North Rhine-Westphalia,commonly shortened to NRW,is a state (Land) in Western Germany. With more than 17.9 million inhabitants,it is the most populous state of Germany. Apart from the city-states,it is also the most densely populated state in Germany. Covering an area of 34,084 square kilometres (13,160 sq mi),it is the fourth-largest German state by size.
Dortmund is the third-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne and Düsseldorf,and the eighth-largest city of Germany,with a population of 588,250 inhabitants as of 2021. It is the largest city of the Ruhr,Germany's largest urban area with some 5.1 million inhabitants,as well as the largest city of Westphalia. On the Emscher and Ruhr rivers,it lies in the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Region and is considered the administrative,commercial,and cultural center of the eastern Ruhr. Dortmund is the second-largest city in the Low German dialect area after Hamburg.
Hagen is the 41st-largest city in Germany. The municipality is located in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is located on the south eastern edge of the Ruhr area,15 km south of Dortmund,where the rivers Lenne and Volme meet the river Ruhr. As of 31 December 2010,the population was 188,529.
Witten is a city with almost 100,000 inhabitants in the Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis (district) in North Rhine-Westphalia,Germany.
Gladbeck is a town in the district of Recklinghausen in North Rhine-Westphalia,Germany.
Recklinghausen is the northernmost city in the Ruhr-Area and the capital of the Recklinghausen district. It borders the rural Münsterland and is characterized by large fields and farms in the north and industry in the south. Recklinghausen is the 60th-largest city in Germany and the 22nd-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Herbert Reul is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as State Minister for Internal Affairs in the government of successive Ministers-President Armin Laschet (2017–2021) and Hendrik Wüst. He previously served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP).
Castrop-Rauxel,often simply referred to as Castrop by locals,is a former coal mining city in the eastern part of the Ruhr Area in Germany.
Lünen is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia,Germany. It is located north of Dortmund,on both banks of the River Lippe. It is the largest town of the Unna district and part of the Ruhr Area.
Oliver Wittke is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).
Reinhard Rauball is a German politician,member of the SPD,a trained lawyer,and football official. He is known for having served as president of football team Borussia Dortmund several times and also served very briefly as Minister of Justice of North Rhine-Westphalia. In addition to currently serving as president of Borussia Dortmund,he has also been President of the German Football League since August 2007. From November 2015 to April 2016,he was acting President of the German Football Association along with Rainer Koch.
Roland Siegfried Borchardt was a German neo-Nazi of the Free fellowship and a former functionary of the Freedom German Workers' Party,which was banned in 1995. In the 2014 local elections,he won a seat on the city council of the city of Dortmund,as the party's leading candidate,but resigned after two months.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Dortmund,Germany.
Luise Albertz was a German politician committed,throughout her life,to the Social Democratic Party (SPD). She was a member of the West German Bundestag for two decades,until 1969. However,she was firmly rooted in the regional politics of her home city,Oberhausen,where she was the appointed mayor from 1946 to 1948. Following the establishment in 1949,by three of the four principal occupying powers,of West Germany,Albertz was elected mayor of Oberhausen in 1956 and held the office till her death in 1979. She was the first female mayor of a major city in Germany.
Fritz Steinhoff was a German politician of the SPD. He was the third Minister President of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia from 1956 to 1958.
Wilhelm Werner Müller was a German businessman and politician. He served as Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy from 1998 to 2002. He then became CEO of RAG AG from 2003,of which Evonik was derived in 2007. His management of a reduction in Germany's dependence on coal in a socially responsible way won him the Manager of the Year award in Germany in 2008. He was chairman of the supervisory board of Deutsche Bahn.
Thomas Westphal is an economist,politician (SPD) and the lord mayor of Dortmund. Previously,he was managing director of City of Dortmund Economic Development Agency from 2014 to 2020. Before,he was managing director of business development metropoleruhr,whose advisory board he still belongs to today. From 1993 to 1995 he was Federal Chairman of the Jusos. Westphal assumed as the lord mayor of Dortmund in 1 November 2020.
Dortmund I is an electoral constituency represented in the Bundestag. It elects one member via first-past-the-post voting. Under the current constituency numbering system,it is designated as constituency 142. It is located in the Ruhr region of North Rhine-Westphalia,comprising the western part of the city of Dortmund.
Dortmund II is an electoral constituency represented in the Bundestag. It elects one member via first-past-the-post voting. Under the current constituency numbering system,it is designated as constituency 143. It is located in the Ruhr region of North Rhine-Westphalia,comprising the eastern part of the city of Dortmund.
Thomas Kutschaty is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as leader of the SPD in North Rhine-Westphalia since 2021. Kutschaty has been a member of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia since 2005 and has served as the parliamentary leader of the SPD since 2018. Prior to this Kutschaty served as the Minister for Justice of North Rhine-Westphalia from 2010 till 2017.
