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    The 1958 North Rhine-Westphalia state election was held on 6 July 1958 to elect the 4th Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia. The outgoing government was...
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    North Rhine-Westphalia or North-Rhine/Westphalia, commonly shortened to NRW, is a state (Land) in Western Germany. With more than 18 million inhabitants...
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    The 2000 North Rhine-Westphalia state election was held on 14 May 2000 to elect the 13th Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia. The outgoing government was...
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    Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia is the state parliament (Landtag) of the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, which convenes in the state capital...
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  • Rhine-Westphalia state election 1950 North Rhine-Westphalia state election 1954 North Rhine-Westphalia state election 1958 North Rhine-Westphalia state election...
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    The 1962 North Rhine-Westphalia state election was held on 8 July 1962 to elect the 5th Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia. The outgoing government was...
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    The 1954 North Rhine-Westphalia state election was held on 27 June 1954 to elect the 3rd Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia. The outgoing government was...
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    Karl Arnold (category Minister-presidents of North Rhine-Westphalia)
    Karl Arnold (21 March 1901 – 29 June 1958) was a German politician. He was Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia from 1947 to 1956. Arnold was born...
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    Nordrhein-Westfalen is a political party in German state North Rhine-Westphalia and is, with 97,300 members, the biggest state group of Social Democratic Party of Germany...
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  • 2012 North Rhine-Westphalia state election 2017 North Rhine-Westphalia state election 2022 North Rhine-Westphalia state election 2027 North Rhine-Westphalia...
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    Johannes Rau (category Minister-presidents of North Rhine-Westphalia)
    Democratic Party, he previously served as the Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia from 1978 to 1998. In the latter role, he also served as President...
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    Bremen, Hamburg, Hesse (Hessen), Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen), North Rhine-Westphalia (Nordrhein-Westfalen), Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz), Schleswig-Holstein...
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    Kurt Biedenkopf (category Members of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia)
    University Bochum. Biedenkopf made a political career first in North Rhine-Westphalia, where he was chairman of the party. After the re-unification of...
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    the northern portion of Rhine Province and the Free State of Lippe to form the modern German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Napoleon Bonaparte founded...
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  • Erna Herchenröder (category Members of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia)
    unionist and politician who served in the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia from 1953 until 1958. A member of the Social Democratic Party, she represented...
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    Fritz Steinhoff (category Minister-presidents of North Rhine-Westphalia)
    the SPD. He was the third Minister President of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia from 1956 to 1958. Steinhoff was born in 1897 in a miner's family and...
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    11th-most populous in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia with 262,528 (2016) inhabitants. On the Emscher River (a tributary of the Rhine), it lies at the centre...
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    city of North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne, Düsseldorf and Dortmund, as well as the tenth-largest city of Germany. Essen lies in the larger Rhine-Ruhr...
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    [jəˈlɑbɑx])[citation needed] is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located west of the Rhine, halfway between Düsseldorf and the Dutch border...
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    Kölsch: Kölle [ˈkœlə] ) is the largest city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with nearly 1...
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    Düörpm [ˈdyːœɐ̯pm̩]; Latin: Tremonia) is the third-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia, after Cologne and Düsseldorf, and the ninth-largest city in Germany...
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    Düren (redirect from North Duren)
    (German pronunciation: [ˈdyːʁən]; Ripuarian: Düre) is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, between Aachen and Cologne, on the river Rur. The area...
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    in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located northwest of Düsseldorf, its center lying just a few kilometers to the west of the river Rhine; the...
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    Maria Klein-Schmeink (category Members of the Bundestag for North Rhine-Westphalia)
    January 1958) is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia since...
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    Mülheim (category Cities in North Rhine-Westphalia)
    ˈʁuːɐ̯] ) and also described as "City on the River", is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. It is located in the Ruhr Area between Duisburg, Essen...
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    Then, on 23 August, just two weeks before the election, the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia, acting as a denazification tribunal, classified...
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  • Minister president (Germany) (category State politics (Germany))
    members of a state government) under federal law, but in some states (for example North Rhine-Westphalia) it is forbidden by the state constitution and...
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  • Walter Freitag (politician) (category Members of the Bundestag for North Rhine-Westphalia)
    Ennepe-Ruhr district from 1946 to 1949 and a member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia from 1946 to 1950. From 1949 to 1953 he was a member of...
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    Dinslaken (category Towns in North Rhine-Westphalia)
    Dinslaken is a town in the district of Wesel, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is known for its harness racing track, its now closed coal mine in...
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    Stadt) in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is in the northern part of the state and is considered to be the cultural centre of the Westphalia region....
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