Patrick Ernst Hermann Sensburg is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and a professor at the University of Applied Sciences for Police and Public Administration in North Rhine-Westphalia in Cologne. He served as a member of the German Parliament from 2009 until 2021, representing the Hochsauerlandkreis constituency in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Patrick Sensburg
Patrick Sensburg with Angela Merkel
Patrick Sensburg, 2019
Joachim-Friedrich Martin Josef Merz is a German politician serving as Leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) since 31 January 2022 and as leader of the Union parliamentary group as well as the Leader of the Opposition in the Bundestag since 15 February 2022.
Merz in 2023
Sauvigny House in Brilon, Merz' childhood home that belonged to his mother's family Sauvigny, a locally prominent patrician family of French Huguenot ancestry
'For German interests in Europe' – Merz as a young Christian Democrat in 1989
Friedrich Merz, at the Munich International Press Club (2017)