Hans-Dietrich Genscher was a German statesman and a member of the liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP),who served as Federal Minister of the Interior from 1969 to 1974,and as Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs and Vice Chancellor of Germany from 1974 to 1992,making him the longest-serving occupant of either post and the only person to have held one of these positions under two different Chancellors of the Federal Republic of Germany. In 1991 he was chairman of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).
The Evangelical Church in Germany is a federation of twenty one Lutheran,Reformed (Calvinist) and United Protestant regional churches and denominations in Germany,which collectively encompasses the vast majority of Protestants in that country. In 2020,the EKD had a membership of 20,236,000 members,or 24.3% of the German population. It constitutes one of the largest national Protestant bodies in the world. Church offices managing the federation are located in Hannover-Herrenhausen,Lower Saxony. Many of its members consider themselves Lutherans.
Walter Scheel was a German statesman. A member of the Free Democratic Party of Germany (FDP),he first served in government as the Federal Minister of Economic Cooperation and Development from 1961 to 1966 and later as President of Germany from 1974 to 1979. He led the FDP from 1968 to 1974.
Klaus Kinkel was a German statesman,civil servant,diplomat and lawyer who served as the minister of Foreign affairs (1992–1998) and the vice-chancellor of Germany (1993–1998) in the government of Helmut Kohl.
Günter Rexrodt was a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who served as Federal Minister for Economic Affairs in the fourth and fifth governments of Chancellor Helmut Kohl from 1993 to 1998. He lived in Berlin.
Federal elections were held in West Germany on 6 March 1983 to elect the members of the 10th Bundestag. The CDU/CSU alliance led by Helmut Kohl remained the largest faction in parliament,with Kohl remaining Chancellor.
Alexander Sebastian Léonce,Baron von der Wenge,Count Lambsdorff,commonly known as Alexander,Count Lambsdorff is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party of Germany,part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe. He has served as a Member of the Bundestag (MP) and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Germany.
Otto Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von der Wenge Graf Lambsdorff,known as Otto Graf Lambsdorff,was a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP).
The Flick affair was a West German political scandal of the early 1980s relating to donations by the Flick company,a major German conglomerate,to various political parties,according to Flick manager Eberhard von Brauchitsch,"for the cultivation of the political landscape". Otto Graf Lambsdorff,the federal minister for economic affairs,was forced to resign in 1984 after being accused of accepting bribes from CEO Friedrich Karl Flick.
Katrin Dagmar Göring-Eckardt is a German politician of the German Green Party. Starting her political activity in the now-former German Democratic Republic in the late 1980s,she has been a member of the German Bundestag since 1998. She became co-chair of her party caucus in the Bundestag (2002–2005) and the Greens' Vice President of the Bundestag on 18 October 2005,a position that she held until 2013. In the November 2012 primary election,the Green Party chose her and Jürgen Trittin as the top two candidates for the Greens for the 2013 German federal election. She also stood as joint top candidate for the Greens in the 2017 German federal election,alongside Cem Özdemir.
The Evangelical Reformed Church,until 2009 Evangelical Reformed Church –Synod of Reformed Churches in Bavaria and Northwestern Germany is a Calvinist member church of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD).
Gerhart Rudolf Baum is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) and a lawyer.
Ursula Engelen-Kefer is a German politician who held the position of Deputy Chairman of the German Confederation of Trade Unions from 1990 to 2006. She is currently a lecturer at the German Federal Employment Agency’s special training school Hochschule der Bundesagentur für Arbeit in Schwerin. She also teaches at the Free University of Berlin and chairs the Social Policy Working Group of the non-government organization Sozialverband Deutschland. From 1986 to 2009,Ursula Engelen-Kefer belonged to the 45-member „Executive Committee“of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). She was chosen by the district of Ingolstadt,Eichstätt and Neuburg-Schrobenhausen to be its direct SPD candidate for the Bundestag in the last federal election. In July 2009 she was elected as a member of the "Executive Committee" of the Social Democratic Party in Bavaria.
Michael Helmut Roth is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the German Bundestag since 27 September 1998.
Annette Kurschus is a German Protestant theologian and pastor. Since March 2012 she has been Praeses of the Evangelical Church of Westphalia and since November 2015 she has also been Vice-President of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD). In 2021 she became President of the Council of the EKD.
Monika Barz was Professor for Women and Gender Studies at the Protestant University of applied sciences Ludwigsburg in Ludwigsburg between 1993 and 2016. She is known in Germany as a pioneering campaigner for feminist causes,including lesbian rights.
Linda Teuteberg is a German lawyer and politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP). Serving as a member of the Bundestag since 2017,she was elected as General Secretary of the FDP on 26 April 2019 and thereby became part of the party's leadership around chairman Christian Lindner. Lindner asked for and received her resignation effective 19 September 2020.
Bettina Stark-Watzinger is a German economist and politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has been serving as Minister of Education and Research in Chancellor Olaf Scholz's cabinet since 2021. She has been a member of the Bundestag from the state of Hesse since 2017.
Liberal Women are a German individualist women's political organization that was founded in 1990 as an independent association,but has been recognized as the women's wing of the liberal FDP since 1994.
