Alliance 90/The Greens,often simply referred to as the Greens,is a green political party in Germany. It was formed in 1993 as the merger of The Greens and Alliance 90. The Greens had itself merged with the East German Green Party after German reunification in 1990.
Andrea Maria Nahles is a former German politician who has been the director of the Federal Employment Agency (BA) since 2022.
Dietmar Gerhard Bartsch is a German politician who has served as co-chair of The Left parliamentary group in the Bundestag since 2015. Prior,he served as federal treasurer of The Left from 2006 to 2009 and federal managing officer from 2005 to 2010. He was a prominent member of The Left's predecessor party,the PDS,of which he served as treasurer from 1991 to 1997 and federal managing officer from 1997 to 2002.
Anja Hajduk is a German psychologist and politician of the Alliance '90/The Greens who has been serving as State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action in the coalition government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz since 2021.
Nicola Beer is a German lawyer and politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019,and as one of its Vice-Presidents.
Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who serves as a member of the German Bundestag and was Parliamentary State Secretary in Chancellor Angela Merkel's third and fourth cabinet. Since December 2021,Schwarzelühr-Sutter is Parliamentary State Secretary in Chancellor Olaf Scholz's first cabinet. She is an outspoken advocate and expert for sustainable development and nuclear safety,recognized both nationally and internationally.
Peter Michael Tauber is a former German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as a member of the Bundestag from 2009 to 2021. From 16 December 2013 to 26 February 2018 he served as Secretary General of the CDU under the leadership of its chairwoman Angela Merkel.
Federal elections were held in Germany on 26 September 2021 to elect the members of the 20th Bundestag. State elections in Berlin and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern were also held. Incumbent chancellor Angela Merkel,first elected in 2005,chose not to run again,marking the first time that an incumbent Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany has not sought re-election.
Janine Natalie Wißler,known professionally as Janine Wissler,is a German politician who has been co-chairwoman of The Left and member of the Bundestag for Hesse since 2021. Prior to that,she served as member of the Landtag of Hesse since 2008 and leader of the state parliamentary group since 2009,including as sole leader since 2014,as well as deputy leader of the federal party since 2014. She was one of The Left's lead candidates for the 2021 German federal election,alongside Dietmar Bartsch.
Astrid Mannes is a German author and politician (CDU). From 2017 to 2021,she served as a member of the national parliament ("Bundestag"),directly elected as a member for constituency of Darmstadt.
Leni Breymaier is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).
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.
Heidi Knake-Werner is a German politician. She served as a member of the German parliament ("Bundestag") between 1994 and 2002. Between 2002 and 2009 she was one of Berlin's more high-profile senators.
Katharina Dröge is a German economist and politician of Alliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as co-chair of the Green Party’s parliamentary group in the Bundestag since 2021,alongside Britta Haßelmann. She previously served as one of the group’s managers from 2018 to 2021. She has been a member of the Bundestag since 2013.
Kerstin Griese is a German politician (SPD). She is a member of the German Bundestag and Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Labor and Social Affairs. She also belongs to the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD).
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).
Nezahat Baradari is a German-Turkish physician and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia since 2019.
Carola Reimann is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who served as State Minister for Social Affairs,Health,and Equality in the cabinet of Minister-President Stephan Weil of Lower Saxony from 2017 to 2021. She previously represented Braunschweig in the Bundestag from 2002 until 2017.
Ricarda Lang is a German politician who is serving as co-leader of the Alliance 90/The Greens since January 2022,alongside Omid Nouripour. She has been a member of the Bundestag since 2021. Previously,she was co-deputy leader of the party from 2019 to 2021 and spokeswoman for women's policy,and co-leader of the Green Youth from 2017 to 2019.
Andrea Voßhoff is a German former lawyer who switched to full-time politics in mid-career (CDU). She served as a member of the Bundestag between 1998 and 2013 when,as a "party list" candidate,she narrowly failed to secure re-election in the Brandenburg-Potsam electoral district.
