Wolfgang Tiefensee is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). He was the Federal Minister for Transport,Building and Urban Development in the grand coalition cabinet led by Angela Merkel between 2005 and 2009. Since 2014,he has been the State Minister of Economy,Science and the Digital Society in the government of Thuringia's Minister-President Bodo Ramelow.
Bodo Ramelow is a German politician who has served as Minister-President of Thuringia from 2014 to 5 February 2020 and from 4 March 2020 until 2024. He was the first head of a German state government to serve non-consecutive terms in office since Eberhard Diepgen,who served twice as Governing Mayor of Berlin. A member of The Left,he previously chaired the party's group in the Landtag of Thuringia. On 8 October 2021,he was elected to a one-year term as President of the Bundesrat. His term lasted from 1 November 2021 until 31 October 2022.
The Landtag of Thuringia is the parliament of the German federal state of Thuringia. It convenes in Erfurt and currently consists of 88 members from five parties. According to the free state's constitution,the primary functions of the Landtag are to pass laws,elect the Minister-President and control the government of Thuringia.
Christian Carius is a German lobbyist and former politician.
The 2014 Thuringian state election was held on 14 September 2014 to elect the members of the 6th Landtag of Thuringia. The government prior to the election was a grand coalition of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Social Democratic Party (SPD) led by Minister-President Christine Lieberknecht. The government narrowly retained its majority. However,the SPD chose not to renew the coalition,instead pursuing an agreement to enter as a junior partner in a coalition with The Left and The Greens. After a vote of the SPD membership showed a majority in favour,the SPD went ahead with the agreement.
Wiebke Muhsal is a German politician with the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD). Since 2014,she is a member of the Landtag of Thuringia and deputy chairman of the AfD caucus. She is also her party's critic on family and education policy and is a member of the Parliamentary Committee on Education,Youth and Sports.
The 2019 Thuringian state election was held on 27 October 2019 to elect the members of the 7th Landtag of Thuringia. The outgoing government was a coalition consisting of The Left,the Social Democratic Party (SPD),and The Greens,led by Minister-President Bodo Ramelow.
Thomas Karl Leonard Kemmerich is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who served as the Minister-President of Thuringia from 5 February to 4 March 2020. With a tenure of only 28 days,he has been both the shortest-serving Minister-President of Thuringia and the shortest-serving head of a state government in the Federal Republic of Germany.
The 2024 Thuringian state election was held on 1 September 2024 to elect the members of the 8th Landtag of Thuringia. It was held on the same day as the 2024 Saxony state election.
The 2020 Thuringian government crisis,also known as the Thuringia crisis,was triggered by the election of Thomas Kemmerich (FDP) as Thuringian Minister President with votes from the AfD,CDU and FDP on February 5,2020. The election attracted considerable national and international attention because,for the first time in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany,a Minister President was elected with votes from a far-right populist party,in this case the AfD.
Susanne Hennig-Wellsow is a German politician. She was federal co-chairwoman of The Left from 2021 to 2022 and has served as a member of the Bundestag for Thuringia since 2021. Previously,she was a member of the Landtag of Thuringia from 2004 to 2021,leader of the Thuringia branch of The Left since November 2013,and leader of the state parliamentary group since December 2014.
Anja Siegesmund is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens. Between 2014 and 2023,she served as Minister of the Environment in the state government of Thuringia in the coalition government of Bodo Ramelow. Until 31 January 2023,she was also Second Deputy Minister-President of Thuringia. From 2009 to 2014 she was leader of the Greens parliamentary group in the Landtag of Thuringia. She was a member of the Landtag from 2009 to 2015,then again from 2019 to 2020. In December 2022 she announced her imminent resignation from her political offices;on 1 February 2023 she was succeeded by Bernhard Stengele.
The second Ramelow cabinet was the state government of Thuringia from 4 March 2020 to 12 December 2024 and was headed by Bodo Ramelow. It was the 10th Cabinet of Thuringia.
Gerd Schuchardt is an electrical engineer who built his career and reputation in East Germany before 1990 in microprocessor technology and related forward-looking branches of science. He was interested in politics,but had avoided involvement in the country's ruling SED (party) or any of the various so-called "bloc parties" which it controlled. In January 1990,with the winds of political change - somewhat implausibly,as many still thought at the time - blowing across from the Kremlin in Moscow,the party leaders in East Berlin no longer felt able to stand against domestic pressures for a return to democratic politics after more than half a century of one-party dictatorship. Gerd Schuchardt became an activist member of the re-awakening Social Democratic Party. After reunification in October 1990 state-level democratic politics returned to Thuringia:Schuchardt became a leading figure in Thuringian state politics,selected by party members as the Social Democratic Party's lead candidate in the 1994 Thuringian state election. He led his party to what turned out to be its best electoral result in Thuringia to date. In the resulting "Grand coalition" government that ensued he served as vice-minister-president until 1999 under the leadership of Bernhard Vogel (CDU) and as Minister for the Sciences,Research and the Arts.
The 2024 Saxony state election was held on 1 September 2024 to elect members to the 8th Landtag of Saxony. It was held on the same day as the 2024 Thuringian state election. Going into the election,the state government was led by Michael Kretschmer of the CDU as Minister-President,in a coalition with the Greens and the SPD.
The concept of the "firewall against the far-right" in Germany represents a strategic approach and political demand within civil society and political circles. It focuses on the dynamics between mainstream political parties and far-right entities such as the AfD and Die Heimat. The primary objective is to prevent mainstream parties from endorsing anti-democratic elements and to discourage alignment with or rapproachment towards far-right ideologies,advocating instead for a policy of non-cooperation with these parties.
Torben Braga is a German politician of the Alternative for Germany (AfD),previously FDP. He entered the state parliament of Thuringia after the state elections of 27 October 2019.
The Politics of Thuringia takes place within a framework of a federal parliamentary representative democratic republic,where the Federal Government of Germany exercises sovereign rights with certain powers reserved to the states of Germany including Thuringia. The four main parties,following the 2024 elections,are the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD),the centre-right Christian Democratic Union,the populist left Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW),and the left-wing Left Party.
Sigrid Hupach is a German politician who served as a member of the German Bundestag for the Left Party from 2013 to 2017. Since 2024,she has been a member of the Thuringian State Parliament for the Alliance Sahra Wagenknecht,being one of the two deputy leaders of that Party's state association.
In German politics,a Blackberry coalition also called a black-purple-red coalition or red-purple-black coalition is a governing coalition between the Christian Democratic Union of Germany,Social Democratic Party of Germany and the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance. Such arrangements were first discussed due to the mathematical possibility of such a new government coalition emerging before the state elections in Saxony and Thuringia in 2024.
