Mecklenburg-Vorpommern,internationally also known by its anglicized name Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania,is a state in the north-east of Germany. Of the country's sixteen states,Mecklenburg-Vorpommern ranks 14th in population,6th in area,and 16th in population density. Schwerin is the state capital and Rostock is the largest city. Other major cities include Neubrandenburg,Stralsund,Greifswald,Wismar and Güstrow.
Schwerin is the capital and second-largest city of the northeastern German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern as well as of the region of Mecklenburg,after Rostock. It has around 96,000 inhabitants,and is thus the least populous of all German state capitals.
Alfred Gomolka was a German politician and member of the European Parliament for Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. He also served as the minister president of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
Harald Ringstorff was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the 3rd Minister President of the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. He headed a coalition government of the SPD and PDS from 1998 until 2006,and subsequently headed a coalition between the SPD and CDU. He was the 61st President of the Bundesrat in 2006/07.
Franzburg is a municipality in the Vorpommern-Rügen district of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern,Germany. It is situated 20 km southwest of Stralsund. Before the Protestant Reformation,later Franzburg was the site of Neuenkamp Abbey.
The 2006 Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state election was held on 17 September 2006 to elect the members of the 5th Landtag of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The incumbent coalition government of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) led by Minister-President Harald Ringstorff was returned with a reduced majority. However,the SPD chose not to continue the coalition. They instead formed a grand coalition with the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Ringstorff was subsequently re-elected as Minister-President.
NDR Fernsehen is a German free-to-air regional television channel targeting northern Germany,specifically the states of Schleswig-Holstein,Lower Saxony,Mecklenburg-Vorpommern,Hamburg and Bremen.
Löcknitz is a municipality in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district,in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern,Germany,located 12 km west of the German-Polish border and 25 km west of Szczecin.
The Landtag of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is the people's representative body or the state parliament of the German federal state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Thus it is also a constitutional body of the state.
Erwin Sellering is a German politician. From 2008 to 2017,he was the 4th Minister President of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
1. FC Neubrandenburg 04 is a German football club based in Neubrandenburg,Mecklenburg-Vorpommern,playing in the 2019-20 Verbandsliga Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (VI).
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany is a Lutheran member church of the Evangelical Church in Germany. It was established on 27 May 2012 as a merger of the North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church,the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Mecklenburg,and the Pomeranian Evangelical Church. It covers the combined area of all those former member churches,which are the federal states of Schleswig-Holstein,Hamburg and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Nordkirche is the only Landeskirche in Germany which covers parts of both New states of Germany and West Germany. It is also called Nordkirche. It has 1,939,750 members (31/12/2019). There are 1,704 ordained pastors and more than 84,000 volunteers working for Nordkirche (4/2016).
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is a Brandenburg-class frigate of the German Navy.
The 2016 Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state election was held on 4 September 2016 to elect the members of the 7th Landtag of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The incumbent grand coalition between the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and Christian Democratic Union (CDU) led by Minister-President Erwin Sellering retained its majority and continued in office.
The State of Mecklenburg was a subdivision of the Soviet occupation zone and one of the states of East Germany which corresponds widely to the present-day German state Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The state was originally formed as an administrative division,the State of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern,by the Soviet Military Administration in Germany (SMAD) in July 1945. It consisted of the 1934-established Mecklenburg and parts of the former Prussian provinces of Pommern and Hanover. The city of Swinemünde was handed over to Poland in October 1945,becoming part of Szczecin Voivodeship. In November 1945,a transfer of small territories along the Inner German border to the former Province of Schleswig-Holstein was carried out as part of the Barber–Lyashchenko Agreement. About 2.1 million people were estimated to live in Mecklenburg in 1946. From 1947,the term Vorpommern was excluded from the official name as the SMAD feared that this would support revisionist actions against formerly German parts of Poland. Compared to the administrative divisions of Nazi Germany,Mecklenburg comprised the Gaue Mecklenburg and parts of Pomerania and Eastern Hanover.
The 1998 Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state election was held on 27 September 1998 to elect the members of the 3rd Landtag of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The incumbent government was a grand coalition of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Social Democratic Party (SPD) led by Minister-President Berndt Seite. The SPD overtook the CDU as the largest party and chose not to continue the grand coalition. They subsequently formed a coalition with the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS),and SPD leader Harald Ringstorff was elected Minister-President.
The 1994 Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state election was held on 16 October 1994 to elect the members of the 2nd Landtag of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The incumbent government was a coalition of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Free Democratic Party (FDP) led by Minister-President Berndt Seite. While the CDU remained the largest party in the Landtag,the FDP suffered a 1.7-point swing and lost all its seats. The CDU subsequently formed a grand coalition with the Social Democratic Party (SPD),and Seite continued in office.
The 1990 Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state election was held on 14 October 1990 to elect the members of the first Landtag of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. It was the first election held in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern since the reunification of Germany,which took place on 3 October. The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) led by Alfred Gomolka emerged as the largest party with 38.3% of the vote,followed by the Social Democratic Party (SPD) with 27.0%. The CDU subsequently formed a coalition with the Free Democratic Party (FDP),and Gomolka became Mecklenburg-Vorpommern's first post-reunification Minister-President.
The 2021 Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state election was held on 26 September 2021 to elect the 8th Landtag of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The incumbent government is a coalition of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and Christian Democratic Union (CDU) led by Minister President Manuela Schwesig.
