Bernhard Vogel is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He was the 4th Minister President of Rhineland-Palatinate from 1976 to 1988 and the 2nd Minister President of Thuringia from 1992 to 2003. He is the only person to have been head of two different German federal states and is the longest-governing Minister President of Germany. He served as the 28th and 40th President of the Bundesrat in 1976/77 and 1987/88.
Walter Wallmann was a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He served as the Mayor of Frankfurt between 1977 and 1986, and as Minister-president of Hesse from 1987 to 1991.
Christian Schwarz-Schilling is an Austrian-born German politician, entrepreneur, philanthropist and media and telecommunications innovator who served as High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1 February 2006 until 30 June 2007 and as the 2nd European Union Special Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina during the same period. He was born in Innsbruck, the son of the composer Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling and is married to the author Marie-Luise Schwarz-Schilling with whom he has two children.
Rudolf Seiters is a German politician of the CDU party.
Volker Bouffier is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as Minister President of the German state of Hessen from 31 August 2010 to 31 May 2022. From 1 November 2014 until 31 October 2015 he was President of the Bundesrat and ex officio deputy to the President of Germany.
Günther Krause is a German engineer, academic, politician and businessman. After the Peaceful Revolution, he entered politics, serving in the Volkskammer and as a senior adviser to Minister-President Lothar de Maizière. In that role, he was a co-signatory to the Unification Treaty. After German reunification, he was elected to the Bundestag and served in various roles in the Helmut Kohl government. He first served as minister for special affairs from 1990 to 1991 and then as minister of transport from 1991 to 1993. He resigned from the office due to numerous scandals. Legal problems and scandals followed after his career in politics, earning him the nickname Sause-Krause.
Friedrich Bohl is a former German politician. From 1991 to 1998 he was the chief of the Federal Chancellery and Federal Minister for Special Affairs. He was the member of Fourth Kohl cabinet and Fifth Kohl cabinet. He succeeded Rudolf Seiters on 26 November 1991.
Manfred Grund is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).
Helge Reinhold Braun is a German physician and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Between 2018 and 2021, he served as Head of the Chancellery and Federal Minister for Special Affairs in the fourth coalition government of Chancellor Angela Merkel. He was the Parliamentary Secretary of State for Bureaucracy Reduction and Federal-State Relations at the Chancellery between 2013 and 2018.
Manfred Behrens is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as a Member of the German Bundestag for Saxony-Anhalt from 2009 until 2021.
Timon Gremmels is a German politician in the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as Member of the Bundestag for Kassel, in the German parliament, since 2017.
Sabine Sütterlin-Waack is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). She currently serves as State Minister of the Interior, Municipal Affairs, Housing and Sports in the State of Schleswig-Holstein.
Michael Boddenberg is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as Minister of Finance of Hesse since 3 April 2020.
Wilhelm Dietzel is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and former member of the German Bundestag. He was Hesse's Minister for Environment, Agriculture and Forestry from 1999 to 2009.
Otto Zink was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and former member of the German Bundestag.
Ludwig Preiß was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and former member of the German Bundestag.
Esra-Leon Limbacher is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag since 2021. He has been the SME representative and deputy economic policy spokesperson of the SPD parliamentary group since 2022. Previously, he was a member of the Saarland state parliament Landtag of Saarland until November 2021.
Jürgen Lenders is a German politician for the FDP and has been a member of the German Bundestag, the federal parliament, since 2021. He was a member of the state parliament of Hessen from 2008 to 2021.
Stefan Heck is a German politician for the CDU and since 2021 has been a member of the 20th German Bundestag, the federal diet. He was already a member of the 18th German Bundestag from 2013 to 2017. From January 2019 to October 2021, Heck was Secretary of state in the Hessian Ministry of the Interior and Sports.
Hans-Joachim Jentsch was a German lawyer and politician (CDU). He was a member of the German Bundestag from 1976 to 1982, mayor of Wiesbaden – the capital of Hesse – from 1982 to 1985, a member of the Landtag of Hesse from 1987 to 1990, minister of justice in Thuringia from 1990 to 1994, and a justice of the Federal Constitutional Court from 1996 to 2005.
