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.
The Rhineland-Palatinate Landtag is the state diet of the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate.
Kurt Beck is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD),who served as the 7th Minister President of Rhineland-Palatinate from 1994 to 2013 and as the 55th President of the Bundesrat in 2000–01. In May 2006,he succeeded Matthias Platzeck as chairman of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD). He resigned from that post in September 2008.
Perscheid is an Ortsgemeinde –a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde,a kind of collective municipality –in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis (district) in Rhineland-Palatinate,Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Hunsrück-Mittelrhein,whose seat is in Emmelshausen.
Josef Philip Winkler is a German nurse and politician of Bündnis 90/Die Grünen who has been chairing his party's chapter in Rhineland-Palatinate since 2016. He previously served as a member of the Deutscher Bundestag from 2002 to 2013. During that period,he was his parliamentary group's deputy chairman from 2009 to 2013.
The politics of Rhineland-Palatinate 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 Rhineland-Palatinate. The state has a multi-party system where the two main parties are the center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the center-left Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).
Christian Baldauf is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union who has been serving as a member of the Landtag of Rhineland-Palatinate since 2001,where he is the leader of the CDU parliamentary group and thus the leader of the opposition.
Michael Ebling is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who served as State Minister of the Interior in the government of Minister-President Malu Dreyer of Rhineland-Palatinate since 2022. From 2012 to 2022,he was the mayor of Mainz.
Marie-Luise "Malu" Dreyer is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has served as the 8th minister-president of Rhineland-Palatinate from 2013 to 2024. She is the first woman to hold this office. She served a one-year-term as president of the Federal Council from 1 November 2016 –31 October 2017,which made her deputy to the president of Germany while in office. She was the second female president of the Federal Council and the sixth woman holding one of the five highest federal offices in Germany. On 19 June 2024 she announced her resignation from the office of minister-president with effect from 10 July.
Julia Klöckner is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as Federal Minister of Food,Agriculture and Consumer Protection in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel from 2018 to 2021. Since 2012,she has also been part of the CDU leadership.
Wilhelm Boden was a German lawyer,civil servant and politician. From 1946 to 1947 he was the first Minister President of Rhineland-Palatinate.
An indirect presidential election was held in Germany on 13 February 2022 to elect the next president of Germany.
Angelika Glöckner is a German politician (SPD) and a member of the German Bundestag since 2014.
The 2021 Baden-Württemberg state election was held on 14 March 2021 to elect the 17th Landtag of Baden-Württemberg. The outgoing government was a coalition of Alliance 90/The Greens and the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) led by Minister-President Winfried Kretschmann.
Josef Becker was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and former member of the German Bundestag.
The 2021 Rhineland-Palatinate state election was held on 14 March 2021 to elect the 18th Landtag of Rhineland-Palatinate. The outgoing government was a "traffic light coalition" of the Social Democratic Party (SPD),Free Democratic Party (FDP),and The Greens led by Minister-President Malu Dreyer.
Anne Spiegel is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens. She served as Federal Minister for Family Affairs,Senior Citizens,Women and Youth in the cabinet of Chancellor Olaf Scholz since 8 December 2021;she announced her resignation on 11 April and was dismissed by the President on 25 April 2022
Michael Hartmann is a German politician and member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). He was a member of the German Bundestag from 2002 to 2017. Hartmann is a specialist politician for internal security and was the domestic policy spokesman of the SPD parliamentary group as well as the chairman of his parliamentary group in the Committee on Internal Affairs and a member of the Parliamentary Oversight Panel.
Tanja Machalet is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). Machalet became a member of the Bundestag in the 2021 German federal election and she represents the constituency of Montabaur.
Marlon Andreas Paul Bröhr is a German dentist and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He was District Administrator of the Rhine-Hunsrück district from May 2015 to September 2021. He is a directly elected member of the 20th German Bundestag.
