Ernst Achenbach
Ernst Achenbach (9 April 1909, in Siegen, Westphalia – 2 December 1991, in Essen) was a German lawyer, diplomat and politician of the liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP), who served as a member of the Bundestag (1957–1976), as a Member of th ...
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Jens Ackermann
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Karl Addicks
Karl Addicks (born 31 December 1950 in Amberg, Bavaria) is a German physician and politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP). He served as a member of the Bundestag between 2004 and 2009.
Early life
Addicks was born in Amberg in the admini ...
Hermann Andersen
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Rudolf Augstein
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Daniel Bahr
Daniel Bahr (; born 4 November 1976) is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who served as Federal Minister of Health from 2011 to 2013. His party failed to get a seat in Bundestag at the 2013 federal elections, and he star ...
Georg Barfuß
Georg Barfuß (born June 10, 1944) is a German politician, a representative of the FDP.
He was educated in lauingen elementary school 1950-57 then 1957-60 Donauwörth private school before going to Donauwörth vocational school 1960-62.
He serv ...
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Uwe Barth
Uwe Barth (born 23 July 1964 in Bad Langensalza, Bezirk Erfurt) is a German politician and member of the Free Democratic Party (Germany), FDP.
In 1986 he joined the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany (LDPD), which merged with the FDP in 1990. He ...
Nicola Beer
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Early life and career
Beer finish ...
Stefan Birkner
Stefan Birkner (born 12 April 1973 in Münsterlingen) is a German politician for the Free Democratic Party (FDP).
Political career
Birkner was elected to the State Parliament of Lower Saxony in the 2008 state elections. However, in February 2 ...
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Karl Theodor Bleek
Karl Theodor Bleek (19 March 1898 in Kirn – 15 December 1969 in Marburg) was a liberal German politician.
Bleek became a member of Progressive People's Party in 1909 and of the German Democratic Party in 1918. He became Landrat (head of a dis ...
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Franz Blücher
Franz Blücher (24 March 1896 – 26 March 1959) was a German politician and member of the German Parliament (''Bundestag'').
Biography
Blücher was born in Essen, Kingdom of Prussia.
After the end of World War II, he was one of the fou ...
Wigald Boning
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Boning has appeared in different TV and film productions in Germany. He became famous as an actor in the television comedy programme '' RTL Sam ...
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William Borm
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Sigismund von Braun
Sigismund Freiherr von Braun (14 April 1911 – 13 July 1998) was a German diplomat and Secretary of State in the Foreign Office (1970–1972).
Biography
Sigismund von Braun was born in Berlin- Zehlendorf in 1911, the eldest son of the East Pru ...
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Rainer Brüderle
Rainer Brüderle (born 22 June 1945)
is a German politician and member of the Free Democratic Party (FDP). He served as Minister of Economics and Transport of Rhineland-Palatinate from 1987–1998. On 28 October 2009, he was appointed Federal M ...
Ernst Burgbacher
Ernst Burgbacher (born 28 May 1949 in Trossingen) is a German politician
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Jorgo Chatzimarkakis
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Jürgen Creutzmann
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Early life and work
Creutzmann was born in Speyer and ...
Thomas Dehler
Thomas Dehler (14 December 1897 – 21 July 1967) was a German politician. He was the Federal Republic of Germany's first List of German justice ministers, Minister of Justice (1949–1953) and chairman of Free Democratic Party (Germany), Free De ...
Hans A. Engelhard
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Born i ...
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Adolf Ernst
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Josef Ertl
Josef Ertl (7 March 1925 – 16 November 2000) was a Germans, German politician who served as the minister of agriculture in different cabinets of Germany and was a member of the Free Democratic Party (Germany), Free Democratic Party (FDP).
Earl ...
Erwin Fischer
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Karl-Hermann Flach
Karl-Hermann Flach (October 17, 1929 – August 25, 1973) was a German journalist of the '' Frankfurter Rundschau'' and a politician of the liberal Free Democrats (FDP).
Flach was born in Königsberg. He became a member of the liberal LDP (in t ...
Helmar Frank
Helmar Gunter Frank (19 February 1933, Waiblingen – 15 December 2013, Paderborn) was a German mathematician and pedagogist. He was among the first scientists to apply mathematical methods in teaching and psychology. He established a method to me ...
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Rolf Frick
Rolf Frick (born Chemnitz 16 September 1936: died 31 December 2008) was a German university professor and politician ( LDP / FDP).
Life
Rolf Frick was born in Chemnitz in the southern part of what was then central Germany. (Between 1953 and 19 ...
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Hans Friderichs
Hans Friderichs (born 16 October 1931) is a German politician who served as the minister of economy in the period 1972–1977. He is also a jurist and businessman.
Early life and education
Friderichs was born in Wittlich in 1931. He received a ...
Manfred Gerlach
Manfred Gerlach (8 May 1928 – 17 October 2011) was a German jurist and politician, and the longtime leader of the East German Liberal Democratic Party. He served as ''Chairman of the Council of State'' and was thus head of state of East ...
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Christian Grascha
Christian Grascha (born 16 October 1978 in Einbeck) is a German politician for the Free Democratic Party (Germany), Free Democratic Party.
Political career
Grascha joined the Lower Saxon Landtag in 2008 as a replacement for Stefan Birkner.
In th ...
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Martin Grüner
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Jörg-Uwe Hahn
Jörg-Uwe Hahn (born 21 September 1956 in Kassel) is a German politician of the FDP.
Life
Hahn studied German law in Frankfurt am Main. From 2009 until early 2014, Hahn was minister of justice in Hesse
Hesse (, , ) or Hessia (, ; german: ...
Hildegard Hamm-Brücher
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Richard Hammer
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Early life and education
Born in Long Beach, California, Hammer attended the University of Southern California.
Career
Ha ...
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Christoph Hartmann
Christoph Georg Hartmann (born 21 May 1972 in Essen) is a German politician who is a member of the FDP. From 10 November 2009 until 18 January 2012 he was the secretary to the Minister-president of Saarland and the Saarland Minister for Economy ...
Helmut Haussmann
Helmut Haussmann (born 18 May 1943) is a German academic and politician. He served as minister of economy from 1988 to 1991.
Early life and education
Haussmann was born in Tübingen on 18 May 1943. He holds a degree in economics and social scien ...
Hans Henn
Hans Henn (19 December 1926 – 14 August 1993) was a West German bobsledder who competed in the mid-1950s. He won a bronze medal in the four-man event at the 1955 FIBT World Championships in St. Moritz. Henn also finished eighth in the fo ...
Elly Heuss-Knapp
Elisabeth Eleonore Anna Justine Heuss-Knapp (''née'' Knapp; 25 January 1881 – 19 July 1952) was a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP), social reformer, author and wife of German president Theodor Heuss. She was the founde ...
Hermann Höpker-Aschoff
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Werner Hoyer
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Education and early career
Hoyer graduated as a ...
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Karl Hübner
Karl Wilhelm Hübner (17 June 1814, Königsberg - 5 December 1879, Düsseldorf) was a German landscape and genre painter, in the Romantic style.
Life and work
His father was a construction worker. He initially studied art with the portrait pai ...
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Fritz Emil Irrgang
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Irrgang joined the Nazi Party in 1929, joi ...
Michael Kauch
Michael Kauch (born 4 May 1967, in Dortmund) is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party who served as Member of the Bundestag between 2003 and 2013.
Early life and education
Kauch was born in Dortmund and attended the ''Helmholtz-Gymnas ...
Werner Klumpp
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The ...
Silvana Koch-Mehrin
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Early career
In 1998, Koch-Mehrin founded ...
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Gabriela König
Gabriela König (born 8 October 1952 in Osnabrück) is a German politician for the Free Democratic Party.
She joined the Lower Saxon Landtag
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Heinrich Kohl Heinrich Kohl (4 May 1877, Kreuznach – 26 September 1914, Moronvilliers) was a German architectural historian and archaeologist.
He took classes in architecture at the technical universities in Munich, Dresden and Berlin. In 1902 he passed the f ...
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Holger Krahmer
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Education
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Alexander Graf Lambsdorff
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Hubertus Prinz zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg
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Marie Elisabeth Lüders
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* Marie (murder victim), girl who was killed in Florida after being pushed in front of a moving vehicle in 1973
* Marie (died 1759), an enslaved Cree person in Tro ...
Helmut Markwort
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Gesine Meißner
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Friedrich Middelhauve
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Erich Mix
Erich Mix (27 June 1898 in Labuhnken (now Trzcińsk, Poland) in West Prussia (now Starogard Gdański) – 9 April 1971 in Wiesbaden) was a German flying ace during World War II, a politician, a member of the Nazi Party, and later a member of th ...
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Jürgen Möllemann
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Hans Mühlenfeld
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Early life and education
Born in Hanover, Prussia, on 11 September ...
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Fritz Neumayer
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Early life
Neumayer was born at Kaiserslautern, Germany. Both hi ...
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Dirk Niebel
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Early life and career
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Theodor Oberländer
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Rainer Ortleb
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From October 1990 he served under Helmut Kohl as a Federal Minister for Special Affairs in Germany's first post-reunification government. In the next government, bet ...
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Andreas Paulus
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Cornelia Pieper
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Pieper previously served as Minister of State at the ...
Wilhelm Rath Wilhelm Rath (14 May 1897, in Berlin – 13 January 1973, in Wolfsburg/Kärnten, Austria) was a German writer, translator, bio-dynamic farmer and anthroposophist. He is best known for his research and translations of certain medieval mystics, notabl ...
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Günter Rexrodt
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Education and work
After the Abitur in 1960 in Arnstadt, Thuringia and an extra year in West Berlin, he graduated with a Diplom in business s ...
Klaus Rainer Röhl
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Uwe Ronneburger
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He was from 1980 to 1983 Chairman of the Committee on Intra-German Relations, from May to December 1990 Chairman of the Defence Com ...
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Philipp Rösler
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Konrad Schily
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Wilhelmine Schirmer-Pröscher
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Edzard Schmidt-Jortzig
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Jürgen Schmieder
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At the end of January in 1990 he became Chairman (leader) o ...
Klaus Scholder
Klaus Scholder (January 12, 1930 – April 10, 1985) was a German ecclesiastical historian, professor of history at the University of Tübingen.
Life
Scholder was the son of Erlangen professor of Chemistry Rudolf Scholder. After his high sch ...
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Walter Schroeder
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Early life
Schroeder's formal education ended with the eighth grade and he began working at age 14 as a clerk in the Office of the Milwaukee Regis ...
Marina Schuster
Marina Schuster (born 23 September 1975) is a German politician of the liberal Free Democratic Party.
Political career
Schuster was a member of the Deutscher Bundestag for two consecutive terms, from 2005 to 2013. In the 17th Legislative Term o ...
Hans-Werner Schwarz
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He was elected to the Landtag of Lower Saxony in 2003, and has been re-elected on one occasio ...
Alexandra Thein
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Early life and career
She grew up in Saarland, studied law in Saa ...
Fritz Vogt
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Liesel Westermann
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Guido Westerwelle
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Eberhard Wildermuth
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Heike Wilms-Kegel
Heike Wilms-Kegel (born October 19, 1952 in Bremen) served in the Bundestag for the German Green Party from 1987 to 1990.
She represented Rhineland-Palatinate
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Carl Wirths
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Holger Zastrow
Holger Zastrow (born 12 January 1969 in Dresden) is a German politician of the liberal Free Democratic Party of Germany (FDP). He is President of state party in Saxony
Saxony (german: Sachsen ; Upper Saxon: ''Saggsn''; hsb, Sakska), offi ...
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Martin Zeil
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Early life and education
Zeil studied law at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. From 1984 until 2008, he worked as lawyer with private ...
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{{Lists of German politicians by party
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