Walter Momper
Walter Momper at the Brandenburg Gate
Mayor of Berlin
Personal details
Born	(1945-02-21) 21 February 1945 (age 67) Sulingen, today Lower Saxony
Political party	Social Democrats

West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl (at the microphone), East German Premier Hans Modrow (left), and West Berlin mayor Walter Momper [with red scarf] in the official opening of the Brandenburg Gate.

Walter Momper (born 21 February 1945) is a German politician and former Mayor of West Berlin (Berlin after 1990) 1989–1990 and Berlin 1990-1991. Whilst Governing Mayor, he served as President of the Bundesrat in 1989/90. He attended the opening of the Brandenburg Gate on 22 December 1989.

He was born in Sulingen (near Bremen), today Lower Saxony, and is a member of the SPD (Social Democrats).

References[link]

• "Walter Momper: Regierender Bürgermeister vom 16.3.1989 bis 24.1.1991" (in German). Senatskanzlei Berlin. http://www.berlin.de/rbmskzl/rbm/galerie/walter_momper.html. Retrieved 2010-10-04. 

This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the German Wikipedia.

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Klaus Wowereit
Governing Mayor of Berlin
Incumbent
Assumed office June 16, 2001
Preceded by	Eberhard Diepgen
Member of the Berlin House of Representatives
In office 1995 – 26 October 2011
Vice Chairman of SPD with Hannelore Kraft, Manuela Schwesig and Olaf Scholz
Incumbent
Assumed office 13 November 2009
Preceded by	Frank-Walter Steinmeier Peer Steinbrück Andrea Nahles
Personal details
Born	(1953-10-01) 1 October 1953 (age 58) West Berlin, West Germany
Nationality	German
Political party	Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD)
Domestic partner	Jörn Kubicki
Alma mater	Free University of Berlin
Religion	Roman Catholic[1]
Signature
Website	klaus-wowereit.de (German)

Klaus Wowereit (born 1 October 1953 in Berlin) is a German politician, member of the SPD (Social Democratic Party), and has been the Mayor of Berlin since the 2001 state elections^{[dated info]}, where his party won a plurality of the votes, 29.7%. He served as President of the Bundesrat (the fourth highest office in Germany) in 2001/02. His SPD-led coalition was re-elected in the 2006 elections. He is also sometimes mentioned as a possible SPD candidate for the Chancellorship of Germany (Kanzlerkandidatur) in the next German federal election.

Background[link]

Until 1973, Klaus Wowereit attended the Ulrich-von-Hutten-Oberschule in Berlin-Lichtenrade. Afterwards, he studied law at the Free University Berlin (State Exams, 1981 and 1984).

Political career[link]

After 3 years as a civil servant in the Senate office of the Interior, Wowereit stood for election as municipal councillor in the Tempelhof district. At the age of 30, he was, therefore, the youngest councilor in the city of Berlin. After eleven years as a District Councillor he stood for the Berlin House of Deputies (Abgeordnetenhaus von Berlin) which serves as the City's Landtag or state legislature in 1995. In December 1999, he was elected chairman of the SPD parliamentary group in the Abgeordnetenhaus. Since June 2001 he has served as Governing Mayor (Regierender Bürgermeister) of Berlin. Previously, the SPD had left the grand coalition with the CDU and initiated new elections. After this election and following long-time negotiations, Wowereit finally started a coalition with the PDS.

In the elections held on 17 September 2006, Wowereit's SPD finished as the strongest party. A coalition with Die Linke was continued. However the 16th Abgeordnetenhaus re-elected Wowereit as Governing Mayor on 23 November 2006, in the second ballot with only a 75:74 majority. CDU, Free Democrats and the Green Party voted against him. In the elections held on 18 September 2011 he and his party were again the strongest party.^[2]

In 2011 he wrote a book as a response to the controversial book "Germany Abolishes Itself" written by former member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank - Thilo Sarrazin. ^[3]

Personal life[link]

Wowereit is youngest to two brothers and two sisters and grew up without a father. One of his brothers supported his studies and later he nursed himself his brother, who became paralyzed after an accident, and his mother, who was suffering from cancer.

Wowereit is one of the most famous German politicians who is openly gay. In coming out, prior to the 2001 mayoral elections, he coined the now famous German phrase "Ich bin schwul, und das ist auch gut so." ("I'm gay, and that's a good thing.") In his autobiography, Wowereit states that his decision to come out in public was made because after his nomination as candidate to become the Mayor of Berlin, he felt that the German tabloids were already "on the right track". With his coming out, Wowereit wanted to beat the tabloids to it and prevent them from writing wild, sensational and made-up stories about his private life. Wowereit said those now famous words during a convention of the Berlin SPD. After the end of his speech, there was half a second of surprised silence, then spontaneous cheering and loud applause to support him.

His election as mayor made Berlin one of three major European cities with an openly gay mayor, along with Paris, whose mayor is Bertrand Delanoë, and Hamburg, whose mayor was Ole von Beust at that time, who both also took office in 2001. However, von Beust resigned in 2010, making Wowereit the only gay mayor of a major German city. Previously, the largest city with a gay mayor had been Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, with mayor Glen Murray. Berlin being the largest and Hamburg being the 2nd largest city in Germany, they are also German states in their own right, having made both Wowereit and von Beust also state premiers.

In September 2007, Wowereit published an autobiographical book titled "…und das ist auch gut so.", after his famous coming-out phrase (ISBN 3896673343).

Wowereit's husband, Jörn Kubicki, is a neurosurgeon. They have been in a relationship since 1993.

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Klaus Wowereit

• Konsequent Berlin (Personal website for British and French readers)
• CityMayors.com profile
• Interview with Klaus Wowereit in Exberliner magazine

v t e Presidents of the Bundesrat (Federal Council) Karl Arnold • Hans Ehard • Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf • Reinhold Maier • Georg August Zinn • Peter Altmeier • Kai-Uwe von Hassel • Kurt Sieveking • Willy Brandt • Wilhelm Kaisen • Franz-Josef Röder • Franz Meyers • Kurt Georg Kiesinger • Georg Diederichs • Helmut Lemke • Klaus Schütz • Herbert Weichmann • Franz-Josef Röder • Hans Koschnick • Heinz Kühn • Alfons Goppel • Hans Filbinger • Alfred Kubel • Albert Osswald • Bernhard Vogel • Gerhard Stoltenberg • Dietrich Stobbe • Hans-Ulrich Klose • Werner Zeyer • Johannes Rau • Franz Josef Strauss • Lothar Späth • Ernst Albrecht • Holger Börner • Walter Wallmann • Björn Engholm • Walter Momper • Henning Voscherau • Alfred Gomolka • Berndt Seite • Oskar Lafontaine • Klaus Wedemeier • Edmund Stoiber • Erwin Teufel • Gerhard Schröder • Hans Eichel • Roland Koch • Kurt Biedenkopf • Kurt Beck • Klaus Wowereit • Wolfgang Böhmer • Dieter Althaus • Matthias Platzeck • Peter Harry Carstensen • Harald Ringstorff • Ole von Beust • Peter Müller • Jens Böhrnsen

v t e Mayors of Berlin Complete list Berlin1 (1809-1948) Leopold von Gerlach Johann Büsching Friedrich von Bärensprung Heinrich Wilhelm Krausnick Franz Christian Naunyn Heinrich Wilhelm Krausnick Karl Theodor Seydel Arthur Hobrecht Max von Forckenbeck Robert Zelle Martin Kirschner Adolph Wermuth Gustav Böß Arthur Scholz Heinrich Sahm Oskar Maretzky2 Julius Lippert2 Ludwig Steeg2 Arthur Werner Otto Ostrowski Louise Schroeder Ferdinand Friedensburg East Berlin1 (1948-1991) Friedrich Ebert Herbert Fechner Erhard Krack Ingrid Pankraz Christian Hartenauer Tino Schwierzina Thomas Krüger West Berlin3 (1948-1991) Ernst Reuter Walther Schreiber Otto Suhr Willy Brandt Heinrich Albertz Klaus Schütz Dietrich Stobbe Hans-Jochen Vogel Richard von Weizsäcker Eberhard Diepgen Walter Momper Berlin3 (since 1990) Walter Momper Eberhard Diepgen Klaus Wowereit 1Oberbürgermeister (Lord Mayor) 2 Stadtpräsident (City President) 3 Regierender Bürgermeister (Governing Mayor)

v t e Current heads of government of the States of Germany States Winfried Kretschmann (Baden-Württemberg) · Horst Seehofer (Bavaria) · Klaus Wowereit (Berlin) · Matthias Platzeck (Brandenburg) · Jens Böhrnsen (Bremen) · Olaf Scholz (Hamburg) · Volker Bouffier (Hesse) · David McAllister (Lower Saxony) · Erwin Sellering (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) · Hannelore Kraft (North Rhine-Westphalia) · Kurt Beck (Rhineland-Palatinate) · Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (Saarland) · Stanislaw Tillich (Saxony) · Reiner Haseloff (Saxony-Anhalt) · Peter Harry Carstensen (Schleswig-Holstein) · Christine Lieberknecht (Thuringia) Italic = President of Federal Council

Sigmar Gabriel
Leader of the Social Democratic Party
Incumbent
Assumed office 13 November 2009
Preceded by	Franz Müntefering
Minister of the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
In office 22 November 2005 – 27 October 2009
Chancellor	Angela Merkel
Preceded by	Jürgen Trittin
Succeeded by	Norbert Röttgen
Prime Minister of Lower Saxony
In office 15 December 1999 – 4 March 2003
Preceded by	Gerhard Glogowski
Succeeded by	Christian Wulff
Personal details
Born	(1959-09-12) 12 September 1959 (age 52) Goslar, West Germany (now Germany)
Political party	Social Democratic Party

Sigmar Gabriel (born 12 September 1959 in Goslar) is a German politician currently chairing the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).

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. After being voted out of office, he became the SPD's "Representative for Pop Culture and Pop Discourse" from 2003 to 2005, for which he was bestowed the nickname Siggi Pop.^[1] From 2005 to 2009 he was the Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety in the first cabinet of Angela Merkel (CDU).

He has promoted the International Renewable Energy Agency. He called the speeches of Thilo Sarrazin, his party colleague who wrote critically about immigration, "verbal violence," . Gabriel called Israel an "Apartheid-Regime".^[2]

Following the SPD's defeat in the federal election of 2009, Franz Müntefering resigned from the position of party chairman of the Social Democratic Party. Gabriel was nominated as his successor and was elected on 13 November 2009.^[3] Gabriel was re-elected as party chairman for a further two years at the SPD party conference in Berlin on 5 December 2011, receiving 91.6% of the vote.^[4]

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External links[link]

• Official website

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• Michael Muller (photographer), American photographer

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