Matthias Wissmann is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He served as the president of the German Automobile Industry Association (VdA) from 2007 until 2018.
Wolfgang Thierse is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). He served as the 11th president of the Bundestag from 1998 to 2005.
Ruprecht Polenz is a German politician and member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) political party.
Johannes Kahrs is a former German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who served as a member of the German parliament,Deutscher Bundestag,from 1998 until 2020.
Michael Hüther is a German economist who currently serves as director of the Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft. He has previously been the chief economist of DekaBank. Hüther also is an honorary professor at the European Business School International University Schloss Reichartshausen.
Marianne Birthler is a German human rights advocate and politician of the Alliance '90/The Greens. From 2000 to 2011,she served as the Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Records,responsible for investigating the past crimes of the Stasi,the former communist secret police of East Germany. In 2016 she was offered the nomination of the CDU/CSU and her own party for President of Germany,but after some time decided not to run;the parties would have had a majority in the Federal Convention,securing her the election.
Thomas Enders is a German business executive who served as the chief executive of Airbus from 2012 until 2019. Since 2019,Thomas has been the president of the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP).
Nicola Leibinger-Kammüller born Leibinger is an American-born German businesswoman. She is the president and chairwoman of the Managing Board of the Trumpf GmbH + Co. KG,of which she has been a member since 2003,after having joined the company in 1985 as a public relations and branding specialist.
Michael Kretschmer is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as Minister President of Saxony since December 2017. Since 2022,he has been one of four deputy chairs of the CDU,under the leadership of chairman Friedrich Merz.
The Federation of German Industries is the umbrella organization of German industry and industry-related service providers in the legal form of a registered association. It represents 39 industry associations and more than 100,000 companies that employ around 8 million workers. Membership is voluntary. A total of 15 Bundesland-level agencies represent the interests of the economy at regional level. The headquarters of the BDI is the Haus der Deutschen Wirtschaft in Berlin. The BDI also has offices abroad and is represented internationally. Peter Leibinger has been its president since 1 January 2025. BDI has offices in Germany and abroad. A total of 15 state representatives represents the interests of the economy at the regional level.
Katja Isabel Leikert is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag since 2013,representing the Hanau electoral district. Within the CDU/CSU Bundestag Group,parliamentary colleagues elected her one of the alliance's eleven Bundestag deputy chairpersons in January 2018.
Maria Franziska Flachsbarth is a German veterinarian and politician of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) who served as Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development in the fourth coalition government of Chancellor Angela Merkel from 2018 to 2021. Since 2011,she has also served as the president of the German Catholic Women's Association.
Olav Gutting is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag since 2002.
Thomas Heilmann is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Born in Dortmund,North Rhine-Westphalia,he has served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Berlin since 2017.
Thomas Jarzombek is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia since 2009.
Eckhardt Rehberg is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern from 2005 until 2021.
Mechthild Rawert is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) wh served as a member of the Bundestag from 2005 until 2017 and again from 2020 to 2021,representing Berlin's Tempelhof-Schöneberg district.
Tanja Gönner is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as managing director of the Federation of German Industries (BDI),the leading lobby organization of German industry since November 2022.
Frank Bsirske is a German trade unionist and politician and of Alliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag since 2021. From 2001 to 2019,he was the chairman of the United Services Trade Union (ver.di).
On 25 November 2023,a group of right-wing extremists met at the Adlon Mansion on Lake Lehnitz in Potsdam,Germany. At the event,Martin Sellner,an Austrian right-wing extremist presented a plan for the deportation of certain parts of the German populace,namely asylum seekers,foreigners with a residence permit,and "non-assimilated" German citizens. The meeting was attended by members of the German right-wing populist party AfD,the mainstream centre-right party Christian Democratic Union (CDU),the Werteunion,and the far-right Identitarian movement,among others. The meeting was exposed by the investigative journalism organization Correctiv,which published its findings on 10 January 2024.
