List of Bundestag Members
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This is a list of members of the 16th Bundestag
Bundestag
The Bundestag is a federal legislative body in Germany. In practice Germany is governed by a bicameral legislature, of which the Bundestag serves as the lower house and the Bundesrat the upper house. The Bundestag is established by the German Basic Law of 1949, as the successor to the earlier...

– the parliament
Parliament
A parliament is a legislature, especially in those countries whose system of government is based on the Westminster system modeled after that of the United Kingdom. The name is derived from the French , the action of parler : a parlement is a discussion. The term came to mean a meeting at which...

 of Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

, whose members were in office from 18 October 2005 until 27 October 2009.

Summary

This summary includes changes in the numbers of the five caucuses (CDU
Christian Democratic Union (Germany)
The Christian Democratic Union of Germany is a Christian democratic and conservative political party in Germany. It is regarded as on the centre-right of the German political spectrum...

/CSU
Christian Social Union of Bavaria
The Christian Social Union in Bavaria is a Christian democratic and conservative political party in Germany. It operates only in the state of Bavaria, while its sister party, the Christian Democratic Union , operates in the other 15 states of Germany...

, SPD
Social Democratic Party of Germany
The Social Democratic Party of Germany is a social-democratic political party in Germany...

, FDP
Free Democratic Party (Germany)
The Free Democratic Party , abbreviated to FDP, is a centre-right classical liberal political party in Germany. It is led by Philipp Rösler and currently serves as the junior coalition partner to the Union in the German federal government...

, The Left
The Left (Germany)
The Left , also commonly referred to as the Left Party , is a democratic socialist political party in Germany. The Left is the most left-wing party of the five represented in the Bundestag....

, Greens
Alliance '90/The Greens
Alliance '90/The Greens is a green political party in Germany, formed from the merger of the German Green Party and Alliance 90 in 1993. Its leaders are Claudia Roth and Cem Özdemir...

):
Time Reason of change CDU/CSU SPD FDP Left Greens others Total number
October 18, 2005 First meeting 226 222 61 54 51 0 614
February 13, 2006 Gert Winkelmeier leaves the Left caucus and becomes unaffiliated 53 1
December 15, 2006 Henry Nitzsche leaves the CDU/CSU caucus and becomes unaffiliated 225 2
June 1, 2007 Matthias Wissmann
Matthias Wissmann
Matthias Wissmann is the president of the Verband der Automobilindustrie.Since 1999 he has been a partner with the law firm WilmerHale.-Education:...

 resigns; his seat is vacated permanently because it is an overhang seat
Overhang seat
Overhang seats can arise in elections under the traditional mixed member proportional system, when a party is entitled to fewer seats as a result of party votes than it has won constituencies.-How overhang seats arise:...

224 613
February 25, 2008 Johann-Henrich Krummacher dies; his seat is vacated permanently because it is an overhang seat
Overhang seat
Overhang seats can arise in elections under the traditional mixed member proportional system, when a party is entitled to fewer seats as a result of party votes than it has won constituencies.-How overhang seats arise:...

223 612
June 20, 2009 Jörg Tauss
Jörg Tauss
Jörg Tauss is a German politician and former member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany . He was born in Stuttgart. From 2000 to 2009, Tauss was the spokesperson of the Education and Research workgroup of the SPD in the Bundestag...

 leaves the SPD caucus and becomes unaffiliated. He joined the Pirate Party Germany.
221 3
July 14, 2009 Peter Jahr
Peter Jahr
Peter Jahr is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament. He was elected on the CDU ticket and sits with the European People's Party group.- Education and Private Life :...

 resigns; his seat is vacated permanently because it is an overhang seat
Overhang seat
Overhang seats can arise in elections under the traditional mixed member proportional system, when a party is entitled to fewer seats as a result of party votes than it has won constituencies.-How overhang seats arise:...

222 611

A

  • Jens Ackermann
    Jens Ackermann
    Jens Ackermann is a German politician and member of the FDP in the Bundestag.- External links :*...

    , FDP
  • Ulrich Adam, CDU
    Christian Democratic Union (Germany)
    The Christian Democratic Union of Germany is a Christian democratic and conservative political party in Germany. It is regarded as on the centre-right of the German political spectrum...

  • Dr. Karl Addicks
    Karl Addicks
    Karl Addicks is a German politician and member of the FDP.- External links :*...

    , FDP
  • Christian Ahrendt
    Christian Ahrendt
    Christian Ahrendt is a German politician and member of the FDP.- External links :* *...

    , FDP
  • Ilse Aigner
    Ilse Aigner
    Ilse Aigner is a German politician and member of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria .Aigner was born in Feldkirchen-Westerham, Rosenheim, Bavaria and entered Angela Merkel's grand coalition cabinet as Federal Minister of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection on 31 October 2008...

    , CSU
  • Dr. Lale Akgün
    Lale Akgün
    Dr. Lale Akgün is a German politician of Turkish origin and member of the SPD. She served as an MP for Cologne in the German Bundestag 2002 - 2009.- Life :...

    , SPD
    Social Democratic Party of Germany
    The Social Democratic Party of Germany is a social-democratic political party in Germany...

  • Peter Albach, CDU
  • Peter Altmaier, CDU
  • Gregor Amann
    Gregor Amann
    Gregor Amann is a German politician and member of the SPD.Amann was a member of the 16th Bundestag.- External links :*...

    , SPD
  • Kerstin Andreae
    Kerstin Andreae
    Kerstin Andreae is a German politician and member of Alliance '90/The Greens in the Bundestag. Since 13 March 2007 she is her party's spokeswoman on business affairs.- External links :* * *...

    , Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
  • Gerd Andres
    Gerd Andres
    Gerd Andres is a German politician and member of the SPD.- External links :*...

    , SPD
  • Niels Annen
    Niels Annen
    Niels Annen is a German politician and member of the SPD.- External links :* *...

    , SPD
  • Ingrid Arndt-Brauer
    Ingrid Arndt-Brauer
    Ingrid Arndt-Brauer is a German politician and member of the SPD in the Bundestag.- External links :* *...

    , SPD
  • Rainer Arnold
    Rainer Arnold
    Rainer Arnold is a German politician and member of the SPD.- External links :* *...

    , SPD
  • Hüseyin Kenan Aydın
    Hüseyin Kenan Aydin
    Hüseyin Kenan Aydın is a German politician of Kurdish descent and member of "Die Linke."- External links :*...

    , Die Linke.

B

  • Sabine Bätzing
    Sabine Bätzing
    Sabine Bätzing-Lichtenthäler is a German politician and member of the SPD.She has been a member of the Bundestag since 2002 and, from 2005 until 2009, the German government's commissioner on drug-related issues.- External links :*...

    , SPD
  • Daniel Bahr
    Daniel Bahr
    Daniel Bahr is a German politician and member of the FDP.He is the FDP's expert on health politics and was chairman of the party's youth organization, the Young Liberals, from 1999 to 2004....

    , FDP
  • Ernst Bahr
    Ernst Bahr
    Ernst Bahr is a German politician and member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. He was born in Chlum, Česká Lípa, Czechoslovakia at the end of the Second World War.- Life and career :...

    , SPD
  • Thomas Bareiß
    Thomas Bareiß
    Thomas Bareiß is a German politician and member of the conservative CDU. A business manager by profession, Bareiß has been a directly elected member of the Bundestag since 2005.- External links :*...

    , CDU
  • Doris Barnett
    Doris Barnett
    Doris Barnett is a German politician and member of the SPD. She also sits on the Board of Directors of the Global Panel Foundation.-External links:* *...

    , SPD
  • Dr. Hans-Peter Bartels
    Hans-Peter Bartels
    Hans-Peter Bartels is a German politician of the SPD and member of the Bundestag for Kiel.- External links :*...

    , SPD
  • Uwe Barth
    Uwe Barth
    Uwe Barth is a German politician and member of the FDP.In 1986 he joined the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany , which merged with the FDP in 1990. He was a member of the German Bundestag from 2005 to 2009, representing the state of Thuringia...

    , FDP
  • Klaus Barthel
    Klaus Barthel
    Klaus Barthel is a German politician and member of the SPD.- External links :*...

    , SPD
  • Norbert Barthle, CDU
  • Sören Bartol
    Sören Bartol
    Sören Bartol is a German politician and member of the SPD.- External links :* *...

    , SPD
  • Dr. Dietmar Bartsch
    Dietmar Bartsch
    Dietmar Gerhard Bartsch is a German politician, former Bundesgeschäftsführer of the Party of Democratic Socialism and "Die Linke." and member of the Bundestag.- External links :* * *...

    , Die Linke.
  • Dr. Wolf Bauer, CDU
  • Günter Baumann
    Günter Baumann
    Günter Helmut Baumann is a German politician and member of the CDU. An engineer by profession, Baumann has been a member of the Christian Democratic Union since 1972 until that party merged with its West German counterpart in 1990. From 1990 to 1998 he served as the mayor of Jöhstadt...

    , CDU
  • Ernst-Reinhard Beck, CDU
  • Marieluise Beck
    Marieluise Beck
    Marieluise Beck is a German politician and member of Alliance '90/The Greens in the Bundestag. She is also a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.- External links :*...

    , Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
  • Volker Beck
    Volker Beck
    Volker Beck is a German politician. He is a sitting member of parliament for the Green Party in the Bundestag. Beck served as the Green Party Speaker for Legal Affairs from 1994–2002, and as the Green Party whip in the Bundestag since then...

    , Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
  • Dirk Becker
    Dirk Becker
    Dirk Becker is a German politician and member of the SPD.- External links :*...

    , SPD
  • Uwe Beckmeyer
    Uwe Beckmeyer
    Uwe Karl Beckmeyer is a German politician and member of the SPD.He is a member October 2004 speakers of the working group traffic, building and town development of the SPD Bundestag faction. From 1987 to 1991 he was a restaurant economist and from 1991 to 1999 senator for foreign trade of Bremen...

    , SPD
  • Cornelia Behm
    Cornelia Behm
    Cornelia Behm is a German politician and member of Alliance '90/The Greens in the Bundestag.- External links :*...

    , Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
  • Veronika Maria Bellmann
    Veronika Maria Bellmann
    Veronika Maria Bellmann is a German politician and member of the CDU.- External links :*...

    , CDU
  • Birgitt Bender
    Birgitt Bender
    Birgitt "Biggi" Bender is a German politician and member of Alliance '90/The Greens in the Bundestag.Bender studied law in Cologne, Geneva and in Freiburg and finished her studies 1984....

    , Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
  • Klaus Uwe Benneter
    Klaus Uwe Benneter
    Klaus Uwe Benneter is a German politician and member of the SPD. He is widowed and has one son.- Education and early life :...

    , SPD
  • Dr. Axel Berg
    Axel Berg
    Dr. Axel Berg is a German politician and member of the SPD.Berg, MP for Munich-North, was the only directly elected member of the Bavarian SPD member in the Bundestag until his defeat at the 2009 German federal election....

    , SPD
  • Ute Berg
    Ute Berg
    Ute Berg is a German politician and member of the SPD.- External links :* *...

    , SPD
  • Dr. Christoph Bergner, CDU
  • Otto Bernhardt, CDU
  • Matthias Berninger
    Matthias Berninger
    Matthias Berninger is a German politician and former member of Alliance '90/The Greens in the Bundestag.- External links :*...

    , Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
  • Petra Bierwirth
    Petra Bierwirth
    Petra Bierwirth is a German politician and member of the SPD.-External links:*...

    , SPD
  • Karin Binder
    Karin Binder
    Karin Binder is a German politician and member of the "Die Linke."- External links :*...

    , Die Linke.
  • Lothar Binding
    Lothar Binding
    Lothar Binding is a German politician and member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany .- Early life :...

    , SPD
  • Clemens Binninger, CDU
  • Prof. Dr. Lothar Bisky
    Lothar Bisky
    Lothar Bisky is a German politician. He was the chairman of the Party of Democratic Socialism , the successor of East Germany's Socialist Unity Party . In June 2007 he became co-chairman of the The Left party, formed by a merger of the PDS and the much smaller Labour and Social Justice – The...

    , Die Linke.
  • Carl-Eduard Graf von Bismarck
    Carl-Eduard von Bismarck
    Count Carl-Eduard Otto Wolfgang Jayme Anders von Bismarck-Schönhausen is a German politician .-Background and education:...

    , CDU
  • Renate Blank
    Renate Blank
    Renate Anna Blank is a German politician and member of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria.- External links :*...

    , CSU
  • Peter Bleser, CDU
  • Heidrun Bluhm
    Heidrun Bluhm
    Heidrun Bluhm is a German politician and member of "Die Linke."- External links :* * *...

    , Die Linke.
  • Antje Blumenthal, CDU
  • Volker Blumentritt
    Volker Blumentritt
    Volker Blumentritt is a German politician and member of the SPD.From 2005 until 2009, Blumentritt was a member of the Bundestag.- External links :*...

    , SPD
  • Kurt Bodewig
    Kurt Bodewig
    Kurt Bodewig is a German politician and member of the SPD.A former Federal Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure , he is a member of the supervisory board of the Global Panel Foundation.- External links :...

    , SPD
  • Prof. Dr. Maria Böhmer
    Maria Böhmer
    Maria Böhmer is a German politician and member of the Bundestag for the CDU. She serves as Minister of State in the German Chancellery.In 1993/94 Christian Baldauf was a research associate to her....

    , CDU
  • Wolfgang Börnsen
    Wolfgang Börnsen
    Wolfgang Börnsen is a German politician and member of the CDU, which he joined in 1967. Since 1987 he has been a member of the Bundestag.-External links:*...

    , CDU
  • Clemens Bollen
    Clemens Bollen
    Clemens Bollen is a German politician and member of the SPD.-External links:*...

    , SPD
  • Gerd Bollmann
    Gerd Bollmann
    Gerd Friedrich Bollmann is a German politician and member of the SPD.- External links :* *...

    , SPD
  • Alexander Bonde
    Alexander Bonde
    Alexander Bonde is a German politician and member of Alliance '90/The Greens in the Bundestag....

    , Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
  • Jochen Borchert, CDU
  • Wolfgang Bosbach, CDU
  • Dr. Gerhard Botz
    Gerhard Botz
    Gerhard Botz is a German politician and member of the SPD.- External links :* *...

    , SPD
  • Klaus Brähmig
    Klaus Brähmig
    Klaus Peter Brähmig is a German politician and member of the CDU.- External links :* *...

    , CDU
  • Michael Brand, CDU
  • Klaus Brandner
    Klaus Brandner
    Klaus Brandner is a German politician and member of the SPD.-External links:*...

    , SPD
  • Helmut Brandt, CDU
  • Willi Brase
    Willi Brase
    Willi Brase is a German politician and member of the SPD.- External links :* *...

    , SPD
  • Dr. Ralf Brauksiepe, CDU
  • Bernhard Brinkmann
    Bernhard Brinkmann
    Bernhard Brinkmann is a German politician and member of the SPD.- External links :* *...

    , SPD
  • Rainer Brüderle
    Rainer Brüderle
    Rainer Brüderle is a German politician and member of the FDP. He served as Minister of Economics and Transport of Rhineland-Palatinate from 1987–1998. On 28 October 2009, he was appointed Federal Minister for Economics and Technology in the Cabinet Merkel II. On 12 May 2011, Brüderle left Federal...

    , FDP
  • Monika Brüning
    Monika Brüning
    Monika Brüning is a German politician and member of the CDU.- External links :* *...

    , CDU
  • Angelika Brunkhorst
    Angelika Brunkhorst
    Angelika Brunkhorst is a German politician and member of the FDP.- External links :* *...

    , FDP
  • Georg Brunnhuber, CDU
  • Marco Bülow
    Marco Bülow
    Marco Bülow is a German politician and member of the SPD.- External links :* *...

    , SPD
  • Dr. Michael Bürsch
    Michael Bürsch
    Michael Peter Karsten Bürsch is a German politician and member of the SPD. He was born in Stettin , Province of Pomerania, which is now in Poland.- External links :*...

    , SPD
  • Eva Bulling-Schröter
    Eva Bulling-Schröter
    Eva Maria Bulling-Schröter is a German politician and member of the German party "die Linke."- Party :...

    , Die Linke.
  • Edelgard Bulmahn
    Edelgard Bulmahn
    Edelgard Bulmahn is a German politician from the Social Democratic Party of Germany . Bulmahn entered the German Bundestag after the 1987 elections. She was Federal Minister of Education and Research from 1998 to 2005...

    , SPD
  • Dr. Martina Bunge
    Martina Bunge
    Martina Bunge is a German politician and member of "die Linke."- External links :*...

    , Die Linke.
  • Ulla Burchardt
    Ulla Burchardt
    Ursula "Ulla" Burchardt is a German politician and member of the SPD.- External links :*...

    , SPD
  • Ernst Burgbacher
    Ernst Burgbacher
    Ernst Burgbacher is a German politician and member of the FDP.- External links :* *...

    , FDP
  • Martin Burkert
    Martin Burkert
    Martin Burkert is a German politician and member of the SPD.- External links :* *...

    , SPD

C

  • Christian Carstensen
    Christian Carstensen
    Christian Carstensen is a German politician and member of the SPD....

    , SPD
  • Marion Caspers-Merk
    Marion Caspers-Merk
    Marion Caspers-Merk is a German politician and member of the SPD. She was a member of the Bundestag and Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Health. - External links :* * *...

    , SPD
  • Roland Claus
    Roland Claus
    Roland Claus is a German politician and member of "die Linke."- References :...

    , Die Linke.
  • Gitta Connemann
    Gitta Connemann
    Gitta Connemann is a German politician and member of the Christian Democratic Union .- External links :* *...

    , CDU

D

  • Dr. Herta Däubler-Gmelin
    Herta Däubler-Gmelin
    Herta Däubler-Gmelin is a former German Minister of Justice. Amid controversy, she resigned in 2002 after a remark about George W. Bush.-History:...

    , SPD
  • Sevim Dağdelen
    Sevim Dagdelen
    Sevim Dağdelen is a German politician of Turkish origin and a member of the Left Party .- Biography :...

    , Die Linke.
  • Dr. Peter Danckert
    Peter Danckert
    Peter Wilhelm Danckert is a German politician and member of the SPD.- External links :* *...

    , SPD
  • Leo Dautzenberg, CDU
  • Dr. Diether Dehm, Die Linke.
  • Hubert Deittert, CDU
  • Ekin Deligöz
    Ekin Deligöz
    Ekin Deligöz is a German politician of Turkish origin and a member of Alliance '90/The Greens. She currently serves as a member of the German Bundestag.- Life :...

    , Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
  • Karl Diller, SPD
  • Alexander Dobrindt
    Alexander Dobrindt
    Alexander Dobrindt is a German politician, representative of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria.He is a member of the national Bundestag.-References:...

    , CSU
  • Thomas Dörflinger, CDU
  • Patrick Döring, FDP
  • Martin Dörmann, SPD
  • Marie-Luise Dött, CDU
  • Werner Dreibus, Die Linke.
  • Dr. Carl-Christian Dressel, SPD
  • Elvira Drobinski-Weiß, SPD
  • Dr. Thea Dückert, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
  • Garrelt Duin
    Garrelt Duin
    Garrelt Duin is a German politician. He is member of the German Bundestag with the Social Democratic Party of Germany and chairman of the SPD in Lower Saxony.- Education :...

    , SPD
  • Mechthild Dyckmans, FDP
  • Detlef Dzembritzki, SPD

E

  • Sebastian Edathy
    Sebastian Edathy
    Sebastian Edathy is a German politician.Edathy was born in Hanover, the son of an immigrant from Kerala, India, and is a trained sociologist. He has been an SPD member of the German parliament since 1998...

    , SPD
  • Siegmund Ehrmann, SPD
  • Hans Eichel
    Hans Eichel
    Hans Eichel , German politician , was Minister of Finance from 1999-2005.-Background:He was brought up in Kassel where he did his Abitur in 1961. He then completed a degree in German, philosophy, political science, history and education at the universities of Marburg and Berlin, graduating in 1970...

    , SPD
  • Maria Eichhorn, CSU
  • Dr. Ursula Eid, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
  • Dr. Dagmar Enkelmann, Die Linke.
  • Gernot Erler, SPD
  • Klaus Ernst
    Klaus Ernst
    Klaus Ernst is a left-wing German politician and was a leading member of the Labour and Social Justice Party and now The Left...

    , Die Linke.
  • Petra Ernstberger, SPD
  • Jörg van Essen
    Jörg van Essen
    Jörg van Essen is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party in the Bundestag....

    , FDP
  • Karin Evers-Meyer
    Karin Evers-Meyer
    Karin Evers-Meyer is a German politician of the SPD.The former journalist and author is member of the German Bundestag since 2002.- External links :* *...

    , SPD
  • Anke Eymer, CDU

F

  • Georg Fahrenschon
    Georg Fahrenschon
    Georg Fahrenschon is a German politician, representative of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria. Since October 2008 he has been finance minister in the Bavarian State Ministry of Finance. He was a member of the Bundestag of Germany until 2007.He graduated with a Diplom in economics from the...

    , CSU
  • Ilse Falk, CDU
  • Annette Faße, SPD
  • Dr. Hans Georg Faust, CDU
  • Hans-Josef Fell
    Hans-Josef Fell
    Hans-Josef Fell is a member of the Green Party in the German Parliament. Fell framed the German Renewable Energy legislation, together with Hermann Scheer...

    , Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
  • Enak Ferlemann, CDU
  • Elke Ferner, SPD
  • Ingrid Fischbach, CDU
  • Axel Fischer, CDU
  • Dirk Fischer, CDU
  • Hartwig Fischer, CDU
  • Joseph "Joschka" Fischer
    Joschka Fischer
    Joseph Martin "Joschka" Fischer is a German politician of the Alliance '90/The Greens. He served as Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor of Germany in the cabinet of Gerhard Schröder from 1998 to 2005...

    , Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
  • Ulrike Flach, FDP
  • Dr. Maria Franziska Flachsbarth, CDU
  • Klaus-Peter Flosbach, CDU
  • Gabriele Fograscher, SPD
  • Rainer Fornahl, SPD
  • Herbert Frankenhauser
    Herbert Frankenhauser
    Herbert Frankenhauser is a German politician, representative of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria. He is a member of the Bundestag.-References:...

    , CSU
  • Gabriele Frechen, SPD
  • Dagmar Freitag, SPD
  • Otto Fricke, FDP
  • Paul Klemens Friedhoff, FDP
  • Dr. Hans-Peter Friedrich
    Hans-Peter Friedrich
    Hans-Peter Friedrich is a German politician, representative of the Christian Social Union . He has been a member of the Bundestag of Germany since 1998. In the ongoing coalition negotiations with the Free Democratic Party, Friedrich was responsible for the portfolio of housing and development...

    , CSU
  • Horst Friedrich, FDP
  • Peter Friedrich, SPD
  • Erich G. Fritz, CDU
  • Jochen-Konrad Fromme, CDU
  • Dr. Michael Fuchs, CDU
  • Hans-Joachim Fuchtel, CDU

G

  • Sigmar Gabriel
    Sigmar Gabriel
    Sigmar Gabriel is a German politician currently chairing the Social Democratic Party of Germany .On 15 December 1999, after the resignation of Gerhard Glogowski, who had succeeded Gerhard Schröder in office, Gabriel became Minister-President of Lower Saxony and served until 4 March 2003...

    , SPD
  • Dr. Peter Gauweiler
    Peter Gauweiler
    Peter Gauweiler is a German politician, and a member of Bavaria's Christian Social Union in the German Bundestag. Since 2006, Gauweiler is the Chairman of the Sub-Committee on Foreign cultural and educational policies of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the German Bundestag...

    , CSU
  • Dr. Jürgen Gehb, CDU
  • Wolfgang Gehrcke-Reymann, Die Linke.
  • Kai Boris Gehring, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
  • Norbert Geis
    Norbert Geis
    Norbert Geis is a German politician. He is a member of the CSU.Geis studied Philosophy, Theology and Law at the Universities of Freiburg and Würzburg...

    , CSU
  • Dr. Edmund Peter Geisen, FDP
  • Dr. Wolfgang Gerhardt
    Wolfgang Gerhardt
    Wolfgang Gerhardt is a German politician and was the leader of the FDP from 1995 until he was succeeded by Guido Westerwelle in 2001. He is married and has two children.-References:...

    , FDP
  • Martin Gerster, SPD
  • Eberhard Gienger
    Eberhard Gienger
    Eberhard Gienger is a German politician and former gymnast. The Gienger salto is named after him. He competed at the 1972 and 1976 Summer Olympics.- Weblinks :...

    , CDU
  • Iris Gleicke, SPD
  • Michael Glos
    Michael Glos
    Michael Glos is a German politician who served as Minister for Economics and Technology from November 22, 2005, until February 10, 2009....

    , CSU
  • Günter Gloser, SPD
  • Ralf Göbel, CDU
  • Dr. Reinhard Göhner, CDU
  • Josef Göppel, CSU
  • Katrin Göring-Eckardt
    Katrin Göring-Eckardt
    Katrin Göring-Eckardt , is a German politician and lutheran theologian. She has served as a member of the German Green Party in the Bundestag since 1998....

    , Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
  • Peter Götz, CDU
  • Dr. Wolfgang Götzer, CSU
  • Hans-Michael Goldmann, FDP
  • Diana Golze, Die Linke.
  • Renate Gradistanac, SPD
  • Angelika Graf, SPD
  • Ute Granold, CDU
  • Dieter Grasedieck, SPD
  • Monika Griefahn
    Monika Griefahn
    Monika Griefahn is co-founder of Greenpeace Germany and a German politician of the SPD .She was a Member of the German Parliament , functioning as an expert on culture and the media as well as foreign policy. From 1990 to 1998 she was the Minister of the Environment in the State of Lower Saxony...

    , SPD
  • Kerstin Griese, SPD
  • Reinhard Grindel, CDU
  • Hermann Gröhe, CDU
  • Gabriele Groneberg, SPD
  • Michael Grosse-Brömer, CDU
  • Achim Großmann, SPD
  • Wolfgang Grotthaus, SPD
  • Markus Grübel, CDU
  • Prof. Monika Grütters, CDU
  • Manfred Grund, CDU
  • Miriam Gruß, FDP
  • Joachim Günther, FDP
  • Wolfgang Gunkel
    Wolfgang Gunkel
    Wolfgang Gunkel is a German rower who competed for East Germany in the 1968 Summer Olympics and in the 1972 Summer Olympics.He was born in Berlin....

    , SPD
  • Karl-Theodor Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg, CSU
  • Olav Gutting, CDU
  • Dr.Gregor Gysi
    Gregor Gysi
    Dr. Gregor Gysi is a German attorney and key politician of the socialist left-wing political party The Left . He played an important role in the end of communist rule in East Germany in 1989, and was a main figure in the post-reunification Party of Democratic Socialism...

    , Die Linke.

H

  • Hans-Joachim Hacker, SPD
  • Heike Hänsel, Die Linke.
  • Bettina Hagedorn, SPD
  • Klaus Hagemann, SPD
  • Holger-Heinrich Haibach, CDU
  • Anja Hajduk
    Anja Hajduk
    Anja Hajduk is a German politician. She has been a member of the Alliance '90/The Greens since 1995.Hajduk was born in Duisburg and has three brothers. After her Abitur, she studied psychology in Duisburg and then in Hamburg. She finished her studies at the university with a Diplom in 1988...

    , Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
  • Dr. Christel Happach-Kasan, FDP
  • Alfred Hartenbach, SPD
  • Michael Hartmann, SPD
  • Gerda Hasselfeldt
    Gerda Hasselfeldt
    Gerda Hasselfeldt is a Bavarian politician who served as Health Minister for one year before being succeeded by Horst Seehofer....

    , CSU
  • Britta Haßelmann, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
  • Nina Hauer, SPD
  • Heinz-Peter Haustein, FDP
  • Hubertus Heil
    Hubertus Heil
    Hubertus Heil is a German politician. In 2005 he became general secretary of the Social Democratic Party of Germany . In September 2009, after immense losses for the SPD during the German federal election, Heil announced his resignation from this position for November...

    , SPD
  • Lutz Eberhard Heilmann, Die Linke.
  • Ursula Heinen, CDU
  • Uda Carmen Freia Heller, CDU
  • Reinhold Hemker, SPD
  • Rolf Hempelmann, SPD
  • Dr. Barbara Hendricks, SPD
  • Michael Hennrich, CDU
  • Winfried Hermann, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
  • Jürgen Herrmann, CDU
  • Gustav Herzog, SPD
  • Petra Heß, SPD
  • Peter Hettlich, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
  • Bernd Reinhold Gerhard Heynemann, CDU
  • Hans-Kurt Hill, Die Linke.
  • Gabriele Hiller-Ohm, SPD
  • Stephan Hilsberg, SPD
  • Ernst Hinsken, CSU
  • Peter Hintze, CDU
  • Petra Hinz, SPD
  • Priska Hinz, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
  • Cornelia Hirsch, Die Linke.
  • Robert Hochbaum, CDU
  • Gerd Höfer, SPD
  • Ulrike Höfken, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
  • Inge Höger-Neuling, Die Linke.
  • Bärbel Höhn
    Bärbel Höhn
    Bärbel Höhn is a German politician for Alliance '90/The Greens. She is a member of the Bundestag since the German federal election, 2005, after serving as Minister of Agriculture of Northrhine-Westphalia from 1995 to 2005....

    , Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
  • Dr. Barbara Höll, Die Linke.
  • Joachim Hörster, CDU
  • Klaus Hofbauer, CSU
  • Elke Hoff
    Elke Hoff
    Elke Hoff is a German politician. She is a Free Democratic Party member of the Bundestag.-Biography:After taking the Abitur in 1976, Hoff studied German, philosophy and political science at the University of Frankfurt for six semesters. She subsequently trained as a real estate management clerk in...

    , FDP
  • Iris Hoffmann, SPD
  • Frank Hofmann, SPD
  • Dr. Anton Hofreiter, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
  • Franz-Josef Holzenkamp, CDU
  • Birgit Homburger, FDP
  • Thilo Hoppe, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
  • Eike Anna Maria Hovermann, SPD
  • Dr. Werner Hoyer
    Werner Hoyer
    Werner Hoyer is a German politician of the liberal Free Democratic Party of Germany , currently serving as the Minister of State at the Foreign Office in the Second Cabinet Merkel under Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle...

    , FDP
  • Anette Hübinger, CDU
  • Klaas Hübner, SPD
  • Hubert Hüppe, CDU
  • Steffen Hultsch, Die Linke.
  • Christel Humme, SPD

J

  • Susanne Jaffke, CDU
  • Dr. Dieter Peter Jahr, CDU
  • Ulla Jelpke
    Ulla Jelpke
    Ursula "Ulla" Jelpke is a marxist German journalist and politician. Jelpke is member of the German Bundestag where she is domestic affairs spokesperson for the party Die Linke and represents the party in the internal affairs committee and the legal affairs committee.A trained hairdresser and book...

    , Die Linke.
  • Dr. Lukrezia Jochimsen, Die Linke.
  • Dr. Hans-Heinrich Jordan, CDU
  • Andreas Jung, CDU
  • Dr. Franz Josef Jung
    Franz Josef Jung
    Franz Josef Jung is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union . He became Federal Minister of Defence in the Grand coalition cabinet of Angela Merkel on 22 November 2005...

    , CDU
  • Johannes Jung, SPD
  • Josip Juratovic, SPD

K

  • Johannes Kahrs
    Johannes Kahrs
    Johannes Kahrs may refer to:* Johannes Kahrs , in Bremen, Germany* Johannes Kahrs...

    , SPD
  • Bartholomäus Kalb, CSU
  • Hans-Werner Kammer, CDU
  • Steffen Kampeter, CDU
  • Alois Karl, CSU
  • Ulrich Kasparick, SPD
  • Bernhard Kaster, CDU
  • Susanne Kastner, SPD
  • Michael Kauch
    Michael Kauch
    Michael Kauch is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party in the Bundestag.Kauch was born in Dortmund and attended the Helmholtz-Gymnasium. He studied economics at the University of Dortmund from 1986 to 1993....

    , FDP
  • Siegfried Kauder, CDU
  • Volker Kauder
    Volker Kauder
    Volker Kauder is a German CDU politician. Since 21 November 2005 he has been Chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the Bundestag after a short term as Secretary General of the CDU. He has been a member of parliament since 1990.-External links:...

    , CDU
  • Ulrich Kelber, SPD
  • Prof. Dr. Hakkı Keskin
    Hakki Keskin
    Professor Dr. Hakkı Keskin is a Turkish-German politician with the Left Party , formerly of the Social Democratic Party of Germany and a professor of Political Science...

    , Die Linke.
  • Katja Kipping
    Katja Kipping
    Katja Kipping is a German politician. The daughter of a teacher and an economist, she went to school from 1984 to 1996, then she made her Abitur at a gymnasium in Dresden until 1997...

    , Die Linke.
  • Eckart von Klaeden
    Eckart von Klaeden
    Eckart Peter Hans von Klaeden is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union, serving as Minister of State at the German Chancellery since 28 October 2009...

    , CDU
  • Christian Kleiminger, SPD
  • Jürgen Klimke, CDU
  • Julia Klöckner, CDU
  • Hans-Ulrich Klose
    Hans-Ulrich Klose
    Hans-Ulrich Klose is a German politician from the Social Democratic Party and is now as of 2007 member of the German Federal Diet...

    , SPD
  • Astrid Klug, SPD
  • Monika Knoche, Die Linke.
  • Ute Koczy, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
  • Kristina Köhler
    Kristina Köhler
    Kristina Schröder is a German politician. She is currently serving as the Federal Minister of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth . She has served as a Member of Parliament since 2002....

    , CDU
  • Hellmut Königshaus, FDP
  • Norbert Königshofen, CDU
  • Jens Koeppen, CDU
  • Fritz-Rudolf Körper, SPD
  • Dr. Bärbel Kofler, SPD
  • Dr. Heinrich Leonhard Kolb, FDP
  • Manfred Kolbe, CDU
  • Walter Kolbow, SPD
  • Gudrun Kopp, FDP
  • Jürgen Koppelin, FDP
  • Jan Korte
    Jan Korte
    Jan Korte is a former football player from the Netherlands, who played for BV Veendam, and later on became a football manager. He coached BV Veendam for three years .-References:...

    , Die Linke.
  • Karin Kortmann, SPD
  • Dr. Rolf Koschorrek, CDU
  • Hartmut Koschyk, CSU
  • Thomas Kossendey, CDU
  • Sylvia Kotting-Uhl, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
  • Rolf Kramer, SPD
  • Anette Kramme, SPD
  • Ernst Kranz, SPD
  • Nicolette Kressl, SPD
  • Michael Kretschmer, CDU
  • Gunther Krichbaum, CDU
  • Dr. Günter Krings, CDU
  • Volker Kröning, SPD
  • Dr. Martina Krogmann, CDU
  • Angelika Krüger-Leißner, SPD
  • Dr. Hans-Ulrich Krüger, SPD
  • Johann-Henrich Krummacher, CDU
  • Jürgen Kucharczyk, SPD
  • Helga Kühn-Mengel, SPD
  • Renate Künast
    Renate Künast
    Renate Künast is a German politician who is chairwoman of the Alliance '90/The Greens Bundestag parliamentary group. She was the Minister of Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture from 2001 to 2005...

    , Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
  • Dr. Hermann Kues, CDU
  • Dr. Uwe Küster, SPD
  • Fritz Kuhn
    Fritz Kuhn
    Fritz Kuhn is a German politician. He was co-chairman of Alliance '90/The Greens, the German Green party, from June 2000 to December 2002.- Early years :...

    , Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
  • Ute Kumpf, SPD
  • Katrin Kunert, Die Linke.
  • Markus Kurth
    Markus Kurth
    Markus Kurth is a German former footballer.-External links:* *...

    , Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
  • Patrick Kurth, FDP
  • Undine Kurth, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen

L

  • Andreas Lämmel, CDU
  • Oskar Lafontaine
    Oskar Lafontaine
    Oskar Lafontaine is a German politician, former German finance minister, former chairman of the Social Democratic Party and former Minister-President of the state of Saarland. Since 2007 he was co-chairman of The Left...

    , Die Linke.
  • Christine Lambrecht, SPD
  • Dr. Karl A. Lamers
    Karl A. Lamers
    Karl A. Lamers in Duisburg is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union , currently serving as Deputy Chairman of the Defence Committee of the German Parliament and as President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly....

    , CDU
  • Dr. Norbert Lammert
    Norbert Lammert
    Norbert Lammert is a German politician . He has been the President of the Bundestag, the German parliament, since 2005.-Early Life:...

    , CDU
  • Katharina Landgraf, CDU
  • Heinz Lanfermann, FDP
  • Christian Lange, SPD
  • Sibylle Laurischk, FDP
  • Prof. Dr. Karl Lauterbach
    Karl Lauterbach
    Karl Lauterbach is a German scientist and politician . He is professor of health economics and epidemiology at the University of Cologne.Lauterbach studied human medicine in Aachen, Düsseldorf and San Antonio...

    , SPD
  • Monika Lazar, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
  • Dr. Maximilian Lehmer, CSU
  • Waltraud Lehn, SPD
  • Paul Lehrieder, CSU
  • Harald Leibrecht, FDP
  • Ina Lenke, FDP
  • Michael Gerhard Leutert, Die Linke.
  • Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger
    Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger
    Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger is a German politician of the pro-business Free Democratic Party. Within the FDP, she is a leading figure of the small social-liberal wing...

    , FDP
  • Ingbert Liebing
    Ingbert Liebing
    Ingbert Liebing is a member of the Bundestag for the CDU.-External links:* * *...

    , CDU
  • Michael Link, FDP
  • Eduard Lintner, CSU
  • Dr. Klaus Wilhelm Lippold, CDU
  • Patricia Lips, CDU
  • Markus Löning, FDP
  • Gabriele Lösekrug-Möller, SPD
  • Ursula Lötzer, Die Linke.
  • Dr. Gesine Lötzsch
    Gesine Lötzsch
    Gesine Lötzsch [geˈsinə løːtʃ] is a German politician of the left-wing party Die Linke. She was elected president of Die Linke in 2010 ....

    , Die Linke.
  • Helga Lopez, SPD
  • Dr. Reinhard Loske, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
  • Anna Lührmann
    Anna Lührmann
    Anna Lührmann became the youngest-ever member of the German Parliament in 2002, as well as the youngest member of parliament in the world. She became involved in the party at thirteen and her election came after a fast career in the youth organisation Grün-Alternatives Jugendbündnis...

    , Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
  • Dr. Michael Andreas Luther, CDU

M

  • Dorothee Mantel, CSU
  • Dirk Manzewski, SPD
  • Lothar Mark, SPD
  • Caren Marks, SPD
  • Katja Mast, SPD
  • Hildegard Mattheis, SPD
  • Ulrich Maurer, Die Linke.
  • Stephan Mayer, CSU
  • Johannes-Markus Meckel, SPD
  • Wolfgang Meckelburg, CDU
  • Horst Meierhofer, FDP
  • Patrick Meinhardt, FDP
  • Dr. Michael Meister, CDU
  • Dorothée Menzner, Die Linke.
  • Dr. Angela Merkel
    Angela Merkel
    Angela Dorothea Merkel is the current Chancellor of Germany . Merkel, elected to the Bundestag from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, has been the chairwoman of the Christian Democratic Union since 2000, and chairwoman of the CDU-CSU parliamentary coalition from 2002 to 2005.From 2005 to 2009 she led a...

    , CDU
  • Petra Merkel, SPD
  • Ulrike Merten, SPD
  • Friedrich Merz
    Friedrich Merz
    Friedrich Merz is a German politician, former chairman of the major centre-right party CDU and currently a member of the German parliament, the Bundestag...

    , CDU
  • Laurenz Meyer
    Laurenz Meyer
    Laurenz Meyer is a German politician .From 2000 to 2004 he was General Secretary of the CDU.-Education and career:...

    , CDU
  • Maria Ludwiga Michalk, CDU
  • Hans Michelbach, CSU
  • Dr. Matthias Miersch
    Matthias Miersch
    Matthias Miersch is a German politician and member of German social democratic party in the German parliament Bundestag. His electoral district 42 covers parts of the region of Hanover...

    , SPD
  • Philipp Mißfelder
    Philipp Mißfelder
    Philipp Mißfelder is a German politician. He is chairman of the Junge Union, the youth organization of the CDU, and a member of the Bundestag, where he acts as Foreign Policy Spokesman for the Fraction of the Christian Democrats...

    , CDU
  • Kornelia Edeltraud Karin Möller, Die Linke.
  • Dr. Eva Möllring, CDU
  • Ursula Mogg, SPD
  • Jerzy Montag
    Jerzy Montag
    Jerzy Montag is a German politician of Polish birth. He is a member of the Green Party.After his Abitur in Mannheim in 1966 Montag studied sociology, political science and law in Heidelberg,Mannheim and Munich. Since he passed his second Bar examination in 1975 Montag has worked as a freelancing...

    , Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
  • Marlene Mortler, CSU
  • Jan Mücke, FDP
  • Marko Mühlstein, SPD
  • Burkhardt Müller-Sönksen, FDP
  • Bernward Müller, CDU
  • Carsten Müller
    Carsten Müller
    Carsten Müller is a German lawyer and politician, representative of the German Christian Democratic Union.- Life and career :...

    , CDU
  • Detlef Müller, SPD
  • Dr. Gerd Müller
    Gerd Müller (politician)
    Dr. Gerd Müller is a German politician and member of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria....

    , CSU
  • Hildegard Müller, CDU
  • Kerstin Müller
    Kerstin Müller
    Kerstin Müller is a German rower.- References :* at sports-reference.com...

    , Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
  • Michael Müller
    Michael Müller
    Fr. Michael Müller C.Ss.R. was a prolific Catholic writer of the 19th century in the United States. Father Müller always submitted his works to two Redemptorist theologians and to his religious superiors before publication.-Life:Müller was born on December 18, 1825, in the village Brück in...

    , SPD
  • Stefan Müller
    Stefan Müller
    Stefan Müller is a Swiss javelin thrower. Müller is the Swiss national record holder with 82.07 metres, achieved in September 2006 in Bern....

    , CSU
  • Franz Müntefering
    Franz Müntefering
    Franz Müntefering is a German politician and industrial manager. He was Chairman of the Social Democratic Party from 18 October 2008 to 13 November 2009, a position he already held from 2004 to 2005...

    , SPD
  • Dr. Rolf Mützenich, SPD
  • Gesine Multhaupt, SPD

N

  • Winfried Nachtwei
    Winfried Nachtwei
    Winfried Nachtwei is a German politician and member of Alliance '90/The Greens in the Bundestag. His electoral district is Münster. His nickname is "Winni"...

    , Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
  • Andrea Maria Nahles, SPD
  • Kersten Naumann, Die Linke.
  • Wolfgang-Dragie Willi Neskovic, Die Linke.
  • Bernd Neumann
    Bernd Neumann
    Bernd Neumann is a German politician.- Biography :Neumann was born in Elbing, East Prussia, now Elbląg, Poland. Following the Flight and Expulsion of Germans after World War II he found refuge in Bremen, West Germany. Neumann studied from 1961 to 1966 at the University of Bremen and later he...

    , CDU
  • Dirk Niebel
    Dirk Niebel
    Dirk Niebel is a German politician. He is since 2009 Federal Minister of Economic Cooperation and Development. From 2005 to 2009, he was secretary general of the FDP.-Background:...

    , FDP
  • Henry Nitzsche, CDU
  • Michaela Noll, CDU
  • Dr. Georg Nüßlein, CSU

O

  • Franz Obermeier, CSU
  • Thomas Oppermann
    Thomas Oppermann
    Thomas Oppermann is a German politician with the Social Democratic Party . From 1998-2003, he was the Minister for Science and Culture in the German state of Lower Saxony. He has been the speaker of the SPD faction in the Bundestag since November 2007.- Life and career :Oppermann received his...

    , SPD
  • Holger Ortel, SPD
  • Eduard Oswald
    Eduard Oswald
    Eduard Oswald is one of the Vice Presidents of the German Bundestag. A member of the Christian Social Union he was nominated by the CDU/CSU parliamentary faction to succeed Gerda Hasselfeldt.-Political career:...

    , CSU
  • Henning Otte
    Henning Otte
    Henning Otte is a German politician and member of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany .- Life and career :Otte was born on 27 October 1968 in Celle, Lower Saxony...

    , CDU
  • Hans-Joachim Otto, FDP

P

  • Prof. Dr. Norman Paech
    Norman Paech
    Norman Paech is a retired German professor and politician of The Left .-Career:He studied law at Tübingen, Munich, Paris and Hamburg, which he completed in 1962 with the first legal state examination....

    , Die Linke.
  • Detlef Parr, FDP
  • Petra Pau
    Petra Pau
    Petra Pau is a member of The Left in the German parliament, the Bundestag. First elected in 1998, from 2002 - 2005 she was one of just two party representatives, having been directly elected as the representative of Berlin Marzahn – Hellersdorf, a working-class area of east Berlin...

    , Die Linke.
  • Heinz Paula, SPD
  • Rita Pawelski, CDU
  • Dr. Peter Paul Paziorek, CDU
  • Ulrich Petzold, CDU
  • Dr. Joachim Pfeiffer, CDU
  • Sibylle Pfeiffer, CDU
  • Dr. Friedbert Pflüger
    Friedbert Pflüger
    Friedbert Pflüger is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union . Since 2009, he is a Visiting Professor of International Relations at King's College London. He was a Member of the German Parliament 1990-2006, serving as chairman of the Bundestag's EU-committee and as foreign policy...

    , CDU
  • Johannes Pflug, SPD
  • Beatrix Philipp, CDU
  • Cornelia Pieper
    Cornelia Pieper
    Cornelia Pieper is a German politician of the liberal Free Democratic Party , currently serving as Minister of State at the Foreign Office under Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle in the Second Cabinet Merkel . She was secretary general of her party from 2001 to 2005...

    , FDP
  • Gisela Piltz, FDP
  • Ronald Pofalla
    Ronald Pofalla
    Ronald Pofalla is a German politician, currently serving as the Chief of Staff of the German Chancellery and a Federal Minister for Special Affairs in the Second Cabinet Merkel....

    , CDU
  • Ruprecht Polenz
    Ruprecht Polenz
    Ruprecht Polenz is a German politician and member of the Christian Democratic Union political party.-Political career:...

    , CDU
  • Joachim Poß, SPD
  • Brigitte Pothmer, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
  • Christoph Pries, SPD
  • Dr. Wilhelm Priesmeier, SPD
  • Florian Pronold, SPD

R

  • Daniela Raab, CSU
  • Dr. Sascha Raabe, SPD
  • Thomas Rachel, CDU
  • Hans Raidel, CSU
  • Bodo Ramelow
    Bodo Ramelow
    Bodo Ramelow is a German politician of the Left Party. He is deputy chairman of his party's group in the Bundestag....

    , Die Linke.
  • Dr. Peter Ramsauer
    Peter Ramsauer
    Peter Ramsauer is a German politician. He is qualified as a professional miller in accordance with the traditional occupation of his ancestry while holding the degree of PhD in Management, is married and has four daughters...

    , CSU
  • Peter Harald Rauen, CDU
  • Mechthild Rawert, SPD
  • Eckhardt Rehberg, CDU
  • Katherina Reiche
    Katherina Reiche
    Katherina Reiche is a German politician. She has been deputy chairman of the CDU/CSU's parliamentary group since 2005....

    , CDU
  • Steffen Reiche
    Steffen Reiche
    Steffen Reiche is a German politician, representative of the Social Democratic Party .- Private life :Reiche was born in Potsdam. After his Abitur in 1979, he studied Theology in Berlin. He took a break from studying in 1982/1983 to do an apprenticeship as cabinetmaker...

    , SPD
  • Maik Reichel, SPD
  • Gerold Reichenbach, SPD
  • Dr. Carola Reimann, SPD
  • Elke Reinke, Die Linke.
  • Klaus Riegert, CDU
  • Christel Riemann-Hanewinckel, SPD
  • Dr. Heinz Riesenhuber
    Heinz Riesenhuber
    Heinz Riesenhuber is a German politician and was minister in the cabinets of Helmut Kohl from 1982 until 1993.-Life and education:...

    , CDU
  • Walter Riester
    Walter Riester
    Walter Riester is a German politician of the SPD and former Minister of Labour and Social Affairs.Walter Riester joined the SPD in 1966 and since 1998 he has been a member of the party's federal executive board. From 1993 to 1998 he was deputy chairman of the IG Metall...

    , SPD
  • Sönke Rix, SPD
  • Johannes Röring, CDU
  • René Röspel, SPD
  • Dr. Norbert Röttgen, CDU
  • Jörg Rohde, FDP
  • Franz Romer, CDU
  • Kurt J. Rossmanith, CSU
  • Dr. Ernst-Dieter Rossmann, SPD
  • Claudia Roth
    Claudia Roth
    Claudia Benedikta Roth is a German Green Party politician and one of the two current party chairs, together with Cem Özdemir.- Biography :...

    , Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
  • Karin Roth, SPD
  • Michael Roth
    Michael Roth
    Michael Roth is a former West German handball player who competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics.He was a member of the West German handball team which won the silver medal...

    , SPD
  • Dr. Christian Ruck, CSU
  • Ortwin Runde
    Ortwin Runde
    Ortwin Runde is a German politician from the Social Democratic party. He was the First Mayor of the Free and Hanseatic City Hamburg from 1997 to 2001.-Early life and education:...

    , SPD
  • Albert Rupprecht, CSU
  • Marlene Dorothe Henriette Rupprecht, SPD
  • Peter Rzepka, CDU

S

  • Krista Sager, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
  • Anton Schaaf, SPD
  • Anita Schäfer, CDU
  • Axel Schäfer, SPD
  • Paul Schäfer, Die Linke.
  • Frank Schäffler, FDP
  • Dr. Wolfgang Schäuble
    Wolfgang Schäuble
    Wolfgang Schäuble is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union , currently serving as the Federal Minister of Finance in the Second Cabinet Merkel....

    , CDU
  • Hermann Josef Scharf, CDU
  • Elisabethe Scharfenberg, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
  • Hartmut Schauerte, CDU
  • Dr. Annette Schavan
    Annette Schavan
    ' is a German politician . She has been the Federal Minister of Education and Research since November 22, 2005.From 1995-2005, she served as the Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports of the German state of Baden-Württemberg...

    , CDU
  • Christine Scheel, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
  • Bernd Scheelen, SPD
  • Dr. Hermann Scheer
    Hermann Scheer
    Hermann Scheer was a Social Democrat member of the German Bundestag , President of Eurosolar and General Chairman of the World Council for Renewable Energy...

    , SPD
  • PhDr. Andreas Scheuer, CSU
  • Irmingard Schewe-Gerigk, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
  • Dr. Gerhard Schick
    Gerhard Schick
    Dr Gerhard Schick is a German politician, specifically a Green Party representative in the Bundestag.-Political career:...

    , Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
  • Marianne Schieder, SPD
  • Karl Richard Maria Schiewerling, CDU
  • Dr. Konrad Schily
    Konrad Schily
    Konrad Schily is a member of the German parliament, the Bundestag. He is a neurologist and founded the Witten/Herdecke University, Germany's first private university, in 1982...

    , FDP
  • Otto Schily
    Otto Schily
    Otto Georg Schily was Federal Minister of the Interior of Germany from 1998 to 2005, in the cabinet of former German chancellor Gerhard Schröder. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany .-Biography:...

    , SPD
  • Norbert Schindler, CDU
  • Georg Schirmbeck, CDU
  • Bernd Schmidbauer, CDU
  • Andreas Schmidt, CDU
  • Christian Schmidt, CSU
  • Dr. Frank Schmidt, SPD
  • Renate Schmidt
    Renate Schmidt
    thumb|Renate SchmidtRenate Schmidt is a German Social Democratic politician.-Early life:Schmidt grew up in Coburg, Fürth, and Nuremberg. Due to a pregnancy at the age of 17, she was forced to leave school a year before she would have received her Abitur...

    , SPD
  • Silvia Schmidt, SPD
  • Ulla Schmidt
    Ulla Schmidt
    Ursula Schmidt is a German politician. She is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany .-Party memberships:...

    , SPD
  • Heinz Schmitt, SPD
  • Ingo Schmitt
    Ingo Schmitt
    Ingo Schmitt is a German politician who was Member of the European Parliament for Berlin from 1999 - 2005. On September 18, 2005 he was elected to the Bundestag and consequently resigned from the European Parliament. He is a member of the conservative Christian Democratic Union.-External links:* * *...

    , CDU
  • Carsten Schneider, SPD
  • Volker Schneider, Die Linke.
  • Dr. Andreas Schockenhoff, CDU
  • Olaf Scholz
    Olaf Scholz
    Olaf Scholz is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany and Mayor of Hamburg since 7 March 2011.From May to October 2001 he was Minister of the Interior of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg and from 2002 to 2004 he was general secretary of the SPD...

    , SPD
  • Ottmar Schreiner
    Ottmar Schreiner
    Ottmar Schreiner is a German lawyer and left-wing politician. He is known as one of the leading leftists in his party SPD.After his Abitur he was a part-time soldier at the paratrooper battalion in Lebach...

    , SPD
  • Dr. Ole Schröder
    Ole Schröder
    Ole Schröder is a German politician and member of the CDU. Since 2009 he has been Secretary of State in the German Federal Ministry of the Interior.He has been a member of the Bundestag since 2002....

    , CDU
  • Dr. Herbert Schui, Die Linke.
  • Bernhard Schulte-Drüggelte, CDU
  • Reinhard Walter Schultz, SPD
  • Swen Schulz, SPD
  • Uwe Schummer, CDU
  • Ewald Schurer, SPD
  • Marina Schuster, FDP
  • Frank Schwabe, SPD
  • Dr. Angelica Schwall-Düren, SPD
  • Dr. Martin Schwanholz, SPD
  • Rolf Schwanitz, SPD
  • Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter, SPD
  • Wilhelm Josef Sebastian, CDU
  • Horst Seehofer
    Horst Seehofer
    Horst Lorenz Seehofer is a German politician . He was Federal Minister for Health and Social Security from 1992 to 1998 and served as Federal Minister of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection in the cabinet of Angela Merkel from 2005 to 2008...

    , CSU
  • Kurt Segner, CDU
  • Dr. Ilja Seifert, Die Linke.
  • Bernd Siebert, CDU
  • Thomas Silberhorn, CSU
  • Johannes Singhammer, CSU
  • Dr. Petra Sitte, Die Linke.
  • Dr. Hermann Otto Solms
    Hermann Otto Solms
    Hermann Otto Solms is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party ....

    , FDP
  • Jens Spahn, CDU
  • Wolfgang Spanier, SPD
  • Dr. Margrit Spielmann, SPD
  • Frank Spieth, Die Linke.
  • Jörg-Otto Spiller, SPD
  • Dr. Max Josef Stadler, FDP
  • Dr. Ditmar Staffelt, SPD
  • Grietje Staffelt, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
  • Rainder Steenblock, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
  • Erika Steinbach
    Erika Steinbach
    ' is a German conservative politician and president of the Federation of Expellees. She has been representing the Christian Democratic Union and the state of Hesse as a member of the Parliament of Germany, the Bundestag, since 1990...

    , CDU
  • Andreas Steppuhn, SPD
  • Christian von Stetten
    Christian von Stetten
    Christian Freiherr von Stetten is a German businessman and politician of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany . He has served as Member of the Parliament of Germany, the Bundestag, since 2002...

    , CDU
  • Ludwig Stiegler
    Ludwig Stiegler
    Ludwig Stiegler is a German politician.He has been deputy chairman of the SPD's group in the Bundestag since 2002....

    , SPD
  • Dr. Rainer Stinner, FDP
  • Rolf Stöckel, SPD
  • Silke Stokar von Neuforn
    Silke Stokar von Neuforn
    Silke Stokar von Neuforn is a German politician . She has been a member of the German Parliament since 2002. From 1994 to 2002 she was a member of the Parliament of Lower Saxony.- External links :* *...

    , Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
  • Gero Storjohann, CDU
  • Andreas Storm, CDU
  • Christoph Strässer
    Christoph Strasser
    Christoph Strasser is an Austrian ultra cyclist. He is currently living in Kraubath an der Mur.In his youth he was quite active and enjoyed such sports as football. At the age of 18 his interests shifted and he began to ride mountainbike . In 2002 he took part in his first 24 hour cycling event...

    , SPD
  • Max Straubinger, CSU
  • Thomas Strobl, CDU
  • Hans-Christian Ströbele
    Hans-Christian Ströbele
    Hans-Christian Ströbele is a German politician and lawyer. He is a member of the German Green party.Ströbele studied law and political science in Heidelberg and at the Free University of Berlin. Has practiced law since 1969 in Berlin...

    , Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
  • Lena Strothmann, CDU
  • Dr. Peter Struck
    Peter Struck
    Peter Struck was the German Minister of Defence under chancellor Gerhard Schröder from 22 October 2002 until 2005. A lawyer, Struck is a member of the Social Democratic Party.-Education:* 1962: Abitur...

    , SPD
  • Michael Stübgen, CDU
  • Joachim Stünker, SPD

T

  • Dr. Rainer Tabillion, SPD
  • Dr. Kirsten Tackmann, Die Linke.
  • Jörg Tauss
    Jörg Tauss
    Jörg Tauss is a German politician and former member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany . He was born in Stuttgart. From 2000 to 2009, Tauss was the spokesperson of the Education and Research workgroup of the SPD in the Bundestag...

    , Pirate Party (not a parliamentary group)
  • Frank Tempel, Die Linke.
  • Dr. Harald Terpe, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
  • Jella Teuchner, SPD
  • Carl-Ludwig Thiele, FDP
  • Wolfgang Thierse
    Wolfgang Thierse
    Wolfgang Thierse is a German politician .- Early years in the GDR :Thierse was born in Breslau . He is a Roman Catholic and grew up in East Germany. After his A-levels he first worked as a typesetter in Weimar...

    , SPD
  • Jörn Thießen, SPD
  • Franz Thönnes, SPD
  • Antje Tillmann, CDU
  • Florian Toncar, FDP
  • Jürgen Trittin
    Jürgen Trittin
    Jürgen Trittin is a German Green politician. He was Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety from 1998 to 2005 in Germany.- Life and work :Trittin was born in Bremen...

    , Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
  • Dr. Axel Troost, Die Linke.

V

  • Arnold Vaatz, CDU
  • Rüdiger Veit, SPD
  • Simone Violka, SPD
  • Andrea Astrid Voßhoff, CDU
  • Volkmar Uwe Vogel, CDU
  • Jörg Willi Vogelsänger, SPD
  • Dr. Marlies Eva Volkmer, SPD

W

  • Gerhard Wächter, CDU
  • Christoph Waitz, FDP
  • Marco Wanderwitz, CDU
  • Hedi Wegener, SPD
  • Kai Wegner, CDU
  • Andreas Weigel, SPD
  • Marcus Weinberg, CDU
  • Petra Weis, SPD
  • Gerald Weiß
    Gerald Weiß
    Gerald Weiß is a retired East German javelin thrower.Weiß represented the sports club SC Traktor Schwerin, and became East German champion in 1981. His personal best throw was 83.30 metres, achieved in June 1988 in Jena.-Achievements:...

    , CDU
  • Peter Weiß, CDU
  • Gunter Weißgerber, SPD
  • Gert Weisskirchen
    Gert Weisskirchen
    Gert Weisskirchen , born May 16, 1944 in Heidelberg, is a German politician .-Life and career:...

    , SPD
  • Ingo Wellenreuther, CDU
  • Karl-Georg Wellmann, CDU
  • Dr. Rainer Wend, SPD
  • Dr. Guido Westerwelle
    Guido Westerwelle
    Guido Westerwelle [] is a German liberal politician, who, since 28 October 2009, has been serving as the Foreign Minister in the second cabinet of Chancellor Angela Merkel, and who was Vice Chancellor of Germany from 2009 to 2011. He is the first openly gay person to hold either of those positions...

    , FDP
  • Lydia Westrich, SPD
  • Dr. Margrit Wetzel, SPD
  • Andrea Wicklein, SPD
  • Annette Widmann-Mauz, CDU
  • Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul
    Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul
    Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul is a German politician and a member of the Social Democratic Party since 1965.-Career:...

    , SPD
  • Dr. Dieter Wiefelspütz, SPD
  • Wolfgang Wieland, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
  • Klaus-Peter Willsch
    Klaus-Peter Willsch
    Klaus-Peter Willsch is a German politician of the CDU party and member of the Bundestag.He attended the University of Mainz and received a masters degree in Economics and Political science. He served in the military service and worked at first at an airport.After joining the CDU, he started his...

    , CDU
  • Willy Wimmer, CDU
  • Elisabeth Winkelmeier-Becker, CDU
  • Gert Winkelmeier, Die Linke.
  • Josef Philip Winkler, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
  • Dr. Claudia Winterstein, FDP
  • Dr. Volker Wissing, FDP
  • Engelbert Wistuba, SPD
  • Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg
    Wolfgang Wodarg
    Wolfgang Wodarg is a German physician and politician for SPD.As chairman of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Health Committee Wodarg co-signed a proposed resolution on December 18, 2009, which will be discussed in January in an emergency debate and he has called for an inquiry...

    , SPD
  • Dagmar Wöhrl
    Dagmar Wöhrl
    Dagmar Gabriele Wöhrl, born as Winkler is a German politician with the CSU. She is the wife of the German CEO Hans Rudolf Wöhrl.1994, 1998, 2002 and 2005 Dagmar Wöhrl has been elected into the German Bundestag...

    , CSU
  • Margareta Wolf, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
  • Hartfrid Wolff, FDP
  • Waltraud Wolff, SPD
  • Heidemarie Wright, SPD
  • Jörn Wunderlich
    Jörn Wunderlich
    Heinz Adolf Jörn Wunderlich is a German politician for the Die Linke .-References:...

    , Die Linke.

Z

  • Uta Zapf
    Uta Zapf
    Uta Zapf is a German politician and member of the Bundestag .Since 1998, she has been the chairperson of the subcommittee for "Disarmament, Arms Control, and Nonproliferation" of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the German Bundestag.-Life and career:After the completion of her Abitur in 1961, Zapf...

    , SPD
  • Martin Zeil, FDP
  • Sabine Zimmermann, Die Linke.
  • Wolfgang Zöller, CSU
  • Manfred Helmut Zöllmer, SPD
  • Willi Zylajew, CDU
  • Brigitte Zypries
    Brigitte Zypries
    Brigitte Zypries is a German politician. She was Federal Minister of Justice of Germany from 2002 to 2009. She is member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany .- Career :...

    , SPD

Changes of membership since the election of September 18, 2005

Vacator State and mode of election Reason and date for vacancy Successor Date of succession Seats
Edmund Stoiber
Edmund Stoiber
Edmund Rüdiger Stoiber is a German politician, former minister-president of the state of Bavaria and former chairman of the Christian Social Union...

 (CDU/CSU)
Bayern
Bavaria
Bavaria, formally the Free State of Bavaria is a state of Germany, located in the southeast of Germany. With an area of , it is the largest state by area, forming almost 20% of the total land area of Germany...

 (list)
Resigned November 8, 2005 to stay in office as Minister-president of Bavaria Johannes Singhammer (CDU/CSU) November 11, 2005 614
Dagmar Schmidt (SPD) Nordrhein-Westfalen
North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia is the most populous state of Germany, with four of the country's ten largest cities. The state was formed in 1946 as a merger of the northern Rhineland and Westphalia, both formerly part of Prussia. Its capital is Düsseldorf. The state is currently run by a coalition of the...

 (list)
Died November 9, 2005 Christoph Pries (SPD) November 16, 2005
Günther Beckstein
Günther Beckstein
Günther Beckstein is a Bavarian CSU politician and was Minister-President of Bavaria from 9 October 2007 to 27 October 2008...

 (CDU/CSU)
Bayern
Bavaria
Bavaria, formally the Free State of Bavaria is a state of Germany, located in the southeast of Germany. With an area of , it is the largest state by area, forming almost 20% of the total land area of Germany...

 (list)
Resigned November 22, 2005 to stay in office as Minister of the Interior of Bavaria Dorothee Bär
Dorothee Bär
Dorothee Bär is a Catholic, German politician, and member of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria . She grew up and lives in Ebelsbach, Landkreis Haßberge. She graduated from High School in Grayslake, Illinois in 1996 and from Franz-Ludwig-Gymnasium in Bamberg in 1999...

 (CDU/CSU)
November 23, 2005
Gerhard Schröder
Gerhard Schröder
Gerhard Fritz Kurt Schröder is a German politician, and was Chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005. A member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany , he led a coalition government of the SPD and the Greens. Before becoming a full-time politician, he was a lawyer, and before becoming Chancellor...

 (SPD)
Niedersachsen
Lower Saxony
Lower Saxony is a German state situated in north-western Germany and is second in area and fourth in population among the sixteen states of Germany...

 (list)
Resigned November 23, 2005 Clemens Bollen
Clemens Bollen
Clemens Bollen is a German politician and member of the SPD.-External links:*...

 (SPD)
November 29, 2005
Peter Müller (CDU/CSU) Saarland
Saarland
Saarland is one of the sixteen states of Germany. The capital is Saarbrücken. It has an area of 2570 km² and 1,045,000 inhabitants. In both area and population, it is the smallest state in Germany other than the city-states...

 (list)
Resigned November 25, 2005 to stay in office as Minister-president of Saarland Hermann-Josef Scharf (CDU/CSU) November 30, 2005
Joschka Fischer
Joschka Fischer
Joseph Martin "Joschka" Fischer is a German politician of the Alliance '90/The Greens. He served as Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor of Germany in the cabinet of Gerhard Schröder from 1998 to 2005...

 (Greens)
Hesse
Hesse
Hesse or Hessia is both a cultural region of Germany and the name of an individual German state.* The cultural region of Hesse includes both the State of Hesse and the area known as Rhenish Hesse in the neighbouring Rhineland-Palatinate state...

n (list)
Resigned August 31, 2006 Omid Nouripour
Omid Nouripour
Omid Nouripour is an Iranian-German politician, a member of Green party in Germany and a member of the German parliament ....

 (Greens)
September 1, 2006
Friedbert Pflüger
Friedbert Pflüger
Friedbert Pflüger is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union . Since 2009, he is a Visiting Professor of International Relations at King's College London. He was a Member of the German Parliament 1990-2006, serving as chairman of the Bundestag's EU-committee and as foreign policy...

 (CDU/CSU)
Niedersachsen
Lower Saxony
Lower Saxony is a German state situated in north-western Germany and is second in area and fourth in population among the sixteen states of Germany...

 (list)
Resigned November 24, 2006 to become minority leader in the Berlin Abgeordnetenhaus Hans Peter Thul (CDU/CSU) November 25, 2006
Matthias Berninger
Matthias Berninger
Matthias Berninger is a German politician and former member of Alliance '90/The Greens in the Bundestag.- External links :*...

 (Greens)
Hesse
Hesse
Hesse or Hessia is both a cultural region of Germany and the name of an individual German state.* The cultural region of Hesse includes both the State of Hesse and the area known as Rhenish Hesse in the neighbouring Rhineland-Palatinate state...

n (list)
Resigned February 19, 2007 Nicole Maisch (Greens) February 20, 2007
Matthias Wissmann
Matthias Wissmann
Matthias Wissmann is the president of the Verband der Automobilindustrie.Since 1999 he has been a partner with the law firm WilmerHale.-Education:...

 (CDU/CSU)
Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg is one of the 16 states of Germany. Baden-Württemberg is in the southwestern part of the country to the east of the Upper Rhine, and is the third largest in both area and population of Germany's sixteen states, with an area of and 10.7 million inhabitants...

 (district 266 — Ludwigsburg
Ludwigsburg
Ludwigsburg is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, about north of Stuttgart city centre, near the river Neckar. It is the largest and primary city of the Ludwigsburg urban district with about 87,000 inhabitants...

)
Resigned June 1, 2007 none (overhang seat
Overhang seat
Overhang seats can arise in elections under the traditional mixed member proportional system, when a party is entitled to fewer seats as a result of party votes than it has won constituencies.-How overhang seats arise:...

)
613
Hans-Jürgen Uhl (SPD) Niedersachsen
Lower Saxony
Lower Saxony is a German state situated in north-western Germany and is second in area and fourth in population among the sixteen states of Germany...

 (district 51 — Helmstedt
Helmstedt
Helmstedt is a city located at the eastern edge of the German state of Lower Saxony. It is the capital of the District of Helmstedt. Helmstedt has 26,000 inhabitants . In former times the city was also called Helmstädt....

 — Wolfsburg
Wolfsburg
Wolfsburg is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is located on the River Aller northeast of Braunschweig , and is mainly notable as the headquarters of Volkswagen AG...

)
Resigned June 1, 2007 Dieter Steinecke (SPD) June 2, 2007
Reinhard Göhner (CDU/CSU) Nordrhein-Westfalen
North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia is the most populous state of Germany, with four of the country's ten largest cities. The state was formed in 1946 as a merger of the northern Rhineland and Westphalia, both formerly part of Prussia. Its capital is Düsseldorf. The state is currently run by a coalition of the...

 (list)
Resigned July 7, 2007 Cajus Caesar (CDU/CSU) July 9, 2007
Peter Paziorek (CDU/CSU) Nordrhein-Westfalen
North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia is the most populous state of Germany, with four of the country's ten largest cities. The state was formed in 1946 as a merger of the northern Rhineland and Westphalia, both formerly part of Prussia. Its capital is Düsseldorf. The state is currently run by a coalition of the...

 (district 131 — Warendorf
Warendorf
Warendorf is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, and capital of Warendorf District.The town is best known today for its well-preserved medieval town centre, for horse-riding, and the opportunities it provides for cycling...

)
Resigned September 1, 2007 Stephan Eisel (CDU/CSU) September 3, 2007
Reinhard Loske (Greens) Nordrhein-Westfalen
North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia is the most populous state of Germany, with four of the country's ten largest cities. The state was formed in 1946 as a merger of the northern Rhineland and Westphalia, both formerly part of Prussia. Its capital is Düsseldorf. The state is currently run by a coalition of the...

 (list)
Resigned September 1, 2007 Bettina Herlitzius
Bettina Herlitzius
Bettina Herlitzius is a German politician, specifically a Green Party representative in the Bundestag.-Political career:...

 (Greens)
September 3, 2007
Georg Fahrenschon
Georg Fahrenschon
Georg Fahrenschon is a German politician, representative of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria. Since October 2008 he has been finance minister in the Bavarian State Ministry of Finance. He was a member of the Bundestag of Germany until 2007.He graduated with a Diplom in economics from the...

 (CDU/CSU)
Bayern
Bavaria
Bavaria, formally the Free State of Bavaria is a state of Germany, located in the southeast of Germany. With an area of , it is the largest state by area, forming almost 20% of the total land area of Germany...

 (district 223 — München
Munich
Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...

-Land)
Resigned November 8, 2007 Marion Seib (CDU/CSU) November 8, 2007
Carl Eduard von Bismarck (CDU/CSU) Schleswig-Holstein
Schleswig-Holstein
Schleswig-Holstein is the northernmost of the sixteen states of Germany, comprising most of the historical duchy of Holstein and the southern part of the former Duchy of Schleswig...

 (district 10 — Herzogtum Lauenburg — Stormarn
Stormarn
Stormarn is a district in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is bounded by the districts of Segeberg and Ostholstein, the city of Lübeck, the district of Lauenburg, and the city-state of Hamburg.-History:...

-Süd)
Resigned December 10, 2007 Helmut Lamp (CDU/CSU) December 20, 2007
Margareta Wolf (Greens) Hesse
Hesse
Hesse or Hessia is both a cultural region of Germany and the name of an individual German state.* The cultural region of Hesse includes both the State of Hesse and the area known as Rhenish Hesse in the neighbouring Rhineland-Palatinate state...

n (list)
Resigned January 4, 2008 Wolfgang Strengmann-Kuhn (Greens) January 4, 2008
Johann-Henrich Krummacher (CDU/CSU) Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg is one of the 16 states of Germany. Baden-Württemberg is in the southwestern part of the country to the east of the Upper Rhine, and is the third largest in both area and population of Germany's sixteen states, with an area of and 10.7 million inhabitants...

 (district 259 — Stuttgart
Stuttgart
Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. The sixth-largest city in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 600,038 while the metropolitan area has a population of 5.3 million ....

 I)
Died February 25, 2008 none (overhang seat
Overhang seat
Overhang seats can arise in elections under the traditional mixed member proportional system, when a party is entitled to fewer seats as a result of party votes than it has won constituencies.-How overhang seats arise:...

)
612
Anja Hajduk
Anja Hajduk
Anja Hajduk is a German politician. She has been a member of the Alliance '90/The Greens since 1995.Hajduk was born in Duisburg and has three brothers. After her Abitur, she studied psychology in Duisburg and then in Hamburg. She finished her studies at the university with a Diplom in 1988...

 (Greens)
Hamburg
Hamburg
-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...

 (list)
Resigned May 8, 2008 to become Senator in Hamburg Manuel Sarrazin (Greens) May 13, 2008
Bernward Müller (CDU/CSU) Thüringen
Thuringia
The Free State of Thuringia is a state of Germany, located in the central part of the country.It has an area of and 2.29 million inhabitants, making it the sixth smallest by area and the fifth smallest by population of Germany's sixteen states....

 (list)
Resigned May 9, 2008 to become Minister in Thuringia Christian Hirte (CDU/CSU) May 15, 2008
Hildegard Müller (CDU/CSU) Nordrhein-Westfalen
North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia is the most populous state of Germany, with four of the country's ten largest cities. The state was formed in 1946 as a merger of the northern Rhineland and Westphalia, both formerly part of Prussia. Its capital is Düsseldorf. The state is currently run by a coalition of the...

 (district 107 — Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf is the capital city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and centre of the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region.Düsseldorf is an important international business and financial centre and renowned for its fashion and trade fairs. Located centrally within the European Megalopolis, the...

 I)
Resigned October 1, 2008 Thomas Mahlberg (CDU/CSU) October 7, 2008
Martin Zeil (FDP) Bayern
Bavaria
Bavaria, formally the Free State of Bavaria is a state of Germany, located in the southeast of Germany. With an area of , it is the largest state by area, forming almost 20% of the total land area of Germany...

 (list)
Resigned November 1, 2008 after becoming Minister in Bavaria Erwin Lotter (FDP) November 1, 2008
Jörg Rohde (FDP) Bayern
Bavaria
Bavaria, formally the Free State of Bavaria is a state of Germany, located in the southeast of Germany. With an area of , it is the largest state by area, forming almost 20% of the total land area of Germany...

 (list)
Resigned November 1, 2008 after becoming Deputy Speaker of the Bavarian Landtag Daniel Volk (FDP) November 1, 2008
Horst Seehofer
Horst Seehofer
Horst Lorenz Seehofer is a German politician . He was Federal Minister for Health and Social Security from 1992 to 1998 and served as Federal Minister of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection in the cabinet of Angela Merkel from 2005 to 2008...

 (CDU/CSU)
Bayern
Bavaria
Bavaria, formally the Free State of Bavaria is a state of Germany, located in the southeast of Germany. With an area of , it is the largest state by area, forming almost 20% of the total land area of Germany...

 (district 218 — Ingolstadt
Ingolstadt
Ingolstadt is a city in the Free State of Bavaria, in the Federal Republic of Germany. It is located along the banks of the Danube River, in the center of Bavaria. As at 31 March 2011, Ingolstadt had 125.407 residents...

)
Resigned November 5, 2008 after becoming Minister-president of Bavaria Matthäus Strebl (CDU/CSU) November 10, 2008
Ditmar Staffelt (SPD) Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...

 (district 83 — Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...

-Neukölln
Neukölln
Neukölln is the eighth borough of Berlin, located in the southeastern part of the city and was part of the former American sector under the Four-Power occupation of the city...

)
Resigned January 12, 2009 Eva Högl (SPD) January 12, 2009
Ralf Göbel (CDU/CSU) Bayern
Bavaria
Bavaria, formally the Free State of Bavaria is a state of Germany, located in the southeast of Germany. With an area of , it is the largest state by area, forming almost 20% of the total land area of Germany...

 (district 213 — Southern Palatinate)
Resigned March 1, 2009 Werner Wittlich (CDU/CSU) March 1, 2009
Rainer Wend (SPD) Nordrhein-Westfalen
North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia is the most populous state of Germany, with four of the country's ten largest cities. The state was formed in 1946 as a merger of the northern Rhineland and Westphalia, both formerly part of Prussia. Its capital is Düsseldorf. The state is currently run by a coalition of the...

 (district 133 — Bielefeld
Bielefeld
Bielefeld is an independent city in the Ostwestfalen-Lippe Region in the north-east of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. With a population of 323,000, it is also the most populous city in the Regierungsbezirk Detmold...

)
Resigned April 1, 2009 Hildegard Wester (SPD) April 1, 2009
Frank Schmidt (SPD) Hesse
Hesse
Hesse or Hessia is both a cultural region of Germany and the name of an individual German state.* The cultural region of Hesse includes both the State of Hesse and the area known as Rhenish Hesse in the neighbouring Rhineland-Palatinate state...

n (list)
Resigned May 25, 2009 to become Mayor of Löhnberg
Löhnberg
Löhnberg is a community north of Weilburg in Limburg-Weilburg district in Hesse, Germany.- Neighbouring communities :Löhnberg borders in the north on the community of Greifenstein, in the east on the towns of Leun and Braunfels , in the south on the town of Weilburg, and in the west on the...

Erika Ober (SPD) May 25, 2009
Peter Jahr
Peter Jahr
Peter Jahr is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament. He was elected on the CDU ticket and sits with the European People's Party group.- Education and Private Life :...

 (CDU/CSU)
Sachsen
Saxonia
Saxonia may refer to:* Saxonia, the Latin name of Saxony* Saxonia , the allegorical representation of Saxony* Saxonia , first locomotive built in Germany in 1838, more than one passenger ship of the Cunard Line...

 (district 163 — Döbeln-Mittweida-Meißen II)
Resigned July 14, 2009 to become a member of the European Parliament
European Parliament
The European Parliament is the directly elected parliamentary institution of the European Union . Together with the Council of the European Union and the Commission, it exercises the legislative function of the EU and it has been described as one of the most powerful legislatures in the world...

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Overhang seat
Overhang seats can arise in elections under the traditional mixed member proportional system, when a party is entitled to fewer seats as a result of party votes than it has won constituencies.-How overhang seats arise:...

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Lothar Bisky
Lothar Bisky
Lothar Bisky is a German politician. He was the chairman of the Party of Democratic Socialism , the successor of East Germany's Socialist Unity Party . In June 2007 he became co-chairman of the The Left party, formed by a merger of the PDS and the much smaller Labour and Social Justice – The...

 (Die Linke.)
Brandenburg
Brandenburg
Brandenburg is one of the sixteen federal-states of Germany. It lies in the east of the country and is one of the new federal states that were re-created in 1990 upon the reunification of the former West Germany and East Germany. The capital is Potsdam...

 (list)
Resigned July 14, 2009 to become a member of the European Parliament
European Parliament
The European Parliament is the directly elected parliamentary institution of the European Union . Together with the Council of the European Union and the Commission, it exercises the legislative function of the EU and it has been described as one of the most powerful legislatures in the world...

Steffen Hultsch (Die Linke.) July 14, 2009
Uwe Barth
Uwe Barth
Uwe Barth is a German politician and member of the FDP.In 1986 he joined the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany , which merged with the FDP in 1990. He was a member of the German Bundestag from 2005 to 2009, representing the state of Thuringia...

 (FDP)
Thüringen
Thuringia
The Free State of Thuringia is a state of Germany, located in the central part of the country.It has an area of and 2.29 million inhabitants, making it the sixth smallest by area and the fifth smallest by population of Germany's sixteen states....

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Resigned September 28, 2009 to become a member of the Landtag of Thüringen Patrick Kurth (FDP) September 29, 2009
Bodo Ramelow
Bodo Ramelow
Bodo Ramelow is a German politician of the Left Party. He is deputy chairman of his party's group in the Bundestag....

 (Die Linke.)
Thüringen
Thuringia
The Free State of Thuringia is a state of Germany, located in the central part of the country.It has an area of and 2.29 million inhabitants, making it the sixth smallest by area and the fifth smallest by population of Germany's sixteen states....

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Resigned September 28, 2009 to become a member of the Landtag of Thüringen Frank Tempel (Die Linke.) September 29, 2009

Changes of caucus since the election of September 18, 2005

Member Former caucus Date of changing caucuses New caucus
Gert Winkelmeier The Left February 13, 2006 unaffiliated
Henry Nitzsche CDU/CSU December 15, 2006 unaffiliated
Jörg Tauss
Jörg Tauss
Jörg Tauss is a German politician and former member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany . He was born in Stuttgart. From 2000 to 2009, Tauss was the spokesperson of the Education and Research workgroup of the SPD in the Bundestag...

SPD June 20, 2009 unaffiliated
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