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.
Carlo Schmid was a German academic and politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).
Hans-Friedrich Blunck was a German jurist and a writer. In the time of the Third Reich,he occupied various positions in Nazi cultural institutions.
Otfried Höffe is a German philosopher and professor.
Hans Eberhard Apel was a German politician and a member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). From 1972 to 1974 he was Parliamentary State Secretary to the Foreign Minister. From 1974 to 1978 he was the Minister of Finance and from 1978 to 1982 he was the Minister of Defence.
Adolf Arndt was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and former member of the German Bundestag.
Karl Albrecht Schachtschneider (born 11 July 1940,in Hütten bei Gellin,Province of Pomerania,Germany is a Professor Emeritus in Public Law at University of Erlangen in Nuremberg,Germany.
Theodore Illion or Theodor Illion,is a writer of travel books who claimed to have visited Tibet in the 1930s and discovered an underground city there. He published his Tibetan adventures under that name but later resorted to the pseudonyms Theodore Burang or Theodor Burang and more rarely Theodor Nolling to write various books and articles on Tibetan medicine.
Helmut Müller-Enbergs is a German political scientist who has written extensively on the Stasi and related aspects of the German Democratic Republic's history.
Till Backhaus is a German politician. As the German Democratic Republic approached its end as a standalone state,Backhaus was one of those who in December 1989 (re-)founded the Social Democratic Party,more than four decades after its suppression.
Operation Eikonal is a collaboration between the National Security Agency (NSA) and Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) for the sharing of telephony and Internet data captured in Germany. It is based on an agreement that dates to 2002,and is part of the NSA operation "RAMPART-A". Surveillance started in 2003,telephony data was collected from 2004 onwards,and all Internet traffic from the Deutsche Telekom (DT) switching center in Frankfurt was captured starting in 2005.
Katarina Barley is a German politician and lawyer who has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2019,serving as one of its Vice-Presidents. She served as Federal Minister of Justice and Consumer Protection in the fourth Cabinet of Angela Merkel. Prior to that,she had served as Federal Minister of Family Affairs,Senior Citizens,Women and Youth and since 28 September 2017 also as the acting Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs,both until 14 March 2018.
Matthias Bartke is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) who served as a member of the German Bundestag from 2013 to 2021. From January 2016 held the position of legal advisor and thus a member of the executive board of the SPD Parliamentary Group.
Helmut Roewer is a German lawyer and author. He served between 1994 and 2000 as president of the regional office for protection of the constitution in Thuringia. This is a state-level security agency. Controversy in respect of his time in office has persisted,although he himself robustly rejects most of the criticisms of his decisions made at that time.
Spiros Simitis was a Greek-German jurist and a pioneer in the field of data protection. In recognition of his role,admirers sometimes describe him as "the man who invented data protection".
Willi Birkelbach CBE was a West German politician (SPD). He was a member of the West German Bundestag between 1949 and 1964. Between 1952 and 1964 he also served as an increasingly prominent Member of the European Parliament.
Bernd Baron von Maydell (1934–2018),also Berend F. von Maydell,was a German lawyer and secondary school teacher,who specialised in social law.
Wolfgang Schmidt is a German politician and jurist who has been serving as Federal Minister for Special Affairs,Head of the Chancellery and Commissioner for the Federal Intelligence Services since 2021. He was previously State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Finance under Minister Olaf Scholz in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel from 2018 to 2021.
Andrea Voßhoff is a German former lawyer who switched to full-time politics in mid-career (CDU). She served as a member of the Bundestag between 1998 and 2013 when,as a "party list" candidate,she narrowly failed to secure re-election in the Brandenburg-Potsam electoral district.
Uwe Wesel was a German academic,lawyer,and legal historian. He taught at the Free University of Berlin (FU).
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