List of Political Families - Germany

Germany

The Adenauer Family

  • Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor of Germany
    • Max Adenauer, Oberstadtdirektor and Councillor in Cologne, son of Konrad
      • Sven-Georg Adenauer, Landrat (District Director) in the Landkreis (district) of Gütersloh, grandson of Konrad

The Albrecht Family (father – daughter)

  • Ernst Albrecht, (Minister-president of Lower Saxony)
    • Ursula von der Leyen, (Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs), daughter of Ernst

The Bismarck Family

  • Otto von Bismarck, Chancellor (Minister-President) of the German Empire, 1871–90
    • Herbert von Bismarck, (Minister from 1888–90, Member of the Reichstag from 1893), son of Otto
      • Otto von Bismarck, Jr., (1897–1975, Member of the Reichstag 1924–28, Member of the Bundestag 1953–65), son of Herbert
      • Gottfried von Bismarck, (1901–49, Member of the Reichstag 1933–44), son of Herbert
          • Carl-Eduard von Bismarck, (Member of the Bundestag), great-great-grandson of Otto Sr.

The Bülow Family

  • Bernhard Ernst von Bülow (1815–79), German Minister of the Exterior
    • Bernhard von Bülow (1849–1929), Minister of the Exterior, Chancellor, son of the former
      • Bernhard Wilhelm von Bülow, vice Minister of the Exterior, nephew of the former

The Bülows are an old Mecklenburg aristocratic dynasty with many members active in politics, in church or in the military.

The de Maizière Family

  • Ulrich de Maizière, inspector general of the West German Army
    • Lothar de Maizière, (Minister-President of the German Democratic Republic March–October 1990), nephew of Ulrich
    • Thomas de Maizière, (Federal Interior Minister since 2009), cousin of Lothar

The Ebert Family (father-son)

  • Friedrich Ebert, President of Germany
  • Friedrich Ebert junior, Mayor of East Berlin

The Goppel Family

  • Alfons Goppel, (Minister-president of the state of Bavaria)
    • Thomas Goppel, (Minister of Science, Research and the Arts of the state of Bavaria), son of Alfons

The Guttenberg Family

  • Karl Ludwig von Guttenberg, Member of the resistance against Hitler (d. 1945)
  • Georg Enoch, Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg, (Hereditary Peer in Bavaria), brother of Karl Ludwig
    • Karl Theodor Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg, (co-founder of a Bavarian party, Member of the German Parliament), son of Georg Enoch
      • Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, Federal Minister of Defence since 2009, grandson of Karl Theodor

The Gysi Family (father and son)

  • Klaus Gysi, (GDR Minister of Culture, Ambassador to Italy, State Secretary for Church Affairs) (d 1999)
    • Gregor Gysi, (Human rights lawyer, chair of the Party of Democratic Socialism, leader of PDS fraction in the Bundestag, Economics Senator in Berlin city government), son of Klaus

The Koch Family

  • Karl-Heinz Koch, (Justice Minister in Hesse)
    • Roland Koch, (former Minister-President of Hesse), son of Karl-Heinz

The Niklas / Ertl Family

  • Wilhelm Niklas, (Minister for Agriculture) (d. 1957)
    • Josef Ertl, (Minister for Agriculture) (d. 2000), son-in-law of Wilhelm

The Speer Family (father – daughter)

  • Albert Speer, (Third Reich Minister of Armaments and War Production)
    • Hildegard Schramm (Vice-President of the Berlin House of Deputies), daughter of Albert

The Strauss Family (father – daughter)

  • Franz Josef Strauss, (Minister-president of the state of Bavaria)
    • Monika Hohlmeier, (Minister of Education and the Arts of the state of Bavaria), daughter of Franz Josef

The Vogel Brothers

  • Bernhard Vogel, (Minister-President of Rheinland-Pfalz, Minister-President of Thuringia)
  • Hans-Jochen Vogel, (Mayor of Munich, Mayor of Berlin), brother of Bernhard

The Weizsäcker Family (grandfather-father-son-nephew)

  • Karl Hugo von Weizsäcker (Minister-President of Württemberg)
    • Ernst von Weizsäcker (Diplomat, Head of the Political Department of the Foreign Office); son of Karl Hugo von Weizsäcker
      • Richard von Weizsäcker (President of Germany); son of Ernst Freiherr von Weizsäcker
        • Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker (German Member of Parliament); nephew of Richard von Weizsäcker

Read more about this topic:  List Of Political Families

Famous quotes containing the word germany:

    How does Nature deify us with a few and cheap elements! Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria; the sun-set and moon-rise my Paphos, and unimaginable realms of faerie; broad noon shall be my England of the senses and the understanding; the night shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy and dreams.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    If my theory of relativity is proven correct, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.
    Albert Einstein (1879–1955)

    The tears I have cried over Germany have dried. I have washed my face.
    Marlene Dietrich (1904–1992)