Armin Laschet is a German politician who served as Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia from 27 June 2017 to 26 October 2021. He served as Leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from 22 January 2021 to 22 January 2022. Since 26 October 2021 he serves as Member of the German Bundestag and since 24 January 2022 as Vice President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
Peter Liese is a German physician and politician who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 1994. He is a member of the Christian Democratic Union,part of the European People's Party.
Herbert Reul is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who currently serves as State Minister for Internal Affairs in the government of Minister-President Hendrik Wüst. He previously served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP).
Aachen 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 87. It is located in western North Rhine-Westphalia,comprising the city of Aachen.
Monika Hohlmeier is a German politician who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2009. She is a member of the Christian Social Union,part of the European People's Party. Between 1998 and 2005 she served as Bavarian State Minister for Education and Cultural Affairs.
Cemile Giousouf is a German politician;she was the first ever Muslim member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU),serving as Member of the Bundestag for one legislative term from 2013 until 2017.
Rudolf Paul Maria Henke is a physician and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as a member of the German Bundestag from 2009 until 2021.
Theresa Reintke is a German politician who has been serving as a member of the European Parliament from Germany since 2014. She is Vice-Chair of the Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament. She is a member of the Alliance '90/The Greens,part of The Greens–European Free Alliance. From 2011 to 2013 she was the spokesperson of the Federation of Young European Greens.
Andreas Pinkwart is a German politician and academic who currently serves as State Minister for Economic Affairs,Digitization,Innovation and Energy in the governments of Ministers-President Armin Laschet and Hendrik Wüst of North Rhine-Westphalia from 2017 to 2022. He previously was the Dean of HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management and holder of the Stiftungsfonds Deutsche Bank Chair of Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship.
Ralph Brinkhaus is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He served as parliamentary leader of the CDU/CSU group in the Bundestag from 2018 to 2022.
Alexandra Geese is a German interpreter and politician of the Alliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019.
Günter Krings is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia since 2002. From 2013 until 2021,he also served as Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of the Interior in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Kerstin Christiane Radomski is a German teacher and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia since 2013.
The 2022 North Rhine-Westphalia state election was held on 15 May 2022 to elect the 18th Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia. The outgoing government was a coalition of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Free Democratic Party (FDP) led by Minister-President Hendrik Wüst.
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.
Hendrik Josef Wüst is a German politician currently serving as Minister-President of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. He is a member of the Christian democratic and liberal-conservative CDU. In October 2021 he succeeded Armin Laschet as state chairman of his party. Under Wüst's leadership,his party won the highest vote share in the 2022 North Rhine-Westphalia state election.
Serap Güler is a German politician of Turkish origin from the Christian Democratic Union. She has been a Member of the German Bundestag since 2021,representing the Leverkusen –Cologne IV district.
The Wüst cabinet is the current state government of North Rhine-Westphalia,sworn in on 28 October 2021 after Hendrik Wüst was elected as Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia by the members of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is the 25th Cabinet of North Rhine-Westphalia.
The Laschet cabinet was the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia between 2017 and 2021,sworn in on 30 June 2017 after Armin Laschet was elected as Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia by the members of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia. It was the 24th Cabinet of North Rhine-Westphalia.
The Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia,also referred to as Premier or Prime Minister,is the head of government of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW). The position was created in 1946,when the British administration merge the Prussian province of Westphalia and the northern part of the Prussian province of the Rhine were merged to form the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. In 1947 the state was expanded with including of the state of Lippe.
