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Katrin Helling-Plahr
Katrin Helling-Plahr (; born 2 April 1986) is a German lawyer and politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has been a member of the Bundestag since the 2017 election. Early life and career Helling-Plahr was born in Hagen. From 2005 to 2011, she studied law at the University of Münster. Since 2013 she has been practicing as a lawyer. From 2014 to 2015, she completed a postgraduate LL.M. program with a focus on medical law at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf. Political career Early beginnings Helling-Plahr joined the FDP in 2005. From 2011 to 2014, she served as deputy chair of the party's youth organization, the Young Liberals. Member of the German Parliament, 2017–present Helling-Plahr has been a member of the German Bundestag since the 2017 federal election, representing the Hagen – Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis I district. In parliament, she has been serving on the Committee on Legal Affairs (since 2018) and the Committee on Health (2018–2021). From 2018 to 2 ...
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Bundestag
The Bundestag (, "Federal Diet") is the German federal parliament. It is the only federal representative body that is directly elected by the German people. It is comparable to the United States House of Representatives or the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. The Bundestag was established by Title III of the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany (, ) in 1949 as one of the legislative bodies of Germany and thus it is the historical successor to the earlier Reichstag. The members of the Bundestag are representatives of the German people as a whole, are not bound by any orders or instructions and are only accountable to their electorate. The minimum legal number of members of the Bundestag (german: link=no, Mitglieder des Bundestages) is 598; however, due to the system of overhang and leveling seats the current 20th Bundestag has a total of 736 members, making it the largest Bundestag to date and the largest freely elected national parliamentary chamber in the wo ...
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Federal Labour Court Of Germany
The Federal Labour Court (''Bundesarbeitsgericht'') is the court of the last resort for cases of labour law in Germany, both for individual labour law (mostly concerning contracts of employment) and collective labour law (e.g. cases concerning strikes and collective bargaining). The court hears cases from the ''Landesarbeitsgerichte'' (Superior State Labour Courts), which, in turn, are the courts of appeals against decisions of the ''Arbeitsgerichte'' (Inferior State Labour Courts). The ''Bundesarbeitsgericht'' is located in the city of Erfurt. External links * Erfurt Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ... Courts in Germany Labour courts German labour law Labor in Germany 1954 establishments in West Germany Courts and tribunals established in 19 ...
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Assisted Suicide
Assisted suicide is suicide undertaken with the aid of another person. The term usually refers to physician-assisted suicide (PAS), which is suicide that is assisted by a physician or other healthcare provider. Once it is determined that the person's situation qualifies under the physician-assisted suicide laws for that place, the physician's assistance is usually limited to writing a prescription for a lethal dose of drugs. In many jurisdictions, helping a person die by suicide is a crime. People who support legalizing physician-assisted suicide want the people who assist in a voluntary death to be exempt from criminal prosecution for manslaughter or similar crimes. Physician-assisted suicide is legal in some countries, under certain circumstances, including Austria, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, parts of the United States and all six states of Australia. The constitutional courts of Colombia, Germany and Italy legali ...
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Petra Sitte
Petra Sitte (born 1 December 1960) is a German politician. She represents The Left. Petra Sitte has served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Saxony-Anhalt since 2005. Life Sitte was born in Dresden, Saxony. After graduating from high school in 1979, she studied economics at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, graduating in 1983 with a degree in economics. After subsequent research studies and work as an assistant at the Martin Luther University, she received her doctorate here in 1987. From 1990 to 2005 she was a member of the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt. She became member of the bundestag after the 2005 German federal election Federal elections were held in Germany on 18 September 2005 to elect the members of the 16th Bundestag. The snap election was called after the government's defeat in a state election, which caused them to intentionally lose a motion of confide .... She is a member of the Digital Agenda Committee and the Committee o ...
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Otto Fricke
Otto Fricke (born 21 November 1965 in Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German lawyer and politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has served as a member of the Bundestag from 2002 till 2013 and since 2017. Early life and education After graduating from high school in 1985 at the Gymnasium Fabritianum in Krefeld-Uerdingen, Fricke completed his military service in the German Air Force from 1985 to 1986. From 1986 to 1992 he studied law at the University of Freiburg. After his legal clerkship, he passed his second state examination in law in Düsseldorf in 1995. He was admitted to the bar in 1995. From 1996 to 2002, Fricke worked as parliamentary advisor for legal policy and parliamentary law for the FDP parliamentary group in the Bundestag. Political career Fricke has been a member of the FDP since 1989. From 2002 to 2013 he was a member of the German Bundestag, into which he always entered via the North Rhine-Westphalia state list. In the Bundestag he was cha ...
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Swen Schulz
Swen Schulz (born 1 March 1968) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Berlin from 2002 until 2021. Political career Schulz became a member of the Bundestag after the 2002 German federal election. From 2002 until 2013, he served on the Committee for Education, Research and Technology Assessment. In the negotiations to form a ''Grand Coalition'' of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats and the SPD following the 2013 federal elections, Schulz was part of the SPD delegation in the working group on education and research policy, led by Johanna Wanka and Doris Ahnen. From 2014 until 2021, he was a member of the Budget Committee. In this capacity, he served as his parliamentary group's rapporteur on the annual budget of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. In 2018, Schulz announced that he would not stand in the 2021 federal elections but instead resign from active politics by the e ...
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Karl Lauterbach
Karl Wilhelm Lauterbach (; born 21 February 1963) is a German scientist, physician, and politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) who has served as Federal Minister of Health since 8 December 2021. He is professor of health economics and epidemiology at the University of Cologne (on leave since 2005). Since the 2005 federal elections, he has been a Member of the Bundestag (the federal parliament of Germany). During the COVID-19 pandemic, his name became well known in Germany, through his frequent appearances on television talk shows as an invited guest expert, along with his frequent use of Twitter to provide commentary about the ongoing pandemic. Education and career Lauterbach studied human medicine at the RWTH Aachen University, University of Texas at San Antonio and University of Düsseldorf, where he graduated. From 1989 to 1992, he studied health policy and management as well as epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, graduating ...
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Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung
The ''Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung'' (''WAZ'') is a commercial newspaper from Essen, Germany, published by Funke Mediengruppe. History and profile ''Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung'' was founded by Erich Brost and first published 3 April 1948. The paper has its headquarters in Essen. During the third quarter of 1992 ''Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung'' had a circulation of 626,000 copies. See also * List of newspapers in Germany References External links

* * Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, 1948 establishments in Germany German-language newspapers Mass media in Essen Daily newspapers published in Germany Publications established in 1948 German news websites {{Germany-newspaper-stub ...
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Ricarda Lang
Ricarda Lang (born 17 January 1994) is a German politician who is serving as co-leader of the Alliance 90/The Greens since January 2022, alongside Omid Nouripour. She has been a member of the Bundestag since 2021. Previously, she was co-deputy leader of the party from 2019 to 2021 and spokeswoman for women's policy, and co-leader of the Green Youth from 2017 to 2019. Early life and education Lang was raised by a single mother, who was a social worker and worked at a women's shelter. Her father was the sculptor Eckhart Dietz, who died in 2019. After graduating from the Hölderlin-Gymnasium Nürtingen in 2012, Lang began studying law, first at the Heidelberg University and later at the Humboldt University of Berlin, eventually dropping out in 2019 without graduating. Political career Lang joined the Green Youth in 2012 at the age of 18. From 2014 to 2015, Lang was speaker for the Campus Greens, the Greens' student association. She was a member of the district executive of the Frie ...
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Alliance 90/The Greens
Alliance 90/The Greens (german: Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, ), often simply referred to as the Greens ( ), is a Green politics, green List of political parties in Germany, political party in Germany. It was formed in 1993 as the merger of The Greens (formed in West Germany in 1980) and Alliance 90 (formed in East Germany in 1990). The Greens had itself merged with the East German Green Party after German reunification in 1990. Since January 2022, Ricarda Lang and Omid Nouripour have been co-leaders of the party. It currently holds 118 of the 736 seats in the Bundestag, having won 14.8% of votes cast in the 2021 German federal election, 2021 federal election, and its parliamentary group is the third largest of six. Its parliamentary co-leaders are Britta Haßelmann and Katharina Dröge. The Greens have been part of the federal government during two periods: first as a junior partner to the Social Democratic Party of Germany, Social Democrats (SPD) from 1998 to 2005, and again with the ...
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Social Democratic Party Of Germany
The Social Democratic Party of Germany (german: Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands, ; SPD, ) is a centre-left social democratic political party in Germany. It is one of the major parties of contemporary Germany. Saskia Esken has been the party's leader since the 2019 leadership election together with Lars Klingbeil, who joined her in December 2021. After Olaf Scholz was elected chancellor in 2021 the SPD became the leading party of the federal government, which the SPD formed with the Greens and the Free Democratic Party, after the 2021 federal election. The SPD is a member of 11 of the 16 German state governments and is a leading partner in seven of them. The SPD was established in 1863. It was one of the earliest Marxist-influenced parties in the world. From the 1890s through the early 20th century, the SPD was Europe's largest Marxist party, and the most popular political party in Germany. During the First World War, the party split between a pro-war mainstream ...
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Coalition Government
A coalition government is a form of government in which political parties cooperate to form a government. The usual reason for such an arrangement is that no single party has achieved an absolute majority after an election, an atypical outcome in nations with majoritarian electoral systems, but common under proportional representation. A coalition government might also be created in a time of national difficulty or crisis (for example, during wartime or economic crisis) to give a government the high degree of perceived political legitimacy or collective identity, it can also play a role in diminishing internal political strife. In such times, parties have formed all-party coalitions (national unity governments, grand coalitions). If a coalition collapses, the Prime Minister and cabinet may be ousted by a vote of no confidence, call snap elections, form a new majority coalition, or continue as a minority government. Coalition agreement In multi-party states, a coalition agreeme ...
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