Peter Altmaier

Peter Altmaier (born 18 June 1958) is a German politician who has served as the Chief of Staff of the German Chancellery and as Federal Minister for Special Affairs since December 2013. Previously he was Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety from May 2012 to December 2013. Altmaier is widely seen as one of Chancellor Angela Merkel's most trusted advisors and respected for his "compromising style."

Early life and education

Altmaier was born on 18 June 1958 in Ensdorf, Saarland. He is the son of a coalminer and a nurse. He studied law at Saarland University.

In addition to his native German, he speaks English and Dutch fluently.

Early career

Altmaier began his career as a research assistant for public and international law at Saarland University in 1995 and later at the European Institute of Saarland University. His tenure lasted until 2000. He worked for the Directorate-General for Employment and Social Affairs of the European Commission from 1990 to 1994.

Anne Will

Anne Will (born March 18, 1966) is a television journalist from Germany. She was anchorwoman of the daily Tagesthemen news broadcast on ARD from April 14, 2001, to June 24, 2007.

Biography

Will was born on March 18, 1966, in Cologne, Germany. She grew up in Hürth, the daughter of an architect. After attending high school at the Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium in Hürth, she studied history, politics, and anglistics (English language and literature) in Cologne and Berlin starting in 1985. During her studies she was already working as a journalist at Kölnische Rundschau (Cologne Review) and the Berliner Volksblatt newspaper. In mid-1990, she graduated with a Magister Artium from the University of Cologne and began her career in radio and television at Sender Freies Berlin (now part of Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg).

At the end of 1992, she became more widely known while presenting both the talk show Mal ehrlich and the television sports magazine Sportpalast. At the time, she also hosted the show Parlazzo at station WDR from 1996 to 1998.

Sahra Wagenknecht

Sahra Wagenknecht (born 16 July 1969) is a German politician, graduated economist, and publicist. She is a Member of the Bundestag, author, and a member of the National Committee of the Left Party. Since May 2010 she has been deputy chairperson of the party.

Early life

Wagenknecht was born on 16 July 1969, in the East German city of Jena. Her mother worked for a state-run art distributor. She was cared for primarily by her grandparents until 1976, when she and her mother moved to East Berlin. While in Berlin, she became a member of the Free German Youth (FDJ). She completed her Abitur exams in 1988 and joined the Socialist Unity Party (SED) in early 1989. Her father is Iranian and her mother is German.

From 1990 she studied Philosophy and New German Literature as an undergraduate in Jena and Berlin. Subsequently she dropped out of her courses and enrolled in a philosophy course in Groningen. Her 1996 MA thesis covered the topic of the young Karl Marx's interpretation of Hegel. The dissertation was published as a book in 1997. From 2005 until 2012 she studied economics at the TU Chemnitz, and finished her PhD with a dissertation on "The Limits of Choice. Saving Decisions and Basic Needs in Developed Countries", subsequently published by the Campus Verlag.

Peter

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Akif Çağatay Kılıç

Akif Çağatay Kılıç (born 15 June 1976) is a Turkish educator, politician, a MP for Samsun Province of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), and the current Minister of Youth and Sports of Turkey.

Early life

Akif Çağatay Kılıç was born on 15 June 1976 to Sinan Kılıç and Behire Yıldız in Siegen, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany.

His grandfather İlyas Kılıç was a politician of the Republican People's Party (CHP), who served five consecutive times as MP between 1961 and 1980. His father Sinan Kılıç served as a private physician of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan during his office time as the Mayor of Istanbul in the 1990s.

He studied Political Science at University of Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom. He attended further studies in Economy of Europe.

Çağatay Kılıç is married to Eda Kılıç, and they have two daughters, Ela and Ece.

Career

Profession

He worked in the purchasing department of Sabancı Holding's Universal Trading Company in the UK. Returned to Turkey, he was appointed advisor in the headquarters of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in 2003.