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    Michael Kretschmer (born 7 May 1975) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as Minister President of Saxony...
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    The third Kretschmer cabinet has formed the state government of Saxony, Germany, since 18 December 2024. Michael Kretschmer leads a coalition between...
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  • climatologist Otto Kretschmer (1912–1998), German U-Boat commander in World War II Paul Kretschmer (1866–1956), German linguist Michael Kretschmer (born 1975)...
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    election. Going into the election, the state government was led by Michael Kretschmer of the CDU as Minister-President, in a coalition with the Greens and...
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    Minister-President Michael Kretschmer, who had spoken out in favour of accepting a maximum of 60,000–100,000 refugees per year. Merz explained that Kretschmer's statement...
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    parliamentary democracy. A Minister President heads the government of Saxony. Michael Kretschmer has been Minister President since 13 December 2017. In the 2024 European...
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    (CDU) and Social Democratic Party (SPD) led by Minister-President Michael Kretschmer. The CDU, SPD, and The Left suffered heavy losses. The Alternative...
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    047 394.3 0.934 41,617  Saxony (Sachsen) SN 1990 Dresden Landtag Michael Kretschmer (CDU) 4 18,450 4,054,689 219.8 0.944 38,143  Saxony-Anhalt (Sachsen-Anhalt)...
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    Second Kretschmer cabinet was the state government of Saxony from 2019 to 2024. It was sworn in on 20 December 2019 after Michael Kretschmer was elected...
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    2016. In the German federal election the following year, he defeated Michael Kretschmer (later Minister-President of Saxony) in the electoral district of...
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    for Culture in the Kretschmer I and Kretschmer II cabinets from 2017 to 2024. On December 19, 2024, Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer appointed Christian...
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    Otto Kretschmer (1 May 1912 – 5 August 1998) was a German naval officer and submariner in World War II and the Cold War. From September 1939 until his...
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    Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt. ISBN 3-421-06541-1. Lappenküper, Ulrich (2004). Michael Gehler; Wolfram Kaiser (eds.). Between Concentration Movement and People's...
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    received an unusual endorsement from the Minister-President of Saxony, Michael Kretschmer of CDU, who stated "the strongest party needs to be a democratic party"...
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    Guttenberg and Rainer Brüderle. In 2010, news media reported that Michael Kretschmer, the CDU’s general secretary in Saxony, had offered personal meetings...
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  • 2024-07-10. "Sachsen | Affäre um CDU-Landrat: Nancy Faeser kritisiert Michael Kretschmer". www.t-online.de (in German). 2022-12-22. Retrieved 2024-07-10. mdr...
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    the governments of Stanislaw Tillich III and Michael Kretschmer. On 20 December 2019, Michael Kretschmer appointed a new cabinet, with Dulig continuing...
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  • on Tuesday". The Local. 3 September 2024. Saxony's Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer (CDU) on Monday further ruled out working with the second-placed AfD...
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    parliamentary group leader Alexander Dobrindt, the Saxon Minister President Michael Kretschmer, the deputy chairwoman of the CDU Karin Prien and CSU politician Dorothee...
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    Rehlinger   Saxony Michael Kretschmer (1975-05-07) 7 May 1975 (age 49) CDU 13 December 2017 7 years, 110 days 2024 2019 Kretschmer III    Saxony-Anhalt...
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    leader Michael Kretschmer". Deutsche Welle. Deutsche Welle. Retrieved 19 December 2021. "Erste Vernehmungen nach Morddrohungen gegen Kretschmer" (in German)...
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    Union (CDU) from 1990 to 2002. He was succeeded by fellow CDU member Michael Kretschmer from 2002 to 2017. Tino Chrupalla of the AfD was elected in 2017 and...
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    there have been sporadic encroachments. Minister President of Saxony Michael Kretschmer came to the same conclusion: "there were no mobs and man hunts". One...
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    successive Minister-Presidents Stanislaw Tillich (2014–2018) and Michael Kretschmer (since 2017). Since 2009, he has been a member of the Landtag of the...
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    the CDU Thuringia Sven Schulze, chairman of the CDU Saxony-Anhalt Michael Kretschmer, Minister-President of Saxony and State Chairman of the CDU Saxony...
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    office Picture Name Party State Secretary Party Minister President Michael Kretschmer CDU First Deputy of the Minister President Wolfram Günther B'90/Die...
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    joined a group of young party members – including Günter Krings, Michael Kretschmer and Jens Spahn – in signing an open letter which called for changes...
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    up to 900 people. At the same time, the Prime Minister of Saxony, Michael Kretschmer, accompanied by other state and local politicians, held a "consultation...
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    with the FDP and the Greens. Leading figures in the CDU/CSU such as Michael Kretschmer stated that since the CDU/CSU was knocked down to second place, it...
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  • 2014 4 Michael Kretschmer (born 1975) 13 December 2017 Incumbent 7 years, 110 days Christian Democratic Union Kretschmer I CDU–SPD Kretschmer II CDU–Green–SPD...
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