Rainer Wieland is a German politician and member of the European Parliament for Germany. He is a member of the Christian Democratic Union, part of the European People's Party. He has been a member of the European Parliament since 1997 and one of its vice-presidents since 2009. His area of responsibility as a member of the European Parliament includes the Stuttgart administrative district. Since 2011, Wieland has been president of the non-partisan Europa-Union Deutschland.
Lothar Binding is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) who served as a member of the Bundestag from the 1998 until 2021.
Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel is a former German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as member of the management board of GIZ since 2019.
The Pirate Party Germany, commonly known as Pirates, is a political party in Germany founded in September 2006 at c-base. It states general agreement with the Swedish Piratpartiet as a party of the information society; it is part of the international movement of pirate parties and a member of the Pirate Parties International. In 2011-12, the party succeeded in attaining a high enough vote share to enter four state parliaments and the European Parliament. However, their popularity rapidly declined and by 2017 they had no representation in any of the German state parliaments. Their one European MEP, Patrick Breyer, has joined the Greens/EFA group. Together with Marcel Kolaja, Markéta Gregorová and Mikuláš Peksa from the Czech Pirate Party they build up the European Pirate Party team for the European Parliament in Brussels.
Kirsten Lühmann is a German politician with the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), deputy federal chairwoman of the German Civil Service Federation and, since the German federal elections of 2009, a member of parliament for the SPD.
Matthias Miersch is a German criminal defense lawyer and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as Member of the German Parliament since 2005, representing the Hannover-Land II district. He focusses on environmental policy.
Nils Schmid is a German lawyer and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). Since 2018, he has been the SPD parliamentary group's spokesperson for foreign affairs in the German Bundestag.
Stephan Weil is a German politician and the leader of the Social Democratic Party in Lower Saxony. On 20 January 2013, the SPD and the Green party won the 2013 Lower Saxony state election by one seat. On 19 February 2013, he was elected Minister President of Lower Saxony with the votes of SPD and Alliance '90/The Greens. From 1 November 2013 until 31 October 2014 he was President of the Bundesrat and ex officio deputy to the President of Germany. In November 2017, he was again elected Minister President with the votes of SPD and CDU.
Jasmin Freigang is a German politician who was a member of the Saarland regional parliament from 2012 to 2017, representing the Pirate Party.
Jürgen Scharf is a German regional politician (CDU). From April 2002 till 2011 he was the leader of the CDU group in the Saxony-Anhalt Regional Assembly.
Bernd Althusmann is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Since November 2017, he has been serving as Deputy Minister-President and State Minister for Economic Affairs in the government of Minister-President Stephan Weil.
Annette Widmann-Mauz is a German politician of the Christian Democrats who has been serving as a member of the German Bundestag since 1998, representing the electoral district of Tübingen. In addition to her work in parliament, she has been serving as Parliamentary State Secretary in Chancellor Angela Merkel's second and third cabinet since 2009.
Lars Klingbeil is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party, who has been the General Secretary of the Social Democratic Party since 8 December 2017. Since 2001 he has been a member of the City Council of Munster and a member of the District Council of Heide. He was a Member of the Bundestag for about 9 months in 2005 and has been a member again since the 2009 Federal Election. From 2003 till 2007, Klingbeil was the Deputy Leader of the Jusos, the SPD youth wing. Klingbeil is a member of the Seeheim Circle, the right wing of the SPD, which shares many similarities with Tony Blair's New Labour. Klingbeil was nominated by the SPD executive to as Co-Leader of the Social Democratic Party together with Saskia Esken, if he is elected in December 2021 he will succeed Norbert Walter-Borjans who is not standing for reelection.
Paul Ziemiak is a German politician who has been serving as General Secretary of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) since 8 December 2018, under the leadership of leaders Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer and Armin Laschet. He is a member of the Bundestag.
The Leader of the Christian Democratic Union is the most senior political figure within the Christian Democratic Union of Germany. Since 22 January 2021, the office has been held by Armin Laschet, who succeeded Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer.
Anke Domscheit-Berg is a German politician and activist. She has been a member of the Bundestag since 2017, when she was elected on the party list of The Left, without being a party member. She joined the party in 2021 following her nomination to the top female position on the party election list in the state of Brandenburg. Previously, she was a member of the Pirate Party Germany and the Greens. She is married to Daniel Domscheit-Berg. In 2010 she received the Berliner Frauenpreis.
Johann Saathoff is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Lower Saxony since 2013.
Christoph Ploß is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Hamburg since 2017.
Peter Kurz is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). He is the Lord mayor of Mannheim.
