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19 unusual facts about Politics of Germany


Alexander Graf Lambsdorff

Alexander Sebastian Léonce von der Wenge Graf Lambsdorff (born on 5 November 1966 in Cologne) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Free Democratic Party of Germany, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China.

Alexander Radwan

Alexander Radwan (born on 30 August 1964 in München) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament for Bavaria with the Christian Social Union in Bavaria, Member of the Bureau of the European People's Party and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs.

Angelika Niebler

Angelika Niebler (née Rupertseder; born 18 February 1963) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament for Bavaria with the Christian Social Union in Bavaria and the Member of the Bureau of the European People's Party.

Barbara Weiler

Barbara Weiler (born on 17 September 1946 in Düsseldorf) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Social Democratic Party of Germany, part of the Socialist Group and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection.

Die Scheinheiligen

The local government of Irschenberg are planning the construction of a motorway exit with a fast-food restaurant, for which they need the property of Magdalena Trenner, a rich old woman who is unpopular in the village until she takes in a traveling carpenter, Johannes, and later an asylum seeker named Theophile.

Gabriele Stauner

On January 18, 2006, Stauner became a member of the 6th European Parliament after Joachim Wuermeling had left to become State Secretary in the German Federal Ministry for Economics and Technology on December 18, 2005.

Gloria, Princess of Thurn and Taxis

Although the German Federal government does not recognize "noble" or "royal" status per se, members of the former royal, princely, and noble houses of German descent use their "titles" which the German government regards as last names.

Hans-Peter Mayer

Hans-Peter Mayer (born on 5 May 1944 in Riedlingen) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament for Lower Saxony with the conservative Christian-Democratic Union, part of the European People's Party and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Legal Affairs and is a member of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly.

Heinz Kindermann

Heinz Kindermann (born on 20 June 1942 in Welhotta (CZ)) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Social Democratic Party of Germany, part of the Socialist Group and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development and its Committee on Fisheries.

Helmut Kuhne

Helmut Kuhne (born on 6 September 1949 in Soest) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Social Democratic Party of Germany, part of the Socialist Group and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Holger Krahmer

Holger Krahmer (born on 16 October 1970 in Leipzig) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Free Democratic Party of Germany, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety.

Jakob Augstein

Also since early 2011, he is the counterpart of Nikolaus Blome, a journalist for BILD newspaper, in a weekly debate on controversial issues of German politics, on German public television channel PHOENIX ("Augstein und Blome").

Manfred Weber

Manfred Weber (born on 14 July 1972 in Niederhatzkofen) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament for Bavaria with the Christian Social Union in Bavaria, part of the European People's Party and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs.

Politics of Germany

The Bundeskanzler (federal chancellor) heads the Bundesregierung (federal government) and thus the executive branch of the federal government.

Ralf Walter

Ralf Walter (born on 15 March 1958 in Andernach) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Social Democratic Party of Germany, part of the Socialist Group and is vice-chair of the European Parliament's Committee on Budgets.

Silvana Koch-Mehrin

Esther Silvana Koch-Mehrin (born on 17 November 1970 in Wuppertal) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Free Democratic Party of Germany.

Ulrich Stockmann

Ulrich Stockmann (born on 1 January 1951 in Oebisfelde) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Social Democratic Party of Germany, part of the Socialist Group and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Transport and Tourism.

Vural Öger

Vural Öger (born on 1 February 1942 in Ankara, Turkey) is a German politician of Turkish descent, and Member of the European Parliament with the Social Democratic Party of Germany, part of the Socialist Group and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Wolfgang Kreissl-Dörfler

Wolfgang Kreissl-Dörfler (born on 1 December 1950 in Augsburg) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Social Democratic Party of Germany, part of the Socialist Group and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs.


Willi Piecyk

Willi Piecyk (born 11 August 1948 in Munich; died 1 August 2008 in Großhansdorf) was a German politician and