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).
Identitäre Bewegung Österreich is an Austrian far-right nationalist and Neue Rechte organization. Inspired by the French Bloc identitaire,it belongs to the pan-European Identitarian movement and is the Austrian branch of the organization known as Generation Identity (GI).
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.
Franziska Giffey is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who is serving as Berlin State Senator for Economy,Energy and Enterprise since 2023. She served as Governing Mayor of Berlin from December 2021 to April 2023. She previously served as Minister for Family Affairs,Senior Citizens,Women and Youth in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel from 2018 until 2021. From 2015 to 2018,she was the mayor of the borough of Neukölln in Berlin.
Kai Wegner is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as Governing Mayor of Berlin since April 2023. He served as a member of the Bundestag,the German federal parliament,from 2005 to 2021. In 2019,he became the chairman of the CDU in Berlin.
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.
The Values Union is a German registered association that considers itself to be a "conservative grassroots movement" within the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) and the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU). On January 20,2024,while meeting in Erfurt the group had decided to form a new "conservative-liberal" party. According to its own information,in 2022 the Values Union had around 4,000 members;with about 3,000 also being the members of the CDU.
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.
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.
