Wilhelm Johann Harald Hoegner was the second Bavarian prime minister (SPD) after World War II, and the father of the Bavarian constitution. He has been the only Social Democrat to hold this office since 1920.
The Landtag of Bavaria, officially known in English as the Bavarian State Parliament, is the unicameral legislature of the German state of Bavaria. The parliament meets in the Maximilianeum in Munich.
Georg Heinrich Ritter (Chevalier) von Vollmar auf Veldheim was a democratic socialist politician from Bavaria.
Anja Weisgerber is a German lawyer and politician. She currently is a member of the German Bundestag representing Schweinfurt for the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU), part of the European People's Party (EPP). She previously served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Bavaria. In addition to her political work, she serves as of counsel at the Frankfurt office of German law firm GSK Stockmann & Kollegen.
Ilse Aigner is a German politician and member of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria (CSU).
Martin Burkert is a German politician and member of the SPD.
The politics of Bavaria 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 Bavaria.
Ismail Ertug is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Germany. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, part of the Party of European Socialists.
Marie-Luise "Malu" Dreyer is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has served as the 8th and current Minister President of Rhineland-Palatinate since 13 January 2013. She is the first woman to hold this office. She served a one-year-term as the President of the Bundesrat from 1 November 2016 – 2017, which made her the deputy to the President of Germany while in office. She was the second female President of the Bundesrat and the sixth woman holding one of the five highest federal offices in Germany.
Joachim Herrmann is a German politician. He is a member of the CSU party. Herrmann is an MP in the Landtag, the parliament of Bavaria since 1994. Since 16 October 2007 he has been Minister of the Interior of the state of Bavaria.
Johanna Uekermann is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). She served as chairwoman of the Young Socialists in the SPD (Jusos) from 2013 to 2017 and as Deputy Leader of the SPD Bayern from 2017 until 2021
The 2018 Bavarian state election took place on 14 October 2018 to elect the 180 members of the 18th Landtag of Bavaria. The outgoing government was a majority of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU), led by Minister President Markus Söder.
Florian Pronold is a German lawyer and politician of the SPD who served as member of the German Bundestag from 2002 until 2021. From 11 July 2009 to 20 May 2017, he was state chairman of the SPD Bavaria.
Katharina Elisabeth Schulze is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as a member of the State Parliament of Bavaria (Landtag) since 2013. Along with Ludwig Hartmann, she was one of the two leading candidates of her party in the 2018 Bavarian state election. Since 2019, she has been part of her party's national leadership, under co-chairs Annalena Baerbock and Robert Habeck.
Ute Vogt is a German lawyer and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who served as a member of the Bundestag from 1994 to 2005 and from 2009 to 2021. Since 2021, she has been serving as president of the German Life Saving Association (DLRG).
Uli Grötsch is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Bavaria since 2013.
Ulrike Gote is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens who served as State Minister (Senator) for Science, Health, Nursing and Equality in the government of Governing Mayor of Berlin Franziska Giffey from December 2021 to April 2023.
Sebastian Roloff is a German lawyer and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag since October 2021, representing the constituency of Munich south.
Florian von Brunn is a German politician from the SPD of Bavaria and IT consultant. He has been a member of the Landtag of Bavaria since October 2013, and has been chairman of the SPD state parliamentary group since 2021 and chairman of the Bavarian SPD. He is his party's top candidate for the 2023 Bavarian state election.
Ronja Endres is a German politician of the SPD of Bavaria. She has been chairwoman of the Bavarian SPD since 24 April 2021 in a dual leadership with Florian von Brunn.
