4 Non Blondes was an American rock band from San Francisco,active from 1989 to 1994. Their only album,Bigger,Better,Faster,More!,spent 59 weeks on the Billboard 200 and sold 1.5 million copies between 1992 and 1994. They hit the charts in 1993 with the release of the album's second single,"What's Up?".
Christa Ludwig was a German mezzo-soprano and sometime dramatic soprano,distinguished for her performances of opera,lieder,oratorio,and other major religious works like masses,passions,and solos in symphonic literature. Her performing career spanned almost half a century,from the late 1940s until the early 1990s.
Christa Wolf was a German novelist and essayist. She is considered one of the most important writers to emerge from the former East Germany.
Rita Süssmuth is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). She served as the tenth president of the Bundestag.
Bernhard Friedmann was a German economist and politician of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany.
Heidi Bertha Auguste Kabel was a German actress and musician. Most of her stage roles were performed at the Ohnsorg-Theater in Hamburg,many of them in Low German. She became famous in Germany as many of the productions of the Ohnsorg Theater were transmitted on German television.
Hans-Ulrich Klose was a German politician from the Social Democratic Party and a member of the German Federal parliament. Klose was the First Mayor of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg from 1974 up to 1981,serving as President of the Bundesrat in 1979–80.
Axel Constantin August Eggebrecht was a German journalist,writer,and screenwriter.
Birgit Schnieber-Jastram is a German politician and representative of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany.
Wolfgang Freiherr von Stetten is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU). He served as Member of Parliament from 1990 to 2002. He represented the constituency of Schwäbisch Hall –Hohenlohe,and was succeeded by his son Christian von Stetten.
Christa Goetsch is a German politician of the Alliance '90/The Greens party,member of the Hamburg Parliament,and from 2008-2010 was a Senator and Deputy Mayor of Hamburg.
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.
Irene H. Schöne has a PhD in politics and economics and has spent a career working in environmental economics,as well as writing and speaking on these issues.
Rev. Christa Blanke-Weckbach is a German Lutheran theologian and animal welfare activist. She is the founder of the European animal protection organisation Animals' Angels. From 1995 to 1998 she chaired the animal welfare advisory board of the government of Hesse.
Christa Schmidt is a retired German politician (CDU). She served as a minister in the last government of East Germany. She had built an earlier career as a teacher and educationalist.
Christa Luft is a German economist and politician of the SED/PDS. Luft joined the SED in 1958. From 18 November 1989 to 18 March 1990,she was the Minister of Economics in the Modrow government. From 1994 to 2002 she was member of the Bundestag for the PDS.
The orders,decorations,and medals of the German states,in which each states of Germany has devised a system of orders and awards to honour residents for actions or deeds that benefit their local community or state,are in turn subsumed within the German honours system. Each state sets their own rules and criteria on eligibility and also how each medal is awarded and presented. Most of the orders allow for the recipient to wear their orders in public.
Ria Schröder is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has been a member of the Bundestag since 2021.
Ursula Schleicher is a German Christian Social Union in Bavaria politician and harpist who served two terms in the Bundestag from 1972 to 1980 and five terms in the European Parliament between 1979 and 2004. She served as state chair of the Paneuropean Union in Bavaria between 1988 and 1994 before becoming its deputy federal chair in 1995 and was a Vice-President of the European Parliament from 1994 to 1999. Schleicher was appointed Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic,the Bavarian Order of Merit and the Grand Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2001.
