Thuringia,officially the Free State of Thuringia,is a state of central Germany,covering 16,171 square kilometres (6,244 sq mi),the sixth smallest of the sixteen German states. It has a population of about 2.1 million.
Saxe-Coburg and Gotha,or Saxe-Coburg-Gotha,was an Ernestine,Thuringian duchy ruled by a branch of the House of Wettin,consisting of territories in the present-day states of Thuringia and Bavaria in Germany. It lasted from 1826 to 1918. In November 1918,Charles Edward,Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha,was forced to abdicate. In 1920,the northern part of the duchy was merged with six other Thuringian free states to form the Free State of Thuringia:Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach,Saxe-Altenburg and Saxe-Meiningen,Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt and Schwarzburg-Sondershausen,as well as the People's State of Reuss. The southern part of the duchy,as southernmost of the Thuringian states,was the only one which,after a referendum,became part of the Free State of Bavaria.
Gera is a city in the German state of Thuringia. With around 93,000 inhabitants,it is the third-largest city in Thuringia after Erfurt and Jena as well as the easternmost city of the Thüringer Städtekette,an almost straight string of cities consisting of the six largest Thuringian cities from Eisenach in the west,via Gotha,Erfurt,Weimar and Jena to Gera in the east. Gera is the largest city in the Vogtland,and one of its historical capitals along with Plauen,Greiz and Weida. The city lies in the East Thuringian Hill Country,in the wide valley of the White Elster,between Greiz (upstream) and Leipzig (downstream). Gera is located in the Central German Metropolitan Region,approximately 60 kilometres south of Saxony's largest city of Leipzig,80 km east of Thuringia's capital Erfurt,120 km west of Saxony's capital Dresden and 90 km north of Bavaria's city of Hof (Saale).
Altenburg is a city in Thuringia,Germany,located 40 kilometres south of Leipzig,90 kilometres west of Dresden and 100 kilometres east of Erfurt. It is the capital of the Altenburger Land district and part of a polycentric old-industrial textile and metal production region between Gera,Zwickau and Chemnitz with more than 1 million inhabitants,while the city itself has a population of 33,000. Today,the city and its rural county is part of the Central German Metropolitan Region.
Hildburghausen is a town in Thuringia in central Germany,capital of the district Hildburghausen.
The Landtag of Thuringia is the parliament of the German federal state of Thuringia. It convenes in Erfurt and currently consists of 90 members from six parties. According to the free state's constitution,the primary functions of the Landtag are to pass laws,elect the Minister-President and control the government of Thuringia.
The Reuss Chamber Orchestra is a German chamber orchestra in Gera (Thuringia),which sees itself as integral part of the Theater Altenburg-Gera.
The Weimar–Gera railway is a line in the German state of Thuringia,connecting the city of Weimar via Jena,Stadtroda and Hermsdorf to Gera. It was built by the Weimar-Gera Railway Company,which was founded in June 1872,and the line was officially accepted into operation in June 1876.
The Minister-President of Thuringia,officially the Minister-President of the Free State of Thuringia,is the head of government of the German state of Thuringia. The position was re-established in 1990 after German reunification. The former districts Erfurt,Suhl,Gera and some adjacent areas of the Halle were incorporated into the new and re-established federal state of Thuringia.
The 2019 Thuringian state election was held on 27 October 2019 to elect the members of the 7th Landtag of Thuringia. The outgoing government was a coalition consisting of The Left,the Social Democratic Party (SPD),and The Greens,led by Minister-President Bodo Ramelow.
Thomas Karl Leonard Kemmerich is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who served as the Minister President of Thuringia from 5 February to 4 March 2020. With a tenure of only 28 days,he was both the shortest-serving Minister President of Thuringia and the shortest-serving head of a state government in the Federal Republic of Germany.
The next Thuringian state election will be held no later than between August and December 2024 to elect the 8th Landtag of Thuringia. The current government is a minority government consisting of The Left,the Social Democratic Party (SPD),and The Greens,led by Minister President Bodo Ramelow of The Left.
The 2020 Thuringian government crisis,also known as the Thuringia crisis,was triggered by the election of Thomas Kemmerich (FDP) as Thuringian Minister President with votes from the AfD,CDU and FDP on February 5,2020. The election attracted considerable national and international attention because,for the first time in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany,a Minister President was elected with votes from a far-right populist party,in this case the AfD.
Susanne Hennig-Wellsow is a German politician. She was federal co-chairwoman of The Left from 2021 to 2022 and has served as a member of the Bundestag for Thuringia since 2021. Previously,she was a member of the Landtag of Thuringia from 2004 to 2021,leader of the Thuringia branch of The Left since November 2013,and leader of the state parliamentary group since December 2014.
Ann-Sophie Bohm-Eisenbrandt is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens. She has been the co-spokesperson of the party in Thuringia since January 2020. She is a member of the Weimar city council and leader of the Greens group in the council.
Anja Siegesmund is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens. Between 2014 and 2023,she served as Minister of the Environment in the state government of Thuringia in the coalition government of Bodo Ramelow. Until 31 January 2023,she was also Second Deputy Minister-President of Thuringia. From 2009 to 2014 she was leader of the Greens parliamentary group in the Landtag of Thuringia. She was a member of the Landtag from 2009 to 2015,then again from 2019 to 2020. In December 2022 she announced her imminent resignation from her political offices;on 1 February 2023 she was succeeded by Bernhard Stengele.
Kristina Nordt is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and political scientist. She was a member of the German Bundestag from March 2021 to October 2021.
Nohra was the first of the early Nazi concentration camps in Germany,established 3 March 1933 in a school at an airfield in Nohra. The camp was administered by the interior ministry of Thuringia. The inmates were exclusively communists and included half of the Communist party group in the Thuringian state parliament. Prisoners were not forced to work or systematically mistreated,but had to suffer from poor hygienic conditions and did not have beds. The camp was closed down again after a few months,and the building was demolished in the 1950s. A plaque commemorating the camp was installed in 1988 but taken down in 1990;as of 2023 there is no memorial board for the camp.
Willy Marschler was a German Nazi Party politician who served as one of the first two Nazis to hold ministerial office in a German State. He went on to be the Minister-President of Thuringia through most of the Third Reich.
Gerd Schuchardt is an electrical engineer who built his career and reputation in East Germany before 1990 in microprocessor technology and related forward-looking branches of science. He was interested in politics,but had avoided involvement in the country's ruling SED (party) or any of the various the various so-called "bloc parties" which it controlled. In January 1990,with the winds of political change - somewhat implausibly,as many still thought at the time - blowing across from the Kremlin in Moscow,the party leaders in East Berlin no longer felt able to stand against domestic pressures for a return to democratic politics after more than half a century of one-party dictatorship. Gerd Schuchardt became an activist member of the re-awakening Social Democratic Party. After reunification in October 1990 state-level democratic politics returned to Thuringia:Schuchardt became a leading figure in Thuringian state politics,selected by party members as the Social Democratic Party's lead candidate in the 1994 Thuringian state election. He led his party to what turned out to be its best electoral result in Thuringia to date. In the resulting "Grand coalition" government that ensued he served as vice-minister-president until 1999 under the leadership of Bernhard Vogel (CDU) and as Minister for the Sciences,Research and the Arts.
