A list of notable politicians of the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany:

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Helmut Baierl Helmut Johannes Baierl (23 December 1926 Rumburk, Czechoslovakia – 12 September 2005 in Berlin) was a German playwright and vice president of the DDR Academy of Arts, Berlin. He was born in Rumburk (Czechoslovakia) and died in Berlin. He was a m ...

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 ...

William Borm William Borm (7 July 1895 – 2 September 1987) was a German politician, of the Free Democratic Party (FDP). He was a member of the Bundestag from 1965 to 1972, and a member of the FDP National Executive Committee from 1960 to 1982. Several y ...

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Johannes Dieckmann Johannes Dieckmann (19 January 1893 – 22 February 1969) was a German journalist and politician who served as the 1st acting president of the parliament of East Germany from 1949 to 1969. Early life Dieckmann was born in Fischerhude in the Pru ...

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Adolf Ernst Adolf Ernst (October 6, 1832 – August 12, 1899) was a Prussian-born scientist. Ernst settled in Venezuela in 1861, where he taught at the Central University of Venezuela. He became the most important scientist in the country during the second h ...

Arno Esch Arno Esch (6 February 1928 – 24 July 1951) was a German liberal politician of the late 1940s in the Soviet Occupation Zone. He was executed at the Lubyanka prison in Moscow in 1951 at the age of 23. Biography Esch was born and brought up ...

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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 ...

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-Dietrich Genscher *

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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Karl Hamann Karl Otto Hamann (4 March 1903 in Hildesheim – 16 June 1973 in Munich) was a German politician. Between 1948 and 1952 he was chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party of (East) Germany (LDPD) and also the German Democratic Republic's Minis ...

* Willi Hein *

Erhard Hübener Dr. Erhard Hübener (4 August 1881 – 3 June 1958) was a Weimar Republic, German politician and member of the german Democratic Party, German Democratic Party (DDP) until 1933. After World War II he engaged in rebuilding structures of self-r ...

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* Hermann Kastner * Waldemar Koch *

Wilhelm Külz Wilhelm Külz (18 February 1875 – 10 April 1948) was a German liberal politician of the National Liberal Party, the German Democratic Party (DDP) and later the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany (LDPD). He held public office both in the Germ ...

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Arthur Lieutenant Arthur Lieutenant (9 September 1884 – 10 October 1968) was a German Liberal politician. His political career peaked and crashed in the late 1940s when he found himself on the losing side as the newly established German Democratic Republic rev ...

Walter Linse Walter Linse (23 August 1903 – 15 December 1953) was a German lawyer and Acting President of the Association of Free German Jurists, an organization with links to the CIA. During the Nazi reign he was responsible for Aryanization of Jewish prop ...

Hans Loch Hans Loch (2 November 1898 in Cologne – 13 July 1960 in Berlin) was Chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany and Finance Minister of the German Democratic Republic. Life After his secondary education Loch was drafted for military ...

Marie Elisabeth Lüders Marie may refer to: People Name * Marie (given name) * Marie (Japanese given name) * 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 ...

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* Peter Moreth

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Rainer Ortleb Rainer Ortleb (born Gera 5 June 1944) is a German academic and politician. 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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Cornelia Pieper Cornelia Pieper (''née'' Richter; born 4 February 1959) is a German politician of the liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP). She currently serves as German consul general in Gdańsk, Poland. Pieper previously served as Minister of State at the ...

Matthias Platzeck Matthias Platzeck (born 29 December 1953) is a German politician. He was Minister President of Brandenburg from 2002 to 2013 and party chairman of the SPD from November 2005 to April 2006. On 29 July 2013 Platzeck announced his resignation fro ...

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* Eugen Schiffer *

Wilhelmine Schirmer-Pröscher Wilhelmine Schirmer-Pröscher (7 July 1889, Giessen – 2 March 1992, Berlin) was an East Germany, East German politician of the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany who gained some measure of importance in her nation. References

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Jürgen Schmieder Jürgen Schmieder (born Jahnishausen 23 June 1952) is a politician, originally from East Germany, who came to prominence during the months immediately preceding German reunification. At the end of January in 1990 he became Chairman (leader) o ...

Günter Stempel Günter Stempel (17 November 1908 – 22 October 1981) was a German politician ( LDPD). He was involved in the formation of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), despite which he was a victim of political repression in both the GDR and the USS ...

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Kurt Wünsche Kurt Wünsche (14 December 1929 – 14 June 2023) was a German politician who was twice Minister of Justice of the German Democratic Republic. Biography Wünsche grew up and received his schooling in Dresden. In 1946, he became a member of the ...

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