Franz Anton Beckenbauer is a German former professional football player and manager. Nicknamed "Der Kaiser",he is widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of the sport. A versatile player who started out as a midfielder,Beckenbauer made his name as a central defender. He is often credited as having invented the role of the modern sweeper. With success at club and international level,he is one of nine players to have won the FIFA World Cup,the European Champions Cup,and the Ballon d'Or.
Erika Steinbach is a German right-wing politician. She previously served as a member of the Bundestag from 1990 until 2017.
The Homeland,previously known as the National Democratic Party of Germany,is a far-right Neo-Nazi and ultranationalist political party in Germany.
The Republicans is a national conservative political party in Germany. The primary plank of the programme is opposition to immigration. The party tends to attract protest voters who think that the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Christian Social Union of Bavaria (CSU) are not sufficiently conservative. It was founded in 1983 by former CSU members Franz Handlos and Ekkehard Voigt,and Franz Schönhuber was the party's leader from 1985 to 1994. The party had later been led by Rolf Schlierer,until 2014. The Republicans had seats in the European Parliament between 1989 and 1994,Abgeordnetenhaus of West Berlin in 1989–1990 and in the parliament of the German state of Baden-Württemberg between 1991 and 2001.
The German People's Union was a right-wing nationalist political party in Germany. It was founded by publisher Gerhard Frey as an informal association in 1971 and established as a party in 1987. In 2011,it merged with the National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD).
Holger Apfel is a German politician who was the leader of the far-right National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) from 2011 to 2013. He was a member of the Saxon Parliament between 2004 and 2014,serving as the chairman of the NPD parliamentary group and a member of the presidium of the parliament.
Udo Voigt is a German politician and former Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the far-right and Neo-Nazi party National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) between 2014 and 2019. He was a member of the European Parliament Committee on Civil Liberties,Justice and Home Affairs. He served as leader of NPD from 1996 to 2011. By profession,he is a former captain in the German Air Force and has a master's degree in political science from LMU. Voigt has in recent years become a strong supporter of Vladimir Putin and has said that Germany should have "a chancellor like Putin."
Andrea Maria Nahles is a former German politician who has been the director of the Federal Employment Agency (BA) since 2022.
Franz Xaver Schönhuber was a German right-wing extremist journalist,politician,and author. He gained fame as a founder and eventual chairman of the right-wing German party The Republicans. He was a member of the Waffen-SS during World War II.
Human rights in Germany enjoy a high level of protection,both in theory and in practice,and are enshrined in the Grundgesetz. The country has ratified most international human rights treaties. Reports from independent organizations such as Amnesty International certify a high level of compliance with human rights,while others,like the researcher Tobias Singelnstein,point out several issues,in particular police brutality and mistreatment of refugees. The 2008 Freedom in the World report by US-funded Freedom House gives Germany a score of "1" for both political rights and civil liberties.
Federal elections were held in Germany on 27 September 2009 to elect the members of the 17th Bundestag.
Adolf von Thadden was a German far-right politician. Born into a leading Pomeranian landowning family,he was the half-brother of Elisabeth von Thadden,a prominent critic of the Nazis who was executed by the Nazi government in September 1944.
The new states of Germany are the five re-established states of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) that unified with the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) with its 10 "old states" upon German reunification on 3 October 1990.
Martin Mussgnug was a German politician and leader of the National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) from 1971 to 1991.
The far-right in Germany slowly reorganised itself after the fall of Nazi Germany and the dissolution of the Nazi Party in 1945. Denazification was carried out in Germany from 1945 to 1949 by the Allied forces of World War II,with an attempt of eliminating Nazism from the country. However,various far-right parties emerged in the post-war period,with varying success. Most parties only lasted a few years before either dissolving or being banned,and explicitly far-right parties have never gained seats in the Bundestag post-WWII.
Manuela Schwesig is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party serving as Minister President of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern since 4 July 2017,becoming the first woman to serve in that post. Previously she served as Federal Minister of Family Affairs,Senior Citizens,Women and Youth in the third cabinet of Angela Merkel from 2013 to 2017.
Alternative for Germany is a right-wing populist political party in Germany. AfD is known for its Euroscepticism,as well as for opposing immigration to Germany. As a right-wing party,AfD is commonly positioned on the radical right,a subset of the far-right,within the family of European political parties that does not oppose democracy.
Björn Höcke is a German politician and a member of Alternative for Germany (AfD). Along with Andreas Kalbitz,Höcke was the leader of the AfD's far-right Der Flügel faction,which the German government's Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution declared a right-wing extremist organization.
The III. Path or The Third Path is a far-right and neo-Nazi political party in Germany.
Eva Alexandra Ingrid Irmgard Anna Högl is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as Parliamentary Commissioner for the Armed Forces of Germany since May 2020.
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