Erkrath is a town in the district of Mettmann,in North Rhine-Westphalia,Germany.
Hattingen is a town in the northern part of the Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis district,in North Rhine-Westphalia,Germany.
Bad Honnef is a spa town in Germany near Bonn in the Rhein-Sieg district,North Rhine-Westphalia. It is located on the border of the neighbouring state Rhineland-Palatinate. To the north it lies on the slopes of the Drachenfels mountain,part of the Siebengebirge.
Jüchen is a municipality in the Rhein-Kreis Neuss,in North Rhine-Westphalia,Germany. It is situated approximately 17 km southwest of Neuss and 10 km southeast of Mönchengladbach.
The Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia is the state parliament (Landtag) of the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia,which convenes in the state capital of Düsseldorf,in the eastern part of the district of Hafen. The parliament is the central legislative body in the political system of North Rhine-Westphalia. In addition to passing of laws,its most important tasks are the election of the Minister-President of the state and the administration of the government. The current government is a coalition of the CDU and the Greens,supporting the cabinet of Minister-President Hendrik Wüst since June 2022.
Christian Wolfgang Lindner is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) serving as the Federal Minister of Finance since 8 December 2021. He has been the party leader of the liberal FDP since 2013 and a Member of the Bundestag (MdB) for North Rhine-Westphalia since 2017,previously holding a seat from 2009 until 2012.
Oliver Wittke is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).
Wolfgang Walter Wilhelm Bosbach is a German politician and member of Christian Democratic Union (CDU),which he joined in 1972. A lawyer by profession,Bosbach is a partner at Winter,Jansen &Lamsfußin Bergisch Gladbach.
Ralf Jäger is a German politician. He is a member of the SPD. Since 2000 he has been an MP of the Landtag,the parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia. Between 2010 and 2017 he served as Minister for Interior and Local Government of North Rhine-Westphalia,in the cabinet of Minister-President Hannelore Kraft. In 2014 he was chairman of the Standing Conference of Interior Ministers in Germany.
Norbert Walter-Borjans is a German economist and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who served as co-leader of the SPD from 2019 to 2021. He served as State Minister of Finance of North Rhine-Westphalia from 2010 until 2017.
Stefan Heinrich Berger is a German economist and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019. He is part of the group of the European People's Party. Previously,he was a member of the State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Sven Lehmann is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia since 2017.
Heribert Hirte is a German legal scholar and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia from 2013 until 2021.
Nathanael Liminski is a German politician from the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Since 30 June 2017,he has been Head of the State Chancellery of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and since June 29,2022 Minister for Federal,European and International Affairs and the Media. Liminski was considered the irreplaceable "mastermind" and most important confidant of former Prime Minister and failed CDU chancellor candidate Armin Laschet and is now perceived as a close collaborator of new Prime Minister Hendrik Wüst.
The 2022 North Rhine-Westphalia state election was held on 15 May 2022 to elect the 18th Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia. The outgoing government was a coalition of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Free Democratic Party (FDP) led by Minister-President Hendrik Wüst.
Hendrik Josef Wüst is a German politician currently serving as Minister-President of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. He is a member of the Christian democratic and liberal-conservative CDU. In October 2021 he succeeded Armin Laschet as state chairman of his party. Under Wüst's leadership,his party won the highest vote share in the 2022 North Rhine-Westphalia state election.
Joachim Stamp is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who served as a member of the State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia from the 2012 elections to 2022. He served as Deputy Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia from 2017 to 2022. Since 2023 he has been serving as Special representative of the Federal Government for Migration Agreements.
Bodo Löttgen is a German police officer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has served as a member of the State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia from 2005 to 2012 and again since 2017. He has been chairing his party’s parliamentary group since 2017.
The Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia,also referred to as Premier or Prime Minister,is the head of government of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW). The position was created in 1946,when the British administration merge the Prussian province of Westphalia and the northern part of the Prussian province of the Rhine were merged to form the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. In 1947 the state was expanded with including of the state of Lippe.
Yvonne Gebauer is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who served as the State Minister for School and Education of North Rhine-Westphalia from 2017 to 2022. She was active in the local politics of her home city Cologne before being elected to the State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia in 2012. She has served on her party's state board since 2016.
