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21st Bundestag
The 21st Bundestag, the federal parliament of Germany, was elected in the 2025 German federal election, 23 February 2025 federal election, and was constituted on 25 March 2025. The President of the Bundestag is Julia Klöckner (CDU (Germany), CDU). The 21st Bundestag has 630 members, 103 seats smaller than the 20th Bundestag had been at 733 members. It has 208 members of the CDU/CSU, originally 152 members of the Alternative for Germany (AfD), 120 members of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), 85 members of Alliance 90/The Greens (Grüne), 64 members of The Left (Germany), The Left (Linke), and one member of the South Schleswig Voters' Association. On 2 May 2025 the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, (BfV) Germany's federal Security agency, domestic intelligence agency, classified the AfD as a "confirmed right-wing extremist" organisation. This classification was temporarily suspended by the BfV just a week after its announcement. One parliamentari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reichstag Building
The Reichstag (; ) is a historic legislative government building on Platz der Republik in Berlin that is the seat of the German Bundestag. It is also the meeting place of the Federal Convention, which elects the President of Germany. The Neo-Renaissance building was constructed between 1884 and '94 in the Tiergarten district on the left bank of the River Spree to plans by the architect Paul Wallot. It housed the Reichstag (legislature) of the German Empire and subsequent Weimar Republic. The Reich's Federal Council also originally met there. The building was initially used by the Reichstag for Nazi Germany, but severe damage in the Reichstag fire of 1933 prevented further use and the Reichstag moved to the nearby Kroll Opera House. The 1933 fire became a pivotal event in the entrenchment of the Nazi regime. The building took further damage during World War II, and its symbolism made it an important target for the Red Army during the Battle of Berlin. After the war, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Security Agency
A security agency is a governmental organization that conducts intelligence activities for the internal security of a state. They are the domestic cousins of foreign intelligence agencies, and typically conduct counterintelligence to thwart other countries' foreign intelligence efforts. For example, the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is an internal intelligence, security and law enforcement agency, while the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is an external intelligence service, which deals primarily with intelligence collection overseas. A similar relationship exists in Britain between MI5 and MI6. The distinction, or overlap, between security agencies, national police, and gendarmerie organizations varies by country. For example, in the United States, one organization, the FBI, is a national police, an internal security agency, and a counterintelligence agency. In other countries, separate agencies exist, although the nature of their work causes them to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lars Klingbeil
Lars Klingbeil (; born 23 February 1978) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) serving as the Vice Chancellor of Germany and Federal Minister of Finance since 6 May 2025. He has served as the SPD's Co-Leader since 2021, together with Saskia Esken. Previously Klingbeil was the General Secretary of the Social Democratic Party from December 2017 to December 2021. Since 2001 he has been a member of the City Council of Munster and a member of the District Council of Heide. He was a Member of the Bundestag for about nine months in 2005 and has been a member again since the 2009 Federal Election. From 2003 till 2007, Klingbeil was the Deputy Leader of the Jusos, the SPD youth wing. Klingbeil is a member of the Seeheim Circle, the more right-leaning faction of the SPD, which shares many similarities with Tony Blair's New Labour. Early life and education The son of a soldier, Klingbeil was born into a working-class family in Soltau. He has a sister. After gra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tino Chrupalla
Tino Chrupalla (; born 14 April 1975) is a German politician from the right-wing populist party Alternative for Germany (AfD). A member of the German parliament (Bundestag) since 2017, he has served as co-chairman of the AfD since 2019 along with Alice Weidel. In November 2019, Chrupalla was nominated by Alexander Gauland to replace the latter as co-chairman of the AfD; he later won election as co-chair. Biography Chrupalla was born on 14 April 1975 in Weißwasser, then part of East Germany. In 2003 he completed state professional exams to become a licensed house painter and master varnisher. He later became owner of a construction company. Chrupalla is married with two children. In March 2020, Chrupalla's car caught fire on his property in Gablenz, a town in northeastern Saxony. The local police suspected arson, but it was never confirmed. Chrupalla condemned the act as a direct attack on his family, one that went beyond all conceivable boundaries of political debate. In Oc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Weidel
Alice Elisabeth Weidel (; born 6 February 1979) is a German far-right politician who has been serving as of the right-wing populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party alongside Tino Chrupalla since June 2022. Since October 2017, she has held the position of leader of the AfD parliamentary group in the Bundestag. Weidel became a member of the Bundestag (MdB) in the 2017 German federal election, 2017 federal election, where she was the AfD's lead candidate alongside Alexander Gauland. In the 2021 German federal election, 2021 federal election, she once again served as their lead candidate, alongside Tino Chrupalla. From February 2020 to July 2022, Weidel held the position of chairwoman of the AfD state association in Baden-Württemberg. In 2024, she was selected as her Chancellor candidate, party's candidate for Chancellor of Germany, Chancellor in the 2025 German federal election. Early life and career Alice Elisabeth Weidel was born on 6 February 1979, in Gütersloh. She gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jens Spahn
Jens Georg Spahn (born 16 May 1980) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been a member of the lower house of the federal parliament, the Bundestag (, MdB), for Steinfurt I – Borken I since 2002. Since 2025, he has been leading the joint CDU/CSU (Union) parliamentary group in the 21st Bundestag, making him the majority leader. He served as Federal Minister of Health in the fourth cabinet of Chancellor Angela Merkel from 2018 to 2021, including during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. At the time of his first election in 2002, Spahn – at age 22 – was the youngest member of the CDU in the German parliament. He has since been one of the main sponsors of pension reform in Germany. He was a member of the Committee of Health of the 17th Bundestag and the CDU/CSU parliamentary group's spokesperson on health. When Chancellor Angela Merkel stated her intention not to seek re-election for the CDU party leadership in 2018, Spahn announced his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bodo Ramelow
Bodo Ramelow (; born 16 February 1956) is a German politician who has been serving as a Member of the Bundestag, representing The Left. He has been its Vice President as of March 2025. He served as Minister-President of Thuringia from December 2014 to 5 February 2020 and from 4 March 2020 to December 2024. He was the first head of a German state government to serve non-consecutive terms in office since Eberhard Diepgen, who served twice as Governing Mayor of Berlin (1984–1989 and 1991–2001). A member of The Left, he previously chaired the party's group in the Landtag of Thuringia. On 8 October 2021, he was elected to a one-year term as President of the Bundesrat. His term lasted from 1 November 2021 until 31 October 2022. Political career Ramelow was born and raised in West Germany. He is a trained retail salesman and became an official in ''Gewerkschaft Handel, Banken und Versicherungen'' (HBV), the union for trade, bank and insurance employees during the 1980s. He m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Omid Nouripour
Omid Nouripour (; ; born 18 June 1975) is a German-Iranian politician who is serving as Vice President of the Bundestag since 2025. A member of Alliance '90/The Greens, he has been serving as a member of the Bundestag since 2006, representing the state of Hesse. From 2022 to 2024, he also served as co-leader of Alliance 90/The Greens, alongside Ricarda Lang. Earlier in his career, Nouripour was his parliamentary group's spokesman on foreign affairs, and is a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Finance Committee. He is of Iranian background and moved to Germany as a child. Early life and education Nouripour was born in Tehran. In 1988, aged 13, Nouripour immigrated to Frankfurt, West Germany, with his family. He studied German, political science, law, sociology, philosophy and economics at the University of Mainz, but did not earn a degree. In 2002, Nouripour became a German citizen. Because Iran does not allow its citizens to relinquish their citizenship, that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josephine Ortleb
Josephine Ortleb (born 25 November 1986) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Saarland since 2017. She has been its Vice President as of March 2025. Political career Ortlieb became a member of the Bundestag in the 2017 German federal election, representing Saarbrücken (electoral district), Saarbrücken. In parliament, she is a member of the Committee on Families, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth and the Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid. In this capacity, she serves as her parliamentary group’s rapporteur on gender equality. In addition to her committee assignments, Ortleb has been a substitute member of the German delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) since 2018, where she serves on the Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination (since 2018) and the Sub-Committee on the Rights of Minorities (since 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrea Lindholz
Andrea Lindholz (born 25 September 1970) is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Social Union (CSU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Bavaria since 2013 and as its Vice President since 2025. She represents the Aschaffenburg constituency. Early career Born in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Lindholz studied law at the Goethe University Frankfurt and the University of Würzburg. Since 2000, she has been practicing as a lawyer specialized on family law in Aschaffenburg. Political career Lindholz first became a member of the Bundestag in the 2013 German federal election. She is a member of the Committee for Home Affairs. Since 2018, she has also been a member of the Committee for the Scrutiny of Acoustic Surveillance of the Private Home and the Parliamentary Oversight Panel (PKGr), which provides parliamentary oversight of Germany’s intelligence services BND, BfV and MAD. In the negotiations to form a fourth coalition governm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merz Cabinet
The Merz cabinet (, ) is the 25th and current Federal Government of Germany, Government of the Germany, Federal Republic of Germany during the 21st Bundestag, 21st legislative session of the Bundestag. It succeeded the Scholz cabinet, previous cabinet led by Olaf Scholz. The cabinet is led by Friedrich Merz. The cabinet is composed of Merz's Christian Democratic Union of Germany, Christian Democratic Union (CDU), its Bavarian sister-party Christian Social Union in Bavaria, Christian Social Union (CSU) (which form the CDU/CSU alliance; the so called ''Union'') and the Social Democratic Party of Germany, Social Democratic Party (SPD). It is the fifth time a Grand coalition (Germany), governing coalition between Union and SPD has been formed in post-war German history and the first since the Fourth Merkel cabinet led by then-Chancellor Angela Merkel in 2018. Coalition formation The Union (CDU/CSU) with its Chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz emerged from 2025 German federal elect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chancellor Of Germany
The chancellor of Germany, officially the federal chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, is the head of the federal Cabinet of Germany, government of Germany. The chancellor is the chief executive of the Federal Government of Germany, Federal Cabinet and heads the executive branch. The chancellor is elected by the Bundestag on the proposal of the President of Germany, federal president and without debate (Article 63 of the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany, German Constitution). During a state of defence declared by the Bundestag the chancellor also assumes the position of commander-in-chief of the Bundeswehr. List of chancellors of Germany, Ten people (nine men and one woman) have served as chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, the first being Konrad Adenauer from 1949 to 1963. (Another 26 men had served as "Reich chancellors" of the previous German Empire from 1871 to 1945.) The current officeholder is Friedrich Merz of the Christian Democratic Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
