 2004 Hamburg state election was held on 29 February 2004 to elect the members of the 18th Hamburg Parliament. The election was triggered by the collapse of the coalition government between the Christian Democratic Union (CDU),Party for a Rule of Law Offensive (PRO),and Free Democratic Party (FDP). The election saw a collapse in support for PRO which had split after its leader Ronald Schill left in 2003. The original party and Schill's new party captured 3.5% of the vote between them,down from 19.4% in 2001. A huge amount of support flowed to the CDU,which won 63 of the 121 seats in Parliament,forming a majority government. First Mayor Ole von Beust continued in office.
Wolfgang Schäuble was a German politician whose political career spanned more than five decades. A member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU),he was the longest-serving member of any democratic German parliament. Schäuble served as the 13th president of the Bundestag from 2017 to 2021.
Karl Ernst Thomas de Maizière is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as Federal Minister of the Interior from 2009 to 2011 and 2013 to 2018,as well as Federal Minister of Defence from 2011 to 2013. He previously served as Head of the Chancellery and Federal Minister for Special Affairs in the First Merkel cabinet from 2005 to 2009. Since 2009,he has been a member of the Bundestag for Meißen.
Klaus von Dohnanyi is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). He served as mayor of Hamburg between 1981 and 1988.
The government of Hamburg is divided into executive,legislative and judicial branches. Hamburg is a city-state and municipality,and thus its governance deals with several details of both state and local community politics. It takes place in two ranks –a citywide and state administration,and a local rank for the boroughs. The head of the city-state's government is the First Mayor and President of the Senate. A ministry is called Behörde (office) and a state minister is a Senator in Hamburg. The legislature is the state parliament,called Hamburgische Bürgerschaft,and the judicial branch is composed of the state supreme court and other courts. The seat of the government is Hamburg Rathaus. The President of the Hamburg Parliament is the highest official person of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. This is a traditional difference to the other German states. The president is not allowed to exert any occupation of the executive.
Dorothee Stapelfeldt is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) who served in the governments of mayors Olaf Scholz and Peter Tschentscher of Hamburg,including as State Minister for Urban Development and Environment (2015–2022) and State Minister of Science and Research (2011–2015).
The Hamburg Police is the German Landespolizei force for the city-state of Hamburg. Law enforcement in Germany is divided between federal and state (Land) agencies. A precursor to the agency,the Polizei-Behörde,has existed since 1814.
Birgit Schnieber-Jastram is a German politician and representative of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany.
Aydan Özoğuz is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD),who has been serving as a Vice-president of the German Bundestag since October 2021. She has been a member of the Bundestag since 2009 and served as deputy chairperson of the party from 2011 until 2017.
Krista Sager is a German politician of the Alliance 90/The Greens party who served as party co-leader between 1994 and 1996,and co-leader of the Greens group in the Bundestag between 2002 and 2005.
Bettina Hagedorn is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the German Bundestag since September 2002,representing Ostholstein - Stormarn-Nord. From 2018 to 2021,she also served as Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Finance under minister Olaf Scholz in the fourth coalition government of Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Sabine Sütterlin-Waack is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). She currently serves as State Minister of the Interior,Municipal Affairs,Housing and Sports in the State of Schleswig-Holstein.
Nancy Faeser is a German lawyer and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD),serving as Federal Minister of the Interior and Community in Chancellor Olaf Scholz's cabinet since 2021. She served as a member of the State Parliament of Hesse from the 2003 elections until 2021. In 2019,she became the party's leader in Hesse,as well as the leader of the Opposition in the Landtag of Hesse.
The second Tschentscher senate is the current state government of Hamburg,sworn in on 10 June 2020 after Peter Tschentscher was elected as first mayor by the members of the Hamburg Parliament. It is the 30th Senate of Hamburg.
The First Tschentscher senate was the state government of Hamburg between 2018 and 2020,sworn in on 28 March 2018 after Peter Tschentscher was elected as First Mayor by the members of the Hamburg Parliament. It was the 29th Senate of Hamburg.
