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class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Notes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Notes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>Notes</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Notes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>External links</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" 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href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D8%B1%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%AA" title="أرمين لاشيت – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="أرمين لاشيت" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-an mw-list-item"><a href="https://an.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin_Laschet" title="Armin Laschet – Aragonese" lang="an" hreflang="an" data-title="Armin Laschet" data-language-autonym="Aragonés" data-language-local-name="Aragonese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Aragonés</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin_La%C5%9Fet" title="Armin Laşet – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Armin Laşet" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%80%D0%BC%D1%96%D0%BD_%D0%9B%D0%B0%D1%88%D1%8D%D1%82" title="Армін Лашэт – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Армін Лашэт" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%80%D0%BC%D1%96%D0%BD_%D0%9B%D1%8F%D1%88%D1%8D%D1%82" title="Армін Ляшэт – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Армін Ляшэт" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin_Laschet" title="Armin Laschet – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Armin Laschet" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin_Laschet" title="Armin Laschet – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Armin Laschet" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin_Laschet" title="Armin Laschet – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Armin Laschet" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin_Laschet" title="Armin Laschet – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Armin Laschet" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin_Laschet" title="Armin Laschet – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Armin Laschet" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%86%CF%81%CE%BC%CE%B9%CE%BD_%CE%9B%CE%AC%CF%83%CE%B5%CF%84" title="Άρμιν Λάσετ – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Άρμιν Λάσετ" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin_Laschet" title="Armin Laschet – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Armin Laschet" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin_Laschet" title="Armin Laschet – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Armin Laschet" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D8%B1%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%86_%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B4%D8%AA" title="آرمین لاشت – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="آرمین لاشت" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin_Laschet" title="Armin Laschet – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Armin Laschet" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin_Laschet" title="Armin Laschet – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Armin Laschet" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%95%84%EB%A5%B4%EB%AF%BC_%EB%9D%BC%EC%85%B0%ED%8A%B8" title="아르민 라셰트 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="아르민 라셰트" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B1%D6%80%D5%B4%D5%AB%D5%B6_%D4%BC%D5%A1%D5%B7%D5%A5%D5%BF" title="Արմին Լաշետ – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Արմին Լաշետ" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin_Laschet" title="Armin Laschet – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Armin Laschet" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin_Laschet" title="Armin Laschet – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="Armin Laschet" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin_Laschet" title="Armin Laschet – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Armin Laschet" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ie mw-list-item"><a href="https://ie.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin_Laschet" title="Armin Laschet – Interlingue" lang="ie" hreflang="ie" data-title="Armin Laschet" data-language-autonym="Interlingue" data-language-local-name="Interlingue" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Interlingue</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin_Laschet" title="Armin Laschet – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Armin Laschet" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin_Laschet" title="Armin Laschet – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Armin Laschet" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%9F_%D7%9C%D7%90%D7%A9%D7%98" title="ארמין לאשט – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="ארמין לאשט" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%90%E1%83%A0%E1%83%9B%E1%83%98%E1%83%9C_%E1%83%9A%E1%83%90%E1%83%A8%E1%83%94%E1%83%A2%E1%83%98" title="არმინ ლაშეტი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="არმინ ლაშეტი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arminius_Laschet" title="Arminius Laschet – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Arminius Laschet" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arm%C4%ABns_La%C5%A1ets" title="Armīns Lašets – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Armīns Lašets" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin_Laschet" title="Armin Laschet – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Armin Laschet" data-language-autonym="Magyar" 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For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/Laschet_(surname)" title="Laschet (surname)">Laschet (surname)</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size: 100%;"><div class="fn" style="font-size:125%;">Armin Laschet</div><div class="honorific-suffix" style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="/wiki/Member_of_the_German_Bundestag" title="Member of the German Bundestag">MdB</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Armin_Laschet_2023_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Armin_Laschet_2023_%28cropped%29.jpg/220px-Armin_Laschet_2023_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="280" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Armin_Laschet_2023_%28cropped%29.jpg/330px-Armin_Laschet_2023_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Armin_Laschet_2023_%28cropped%29.jpg/440px-Armin_Laschet_2023_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1260" data-file-height="1602" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption" style="line-height:normal;padding-top:0.2em;">Laschet in 2023</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Leader_of_the_Christian_Democratic_Union" title="Leader of the Christian Democratic Union">Leader of the Christian Democratic Union</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />22 January 2021 – 31 January 2022</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">General Secretary</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Paul_Ziemiak" title="Paul Ziemiak">Paul Ziemiak</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Deputy</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Jens_Spahn" title="Jens Spahn">Jens Spahn</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Strobl" title="Thomas Strobl">Thomas Strobl</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Volker_Bouffier" title="Volker Bouffier">Volker Bouffier</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Julia_Kl%C3%B6ckner" title="Julia Klöckner">Julia Klöckner</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Silvia_Breher" title="Silvia Breher">Silvia Breher</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Annegret_Kramp-Karrenbauer" title="Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer">Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Merz" title="Friedrich Merz">Friedrich Merz</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Ministers-President_of_North_Rhine-Westphalia" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Ministers-President of North Rhine-Westphalia">Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />27 June 2017 – 26 October 2021</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Deputy</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Joachim_Stamp" title="Joachim Stamp">Joachim Stamp</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Hannelore_Kraft" title="Hannelore Kraft">Hannelore Kraft</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Hendrik_W%C3%BCst" title="Hendrik Wüst">Hendrik Wüst</a> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"> <table class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="margin-bottom:-.65em; ; width:100%;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="2" style="line-height:normal; padding:0.2em; border:1px dashed lightgrey;;"><div style="text-align: center; padding: 0 0.4em; margin: 0 3.3em">Other political offices <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886047488">.mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}</style><span class="nobold">2005–⁠2021</span> </div></th> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:#eee;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Deputy Leader of the <a href="/wiki/Christian_Democratic_Union_of_Germany" title="Christian Democratic Union of Germany">Christian Democratic Union</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />5 December 2012 – 22 January 2021<div style="line-height:normal; padding-top:0.2em; padding-bottom:0.1em">Serving with <a href="/wiki/Volker_Bouffier" title="Volker Bouffier">Volker Bouffier</a>, <a href="/wiki/Julia_Kl%C3%B6ckner" title="Julia Klöckner">Julia Klöckner</a>, <a href="/wiki/Silvia_Breher" title="Silvia Breher">Silvia Breher</a> and <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Strobl" title="Thomas Strobl">Thomas Strobl</a></div></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Leader</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Angela_Merkel" title="Angela Merkel">Angela Merkel</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Annegret_Kramp-Karrenbauer" title="Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer">Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Norbert_R%C3%B6ttgen" title="Norbert Röttgen">Norbert Röttgen</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Jens_Spahn" title="Jens Spahn">Jens Spahn</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:#eee;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Leader of the <a href="/wiki/Christian_Democratic_Union_of_Germany" title="Christian Democratic Union of Germany">Christian Democratic Union</a> in <a href="/wiki/North_Rhine-Westphalia" title="North Rhine-Westphalia">North Rhine-Westphalia</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />20 June 2012 – 23 October 2021</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">General Secretary</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Bodo_L%C3%B6ttgen" title="Bodo Löttgen">Bodo Löttgen</a><br />Josef Hovenjürgen</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Deputy</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Brinkhaus" title="Ralph Brinkhaus">Ralph Brinkhaus</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Karl-Josef_Laumann" title="Karl-Josef Laumann">Karl-Josef Laumann</a><br />Jan Heinisch<br />Ina Scharrenbach<br /><a href="/wiki/Elisabeth_Winkelmeier-Becker" title="Elisabeth Winkelmeier-Becker">Elisabeth Winkelmeier-Becker</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Norbert_R%C3%B6ttgen" title="Norbert Röttgen">Norbert Röttgen</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Hendrik_W%C3%BCst" title="Hendrik Wüst">Hendrik Wüst</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:#eee;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Politics_of_North_Rhine-Westphalia" title="Politics of North Rhine-Westphalia">Minister for Federal Affairs, Europe and the Media</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />9 March 2010 – 15 July 2010</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Ministers-President_of_North_Rhine-Westphalia" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Ministers-President of North Rhine-Westphalia">Ministers-President</a></span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_R%C3%BCttgers" title="Jürgen Rüttgers">Jürgen Rüttgers</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Andreas Krautscheid</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Angelica Schwall-Düren</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:#eee;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Politics_of_North_Rhine-Westphalia" title="Politics of North Rhine-Westphalia">Minister for Generations, Family, Women and Integration of North Rhine-Westphalia</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />22 June 2005 – 15 July 2010</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Ministers-President_of_North_Rhine-Westphalia" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Ministers-President of North Rhine-Westphalia">Ministers-President</a></span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_R%C3%BCttgers" title="Jürgen Rüttgers">Jürgen Rüttgers</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Birgit_Fischer" title="Birgit Fischer">Birgit Fischer</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(Health, Social affairs, Women and Family)</span><br />Ute Schäfer <span style="font-size:85%;">(School, Youth and Children)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Guntram Schneider <span style="font-size:85%;">(Work, Integration and Social affairs)</span><br />Ute Schäfer <span style="font-size:85%;">(Family, Children, Youth, Culture and Sport)</span> </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> <table class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="margin-bottom:-.65em; ; width:100%;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="2" style="line-height:normal; padding:0.2em; border:1px dashed lightgrey;;"><div style="text-align: center; padding: 0 0.4em; margin: 0 3.3em">Parliamentary constituencies </div></th> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:#eee;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Member_of_the_German_Bundestag" title="Member of the German Bundestag">Member</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Bundestag" title="Bundestag">Bundestag</a> <br /> for <a href="/wiki/North_Rhine-Westphalia" title="North Rhine-Westphalia">North Rhine-Westphalia</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><div class="skin-nightmode-reset-color" style="width:100%; margin:0; color: black; background-color: #eee"><b><a href="/wiki/Incumbent" title="Incumbent">Incumbent</a></b></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>Assumed office</b></span> <br />26 October 2021</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><i>multi-member district</i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Constituency</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Electoral_system_of_Germany" title="Electoral system of Germany">Christian Democratic Union list</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:#eee;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Member of the <a href="/wiki/Landtag_of_North_Rhine-Westphalia" title="Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia">Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />1 June 2017 – 27 October 2021</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Daniela Jansen</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Rainer Spiecker</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Constituency</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Aachen" title="Aachen">Aachen II</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />9 June 2010 – 1 June 2017</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><i>multi-member district</i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><i>multi-member district</i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Constituency</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Electoral_system_of_Germany" title="Electoral system of Germany">Christian Democratic Union list</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:#eee;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Member_of_the_European_Parliament" title="Member of the European Parliament">Member of the European Parliament</a> <br /> for <a href="/wiki/Germany_(European_Parliament_constituency)" title="Germany (European Parliament constituency)">Germany</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />20 July 1999 – 29 June 2005</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><i>multi-member district</i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Zimmerling" title="Jürgen Zimmerling">Jürgen Zimmerling</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:#eee;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Member_of_the_German_Bundestag" title="Member of the German Bundestag">Member</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Bundestag" title="Bundestag">Bundestag</a> <br /> for <a href="/wiki/Aachen_I" title="Aachen I">Aachen I</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />10 November 1994 – 26 October 1998</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Hans Stercken</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ulla_Schmidt" title="Ulla Schmidt">Ulla Schmidt</a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1961-02-18</span>) </span>18 February 1961<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age 63)</span><br /><a href="/wiki/Aachen" title="Aachen">Aachen</a>, <a href="/wiki/West_Germany" title="West Germany">West Germany</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Christian_Democratic_Union_of_Germany" title="Christian Democratic Union of Germany">Christian Democratic Union</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Susanne_Laschet" title="Susanne Laschet">Susanne Malangré</a><br /></div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1985)<wbr /></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">3</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Residence</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/Burtscheid" title="Burtscheid">Burtscheid</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Alma_mater" title="Alma mater">Alma mater</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/University_of_Munich" class="mw-redirect" title="University of Munich">University of Munich</a><br /><a href="/wiki/University_of_Bonn" title="University of Bonn">University of Bonn</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation</th><td 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Laschet.ogg">ⓘ</a></sup></span></span>; born 18 February 1961) is a German politician who served as <a href="/wiki/List_of_Ministers-President_of_North_Rhine-Westphalia" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Ministers-President of North Rhine-Westphalia">Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia</a> from 27 June 2017 to 26 October 2021. He served as <a href="/wiki/Leader_of_the_Christian_Democratic_Union" title="Leader of the Christian Democratic Union">Leader of the Christian Democratic Union</a> (CDU) from 22 January 2021 to 31 January 2022. He was elected to the German <a href="/wiki/Bundestag" title="Bundestag">Bundestag</a> following the <a href="/wiki/2021_German_federal_election" title="2021 German federal election">2021 German federal election</a>. </p><p>Laschet earned a law degree and worked as a journalist before and during his early political career. In 1994 he was elected to the German <a href="/wiki/Bundestag" title="Bundestag">Bundestag</a> and in 1999 he became a <a href="/wiki/Member_of_the_European_Parliament" title="Member of the European Parliament">Member of the European Parliament</a>. In 2005 he entered state politics in North Rhine-Westphalia as a member of the state government. In 2012 he became leader of the state party, and he was elected Prime Minister of the state in 2017. His <a href="/wiki/Cabinet_Laschet" class="mw-redirect" title="Cabinet Laschet">Cabinet</a> consisted of members of his own CDU and the liberal <a href="/wiki/Free_Democratic_Party_(Germany)" title="Free Democratic Party (Germany)">Free Democratic Party</a> (FDP). </p><p>In January 2021, Laschet was <a href="/wiki/January_2021_Christian_Democratic_Union_of_Germany_leadership_election" title="January 2021 Christian Democratic Union of Germany leadership election">elected</a> leader of the CDU, winning 52.8% of delegates votes against <a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Merz" title="Friedrich Merz">Friedrich Merz</a> in the second round of the contest.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The result of the election was certified by postal vote of the party conference's delegates with the final result announced on 22 January. It was confirmed on 20 April 2021 that he would be the <a href="/wiki/CDU/CSU" title="CDU/CSU">CDU/CSU</a> candidate for <a href="/wiki/Chancellor_of_Germany" title="Chancellor of Germany">Chancellor of Germany</a> at the <a href="/wiki/2021_German_federal_election" title="2021 German federal election">2021 German federal election</a>, after rival <a href="/wiki/Markus_S%C3%B6der" title="Markus Söder">Markus Söder</a> conceded.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He was born to an observant <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Roman Catholic</a> family of German-speaking <a href="/wiki/Wallonia" title="Wallonia">Walloon</a> origin; his father's parents were both of <a href="/wiki/Belgium" title="Belgium">Belgian</a> origin.<sup id="cite_ref-nieuwsblad_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nieuwsblad-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He is married to <a href="/wiki/Susanne_Laschet" title="Susanne Laschet">Susanne Malangré</a>, whom he met in a Catholic children's choir when they were children and who is a member of a prominent Aachen political family of French-speaking Walloon origin. </p><p>Laschet resigned as Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia on 25 October 2021 in order to resume his <a href="/wiki/Member_of_the_German_Bundestag" title="Member of the German Bundestag">membership</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Bundestag" title="Bundestag">Bundestag</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-RücktrittalsMinisterpräsident_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RücktrittalsMinisterpräsident-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 9 February 2024, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from <a href="/wiki/TED_University" title="TED University">TED University</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Laschet is a lecturer in political science at the <a href="/wiki/Ludwig_Maximilian_University_of_Munich" title="Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich">University of Munich</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background">Background</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Armin_Laschet&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Armin_Laschet&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Early life and education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Laschet was born in <a href="/wiki/Burtscheid" title="Burtscheid">Burtscheid</a>, a suburb of <a href="/wiki/Aachen" title="Aachen">Aachen</a>, about three kilometres from the Belgian and Dutch borders, to parents Heinrich Laschet and Marcella née Frings; he was raised in an observant <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholic">Roman Catholic</a> family.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His father was a <a href="/wiki/Mining_engineer" class="mw-redirect" title="Mining engineer">mining engineer</a> at a <a href="/wiki/Bituminous_coal" title="Bituminous coal">black coal</a> mine and later became an elementary school teacher and headmaster.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Laschet family is originally from <a href="/wiki/Li%C3%A8ge_Province" title="Liège Province">Liège Province</a> in <a href="/wiki/Wallonia" title="Wallonia">Wallonia</a> in modern Belgium where the family's ancestor Jacques (or Jacob) Laschet lived in <a href="/wiki/Hergenrath" title="Hergenrath">Hergenrath</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Duchy_of_Limburg" title="Duchy of Limburg">Duchy of Limburg</a> in the 18th century; his paternal grandfather Hubert Laschet (1899–1984) moved from Hergenrath to Aachen in the 1920s;<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> his paternal grandmother Hubertina Wetzels (1900–1979) had been born in Aachen to parents who had just moved there from <a href="/wiki/Welkenraedt" title="Welkenraedt">Welkenraedt</a> in Belgium.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Like many others in the tri-border area the Laschets had relatives across the national boundaries, who lived in Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany and <a href="/wiki/Neutral_Moresnet" title="Neutral Moresnet">Neutral Moresnet</a>. Laschet maintains close personal ties to Belgium where members of the Laschet family still live.<sup id="cite_ref-nieuwsblad_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nieuwsblad-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He attended the Pius-Gymnasium in <a href="/wiki/Aachen" title="Aachen">Aachen</a> and studied law at the universities of <a href="/wiki/Bonn" title="Bonn">Bonn</a> and <a href="/wiki/Munich" title="Munich">Munich</a>, passing the first state examination in law in 1987. He studied journalism from 1986 to 1988. In Munich he became a member of K.D.St.V. Aenania München, a Catholic student fraternity that is member of the <a href="/wiki/Cartellverband_der_katholischen_deutschen_Studentenverbindungen" class="mw-redirect" title="Cartellverband der katholischen deutschen Studentenverbindungen">Cartellverband</a>. </p><p>Laschet speaks fluent French.<sup id="cite_ref-politico_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-politico-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Laschet worked as a journalist and in the publishing industry from 1986 until 1991, among other things as Bonn correspondent for <a href="/wiki/Bayerischer_Rundfunk" title="Bayerischer Rundfunk">Bayerischer Rundfunk</a>. He later served as editor-in-chief of the Catholic newspaper <i>KirchenZeitung Aachen</i> from 1991 until 1994. From 1995 to 1999, while also serving as a member of parliament, he was CEO of the Catholic publishing company Einhard-Verlag, which had previously been led by his father-in-law <a href="/wiki/Heinrich_Malangr%C3%A9" title="Heinrich Malangré">Heinrich Malangré</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Family">Family</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Armin_Laschet&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Family"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Laschet is married to his childhood sweetheart <a href="/wiki/Susanne_Laschet" title="Susanne Laschet">Susanne Malangré</a>, whom he met as a child in a Catholic children's choir led by Susanne's father, prominent business executive <a href="/wiki/Heinrich_Malangr%C3%A9" title="Heinrich Malangré">Heinrich Malangré</a>; they married in 1985.<sup id="cite_ref-:3_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The couple has two sons and a daughter.<sup id="cite_ref-politico_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-politico-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The family resides in Aachen's <a href="/wiki/Burtscheid" title="Burtscheid">Burtscheid</a> district. His wife belongs to a prominent Aachen family of French-speaking <a href="/wiki/Wallonia" title="Wallonia">Walloon</a> origin and is the niece of CDU politician and lord mayor of Aachen <a href="/wiki/Kurt_Malangr%C3%A9" title="Kurt Malangré">Kurt Malangré</a>; the Malangré family moved from <a href="/wiki/La_Louvi%C3%A8re" title="La Louvière">Haine-Saint-Pierre</a> in Belgium to <a href="/wiki/Stolberg_(Rhineland)" title="Stolberg (Rhineland)">Stolberg</a> to establish a <a href="/wiki/Glass_production" title="Glass production">glass production</a> business in the second half of the 19th century.<sup id="cite_ref-:4_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His son Johannes ("Joe") Laschet, who studies law, is a blogger and model, described as a fashion <a href="/wiki/Influencer" class="mw-redirect" title="Influencer">influencer</a> on Instagram.<sup id="cite_ref-:5_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:5-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:6_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:6-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Political_career">Political career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Armin_Laschet&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Political career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Member_of_the_German_Bundestag,_1994–1998"><span id="Member_of_the_German_Bundestag.2C_1994.E2.80.931998"></span>Member of the German Bundestag, 1994–1998</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Armin_Laschet&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Member of the German Bundestag, 1994–1998"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After serving as staffer to the <a href="/wiki/President_of_the_Bundestag" title="President of the Bundestag">President of the Bundestag</a>, Laschet became a member of the German <a href="/wiki/Bundestag" title="Bundestag">Bundestag</a> in the <a href="/wiki/1994_German_federal_election" title="1994 German federal election">1994 election</a>. He was elected in the single-member constituency of <a href="/wiki/Aachen_I" title="Aachen I">Aachen I</a>, after the incumbent Hans Stercken retired. He was on the Committee for Economic Cooperation and Development and on the Committee for European Union Affairs.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> In addition, he was part of the so-called "Pizza-Connection" (a reference to an American drug ring).<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A number of informal meeting of a group of young <a href="/wiki/Member_of_the_German_Bundestag" title="Member of the German Bundestag">Bundestag Members</a> from both the CDU and <a href="/wiki/Alliance_90/The_Greens" title="Alliance 90/The Greens">the Greens</a>. This was later seen as controversial, because it solidified an image of him as a liberal/centrist member of the CDU.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He lost re-election in the <a href="/wiki/1998_German_federal_election" title="1998 German federal election">1998 SPD landslide</a> to future <a href="/wiki/Federal_Ministry_of_Health_(Germany)" title="Federal Ministry of Health (Germany)">Health Minister</a> <a href="/wiki/Ulla_Schmidt" title="Ulla Schmidt">Ulla Schmidt</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Member_of_the_European_Parliament,_1999–2005"><span id="Member_of_the_European_Parliament.2C_1999.E2.80.932005"></span>Member of the European Parliament, 1999–2005</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Armin_Laschet&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Member of the European Parliament, 1999–2005"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As <a href="/wiki/Member_of_the_European_Parliament" title="Member of the European Parliament">Member of the European Parliament</a>, Laschet served on the <a href="/wiki/European_Parliament_Committee_on_Budgets" title="European Parliament Committee on Budgets">Committee on Budgets</a> between 1999 and 2001 and on the <a href="/wiki/European_Parliament_Committee_on_Foreign_Affairs" title="European Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs">Committee on Foreign Affairs</a> between 2002 and 2005. In the latter capacity, he served as the Parliament's <a href="/wiki/Rapporteur" title="Rapporteur">rapporteur</a> on relations between the EU and the United Nations.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Role_in_state_politics">Role in state politics</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Armin_Laschet&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Role in state politics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Verleihung_des_Staatspreises_des_Landes_Nordrhein-Westfalen_an_Angela_Merkel-2097.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Verleihung_des_Staatspreises_des_Landes_Nordrhein-Westfalen_an_Angela_Merkel-2097.jpg/220px-Verleihung_des_Staatspreises_des_Landes_Nordrhein-Westfalen_an_Angela_Merkel-2097.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Verleihung_des_Staatspreises_des_Landes_Nordrhein-Westfalen_an_Angela_Merkel-2097.jpg/330px-Verleihung_des_Staatspreises_des_Landes_Nordrhein-Westfalen_an_Angela_Merkel-2097.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Verleihung_des_Staatspreises_des_Landes_Nordrhein-Westfalen_an_Angela_Merkel-2097.jpg/440px-Verleihung_des_Staatspreises_des_Landes_Nordrhein-Westfalen_an_Angela_Merkel-2097.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2892" data-file-height="3856" /></a><figcaption>Armin Laschet in <a href="/wiki/Cologne" title="Cologne">Cologne</a> in 2023</figcaption></figure> <p>Under <a href="/wiki/Minister_President" class="mw-redirect" title="Minister President">Minister President</a> <a href="/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_R%C3%BCttgers" title="Jürgen Rüttgers">Jürgen Rüttgers</a> in North Rhine-Westphalia, Laschet served as State Minister for Generations, Family, Women and Integration from 2005 until 2010, and as State Minister for Federal Affairs, Europe and Media from 2010. In 2010, he unsuccessfully ran against <a href="/wiki/Norbert_R%C3%B6ttgen" title="Norbert Röttgen">Norbert Röttgen</a> for the post of CDU chairman in the state.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When Röttgen resigned from that office in 2012, Laschet was elected as his successor. On 4 December 2012, he was elected as one of five deputy chairpersons of the national CDU party, serving alongside <a href="/wiki/Volker_Bouffier" title="Volker Bouffier">Volker Bouffier</a>, <a href="/wiki/Julia_Kl%C3%B6ckner" title="Julia Klöckner">Julia Klöckner</a>, <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Strobl" title="Thomas Strobl">Thomas Strobl</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ursula_von_der_Leyen" title="Ursula von der Leyen">Ursula von der Leyen</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Laschet currently serves as state MP in the <a href="/wiki/Landtag" title="Landtag">Landtag</a> of North Rhine-Westphalia and also chairs the CDU's state chapter (Landesverband). From 2014 until 2016, he was a member of the North Rhine-Westphalia Commission for Constitutional Reform, led by Rainer Bovermann.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the negotiations to form a <i><a href="/wiki/Grand_coalition_(Germany)" title="Grand coalition (Germany)">Grand Coalition</a></i> of the Christian Democrats (<a href="/wiki/Christian_Democratic_Union_(Germany)" class="mw-redirect" title="Christian Democratic Union (Germany)">CDU</a> together with the Bavarian <a href="/wiki/Christian_Social_Union_of_Bavaria" class="mw-redirect" title="Christian Social Union of Bavaria">CSU</a>) and the <a href="/wiki/Social_Democratic_Party_of_Germany" title="Social Democratic Party of Germany">Social Democrats</a> (SPD) following the <a href="/wiki/2013_German_federal_election" title="2013 German federal election">2013 federal elections</a>, Laschet was part of the CDU/CSU delegation in the working group on energy policy, led by <a href="/wiki/Peter_Altmaier" title="Peter Altmaier">Peter Altmaier</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hannelore_Kraft" title="Hannelore Kraft">Hannelore Kraft</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>In November 2015, Laschet visited the <a href="/wiki/Zaatari_refugee_camp" title="Zaatari refugee camp">Zaatari refugee camp</a> in Jordan to learn more about the plight of <a href="/wiki/Refugees_of_the_Syrian_civil_war" title="Refugees of the Syrian civil war">Syrians</a> fleeing the violence in the ongoing <a href="/wiki/Syrian_civil_war" title="Syrian civil war">Syrian civil war</a> that erupted in 2011.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Between March 2015 and January 2016, he chaired the Robert Bosch Expert Commission to Consider a Realignment of Refugee Policy, an expert group convened by the <a href="/wiki/Robert_Bosch_Stiftung" title="Robert Bosch Stiftung">Robert Bosch Stiftung</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In November 2016, Laschet was elected leading candidate for the <a href="/wiki/2017_North_Rhine-Westphalia_state_election" title="2017 North Rhine-Westphalia state election">North Rhine-Westphalia state elections</a> in May 2017 which he won in what was widely considered an upset victory.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was a CDU delegate to the <a href="/wiki/Federal_Convention_(Germany)" title="Federal Convention (Germany)">Federal Convention</a> for the purpose of electing the <a href="/wiki/President_of_Germany" title="President of Germany">President of Germany</a> in 2017.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In December 2016, Laschet presided over the CDU's national convention in <a href="/wiki/Essen" title="Essen">Essen</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Minister_President_of_North_Rhine-Westphalia,_2017–2021"><span id="Minister_President_of_North_Rhine-Westphalia.2C_2017.E2.80.932021"></span>Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia, 2017–2021</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Armin_Laschet&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia, 2017–2021"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Laschet served as the 11th <a href="/wiki/Minister_President" class="mw-redirect" title="Minister President">Minister President</a> of <a href="/wiki/North_Rhine-Westphalia" title="North Rhine-Westphalia">North Rhine-Westphalia</a> from 2017 to 2021. <a href="/wiki/Laschet_Cabinet" class="mw-redirect" title="Laschet Cabinet">Laschet's government</a> was a coalition between the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the <a href="/wiki/Free_Democratic_Party_of_Germany" class="mw-redirect" title="Free Democratic Party of Germany">Free Democratic Party</a> (FDP). As one of his state's representatives at the <a href="/wiki/Bundesrat_of_Germany" class="mw-redirect" title="Bundesrat of Germany">Bundesrat</a>, he serves as a member of the Federal Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Defence Committee.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Leader_of_the_CDU,_2021–2022"><span id="Leader_of_the_CDU.2C_2021.E2.80.932022"></span>Leader of the CDU, 2021–2022</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Armin_Laschet&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Leader of the CDU, 2021–2022"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Following <a href="/wiki/Annegret_Kramp-Karrenbauer" title="Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer">Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer</a>'s announcement on 10 February 2020 that she would step down as CDU party leader before the end of 2020 and would not stand as a candidate for chancellor in the 2021 federal elections, Laschet announced at a national press conference on 25 February 2020 that he would run for the party presidency, and thus also for the chancellorship. He named <a href="/wiki/Jens_Spahn" title="Jens Spahn">Jens Spahn</a><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as his vice-presidential candidate, with <a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Merz" title="Friedrich Merz">Friedrich Merz</a><sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Norbert_R%C3%B6ttgen" title="Norbert Röttgen">Norbert Röttgen</a><sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as his challengers. </p><p>Polls subsequently showed that voters rated Laschet's management of the <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Germany" title="COVID-19 pandemic in Germany">COVID-19 pandemic in Germany</a>'s most populous state poorly.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The election of the new CDU party president, after several postponements due to the coronavirus epidemic, took place only at the two-day party congress in mid-January 2021, which was the first fully digital congress in the party's history. On the second day of the congress, 16 January 2021, Laschet won 38.42% of the votes in the first round and 52.79% in the second round. He thus became the new president of the CDU.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After his defeat at the head of his party in the <a href="/wiki/2021_German_federal_election" title="2021 German federal election">federal elections</a>, he resigned from the party leadership on 7 October. His place was taken by Merz, who finally succeeded in his third attempt, in the election of the party president on 17 December 2021.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="CDU/CSU_joint_candidate_for_Chancellor"><span id="CDU.2FCSU_joint_candidate_for_Chancellor"></span>CDU/CSU joint candidate for Chancellor</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Armin_Laschet&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: CDU/CSU joint candidate for Chancellor"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>However, the strong intra-party divisions that were also evident in the vote could have led to a joint <a href="/wiki/CDU/CSU" title="CDU/CSU">CDU/CSU</a> chancellorship candidacy for <a href="/wiki/Markus_S%C3%B6der" title="Markus Söder">Markus Söder</a>, the president of the smaller <a href="/wiki/Bavaria" title="Bavaria">Bavarian</a> sister party, the CSU.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Polls conducted immediately before the party congress showed that 55 percent of voters considered Söder a good candidate for chancellor, while 80 percent of CDU/CSU supporters thought he was a good candidate, compared to only 27 percent and 32 percent respectively for Laschet.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Söder opted for a wait-and-see strategy, finally announcing at a press conference in <a href="/wiki/Munich" title="Munich">Munich</a> on 19 April 2021 that he would not delay the nomination of his candidate for chancellor as the federal elections approached, and that he and his party, the CSU, would therefore accept the decision of the CDU's "big sister" executive board meeting, which began that day, as binding on both him and his party, the CSU. Subsequently, following a late-night meeting of the CDU leadership in <a href="/wiki/Berlin" title="Berlin">Berlin</a>, it was announced that in a <a href="/wiki/Secret_ballot" title="Secret ballot">secret ballot</a>, 77.5 percent of those present at the meeting had finally backed Laschet, compared to just 22.5 percent for Söder. Thus, it was a foregone conclusion that Armin Laschet would be in the running to become chancellor of the CDU/CSU coalition in September 2021.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Asked why he did not step aside from his own candidacy for chancellor, as polls had shown that he had significantly worse chances than the CSU president, Laschet said he remembered it well, that during the campaign for the 2017 North Rhine-Westphalian state parliamentary elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, when he was given similarly low odds by pollsters against the then incumbent SPD state premier <a href="/wiki/Hannelore_Kraft" title="Hannelore Kraft">Hannelore Kraft</a>, he still won the election.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Campaign_to_win_the_Chancellorship">Campaign to win the Chancellorship</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Armin_Laschet&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Campaign to win the Chancellorship"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Subsequently, Laschet tried to "channel" the far greater popularity of his biggest rival within the CDU by recruiting Merz to his campaign team, saying that he "belonged in the team" and that his economic and financial expertise would be crucial in helping them to overcome the huge challenge of the pandemic in a sustainable way.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Already at the party congress in Rhineland-Palatinate in May 2021, Laschet called for the <a href="/wiki/Alliance_90/The_Greens" title="Alliance 90/The Greens">Greens</a> to be the main political opponent in the upcoming election campaign. He set the goal of preventing the formation of a Red–Red–Green (SPD–<a href="/wiki/The_Left_(Germany)" title="The Left (Germany)">Left</a>–Greens) coalition. </p><p>As his party's candidate to succeed Merkel in the <a href="/wiki/2021_German_federal_election" title="2021 German federal election">national elections</a>, Laschet was initially seen as having made an uncertain start to his campaign<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and faced calls to chart a more right-wing course to win back voters disenchanted by the incumbent coalition government. However, the party's win in the <a href="/wiki/2021_Saxony-Anhalt_state_election" title="2021 Saxony-Anhalt state election">Saxony-Anhalt elections</a> was later interpreted as a boost to Laschet.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Laschet presented the joint CDU/CSU election platform with Söder on 21 June 2021. In the programme, they stated that combating the pandemic, <a href="/wiki/Climate_change" title="Climate change">climate change</a> and defending prosperity and freedom are global challenges, and that their goal is to create a Germany open to the world, which strives for both modernisation and <a href="/wiki/Green_politics" title="Green politics">green policies</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>While visiting <a href="/wiki/Erftstadt" title="Erftstadt">Erftstadt</a>, a flood-hit town, Laschet was caught laughing on camera and came under fire later despite his apology that 'It was stupid and shouldn't have happened and I regret it'. This was a decisive factor in the fact that all but 7 percent of those surveyed were positive about the provincial premier's management of the flood crisis. Following this incident, CDU/CSU suffered heavily in opinion polls and SPD took the lead.<sup id="cite_ref-r725_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-r725-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-r911_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-r911-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Laschet faced another scandal at the end of the month, when it emerged that he, like his fellow Green Party candidate for chancellor <a href="/wiki/Annalena_Baerbock" title="Annalena Baerbock">Annalena Baerbock</a>, was facing accusations of <a href="/wiki/Plagiarism" title="Plagiarism">plagiarism</a>. <i>Die Aufsteigerrepublik. Zuwanderung als Chance</i>, was written in 2009 and he finally admitted his "mistake", and apologised. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Federal_election">Federal election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Armin_Laschet&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Federal election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the <a href="/wiki/2021_German_federal_election" title="2021 German federal election">2021 German federal election on 26 September</a>, Laschet had to compete for the post of Chancellor against <a href="/wiki/Olaf_Scholz" title="Olaf Scholz">Olaf Scholz</a>, <a href="/wiki/Social_Democratic_Party_of_Germany" title="Social Democratic Party of Germany">the SPD candidate for Chancellor</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Annalena_Baerbock" title="Annalena Baerbock">Annalena Baerbock</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alliance_90/The_Greens" title="Alliance 90/The Greens">the candidate for Chancellor of the Alliance 90/The Greens</a>. Unlike his rivals, Laschet did not contest an <a href="/wiki/Electoral_district" title="Electoral district">individual constituency</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His home constituency of <a href="/wiki/Aachen_I" title="Aachen I">Aachen I</a>, which he had represented from 1994 to 1998 and was expected to be his constituency, swung to the Greens on election day. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Opinion_poll" title="Opinion poll">Opinion poll predictions</a> came true,<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with Scholz and the SPD winning the most votes (25.7%), while Laschet and the CDU/CSU had their worst result ever (24.1%), with Baerbock and the Greens not even half their popularity from the spring, finishing third with a disappointing 14.8%. In the battle for third place, the <a href="/wiki/Free_Democratic_Party_(Germany)" title="Free Democratic Party (Germany)">FDP</a> trailed the Greens by only a small margin (11.5 percent) and were the "<a href="/wiki/Kingmaker" title="Kingmaker">kingmakers</a>". Aware of this, and despite the huge ideological differences between them, they started negotiating with each other after the elections to find the <a href="/wiki/Least_common_multiple" title="Least common multiple">least common multiple</a> in order to maximise their political power. Given the relatively small electoral margin between the SPD and the CDU/CSU, it is also possible that the latter could eventually form a government. The Greens would prefer the SPD, while the FDP would be a natural ally for the CDU/CSU.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The AfD achieved 10.3 percent, while the Linke 4.9 percent in the federal election.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_47-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Following the federal election, Laschet claimed personal responsibility for the disastrous result.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Political_positions">Political positions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Armin_Laschet&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Political positions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Environment_and_climate_change">Environment and climate change</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Armin_Laschet&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Environment and climate change"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Laschet has been criticised for hesitancy in efforts to mitigate <a href="/wiki/Climate_change" title="Climate change">climate change</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia he claimed that the state was a "pioneer" in climate protection. Environmental organisations have rebuked this claim.<sup id="cite_ref-straatmannkempen_53-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-straatmannkempen-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In his tenure the expansion of <a href="/wiki/Wind_power" title="Wind power">wind power</a> "collapsed" in North Rhine-Westphalia while under his leadership the state government enforced a phaseout of three <a href="/wiki/Coal-fired_power_plant" class="mw-redirect" title="Coal-fired power plant">coal-fired power plants</a> not before the maximum date of 2038.<sup id="cite_ref-straatmannkempen_53-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-straatmannkempen-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2018, shortly after taking over as Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia, Laschet supported the minister of the environment Christina Schulze Föcking's decision to dismantle the state's administrative department for environmental crimes.<sup id="cite_ref-wdr_55-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wdr-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Public broadcaster <a href="/wiki/Westdeutscher_Rundfunk" title="Westdeutscher Rundfunk">WDR</a> reported that prior to its dismantling the department had been investigating accusations over pig farming at the farm of Schulze Föcking's family.<sup id="cite_ref-wdr_55-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wdr-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the <a href="/wiki/2021_European_floods#Germany" title="2021 European floods">2021 floods in the district of Ahrweiler</a>, he said, "One does not change one's politics because today is such a day."<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="European_integration">European integration</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Armin_Laschet&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: European integration"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:2015-12-14_Parteitag_der_CDU_Deutschlands_by_Olaf_Kosinsky_-23_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/2015-12-14_Parteitag_der_CDU_Deutschlands_by_Olaf_Kosinsky_-23_%28cropped%29.jpg/220px-2015-12-14_Parteitag_der_CDU_Deutschlands_by_Olaf_Kosinsky_-23_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="133" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/2015-12-14_Parteitag_der_CDU_Deutschlands_by_Olaf_Kosinsky_-23_%28cropped%29.jpg/330px-2015-12-14_Parteitag_der_CDU_Deutschlands_by_Olaf_Kosinsky_-23_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/2015-12-14_Parteitag_der_CDU_Deutschlands_by_Olaf_Kosinsky_-23_%28cropped%29.jpg/440px-2015-12-14_Parteitag_der_CDU_Deutschlands_by_Olaf_Kosinsky_-23_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="919" data-file-height="555" /></a><figcaption>Armin Laschet with the <a href="/wiki/President_of_the_European_Commission" title="President of the European Commission">President of the European Commission</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ursula_von_der_Leyen" title="Ursula von der Leyen">Ursula von der Leyen</a> in 2015, while they were deputy leaders of the CDU</figcaption></figure><p> On European integration, Laschet seeks to strengthen the European Union on issues such as fighting international terrorism and organized crime, as well as energy policy. He also wants to see the <a href="/wiki/President_of_the_European_Commission" title="President of the European Commission">President of the European Commission</a> be elected directly by EU voters.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the European debt crisis, Laschet called for an "open discussion" toward a broad solution to the debt crisis, of which <a href="/wiki/Eurobond_(eurozone)" title="Eurobond (eurozone)">Eurobonds</a> could be a part.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He argued that a Greek exit from the <a href="/wiki/Eurozone" title="Eurozone">Eurozone</a> could trigger undesirable upheaval in southern Europe: "(An exit) could lead to instability in a NATO member state. Russia is standing ready with billions to help Greece in such a scenario."<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In October 2011, he signed <a href="/wiki/George_Soros" title="George Soros">George Soros</a>' open letter calling for more <a href="/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union">European Union</a> involvement in the single currency turmoil.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2020 alone, Laschet met with French president <a href="/wiki/Emmanuel_Macron" title="Emmanuel Macron">Emmanuel Macron</a> three times. Alongside <a href="/wiki/Jens_Spahn" title="Jens Spahn">Jens Spahn</a>, Laschet was invited by Macron of France to attend the 2020 <a href="/wiki/Bastille_Day" title="Bastille Day">Bastille Day</a> celebrations in Paris, in a sign of gratitude for their role in helping French citizens during the <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_France" title="COVID-19 pandemic in France">COVID-19 pandemic in France</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In an honour reserved for special guests, Macron invited Laschet into the <a href="/wiki/%C3%89lys%C3%A9e_Palace" title="Élysée Palace">Élysée Palace</a>'s gardens.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Social_policy">Social policy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Armin_Laschet&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Social policy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Laschet was a fierce defender of Chancellor Merkel's migration policies during the <a href="/wiki/European_migrant_crisis" class="mw-redirect" title="European migrant crisis">European migrant crisis</a> of 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2016, Laschet dismissed proposals for a so-called <a href="/wiki/Burqa" title="Burqa">burqa</a> ban as a "phony debate" and distraction from more pressing issues. However, his party later adopted this policy as a core issue.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ahead of a parliamentary vote in June 2017, Laschet expressed his opposition against Germany's introduction of <a href="/wiki/Recognition_of_same-sex_unions_in_Germany" class="mw-redirect" title="Recognition of same-sex unions in Germany">same-sex marriage</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> going so far as to say it would be unconstitutional.<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the <a href="/wiki/2021_German_federal_election" title="2021 German federal election">2021 German federal election</a> Laschet gave a different position in a town hall, where he claimed he would have voted in favour of same-sex marriage.<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2018, Laschet described the <a href="/wiki/Treehouse" class="mw-redirect" title="Treehouse">treehouses</a> protesting the destruction of <a href="/wiki/Hambach_forest" class="mw-redirect" title="Hambach forest">Hambach forest</a> as "illegally occupied areas" and stated that <a href="/wiki/RWE" title="RWE">RWE</a> had the right to clear the forest. "The state government is there to ensure that the law that applies is enforced," he said during a talk show on German public broadcaster <i>WDR</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Foreign_policy">Foreign policy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Armin_Laschet&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Foreign policy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Laschet considers Germany to be insufficiently prepared for global political challenges. In his view, the country lacks the will to pursue a foreign policy that is independent of other major powers such as Russia or the US. Laschet also hopes for more strategic thinking and action from the EU, saying it "must become fit for global politics."<sup id="cite_ref-:0_71-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2015, Laschet was criticised for not standing up for German interests when it was revealed that US intelligence agencies are illegally spying on German citizens and businesses.<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> German experts estimate that by the year 2000, American industrial espionage was already causing annual economic losses of at least €10 billion per year due to stolen inventions and development projects – the number having likely only risen since then due to the increase of <a href="/wiki/Digitisation" class="mw-redirect" title="Digitisation">digitisation</a>. Despite these revelations, Laschet supported <a href="/wiki/Angela_Merkel" title="Angela Merkel">Angela Merkel</a>'s policy, which in leaked cables was revealed to be to "sit out" the pressure from the German public and <a href="/wiki/Bundestag" title="Bundestag">Bundestag</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Laschet is considered by some critics as taking a soft stance on the government of <a href="/wiki/President_of_Russia" title="President of Russia">President</a> <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Putin" title="Vladimir Putin">Vladimir Putin</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Laschet has voiced support for <a href="/wiki/Nord_Stream_2" title="Nord Stream 2">Nord Stream 2</a> and for a closer relationship with China and is against excluding <a href="/wiki/Huawei" title="Huawei">Huawei</a> from Germany's 5G network. However, Germany's <a href="/wiki/Federal_Office_for_Information_Security" title="Federal Office for Information Security">Federal Office for Information Security</a> has supported Laschet's position, saying that comprehensive investigations into Huawei's hardware and software have produced no evidence of wrongdoing and that an exclusion is unjustified.<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Barkin further argues that Laschet has also been against "demonizing" Putin for the <a href="/wiki/Annexation_of_Crimea_by_the_Russian_Federation" title="Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation">Russian annexation of Crimea</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the same time, Laschet said that Germany should increase military spending and take on a greater share of military burdens within NATO. He argued that the <a href="/wiki/Bundeswehr" title="Bundeswehr">Bundeswehr</a> should take on more responsibility in Africa, around the Mediterranean and in Mali.<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2018, Laschet cancelled his appearances at the <a href="/wiki/Ruhrtriennale" title="Ruhrtriennale">Ruhrtriennale</a> arts and music festival due to the festival allowing supporters of the <a href="/wiki/BDS_movement" class="mw-redirect" title="BDS movement">BDS movement</a> to perform.<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2021, he pledged support for Israel: "We stand by Israel's side without reservation."<sup id="cite_ref-:0_71-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2013, Laschet criticised Foreign Minister <a href="/wiki/Guido_Westerwelle" title="Guido Westerwelle">Guido Westerwelle</a>'s support for rebels in the <a href="/wiki/Syrian_civil_war" title="Syrian civil war">civil war in Syria</a>: "It is absurd that the same people we are fighting in <a href="/wiki/Mali" title="Mali">Mali</a> are being supported in Syria. It is the terrorist groups <a href="/wiki/Al-Nusra_Front" title="Al-Nusra Front">al-Nusra</a> and <a href="/wiki/Al-Qaeda" title="Al-Qaeda">al-Qaida</a>, financed from <a href="/wiki/Qatar" title="Qatar">Qatar</a> and <a href="/wiki/Saudi_Arabia" title="Saudi Arabia">Saudi Arabia</a>, who are introducing <a href="/wiki/Sharia" title="Sharia">Sharia courts</a> and fighting Syria's religious diversity".<sup id="cite_ref-:1_80-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2013, Laschet also criticised Westerwelle's demand to release former President <a href="/wiki/Mohamed_Morsi" title="Mohamed Morsi">Mohammed Mursi</a> after the <a href="/wiki/2013_Egyptian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="2013 Egyptian coup d'état">coup in Egypt in 2013</a>, as minorities and Christians in particular had suffered under Mursi.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_80-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Laschet described the chaotic <a href="/wiki/Withdrawal_of_United_States_troops_from_Afghanistan_(2020%E2%80%932021)" class="mw-redirect" title="Withdrawal of United States troops from Afghanistan (2020–2021)">withdrawal of Western troops</a> from <a href="/wiki/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a> and <a href="/wiki/Fall_of_Kabul_(2021)" title="Fall of Kabul (2021)">Fall of Kabul</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Taliban" title="Taliban">Taliban</a> in August 2021 as the "biggest debacle that NATO has suffered since its founding".<sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In November 2023, Laschet criticized the German federal government for not voting against <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_General_Assembly_Resolution_ES-10/21" title="United Nations General Assembly Resolution ES-10/21">United Nations General Assembly Resolution ES-10/21</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In December 2023, Laschet criticized the invocation of article 99 of the UN Charta due to the <a href="/wiki/2023_Gaza_humanitarian_crisis" class="mw-redirect" title="2023 Gaza humanitarian crisis">2023 Gaza humanitarian crisis</a> by Secretary-General of the United Nations <a href="/wiki/Ant%C3%B3nio_Guterres" title="António Guterres">António Guterres</a>, as this would apply double standards and has the potential to discredit the UN: "Dieser Artikel wurde nicht gezogen, als 500.000 Menschen in Syrien ums Leben kamen, nicht als Russland die Ukraine angriff oder bei Hunderttausenden zivilen Opfern im Jemenkrieg."<sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Armin_Laschet&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Laschet is married to his childhood sweetheart <a href="/wiki/Susanne_Laschet" title="Susanne Laschet">Susanne Malangré</a>, whom he met as a child in a Catholic children's choir led by Susanne's father, prominent business executive <a href="/wiki/Heinrich_Malangr%C3%A9" title="Heinrich Malangré">Heinrich Malangré</a>; they married in 1985.<sup id="cite_ref-:3_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The couple has two sons and a daughter.<sup id="cite_ref-politico_11-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-politico-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The family resides in Aachen's <a href="/wiki/Burtscheid" title="Burtscheid">Burtscheid</a> district. His wife belongs to a prominent Aachen family of French-speaking <a href="/wiki/Wallonia" title="Wallonia">Walloon</a> origin and is the niece of CDU politician and lord mayor of Aachen <a href="/wiki/Kurt_Malangr%C3%A9" title="Kurt Malangré">Kurt Malangré</a>; the Malangré family moved from <a href="/wiki/La_Louvi%C3%A8re" title="La Louvière">Haine-Saint-Pierre</a> in Belgium to <a href="/wiki/Stolberg_(Rhineland)" title="Stolberg (Rhineland)">Stolberg</a> to establish a <a href="/wiki/Glass_production" title="Glass production">glass production</a> business in the second half of the 19th century.<sup id="cite_ref-:4_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His son Johannes ("Joe") Laschet, who studies law, is a blogger and model, described as a fashion <a href="/wiki/Influencer" class="mw-redirect" title="Influencer">influencer</a> on Instagram.<sup id="cite_ref-:5_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:5-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:6_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:6-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He is a <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Roman Catholic</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Other_activities">Other activities</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Armin_Laschet&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Other activities"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Corporate_boards">Corporate boards</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Armin_Laschet&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Corporate boards"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>RAG-Stiftung, Member of the Board of Trustees (since 2017),<sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Chair of the Board of Trustees (since 2022)<sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Non-profit_organizations">Non-profit organizations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Armin_Laschet&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Non-profit organizations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Heinz-Kühn-Stiftung, Member of the Board of Trustees (since 2023)<sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Tarabya Cultural Academy, Member of the advisory board (since 2022)<sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Leo Baeck Foundation, Member of the Board of Trustees (since 2022)<sup id="cite_ref-90" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Atlantik-Br%C3%BCcke" title="Atlantik-Brücke">Atlantik-Brücke</a>, Member</li> <li>Bonner Akademie für Forschung und Lehre praktischer Politik (BAPP), Member of the Board of Trustees,<sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Joint President of the Board of Trustees<sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Campus Symposium of the <a href="/wiki/Business_and_Information_Technology_School" class="mw-redirect" title="Business and Information Technology School">Business and Information Technology School</a>, Member of the Advisory Board</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Committee_of_German_Catholics" title="Central Committee of German Catholics">Central Committee of German Catholics</a>, Member</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charlemagne_Prize" title="Charlemagne Prize">Charlemagne Prize</a>, Member of the board of directors</li> <li><a href="/wiki/European_Academy_of_Sciences_and_Arts" title="European Academy of Sciences and Arts">European Academy of Sciences and Arts</a>, Member</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aachen_Cathedral" title="Aachen Cathedral">European Foundation for the Aachen Cathedral</a>, Member of the Board of Trustees</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Institute_for_the_Study_of_Labor" class="mw-redirect" title="Institute for the Study of Labor">Institute for the Study of Labor</a> (IZA), Policy Fellow</li> <li>Karl Arnold Foundation, Member of the Board</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Konrad_Adenauer_Foundation" title="Konrad Adenauer Foundation">Konrad Adenauer Foundation</a>, Member of the Planning Committee</li> <li>Peace of Westphalia Prize, Member of the Jury<sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pontifical_Mission_Societies" title="Pontifical Mission Societies">missio</a>, Member of the Supervisory Board</li> <li>St. Maria zur Wiese, Member of the Board of Trustees<sup id="cite_ref-94" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>United Nations Association of Germany (DGVN), Member of the Presidium<sup id="cite_ref-95" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Development and Peace Foundation (SEF), Ex-Officio chairman of the board of Trustees (2017–2021)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kunststiftung_NRW" title="Kunststiftung NRW">Kunststiftung NRW</a>, chairman of the board of Trustees (2017–2021)<sup id="cite_ref-96" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-96"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>North Rhine-Westphalian Foundation for the Environment and Development (SUE), Ex-Officio chairman of the board (2017–2021)<sup id="cite_ref-97" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-97"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theodor_Heuss" title="Theodor Heuss">Theodor Heuss</a> Foundation, Member of the Board of Trustees (−2015)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Armin_Laschet&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output 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The duchy was multilingual, with Dutch, French, and German dialects spoken. The area was annexed by France at the end of the 18th century, then awarded to <a href="/wiki/Prussia" title="Prussia">Prussia</a> by the <a href="/wiki/Congress_of_Vienna" title="Congress of Vienna">Congress of Vienna</a>, and became part of Belgium after <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a>. 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href="/wiki/1949_West_German_federal_election" title="1949 West German federal election">1949</a></b>, <b><a href="/wiki/1953_West_German_federal_election" title="1953 West German federal election">1953</a></b>, <b><a href="/wiki/1957_West_German_federal_election" title="1957 West German federal election">1957</a></b>, <b><a href="/wiki/1957_West_German_federal_election" title="1957 West German federal election">1961</a></b>)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ludwig_Erhard" title="Ludwig Erhard">Ludwig Erhard</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(<b><a href="/wiki/1965_West_German_federal_election" title="1965 West German federal election">1965</a></b>)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kurt_Georg_Kiesinger" title="Kurt Georg Kiesinger">Kurt Georg Kiesinger</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(<a href="/wiki/1969_West_German_federal_election" title="1969 West German federal election">1969</a>)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rainer_Barzel" title="Rainer Barzel">Rainer Barzel</a> <span 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style="font-size:85%;">(<a href="/wiki/1980_West_German_federal_election" title="1980 West German federal election">1980</a>)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edmund_Stoiber" title="Edmund Stoiber">Edmund Stoiber</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(<a href="/wiki/2002_German_federal_election" title="2002 German federal election">2002</a>)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Angela_Merkel" title="Angela Merkel">Angela Merkel</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(<b><a href="/wiki/2005_German_federal_election" title="2005 German federal election">2005</a></b>, <b><a href="/wiki/2009_German_federal_election" title="2009 German federal election">2009</a></b>, <b><a href="/wiki/2013_German_federal_election" title="2013 German federal election">2013</a></b>, <b><a href="/wiki/2017_German_federal_election" title="2017 German federal election">2017</a></b>)</span></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Armin Laschet</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(<a href="/wiki/2021_German_federal_election" title="2021 German federal election">2021</a>)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">For <a href="/wiki/SPD" class="mw-redirect" title="SPD">SPD</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kurt_Schumacher" title="Kurt Schumacher">Kurt Schumacher</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(<a href="/wiki/1949_West_German_federal_election" title="1949 West German federal election">1949</a>)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erich_Ollenhauer" title="Erich Ollenhauer">Erich Ollenhauer </a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(<a href="/wiki/1953_West_German_federal_election" title="1953 West German federal election">1953</a>, <a href="/wiki/1957_West_German_federal_election" title="1957 West German federal election">1957</a>)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Willy_Brandt" title="Willy Brandt">Willy Brandt</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(<a href="/wiki/1961_West_German_federal_election" title="1961 West German federal election">1961</a>, <a href="/wiki/1965_West_German_federal_election" title="1965 West German federal election">1965</a>, <b><a href="/wiki/1969_West_German_federal_election" title="1969 West German federal election">1969</a></b>, <b><a href="/wiki/1972_West_German_federal_election" title="1972 West German federal election">1972</a></b>)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Helmut_Schmidt" title="Helmut Schmidt">Helmut Schmidt</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(<b><a href="/wiki/1976_West_German_federal_election" title="1976 West German federal election">1976</a></b>, <b><a href="/wiki/1976_West_German_federal_election" title="1976 West German federal election">1980</a></b>)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hans-Jochen_Vogel" title="Hans-Jochen Vogel">Hans-Jochen Vogel</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(<a href="/wiki/1983_West_German_federal_election" title="1983 West German federal election">1983</a>)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johannes_Rau" title="Johannes Rau">Johannes Rau</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(<a href="/wiki/1987_West_German_federal_election" title="1987 West German federal election">1987</a>)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oskar_Lafontaine" title="Oskar Lafontaine">Oskar Lafontaine</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(<a href="/wiki/1990_German_federal_election" title="1990 German federal election">1990</a>)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rudolf_Scharping" title="Rudolf Scharping">Rudolf Scharping</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(<a href="/wiki/1994_German_federal_election" title="1994 German federal election">1994</a>)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gerhard_Schr%C3%B6der" title="Gerhard Schröder">Gerhard Schröder</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(<b><a href="/wiki/1998_German_federal_election" title="1998 German federal election">1998</a></b>, <b><a href="/wiki/2002_German_federal_election" title="2002 German federal election">2002</a></b>, <a href="/wiki/2005_German_federal_election" title="2005 German federal election">2005</a>)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank-Walter_Steinmeier" title="Frank-Walter Steinmeier">Frank-Walter Steinmeier</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(<a href="/wiki/2009_German_federal_election" title="2009 German federal election">2009</a>)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peer_Steinbr%C3%BCck" title="Peer Steinbrück">Peer Steinbrück</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(<a href="/wiki/2013_German_federal_election" title="2013 German federal election">2013</a>)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martin_Schulz" title="Martin Schulz">Martin Schulz</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(<a href="/wiki/2017_German_federal_election" title="2017 German federal election">2017</a>)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Olaf_Scholz" title="Olaf Scholz">Olaf Scholz</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(<b><a href="/wiki/2021_German_federal_election" title="2021 German federal election">2021</a></b>)</span></li></ul> 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title="2021 German federal election">2021</a>)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div> <ul><li><span style="font-size:85%;"><i>Note: The candidate became chancellor in the marked election years.</i></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Christian_Democratic_Union" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="background:#151518;color:white;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" 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Union</span></a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#151518;color:white;;width:1%;text-align: left">President of Germany</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Heinrich_L%C3%BCbke" title="Heinrich Lübke">Heinrich Lübke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Carstens" title="Karl Carstens">Karl Carstens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_von_Weizs%C3%A4cker" title="Richard von Weizsäcker">Richard von Weizsäcker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_Herzog" title="Roman Herzog">Roman Herzog</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horst_K%C3%B6hler" title="Horst Köhler">Horst Köhler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christian_Wulff" title="Christian Wulff">Christian Wulff</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#151518;color:white;;width:1%;text-align: left">Chancellor of Germany</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Konrad_Adenauer" title="Konrad Adenauer">Konrad Adenauer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ludwig_Erhard" title="Ludwig Erhard">Ludwig Erhard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kurt_Georg_Kiesinger" title="Kurt Georg Kiesinger">Kurt Georg Kiesinger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Helmut_Kohl" title="Helmut Kohl">Helmut Kohl</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Angela_Merkel" title="Angela Merkel">Angela Merkel</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#151518;color:white;;width:1%;text-align: left">Federal chairmen</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Konrad_Adenauer" title="Konrad Adenauer">Konrad Adenauer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ludwig_Erhard" title="Ludwig Erhard">Ludwig Erhard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kurt_Georg_Kiesinger" title="Kurt Georg Kiesinger">Kurt Georg Kiesinger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rainer_Barzel" title="Rainer Barzel">Rainer Barzel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Helmut_Kohl" title="Helmut Kohl">Helmut Kohl</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wolfgang_Sch%C3%A4uble" title="Wolfgang Schäuble">Wolfgang Schäuble</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Angela_Merkel" title="Angela Merkel">Angela Merkel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Annegret_Kramp-Karrenbauer" title="Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer">Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Armin Laschet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Merz" title="Friedrich Merz">Friedrich Merz</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#151518;color:white;;width:1%;text-align: left">Leaders in the <br /> Bundestag</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Konrad_Adenauer" title="Konrad Adenauer">Konrad Adenauer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heinrich_von_Brentano" title="Heinrich von Brentano">Heinrich von Brentano di Tremezzo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heinrich_Krone" title="Heinrich Krone">Heinrich Krone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heinrich_von_Brentano" title="Heinrich von Brentano">Heinrich von Brentano di Tremezzo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rainer_Barzel" title="Rainer Barzel">Rainer Barzel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Carstens" title="Karl Carstens">Karl Carstens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Helmut_Kohl" title="Helmut Kohl">Helmut Kohl</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alfred_Dregger" title="Alfred Dregger">Alfred Dregger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wolfgang_Sch%C3%A4uble" title="Wolfgang Schäuble">Wolfgang Schäuble</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Merz" title="Friedrich Merz">Friedrich Merz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Angela_Merkel" title="Angela Merkel">Angela Merkel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Volker_Kauder" title="Volker Kauder">Volker Kauder</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Brinkhaus" title="Ralph Brinkhaus">Ralph Brinkhaus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Merz" title="Friedrich Merz">Friedrich Merz</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#151518;color:white;;width:1%;text-align: left">General Secretaries</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bruno_Heck" title="Bruno Heck">Bruno Heck</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Konrad_Kraske&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Konrad Kraske (page does not exist)">Konrad Kraske</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kurt_Biedenkopf" title="Kurt Biedenkopf">Kurt Biedenkopf</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heiner_Gei%C3%9Fler" title="Heiner Geißler">Heiner Geißler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Volker_R%C3%BChe" title="Volker Rühe">Volker Rühe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Hintze" title="Peter Hintze">Peter Hintze</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Angela_Merkel" title="Angela Merkel">Angela Merkel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ruprecht_Polenz" title="Ruprecht Polenz">Ruprecht Polenz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Laurenz_Meyer" title="Laurenz Meyer">Laurenz Meyer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Volker_Kauder" title="Volker Kauder">Volker Kauder</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ronald_Pofalla" title="Ronald Pofalla">Ronald Pofalla</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hermann_Gr%C3%B6he" title="Hermann Gröhe">Hermann Gröhe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Tauber" title="Peter Tauber">Peter Tauber</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Annegret_Kramp-Karrenbauer" title="Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer">Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Ziemiak" title="Paul Ziemiak">Paul Ziemiak</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mario_Czaja" title="Mario Czaja">Mario Czaja</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#151518;color:white;;width:1%;text-align: left">Governments</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Adenauer (<a href="/wiki/First_Adenauer_cabinet" title="First Adenauer cabinet">I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Adenauer_cabinet" title="Second Adenauer cabinet">II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Third_Adenauer_cabinet" title="Third Adenauer cabinet">III</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fourth_Adenauer_cabinet" title="Fourth Adenauer cabinet">IV</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fifth_Adenauer_cabinet" class="mw-redirect" title="Fifth Adenauer cabinet">V</a>)</li> <li>Erhard (<a href="/wiki/First_Erhard_cabinet" title="First Erhard cabinet">I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Erhard_cabinet" title="Second Erhard cabinet">II</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kiesinger_cabinet" title="Kiesinger cabinet">Kiesinger</a></li> <li>Kohl (<a href="/wiki/First_Kohl_cabinet" title="First Kohl cabinet">I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Kohl_cabinet" title="Second Kohl cabinet">II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Third_Kohl_cabinet" title="Third Kohl cabinet">III</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fourth_Kohl_cabinet" title="Fourth Kohl cabinet">IV</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fifth_Kohl_cabinet" title="Fifth Kohl cabinet">V</a>)</li> <li>Merkel (<a href="/wiki/First_Merkel_cabinet" title="First Merkel cabinet">I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Merkel_cabinet" title="Second Merkel cabinet">II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Third_Merkel_cabinet" title="Third Merkel cabinet">III</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fourth_Merkel_cabinet" title="Fourth Merkel cabinet">IV</a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#151518;color:white;;width:1%;text-align: left">Affiliated organisations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Konrad_Adenauer_Foundation" title="Konrad Adenauer Foundation">Konrad Adenauer Foundation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Young_Union" title="Young Union">Young Union</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Association_of_Christian_Democratic_Students" title="Association of Christian Democratic Students">Association of Christian Democratic Students</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christian_Democratic_Employees%27_Association" title="Christian Democratic Employees' Association">Christian Democratic Employees' Association</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Evangelical_Working_Group_of_the_CDU/CSU" title="Evangelical Working Group of the CDU/CSU">Evangelical Working Group of the CDU/CSU</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Economic_Council_Germany" title="Economic Council Germany">Economic Council Germany</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Centrist_Democrat_International" title="Centrist Democrat International">Centrist Democrat International</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/International_Democrat_Union" class="mw-redirect" title="International Democrat Union">International Democrat Union</a></li> <li><a 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13th Bundestag (1994–1998)</a></div></th></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2" style="background:#FFF; box-shadow: inset 1px 1px 0 #f4d552, inset -1px -1px 0 #f4d552;"><div><b><a href="/wiki/President_of_the_Bundestag" title="President of the Bundestag">President</a>: <a href="/wiki/Rita_S%C3%BCssmuth" title="Rita Süssmuth">Rita Süssmuth</a> (<a href="/wiki/Christian_Democratic_Union_of_Germany" title="Christian Democratic Union of Germany">CDU</a>)</b></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#FFF; box-shadow: inset 1px 1px 0 #f4d552, inset -1px -1px 0 #f4d552;;width:1%">CDU/CSU</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a 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title="Josef Hollerith (page does not exist)">Hollerith</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Helmut_Jawurek&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Helmut Jawurek (page does not exist)">Jawurek</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dionys_Jobst&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dionys Jobst (page does not exist)">Jobst</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bartholom%C3%A4us_Kalb" title="Bartholomäus Kalb">Kalb</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Keller_(politician)" title="Peter Keller (politician)">Keller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hans_Klein_(politician)" title="Hans Klein (politician)">Klein</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hartmut_Koschyk" title="Hartmut Koschyk">Koschyk</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rudolf_Kraus_(politician)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rudolf Kraus (politician) (page does not exist)">Kraus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eduard_Lintner" title="Eduard Lintner">Lintner</a></li> <li><a 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href="/wiki/Erich_Riedl" title="Erich Riedl">Riedl</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Klaus_Rose&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Klaus Rose (page does not exist)">Rose</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kurt_Rossmanith&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kurt Rossmanith (page does not exist)">Rossmanith</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Christian_Ruck&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Christian Ruck (page does not exist)">Ruck</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gerhard_Scheu&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gerhard Scheu (page does not exist)">Scheu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christian_Schmidt_(politician)" title="Christian Schmidt (politician)">Schmidt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horst_Seehofer" title="Horst Seehofer">Seehofer</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marion_Seib&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Marion Seib (page does not exist)">Seib</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johannes_Singhammer" title="Johannes Singhammer">Singhammer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carl-Dieter_Spranger" title="Carl-Dieter Spranger">Spranger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Max_Straubinger" title="Max Straubinger">Straubinger</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Matth%C3%A4us_Strebl&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Matthäus Strebl (page does not exist)">Strebl</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theo_Waigel" title="Theo Waigel">Waigel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Warnke" title="Jürgen Warnke">Warnke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fritz_Wittmann" title="Fritz Wittmann">Wittmann</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Simon_Wittmann&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Simon Wittmann (page does not exist)">Wittmann</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dagmar_W%C3%B6hrl" title="Dagmar Wöhrl">Wöhrl</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wolfgang_Zeitlmann&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wolfgang Zeitlmann (page does not exist)">Zeitlmann</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Benno_Zierer&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Benno Zierer (page does not exist)">Zierer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wolfgang_Z%C3%B6ller" title="Wolfgang Zöller">Zöller</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#FFF; box-shadow: inset 1px 1px 0 #f4d552, inset -1px -1px 0 #f4d552;;width:1%">SPD</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:13th_Bundestag_SPD" title="Template:13th Bundestag SPD"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:13th_Bundestag_SPD" title="Template talk:13th 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href="/w/index.php?title=Hermann_Bachmaier&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hermann Bachmaier (page does not exist)">Bachmaier</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ernst_Bahr" title="Ernst Bahr">Bahr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Doris_Barnett" title="Doris Barnett">Barnett</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Klaus_Barthel" title="Klaus Barthel">Barthel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gerd_Bauer" title="Gerd Bauer">Bauer</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ingrid_Becker-Inglau&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ingrid Becker-Inglau (page does not exist)">Becker-Inglau</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wolfgang_Behrendt_(politician)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wolfgang Behrendt (politician) (page does not exist)">Behrendt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hans_Berger_(politician)" title="Hans Berger (politician)">Berger</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hans_Gottfried_Bernrath&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hans Gottfried Bernrath (page does not exist)">Bernrath</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hans-Werner_Bertl&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hans-Werner Bertl (page does not exist)">Bertl</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Friedhelm_Julius_Beucher&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Friedhelm Julius Beucher (page does not exist)">Beucher</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rudolf_Bindig" title="Rudolf Bindig">Bindig</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lieselott_Blunck&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lieselott Blunck (page does not exist)">Blunck</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ulrich_B%C3%B6hme&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ulrich Böhme (page does not exist)">Böhme</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Arne_B%C3%B6rnsen&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Arne Börnsen (page does not exist)">Börnsen</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anni_Brandt-Elsweier&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Anni Brandt-Elsweier (page does not exist)">Brandt-Elsweier</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tilo_Braune&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tilo Braune (page does not exist)">Braune</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eberhard_Brecht" title="Eberhard Brecht">Brecht</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edelgard_Bulmahn" title="Edelgard Bulmahn">Bulmahn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ulla_Burchardt" title="Ulla Burchardt">Burchardt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_B%C3%BCrsch" title="Michael Bürsch">Bürsch</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hans_Martin_Bury&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hans Martin Bury (page does not exist)">Bury</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hans_B%C3%BCttner&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hans Büttner (page does not exist)">Büttner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marion_Caspers-Merk" title="Marion Caspers-Merk">Caspers-Merk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wolf-Michael_Catenhusen" title="Wolf-Michael Catenhusen">Catenhusen</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Peter_Conradi_(politician)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Peter Conradi (politician) (page does not exist)">Conradi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herta_D%C3%A4ubler-Gmelin" title="Herta Däubler-Gmelin">Däubler-Gmelin</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Christel_Deichmann&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Christel Deichmann (page does not exist)">Deichmann</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Diller" title="Karl Diller">Diller</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marliese_Dobberthien&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Marliese Dobberthien (page does not exist)">Dobberthien</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Peter_Dre%C3%9Fen&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Peter Dreßen (page does not exist)">Dreßen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rudolf_Dre%C3%9Fler" title="Rudolf Dreßler">Dreßler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Freimut_Duve" title="Freimut Duve">Duve</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ludwig_Eich&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ludwig Eich (page does not exist)">Eich</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Peter_Enders&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Peter Enders (page does not exist)">Enders</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gernot_Erler" title="Gernot Erler">Erler</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Petra_Ernstberger&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Petra Ernstberger (page does not exist)">Ernstberger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Annette_Fa%C3%9Fe" title="Annette Faße">Faße</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Elke_Ferner&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Elke Ferner (page does not exist)">Ferner</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lothar_Fischer_(politician)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lothar Fischer (politician) (page does not exist)">Fischer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gabriele_Fograscher" title="Gabriele Fograscher">Fograscher</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Iris_Follak&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Iris Follak (page does not exist)">Follak</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Eva_Folta&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Eva Folta (page does not exist)">Folta</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Norbert_Formanski&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Norbert Formanski (page does not exist)">Formanski</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dagmar_Freitag" title="Dagmar Freitag">Freitag</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anke_Fuchs" title="Anke Fuchs">Fuchs</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Katrin_Fuchs&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Katrin Fuchs (page does not exist)">Fuchs</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Arne_Fuhrmann&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Arne Fuhrmann (page does not exist)">Fuhrmann</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Monika_Ganseforth&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Monika Ganseforth (page does not exist)">Ganseforth</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Norbert_Gansel&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Norbert Gansel (page does not exist)">Gansel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Konrad_Gilges" title="Konrad Gilges">Gilges</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Iris_Gleicke&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Iris Gleicke (page does not exist)">Gleicke</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=G%C3%BCnter_Gloser&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Günter Gloser (page does not exist)">Gloser</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Glotz" title="Peter Glotz">Glotz</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Uwe_G%C3%B6llner&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Uwe Göllner (page does not exist)">Göllner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Angelika_Graf" title="Angelika Graf">Graf</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=G%C3%BCnter_Graf&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Günter Graf (page does not exist)">Graf</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dieter_Grasedieck&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dieter Grasedieck (page does not exist)">Grasedieck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Achim_Gro%C3%9Fmann" title="Achim Großmann">Großmann</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Karl_Hermann_Haack&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Karl Hermann Haack (page does not exist)">Haack</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hans-Joachim_Hacker&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hans-Joachim Hacker (page does not exist)">Hacker</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Klaus_Hagemann&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Klaus Hagemann (page does not exist)">Hagemann</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Manfred_Hampel&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Manfred Hampel (page does not exist)">Hampel</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Christel_Hanewinckel&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Christel Hanewinckel (page does not exist)">Hanewinckel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alfred_Hartenbach" title="Alfred Hartenbach">Hartenbach</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Liesel_Hartenstein&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Liesel Hartenstein (page does not exist)">Hartenstein</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Klaus_Hasenfratz&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Klaus Hasenfratz (page does not exist)">Hasenfratz</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ingomar_Hauchler&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ingomar Hauchler (page does not exist)">Hauchler</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jens_Heinzig&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jens Heinzig (page does not exist)">Heinzig</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dieter_Heistermann&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dieter Heistermann (page does not exist)">Heistermann</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Reinhold_Hemker&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Reinhold Hemker (page does not exist)">Hemker</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rolf_Hempelmann&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rolf Hempelmann (page does not exist)">Hempelmann</a></li> <li><a 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Tröscher">Tröscher</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hans-Eberhard_Urbaniak&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hans-Eberhard Urbaniak (page does not exist)">Urbaniak</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Siegfried_Vergin&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Siegfried Vergin (page does not exist)">Vergin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/G%C3%BCnter_Verheugen" title="Günter Verheugen">Verheugen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ute_Vogt" title="Ute Vogt">Vogt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karsten_Voigt" title="Karsten Voigt">Voigt</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Josef_Vosen&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Josef Vosen (page does not exist)">Vosen</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hans-Georg_Wagner&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hans-Georg Wagner (page does not exist)">Wagner</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hans_Wallow&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hans Wallow (page does not exist)">Wallow</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Konstanze_Wegner&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Konstanze Wegner (page does not exist)">Wegner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wolfgang_Weiermann" title="Wolfgang Weiermann">Weiermann</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Reinhard_Weis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Reinhard Weis (page does not exist)">Weis</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Matthias_Weisheit&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Matthias Weisheit (page does not exist)">Weisheit</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gunter_Wei%C3%9Fgerber&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gunter Weißgerber (page does not exist)">Weißgerber</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gert_Weisskirchen" title="Gert Weisskirchen">Weisskirchen</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jochen_Welt&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jochen Welt (page does not exist)">Welt</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hildegard_Wester&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hildegard Wester (page does not exist)">Wester</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lydia_Westrich&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lydia Westrich (page does not exist)">Westrich</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Inge_Wettig-Danielmeier&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Inge Wettig-Danielmeier (page does not exist)">Wettig-Danielmeier</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Helmut_Wieczorek&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Helmut Wieczorek (page does not exist)">Wieczorek</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Norbert_Wieczorek&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Norbert Wieczorek (page does not exist)">Wieczorek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heidemarie_Wieczorek-Zeul" title="Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul">Wieczorek-Zeul</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dieter_Wiefelsp%C3%BCtz" title="Dieter Wiefelspütz">Wiefelspütz</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Berthold_Wittich&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Berthold Wittich (page does not exist)">Wittich</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wolfgang_Wodarg" title="Wolfgang Wodarg">Wodarg</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Verena_Wohlleben&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Verena Wohlleben (page does not exist)">Wohlleben</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hanna_Wolf_(politician)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hanna Wolf (politician) (page does not exist)">Wolf</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Heidemarie_Wright&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Heidemarie Wright (page does not exist)">Wright</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uta_Zapf" title="Uta Zapf">Zapf</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christoph_Z%C3%B6pel" title="Christoph Zöpel">Zöpel</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Peter_Zumkley&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Peter Zumkley (page does not exist)">Zumkley</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#FFF; box-shadow: inset 1px 1px 0 #f4d552, inset -1px -1px 0 #f4d552;;width:1%">GRÜNE</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:13th_Bundestag_GRUENE" title="Template:13th Bundestag GRUENE"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:13th_Bundestag_GRUENE" title="Template talk:13th Bundestag GRUENE"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:13th_Bundestag_GRUENE" title="Special:EditPage/Template:13th Bundestag GRUENE"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="GRUENE" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">GRUENE</div></th></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div><b>Speaker:</b> <a href="/wiki/Joschka_Fischer" title="Joschka Fischer">Joschka Fischer</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kerstin_M%C3%BCller" title="Kerstin Müller">Kerstin Müller</a></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><b>Members:</b></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Elisabeth_Altmann&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Elisabeth Altmann (page does not exist)">Altmann</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gila_Altmann&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gila Altmann (page does not exist)">Altmann</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marieluise_Beck" title="Marieluise Beck">Beck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Volker_Beck_(politician)" title="Volker Beck (politician)">Beck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Angelika_Beer" title="Angelika Beer">Beer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Matthias_Berninger" title="Matthias Berninger">Berninger</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Annelie_Buntenbach&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Annelie Buntenbach (page does not exist)">Buntenbach</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Amke_Dietert-Scheuer&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Amke Dietert-Scheuer (page does not exist)">Dietert-Scheuer</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Franziska_Eichst%C3%A4dt-Bohlig&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Franziska Eichstädt-Bohlig (page does not exist)">Eichstädt-Bohlig</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Uschi_Eid&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Uschi Eid (page does not exist)">Eid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrea_Fischer" title="Andrea Fischer">Fischer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joschka_Fischer" title="Joschka Fischer">Fischer</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rita_Grie%C3%9Fhaber&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rita Grießhaber (page does not exist)">Grießhaber</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gerald_H%C3%A4fner" title="Gerald Häfner">Häfner</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Antje_Hermenau&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Antje Hermenau (page does not exist)">Hermenau</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kristin_Heyne&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kristin Heyne (page does not exist)">Heyne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ulrike_H%C3%B6fken" title="Ulrike Höfken">Höfken</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Michaele_Hustedt&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Michaele Hustedt (page does not exist)">Hustedt</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Manuel_Kiper&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Manuel Kiper (page does not exist)">Kiper</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Monika_Knoche&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Monika Knoche (page does not exist)">Knoche</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Angelika_K%C3%B6ster-Lo%C3%9Fack&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Angelika Köster-Loßack (page does not exist)">Köster-Loßack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steffi_Lemke" title="Steffi Lemke">Lemke</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Helmut_Lippelt&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Helmut Lippelt (page does not exist)">Lippelt</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Oswald_Metzger&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Oswald Metzger (page does not exist)">Metzger</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kerstin_M%C3%BCller_(politician)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kerstin Müller (politician) (page does not exist)">Müller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Winfried_Nachtwei" title="Winfried Nachtwei">Nachtwei</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christa_Nickels" title="Christa Nickels">Nickels</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Egbert_Nitsch&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Egbert Nitsch (page does not exist)">Nitsch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cem_%C3%96zdemir" title="Cem Özdemir">Özdemir</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gerd_Poppe&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gerd Poppe (page does not exist)">Poppe</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Simone_Probst&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Simone Probst (page does not exist)">Probst</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=J%C3%BCrgen_Rochlitz&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jürgen Rochlitz (page does not exist)">Rochlitz</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Halo_Saibold&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Halo Saibold (page does not exist)">Saibold</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Christine_Scheel&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Christine Scheel (page does not exist)">Scheel</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Irmingard_Schewe-Gerigk&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Irmingard Schewe-Gerigk (page does not exist)">Schewe-Gerigk</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rezzo_Schlauch&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rezzo Schlauch (page does not exist)">Schlauch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Albert_Schmidt_(politician)" title="Albert Schmidt (politician)">Schmidt</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wolfgang_Schmitt_(politician)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wolfgang Schmitt (politician) (page does not exist)">Schmitt</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ursula_Sch%C3%B6nberger&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ursula Schönberger (page does not exist)">Schönberger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Waltraud_Schoppe" title="Waltraud Schoppe">Schoppe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Werner_Schulz" title="Werner Schulz">Schulz</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rainder_Steenblock&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rainder Steenblock (page does not exist)">Steenblock</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marina_Steindor&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Marina Steindor (page does not exist)">Steindor</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Christian_Sterzing&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Christian Sterzing (page does not exist)">Sterzing</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Manfred_Such&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Manfred Such (page does not exist)">Such</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antje_Vollmer" title="Antje Vollmer">Vollmer</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ludger_Volmer&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ludger Volmer (page does not exist)">Volmer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Helmut_Wilhelm" title="Helmut Wilhelm">Wilhelm</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Margareta_Wolf&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Margareta Wolf (page does not exist)">Wolf</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#FFF; box-shadow: inset 1px 1px 0 #f4d552, inset -1px -1px 0 #f4d552;;width:1%">FDP</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:13th_Bundestag_FDP" title="Template:13th Bundestag FDP"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:13th_Bundestag_FDP" title="Template talk:13th Bundestag FDP"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:13th_Bundestag_FDP" title="Special:EditPage/Template:13th Bundestag FDP"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="FDP" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">FDP</div></th></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div><b>Speaker:</b> <a href="/wiki/Hermann_Otto_Solms" title="Hermann Otto Solms">Hermann Otto Solms</a></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><b>Members:</b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ina_Albowitz" title="Ina Albowitz">Albowitz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gisela_Babel" title="Gisela Babel">Babel</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hildebrecht_Braun&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hildebrecht Braun (page does not exist)">Braun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/G%C3%BCnther_Bredehorn" title="Günther Bredehorn">Bredehorn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J%C3%B6rg_van_Essen" title="Jörg van Essen">Essen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Olaf_Feldmann" title="Olaf Feldmann">Feldmann</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gisela_Frick&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gisela Frick (page does not exist)">Frick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Friedhoff" title="Paul Friedhoff">Friedhoff</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horst_Friedrich" title="Horst Friedrich">Friedrich</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rainer_Funke" title="Rainer Funke">Funke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hans-Dietrich_Genscher" title="Hans-Dietrich Genscher">Genscher</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wolfgang_Gerhardt" title="Wolfgang Gerhardt">Gerhardt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joachim_G%C3%BCnther_(politician,_born_1948)" title="Joachim Günther (politician, born 1948)">Günther</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karlheinz_Guttmacher" title="Karlheinz Guttmacher">Guttmacher</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Helmut_Haussmann" title="Helmut Haussmann">Haussmann</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ulrich_Heinrich&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ulrich Heinrich (page does not exist)">Heinrich</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Walter_Hirche&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Walter Hirche (page does not exist)">Hirche</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burkhard_Hirsch" title="Burkhard Hirsch">Hirsch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Birgit_Homburger" title="Birgit Homburger">Homburger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Werner_Hoyer" title="Werner Hoyer">Hoyer</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ulrich_Irmer&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ulrich Irmer (page does not exist)">Irmer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Klaus_Kinkel" title="Klaus Kinkel">Kinkel</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Detlef_Kleinert&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Detlef Kleinert (page does not exist)">Kleinert</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Roland_Kohn&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Roland Kohn (page does not exist)">Kohn</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Heinrich_Leonhard_Kolb&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Heinrich Leonhard Kolb (page does not exist)">Kolb</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Koppelin" title="Jürgen Koppelin">Koppelin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl-Hans_Laermann" title="Karl-Hans Laermann">Laermann</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Otto_Graf_Lambsdorff" title="Otto Graf Lambsdorff">Lambsdorff</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heinz_Lanfermann" title="Heinz Lanfermann">Lanfermann</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sabine_Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger" title="Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger">Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Uwe_L%C3%BChr&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Uwe Lühr (page does not exist)">Lühr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_M%C3%B6llemann" title="Jürgen Möllemann">Möllemann</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=G%C3%BCnther_Friedrich_Nolting&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Günther Friedrich Nolting (page does not exist)">Nolting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rainer_Ortleb" title="Rainer Ortleb">Ortleb</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lisa_Peters_(politician)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lisa Peters (politician) (page does not exist)">Peters</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/G%C3%BCnter_Rexrodt" title="Günter Rexrodt">Rexrodt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Klaus_R%C3%B6hl" title="Klaus Röhl">Röhl</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Helmut_Sch%C3%A4fer_(politician)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Helmut Schäfer (politician) (page does not exist)">Schäfer</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cornelia_Schmalz-Jacobsen&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cornelia Schmalz-Jacobsen (page does not exist)">Schmalz-Jacobsen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edzard_Schmidt-Jortzig" title="Edzard Schmidt-Jortzig">Schmidt-Jortzig</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Irmgard_Schwaetzer" title="Irmgard Schwaetzer">Schwaetzer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hermann_Otto_Solms" title="Hermann Otto Solms">Solms</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Max_Stadler" title="Max Stadler">Stadler</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Carl-Ludwig_Thiele&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Carl-Ludwig Thiele (page does not exist)">Thiele</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dieter_Thomae&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dieter Thomae (page does not exist)">Thomae</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=J%C3%BCrgen_T%C3%BCrk&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jürgen Türk (page does not exist)">Türk</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wolfgang_Weng&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wolfgang Weng (page does not exist)">Weng</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guido_Westerwelle" title="Guido Westerwelle">Westerwelle</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#FFF; box-shadow: inset 1px 1px 0 #f4d552, inset -1px -1px 0 #f4d552;;width:1%">PDS</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:13th_Bundestag_PDS" title="Template:13th Bundestag PDS"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:13th_Bundestag_PDS" title="Template talk:13th 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exist)">Böttcher</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eva_Bulling-Schr%C3%B6ter" title="Eva Bulling-Schröter">Bulling-Schröter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heinrich_Graf_von_Einsiedel" title="Heinrich Graf von Einsiedel">Einsiedel</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ludwig_Elm&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ludwig Elm (page does not exist)">Elm</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dagmar_Enkelmann" title="Dagmar Enkelmann">Enkelmann</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ruth_Fuchs" title="Ruth Fuchs">Fuchs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gregor_Gysi" title="Gregor Gysi">Gysi</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hanns-Peter_Hartmann&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hanns-Peter Hartmann (page does not exist)">Hartmann</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Uwe-Jens_Heuer&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Uwe-Jens Heuer (page does not exist)">Heuer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stefan_Heym" title="Stefan Heym">Heym</a></li> <li><a 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typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany"><img alt="Germany" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/23px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/35px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/46px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> German members of the European Parliament (2004–2009)</span></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Christian_Democratic_Union_of_Germany" title="Christian Democratic Union of Germany">Christian Democratic Union</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rolf_Berend&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rolf Berend (page does not exist)">Rolf Berend</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reimer_B%C3%B6ge" title="Reimer Böge">Reimer Böge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elmar_Brok" title="Elmar Brok">Elmar Brok</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Caspary" title="Daniel Caspary">Daniel Caspary</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christian_Ehler" title="Christian Ehler">Christian Ehler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl-Heinz_Florenz" title="Karl-Heinz Florenz">Karl-Heinz Florenz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Gahler" title="Michael Gahler">Michael Gahler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roland_Gewalt" title="Roland Gewalt">Roland Gewalt</a> (from 27 October 2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lutz_Goepel" title="Lutz Goepel">Lutz Goepel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alfred_Gomolka" title="Alfred Gomolka">Alfred Gomolka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ingeborg_Gr%C3%A4ssle" class="mw-redirect" title="Ingeborg Grässle">Ingeborg Grässle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ruth_Hieronymi" title="Ruth Hieronymi">Ruth Hieronymi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karsten_Friedrich_Hoppenstedt" title="Karsten Friedrich Hoppenstedt">Karsten Friedrich Hoppenstedt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Georg_Jarzembowski" title="Georg Jarzembowski">Georg Jarzembowski</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elisabeth_Jeggle" title="Elisabeth Jeggle">Elisabeth Jeggle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ewa_Klamt" title="Ewa Klamt">Ewa Klamt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christa_Kla%C3%9F" title="Christa Klaß">Christa Klaß</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dieter-Lebrecht_Koch" title="Dieter-Lebrecht Koch">Dieter-Lebrecht Koch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christoph_Werner_Konrad" title="Christoph Werner Konrad">Christoph Werner Konrad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Werner_Langen" title="Werner Langen">Werner Langen</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Armin Laschet</a> (until 29 June 2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kurt_Joachim_Lauk" title="Kurt Joachim Lauk">Kurt Joachim Lauk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kurt_Lechner" title="Kurt Lechner">Kurt Lechner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Klaus-Heiner_Lehne" title="Klaus-Heiner Lehne">Klaus-Heiner Lehne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Liese" title="Peter Liese">Peter Liese</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Mann" title="Thomas Mann">Thomas Mann</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hans-Peter_Mayer" title="Hans-Peter Mayer">Hans-Peter Mayer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hartmut_Nassauer" title="Hartmut Nassauer">Hartmut Nassauer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Doris_Pack" title="Doris Pack">Doris Pack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Markus_Pieper" title="Markus Pieper">Markus Pieper</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hans-Gert_Poettering" class="mw-redirect" title="Hans-Gert Poettering">Hans-Gert Poettering</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horst_Posdorf" title="Horst Posdorf">Horst Posdorf</a> (from 24 October 2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Godelieve_Quisthoudt-Rowohl" title="Godelieve Quisthoudt-Rowohl">Godelieve Quisthoudt-Rowohl</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herbert_Reul" title="Herbert Reul">Herbert Reul</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ingo_Schmitt" title="Ingo Schmitt">Ingo Schmitt</a> (until 17 October 2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horst_Schnellhardt" title="Horst Schnellhardt">Horst Schnellhardt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Schr%C3%B6der_(politician)" title="Jürgen Schröder (politician)">Juergen Schröder</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andreas_Schwab" title="Andreas Schwab">Andreas Schwab</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Renate_Sommer" title="Renate Sommer">Renate Sommer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Ulmer" title="Thomas Ulmer">Thomas Ulmer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reiner_Wieland" class="mw-redirect" title="Reiner Wieland">Reiner Wieland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_von_Wogau" title="Karl von Wogau">Karl von Wogau</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Social_Democratic_Party_of_Germany" title="Social Democratic Party of Germany">Social Democratic Party</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group 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Kindermann</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Konstanze_Krehl" class="mw-redirect" title="Konstanze Krehl">Konstanze Krehl</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wolfgang_Kreissl-Doerfler" class="mw-redirect" title="Wolfgang Kreissl-Doerfler">Wolfgang Kreissl-Doerfler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Helmut_Kuhne" title="Helmut Kuhne">Helmut Kuhne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jo_Leinen" title="Jo Leinen">Jo Leinen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erika_Mann_(politician)" title="Erika Mann (politician)">Erika Mann</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vural_%C3%96ger" title="Vural Öger">Vural Öger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Willi_Piecyk" title="Willi Piecyk">Willi Piecyk</a> (until 31 July 2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bernhard_Rapkay" title="Bernhard Rapkay">Bernhard Rapkay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ulrike_Rodust" title="Ulrike Rodust">Ulrike Rodust</a> (from 29 August 2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dagmar_Roth-Behrendt" title="Dagmar Roth-Behrendt">Dagmar Roth-Behrendt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mechtild_Rothe" 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