Prominent members are the former foreign minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, the former President of Germany Richard von Weizsäcker, as well as some other famous German politicians Volker Rühe, Günter Verheugen, Klaus von Dohnanyi, Eberhard Diepgen, Theodor Waigel, Michael Glos, Friedbert Pflüger, Rudolf Scharping, Dieter Schulte, Manfred Stolpe, Rita Süssmuth and Antje Vollmer.
After Heinz-Werner Meyer, the DGB’s chairman, died shortly before the DGB Federal Congress in 1994, Engelen-Kefer had to assume the chairmanship on a temporary basis until Dieter Schulte, member of the Managing Board of IG Metall, was nominated and elected as new DGB chairman.
Dieter Hallervorden | Dieter Bohlen | Dieter Schnebel | Dieter Baumann | Dieter Kindlmann | Hans Dieter Betz | Dieter Zetsche | Rolf-Dieter Heuer | Hans-Dieter Sues | Dieter Schulte | Dieter Rams | Dieter Meier | Dieter Hildebrandt | Rolf Dieter Brinkmann | Karl Joseph Schulte | Egon Schulte | Dieter König | Dieter Eckstein | Dieter Brock | Dieter Braun | Wolf-Dieter Storl | Paul Schulte | Paul Clarence Schulte | Klaus-Dieter Kurrat | Greg Schulte | Frank Schulte | Dieter von Holtzbrinck | Dieter Township, Roseau County, Minnesota | Dieter Township | Dieter Quester |