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Erfurt – Weimar – Weimarer Land II
Erfurt – Weimar – Weimarer Land II is an electoral constituency (German language, German: ''Wahlkreis'') 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 192. It is located in central Thuringia, comprising the cities of Erfurt and Weimar as well as the municipality of Grammetal from the Weimarer Land district. Erfurt – Weimar – Weimarer Land II was created for the 2005 German federal election, 2005 federal election. From 2021 to 2025, it has been represented by Carsten Schneider of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, Social Democratic Party (SPD). Since 2025 it is been represented by Bodo Ramelow of The Left (Germany), The Left. Geography Erfurt – Weimar – Weimarer Land II is located in central Thuringia. As of the 2021 federal election, it comprises the independent cities of Erfurt and Weimar as well as the municipality of Grammetal from the Weimarer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bundestag
The Bundestag (, "Federal Diet (assembly), Diet") is the lower house of the Germany, German Federalism in Germany, federal parliament. It is the only constitutional body of the federation directly elected by the German people. 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, the other being the German Bundesrat, Bundesrat. It is thus the historical successor to the earlier Reichstag (Weimar Republic), 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 conscience. As of the current 21st Bundestag, 21st legislative period, the Bundestag has a fixed number of 630 members. The Bundestag is elected every four years by German citizens aged 18 and older. Elections use a mixed-member proportional representation system which combines First-past-the-post voting for co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2009 German Federal Election
The 2009 German federal election was held in Germany on 27 September 2009 to elect the members of the 17th Bundestag. The Christian Democratic Union (Germany), Christian Democratic Union (CDU), its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union of Bavaria, Christian Social Union (CSU), and the Free Democratic Party (Germany), Free Democratic Party (FDP) won the election, and the three parties formed a new centre-right government with Angela Merkel as Chancellor of Germany, chancellor. While CDU/CSU's share of votes decreased slightly, it was more than compensated by the gains of their "desired coalition partner", the liberal FDP, that won the strongest result in its history. CDU and CSU's former partner in the "Grand coalition (Germany), Grand coalition", the Social Democratic Party of Germany, Social Democratic Party (SPD) led by Frank-Walter Steinmeier, conceded defeat after dropping by more than 11 percentage points, receiving its hitherto worst result since the end of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2005 Establishments In Germany
5 (five) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number, and cardinal number, following 4 and preceding 6, and is a prime number. Humans, and many other animals, have 5 digits on their limbs. Mathematics 5 is a Fermat prime, a Mersenne prime exponent, as well as a Fibonacci number. 5 is the first congruent number, as well as the length of the hypotenuse of the smallest integer-sided right triangle, making part of the smallest Pythagorean triple ( 3, 4, 5). 5 is the first safe prime and the first good prime. 11 forms the first pair of sexy primes with 5. 5 is the second Fermat prime, of a total of five known Fermat primes. 5 is also the first of three known Wilson primes (5, 13, 563). Geometry A shape with five sides is called a pentagon. The pentagon is the first regular polygon that does not tile the plane with copies of itself. It is the largest face any of the five regular three-dimensional regular Platonic solid can have. A conic is determin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federal Electoral Districts In Thuringia
Federal or foederal (archaic) may refer to: Politics General *Federal monarchy, a federation of monarchies *Federation, or ''Federal state'' (federal system), a type of government characterized by both a central (federal) government and states or regional governments that are partially self-governing; a union of states *Federal republic, a federation which is a republic *Federalism, a political philosophy * Federalist, a political belief or member of a political grouping * Federalization, implementation of federalism Particular governments *Government of Argentina * Government of Australia * Federal government of Brazil *Government of Canada * Cabinet of Germany *Federal government of Iraq *Government of India *Federal government of Mexico * Federal government of Nigeria *Government of Pakistan * Government of the Philippines *Government of Russia *Government of South Africa *Federal government of the United States **United States federal law **United States federal courts *Federa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karola Stange
Karola Stange (born Karola-Elke Unger on 27 October 1959) is a German politician of The Left who has served as a member of the Landtag of Thuringia since 2009. She has also been a member of the Erfurt city council since 1999, and unsuccessfully ran for mayor of the city in 2006 and 2018. Personal life Stange grew up in the outskirts of Weimar where she attended the polytechnic high school in Mellingen and Lehnstedt. After completing the 10th grade in 1976, she completed an apprenticeship as a gardener at the LPG "Valley of Peace" in Kromsdorf, followed by a technical college degree at the Horticultural Engineering School in Erfurt from 1979 to 1982. Stange is married and has two children and three grandchildren. Political career From 1984, Stange was an employee of the SED district executive as a horticulture specialist. From 1988 she was employed by the Erfurt city executive. After the Peaceful Revolution, she worked for the PDS association in Erfurt, becoming a staffer for t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
V-Partei3
V-Partei3, known officially as V-Partei3 – Change. Diversity. Vegan. (), is a German political party that was founded in April 2016 in Munich, Bavaria. The principal focus of the party is animal rights and environmentalism. It is the sole political party in Germany devoted to encouraging the adoption of a plant-based diet. The party took part in the North Rhine-Westphalia state elections in 2017, and received 10,013 votes or 0.12% of the vote, far below the 5% threshold required to enter the State Landtag. Notable members of the party were actress Barbara Rütting and Axel Ritt, guitarist of the band Grave Digger, who joined in May 2017. Party program In the party manifesto created for the 2017 Bundestag elections focuses on improving animal welfare conditions in Germany and changing existing government policies so that Germany reduces its consumption of meat. The manifesto focuses on 10 key areas, and some are noted below. Animal testing The party opposes the testing o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephan Brandner
Stephan Brandner (born 29 May 1966 in Herten) is a German politician. He has been a member of the Bundestag for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) since 2017 and served as chairman of the Bundestag's Legal Affairs Committee from 31 January 2018 to November 2019. He was the front runner candidate of the AfD in the state of Thuringia for the 2017 German federal election. Since November 2019, Brandner has been one of three chairman deputies of the AfD. Biography Brandner was born on 29 May 1966 in Herten. He became an industrial management assistant (''Industriekaufmann'') and then studied law at Universität Regensburg. Since 1997 he has been working as a lawyer, previously in Munich, then in Gera. He is member of in . Controversies After the Halle synagogue shooting, Brandner shared a message on Twitter Twitter, officially known as X since 2023, is an American microblogging and social networking service. It is one of the world's largest social media platforms ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martina Renner
Martina Renner (born 11 March 1967) is a German politician of The Left who has been a member of the Bundestag since 2013 and one of six deputy leaders of her party since 2018. Life and education Renner grew up in Mainz and attended the Gymnasium Gonsenheim, earning her Abitur in 1986. She then studied philosophy, cultural studies, art studies, and biology at the University of Bremen from 1987 to 1995. She was a member of the board of the General Students' Committee there from 1993 to 1995. After graduating, she worked in Bremen from 1996 to 1997 as an education and public relations officer at the German-Kurdish Friendship Association and from 1998 to 2002 as a cultural manager at the Fuhrpark district cultural center. Political career Renner grew up in the Gonsenheim neighbourhood of Mainz, where both the far-right extremist Aid Organisation for National Political Prisoners and neo-Nazi activists Ursula and Curt Müller were active. Being exposed to their activities during her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susanne Hennig-Wellsow
Susanne Hennig-Wellsow (born Hennig on 13 October 1977) is a German politician. She was federal co-chairwoman of The Left (Germany), The Left from 2021 to 2022 and has served as a member of the Bundestag for Thuringia since 2021. Previously, she was a member of the Landtag of Thuringia from 2004 to 2021, leader of the Thuringia branch of The Left since November 2013, and leader of the state parliamentary group since December 2014. Early life and education Hennig-Wellsow was born Susanne Hennig in Demmin in 1977, then a town in East Germany. Her father did military service in the National People's Army and subsequently worked as a truck driver and police officer. Her mother was a registrar and worked in the Ministry of the Interior from the mid-1990s. Hennig graduated from Erfurt Sports High School in 1996. From 1984 to 1999, she was a competitive athlete in speed skating. In 1996, Hennig began studying educational science at the University of Erfurt, which she completed in 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Kemmerich
Thomas Karl Leonard Kemmerich (born 20 February 1965) is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who served as the Minister-President of Thuringia from 5 February to 4 March 2020. With a tenure of only 28 days (3 days if his time as acting officeholder is excluded), he has been both the shortest-serving Minister-President of Thuringia and the shortest-serving head of a state government in the Federal Republic of Germany (as of 2024). After Reinhold Maier, who had served as minister-president of Württemberg-Baden (1945–1952) and, after the state's fusion with two other southwestern states, of the new state Baden-Württemberg (1952–1953), he was the second minister-president from the FDP in German history. Life Kemmerich was born in Aachen, West Germany. He is Roman Catholic, married, and father of six children. He completed his law studies at the University of Bonn in 1989. In January 1990, just after the Peaceful Revolution in East Germany, he moved to Erf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katrin Göring-Eckardt
Katrin Dagmar Göring-Eckardt ( Eckardt; 3 May 1966) is a German politician of the German Green Party (officially known as Alliance 90/The Greens). Starting her political activity in the now-former German Democratic Republic (East Germany) in the late 1980s, she has been a member of the German Bundestag since 1998. She became co-chair of her party caucus in the Bundestag (2002–2005) and the Greens' Vice President of the Bundestag on 18 October 2005, a position that she held until 2013 and would later reprise in 2021. In the November 2012 primary election, the Green Party chose her and Jürgen Trittin as the top two candidates for the Greens for the 2013 German federal election. She also stood as joint top candidate for the Greens in the 2017 German federal election, alongside Cem Özdemir. Between 2009 and 2013, Göring-Eckardt served as praeses of the synod of the Evangelical Church in Germany (, abbreviated EKD) and thus as member of the council of the EKD. However, during t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Hose
Michael Hose (born 28 September 1984) is a German politician who was elected as a member of the Bundestag in 2025. He has served as chairman of the Christian Democratic Union in the city council of Erfurt Erfurt () is the capital (political), capital and largest city of the Central Germany (cultural area), Central German state of Thuringia, with a population of around 216,000. It lies in the wide valley of the Gera (river), River Gera, in the so ... since 2019. References 1984 births Living people German city councillors Members of the Bundestag for the Christian Democratic Union of Germany Members of the Bundestag for Thuringia Members of the Bundestag 2025–2029 {{Germany-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
