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Politics Of Schleswig-Holstein
The Politics of Schleswig-Holstein takes place within a framework of a federal parliamentary representative democratic republic, where the Federal Government of Germany exercises sovereign rights with certain powers reserved to the states of Germany including Schleswig-Holstein. The state has a multi-party system. Executive Branch Minister-Presidents since 1949 Since the creation of the Federal Republic in 1945, the state's Minister-Presidents have been: Current Cabinet Legislative Branch The last elections were held on 8 May 2022. Election results by percentage of Votes since 1949 Election results by distribution of seats since 1949 Judicial Branch The Schleswig-Holstein Landesverfassungsgericht was formed in 2008.{{Cite web , title=Schlie: Schleswig-Holstein ohne Verfassungsgericht nicht mehr vorstellbar , url=https://www.landtag.ltsh.de/nachrichten/21_06_15_feierstunde_landesverfassungsgericht/ , access-date=2022-05-18 , website=www.landtag.lts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schleswig-Holsteinischer Landtag
The Schleswig-Holstein Landtag is the state parliament of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. It convenes in the state's capital Kiel and currently consists of 69 members of five parties. The current majority consists of coalition of the Christian Democratic Union and the Greens, supporting the cabinet of Minister President Daniel Günther. The Landtag maintains partnerships with the parliament of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship, the Oblast Duma of the Kaliningrad Oblast and the parliament of the Pomeranian Voivodeship. Seat Since 1950, the Landtag convenes in the Landeshaus in Kiel, which was built in 1888 as the Royal Marine Academy. During the Nazi-Era, the Landeshaus served as seat of the German Navy's Baltic Sea Command. Up to 1950, the Landtag convened in Lübeck, Flensburg and Eckernförde as well as in Kiel. Since its renovation in 2003, the Landtag is assembled in a new Chamber inside of the Landeshaus. Electoral system The Landtag is elected via mixed-memb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hermann Lüdemann
Hermann Lüdemann (August 5, 1880 – May 27, 1959) was a German politician (SPD). He was Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein (1947–1949). He was born in Lübeck and died in Kiel Kiel () is the capital and most populous city in the northern Germany, German state of Schleswig-Holstein, with a population of 246,243 (2021). Kiel lies approximately north of Hamburg. Due to its geographic location in the southeast of the J .... External links * * 1880 births 1959 deaths Social Democratic Party of Germany politicians Politicians from Lübeck People from the Province of Schleswig-Holstein Grand Crosses 1st class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Finance ministers of Prussia Prussian politicians Ministers-President of Schleswig-Holstein Politicians from the Province of Silesia {{Germany-SPD-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Torsten Albig
Torsten Albig (born 25 May 1963) is a German politician from the Social Democratic Party of Germany. From 2012 until 2017 he served as the 13th Minister President of Schleswig-Holstein. Early life and education Albig grew up in Ostholstein and Bielefeld. After graduating from high school in 1982, he first studied history and social sciences at the University of Bielefeld but later changed to law. Political career Lord Mayor of Kiel, 2009–2012 From 2009 to 2012 Albig was the Lord Mayor of Kiel, the state capital of Schleswig-Holstein. Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein, 2012–2017 Torsten Albig was appointed candidate for Minister-President, representing his party, the SPD, in 2011 after a member's decision. At the election in 2012, the SPD achieved 30.4% of the votes, not enough to beat the ruling CDU that got 30.8% of the popular vote. Both the SPD and CDU achieved 22 seats each, and the election result made it possible for Albig to form a coalition government wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Harry Carstensen
Peter Harry Carstensen (born 12 March 1947) is a German politician, in the Christian Democratic Union of Germany, Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party. From 2005 to 2012 he was Minister President of the state of Schleswig-Holstein, serving as President of the German Bundesrat, President of the Bundesrat of Germany, Bundesrat in 2005/06. Early life, education and career Carstensen was born in Elisabeth-Sophien-Koog/Nordstrand, Germany, Nordstrand, on the North Sea coast of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. He passed his Abitur in 1966 and worked in agriculture before beginning a course of study in agronomy in 1968, finishing in 1973 as a qualified engineer. During his studies Carstensen became a member of the ''Landsmannschaft Troglodytia im Coburger Convent'' and did not leave the organisation until 1998. In 1976 he passed the Second State Examination (''Zweites Staatsexamen'') to become a teacher, following which he was employed as a teacher of agriculture at the Bredst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heide Simonis
Heide Simonis (; born 4 July 1943 in Bonn as Heide Steinhardt) is a German Author and Politician. She is a member of the SPD. From 1993 to 2005 she served as the Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein. She was the first woman to serve as head of a state government in German history and the only woman to do so in the 20th century. Personal Life and Education Simonis earned her high school degree ( Abitur) in 1962 in Nürnberg. She then studied Economics and Sociology at the Universities of Erlangen-Nürnberg and Kiel, graduating with a degree in economics in 1967. She worked in different positions after 1967. Simonis is married to university professor Udo Simonis. Career Simonis joined the SPD in 1969. She was elected to the German Bundestag in 1976. In 1992, she became a member of the legislature of Schleswig-Holstein. On 19 May 1993, she was elected Minister-President of said state, after her predecessor Björn Engholm resigned from that position due to a scandal. She wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Björn Engholm
Björn Engholm (born 9 November 1939) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). He was Federal Minister for Education and Science from 1981 to 1982, and in 1982 also Federal Minister for Food, Agriculture and Forests. From 1988 to 1993 he was the Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein and from 1991 to 1993 the leader of the Social Democratic Party. Engholm was educated at University of Hamburg. He was elected Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein in 1988, in the wake of the Barschel affair/Waterkantgate: he had been spied on and was a victim of severe defamation (HIV infection, tax evasion, etc.) by the Barschel campaign. The Social Democrats won an impressive 54.2% (up almost 10%) and gained an absolute majority for the first time ever. Engholm served as President of the Bundesrat in 1988/89. While Engholm was popular with the electorate, he was forced to resign as party leader and Minister-President in 1993 after discrepancies surfaced over the testi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henning Schwarz
Henning Schwarz (24 October 1928 – 13 April 1993) was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He was interim Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein during the Barschel affair. Life Schwarz was born in Bad Oldesloe. His father was German CDU politician Werner Schwarz. Schwarz studied law in Würzburg and Hamburg, receiving a Doctor of Law in 1958. He then worked as a lawyer. From 1971 to 1975 and from 1979 to 1987 he was member of the Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein. Since 1969, he served in various cabinet positions in the Schleswig-Holstein state government under Minister-Presidents Helmut Lemke, Gerhard Stoltenberg and Uwe Barschel, most of the time as Minister of Justice. In 1975, Stoltenberg named him Deputy Minister-President, a position which he kept after Barschel became Minister-President due to Stoltenberg being appointed Federal Minister of Finance. After the 1987 Schleswig-Holstein state election, the CDU lost their absolute majority and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uwe Barschel
Uwe Barschel (13 May 1944 – 11 October 1987) was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as Minister-President in the state of Schleswig-Holstein. Having assumed office of Minister-President at the age of 38, Barschel is as of to date the youngest head of government of a federal state in Germany, just as the youngest former Minister-President to die. He died nine days after his resignation at age of 43. He was found dead under mysterious circumstances on 11 October 1987 when his clothed body was discovered in a full bathtub at the Hotel Beau-Rivage in Geneva, Switzerland, shortly after he became embroiled in scandal during the 1987 state election. While a police investigation concluded that Barschel had committed suicide, the circumstances of his death remain controversial. Early life In 1963, Barschel was among a group of Geesthacht students who attended a school assembly which featured former admiral and convicted war criminal Karl Dönit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Honorary Citizens Of Schleswig-Holstein
Five persons have been made honorary citizens of Schleswig-Holstein (''Land'', i.e. state of the Federal Republic of Germany): *Gerhard Stoltenberg, former ''Ministerpräsident'' (i.e. prime minister) of Schleswig-Holstein and former defence and finance minister of Germany *Uwe Ronneburger, former chairman of the FDP (liberal party) of Schleswig-Holstein *Helmut Schmidt, former German '' Bundeskanzler'' (engl.: chancellor, i.e. head of government) *Siegfried Lenz, distinguished German author, who partly lives in Tetenhusen near Flensburg. Schleswig-Holstein is the location of many of his stories. *Leonard Bernstein, renowned American conductor and composer, who was awarded honorary citizenship of Schleswig-Holstein three years prior to his death in 1990. {{DEFAULTSORT:Honorary citizens of Schleswig-Holstein Schleswig-Holstein, Honorary Citizens of Schleswig-Holstein Schleswig-Holstein (; da, Slesvig-Holsten; nds, Sleswig-Holsteen; frr, Slaswik-Holstiinj) is the north ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerhard Stoltenberg
Gerhard Stoltenberg (29 September 1928 – 23 November 2001) was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and minister in the cabinets of Ludwig Erhard, Kurt Georg Kiesinger and Helmut Kohl. He served as Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein from 1971 to 1982 and as President of the Bundesrat from 1977 to 1978. Life Early life and career Stoltenberg was born in Kiel in northern Germany. In 1944 he became a navy assistant (''HJ-Marinehelfer''), a Hitler Youth auxiliary in the Kriegsmarine. After the war, when he was no longer a prisoner of war, he completed his ''Abitur'' in 1949. Stoltenberg began studying history, sociology and philosophy at the University of Kiel. In 1954 he graduated as a Doctor of Philosophy and worked as an academic in Kiel. In 1960 he became a professor (''Privatdozent''). In the years 1965 and from 1969 to 1970, Stoltenberg was the director of Friedrich Krupp GmbH in Essen. Political career Since 1947 Stoltenberg had been mem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helmut Lemke
Helmut Lemke (29 September 1907 – 15 April 1990) was a German politician of the NSDAP and CDU, and Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein (1963–1971). He was born in Kiel and died in Lübeck Lübeck (; Low German also ), officially the Hanseatic City of Lübeck (german: Hansestadt Lübeck), is a city in Northern Germany. With around 217,000 inhabitants, Lübeck is the second-largest city on the German Baltic coast and in the stat .... External links * 1907 births 1990 deaths Presidents of the German Bundesrat Christian Democratic Union of Germany politicians Members of the Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein Nazi Party politicians Politicians from Kiel People from the Province of Schleswig-Holstein Ministers-President of Schleswig-Holstein Ministers of the Schleswig-Holstein State Government {{Germany-CDU-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kai-Uwe Von Hassel
Kai-Uwe von Hassel (21 April 1913 – 8 May 1997) was a German politician from Schleswig-Holstein associated with the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He served as Minister President of Schleswig-Holstein from 1954 to 1963, as Federal Minister of Defence from 1963 to 1966, and as Federal Minister for Displaced Persons, Refugees and War Victims from 1966 to 1969. From 1969 to 1972 he was the 4th President of the Bundestag. Life and career Hassel was born in Gare, German East Africa (now in Lushoto, Tanga Region, Tanzania), where his father Theodor von Hassel (1868–1935) had served as a ''Schutztruppe'' officer. After the First World War, the Hassel family was banished from Tanganyika by the British mandate administration and settled in Glücksburg, Schleswig-Holstein. Hassel took his ''Abitur'' school-leaving exam in 1933, trained as an agribusiness merchant, and returned to the Tanganyika Territory in 1935. At the beginning of the Second World War he was interned in Dar es Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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