Franz Müntefering
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Franz Müntefering is a German politician. He was Chairman of the Social Democratic Party from 2004 to 2005 and again from 18 October 2008 to 13 November 2009. He served as the minister of Labour and S
Müntefering in 2025
Müntefering in 2018
Angela Merkel
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Angela Dorothea Merkel is a German stateswoman and retired politician who served as Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021. She is the only woman to have held the office and the only former East Germ
Franz Müntefering
…succeed Schröder as party chairman in July 2004. Following Schröder's defeat in the close 2005 elections, Müntefering helped form a grand coalition under Angela Merkel, the new Chancellor, and her center-right CDU/CSU parties. During the coalition talks, on 31 October 2005, Müntefering's favoured candidate for Secretary…
Merkel in 2019
Merkel's paternal grandparents when engaged: Margarethe and her betrothed, Ludwik Marian Kaźmierczak, in his Polish Blue Army uniform
Lothar de Maizière and Merkel, 1990
Merkel in a CDU campaign poster, 1995