Helmut Josef Michael Kohl was a German politician who served as Chancellor of West Germany from 1982 to 1990,Chancellor of Germany from 1990 to 1998 and Leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from 1973 to 1998. Kohl's 16-year tenure is the longest of any German chancellor since Otto von Bismarck,and oversaw the end of the Cold War,the German reunification and the creation of the European Union (EU). Kohl's tenure of 16 years,26 days is the longest for any democratically elected chancellor of Germany.
Karl Carstens was a German politician. He served as the president of West Germany from 1979 to 1984.
Heiner Geißler was a German politician with the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party and a federal minister from 1982 to 1985.
Roman Herzog was a German politician,judge and legal scholar,who served as the president of Germany from 1994 to 1999. A member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU),he was the first president to be elected after the reunification of Germany. He previously served as a judge of the Federal Constitutional Court,and he was the President of the court 1987–1994. Before his appointment as a judge he was a professor of law. He received the 1997 Charlemagne Prize.
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.
Richard Karl Freiherr von Weizsäcker was a German politician (CDU),who served as President of Germany from 1984 to 1994. Born into the aristocratic Weizsäcker family,who were part of the German nobility,he took his first public offices in the Protestant Church in Germany.
Hans-Jochen Vogel was a German lawyer and a politician for the Social Democratic Party (SPD). He served as Mayor of Munich from 1960 to 1972,winning the 1972 Summer Olympics for the city and Governing Mayor of West Berlin in 1981,the only German ever to lead two cities with a million+ inhabitants. He was Federal Minister of Regional Planning,Construction and Urban Development from 1972 to 1974,and Federal Minister of Justice from 1974 to 1981. He served as leader of the SPD in the Bundestag from 1983 to 1991,and as Leader of the Social Democratic Party from 1987 to 1991. In 1993,he co-founded the organisation Gegen Vergessen –Für Demokratie. He was a member of the National Ethics Council of Germany from its beginning in 2001.
Rudolf Albert Scharping is a German lawyer and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD).
Gerhard Stoltenberg was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and minister in the cabinets of Ludwig Erhard,Kurt Georg Kiesinger and Helmut Kohl. He served as Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein from 1971 to 1982 and as President of the Bundesrat from 1977 to 1978.
Wolfgang Schäuble was a German politician whose political career spanned more than five decades. A member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU),he was the longest-serving member of any democratic German parliament. Schäuble served as the 13th president of the Bundestag from 2017 to 2021.
Norbert Blüm was a German politician who served as a federal legislator from North Rhine-Westphalia,chairman of the CDU North Rhine-Westphalia (1987–1999),and Minister of Labour and Social Affairs.
Friedbert Pflüger is a former German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He was a Member of the German Bundestag (1990–2006). He was Secretary of State in the Federal Ministry of Defence (2005–2006),and the CDU's candidate for Governing Mayor of Berlin in the 2006 Berlin state election. He was a member of the Berlin House of Representatives (2006–2011) and a member of the executive board of the CDU (2000–2010). Today,he is a businessman and teaches Energy and Climate Security at the Center for Advanced Security,Strategic and Integration Studies (CASSIS),University of Bonn. He is Visiting Professor at King’s College London.
Eberhard Diepgen is a German lawyer and politician who served as Mayor of West Berlin from 1984 to 1989 and again as Mayor of (united) Berlin,from 1991 until 2001,as member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).
Rudolf Seiters is a German politician of the CDU party.
The history of Germany from 1990 to the present spans the period following the German reunification,when West Germany and East Germany were reunited after being divided during the Cold War. Germany after 1990 is referred to by historians as the Berlin Republic. This time period is also determined by the ongoing process of the "inner reunification" of the formerly divided country.
Edzard Schmidt-Jortzig is a German jurist. He currently holds the chair for public law at the University of Kiel. A member of the Free Democratic Party,he served as Federal Minister of Justice in the Fifth Kohl cabinet between 1996 and 1998.
Jan-Marco Luczak is a German lawyer and a politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the German Bundestag since 2009,representing the Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg constituency until 2021,and as a party list member since.
Hanna-Renate Laurien was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).
The Fourth Merkel cabinet was the 23rd Government of the Federal Republic of Germany during the 19th legislative session of the Bundestag. It was sworn in on 14 March 2018 following the 2017 federal election and dismissed on 26 October 2021,acting in a caretaker mode until 8 December 2021. It was preceded by the third Merkel cabinet and succeeded by the Scholz cabinet. Led by Chancellor Angela Merkel,it was the third cabinet under Merkel to be supported by a coalition of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU),the Christian Social Union of Bavaria (CSU),and the Social Democratic Party (SPD).
Volker Wissing is a German lawyer,former judge and politician of the liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has been serving as the party's General Secretary since 2020,and as Minister for Transport in the federal government under Chancellor Olaf Scholz since 2021. He previously was the Deputy Minister-President of Rhineland-Palatinate in the state government under Minister-President Malu Dreyer from 2016 to 2021 and a member of the German Parliament from 2004 to 2013.
