* 1948 – Joschka Fischer, German politician, Vice Chancellor of Germany

* 1934 – Adolf Hitler becomes the supreme leader of Germany by joining the offices of President and Chancellor into Führer.

This was the situation in Germany in 2005 when Angela Merkel became Chancellor: in early elections, the CDU / CSU did not garner enough votes to form a majority coalition with the FDP ; similarly the SPD and Greens did not have enough votes to continue on with their formerly ruling coalition.

In Germany, Chancellor Leo von Caprivi promoted a progressive conservative agenda called the " New Course ".

A 1924 right-wing German political cartoon showing Philipp Scheidemann, the Social Democratic Party of Germany | German Social Democratic politician who proclaimed the Weimar Republic and was its second Chancellor, and Matthias Erzberger, an anti-war politician from the Centre Party ( Germany ) | Centre Party, who signed the Armistice with Germany ( Compiègne ) | armistice with the Allies ( World War I ) | Allies, as stabbing the German Army in the back

In the late 1990s he criticized the incoming Chancellor Schröder for saying that he would work hard in the interest of Germans and people living in Germany.

Dollfuss was concerned that with German National Socialist leader Adolf Hitler becoming Chancellor of Germany in 1933, the Austrian National Socialists ( DNSAP ) could gain a significant minority in future elections ( according to fascism scholar Stanley G. Payne, should elections have been held in 1933, the DNSAP could have mustered about 25 % of the votes-contemporary TIME analysts suggests a higher support of 50 %, with a 75 % approval rate in the Tyrol region bordering Nazi Germany ).

Walter Scheel served as Foreign Minister, Vice Chancellor, Acting Chancellor and President of Germany

* 1831 – Leo von Caprivi, Chancellor of Germany ( d. 1899 )

Beginning with the replacement of the Reichsmark with the Deutsche Mark as legal tender, a lasting period of low inflation and rapid industrial growth was overseen by the government led by German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and his minister of economics, Ludwig Erhard, raising West Germany from total wartime devastation to one of the most developed nations in modern Europe.

The Chancellor is the head of government, while the President of Germany is the head of state, which is a ceremonial role with substantial reserve powers.

Angela Merkel was re-elected as chancellor, and Guido Westerwelle served as the Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor of Germany.

In a more specific sense, Gleichschaltung refers to the legal measures taken by the government during the first months following January 30, 1933, when Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany.

Die Proklamation des Deutschen Kaiserreiches by Anton von Werner ( 1877 ), depicting the proclamation of the foundation of the German Reich ( 18 January 1871, Palace of Versailles ). Left, on the podium ( in black ): Crown Prince Frederick ( later Frederick III, German Emperor | Frederick III ), his father Emperor William I, German Emperor | William I, and Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden | Frederick I of Baden, proposing a toast to the new emperor. Centre ( in white ): Otto von Bismarck, first Chancellor of Germany, Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, Prussian Chief of Staff.

As part of the deal in which Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, Hermann Göring — future commander of the Luftwaffe and an influential Nazi Party official — was named Interior Minister of Prussia.

Bismarck's domestic policies as Chancellor of Germany were characterised by his fight against perceived enemies of the Protestant Prussian state.

The appointments and dismissals of members of the German cabinet is approved by President of Germany | President Richard von Weizsäcker ( right ), on the advice of Chancellor of Germany ( Federal Republic of Germany ) | Chancellor Helmut Kohl ( left ) in 1991.

Today, German conservatism is often associated with Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose tenure has been marked by attempts to save the common European currency ( EURO ) from demise.

Chancellor since 2005: Angela Merkel of the Christian Democrats

Chancellor Angela Merkel, the head of government, hosting the G8 summit in Heiligendamm.

* 2005 – Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany.

Though Bisky's candidacy was supported by the Greens and by some Christian Democratic and Social Democratic leaders, including Chancellor Angela Merkel, after two failed votes the party decided to withdraw his nomination.

* Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany in 2005.

* Chancellor Angela Merkel ( Germany )

In June 5, 2009 U. S. President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited Buchenwald after a tour of Dresden Castle and Church of Our Lady.

Several heads-of-state have expressed doubts about the success of multicultural policies: The United Kingdom's Prime Minister David Cameron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Australia's ex-prime minister John Howard, Spanish ex-president Jose Maria Aznar and French President Nicolas Sarkozy have voiced concerns about the effectiveness of their multicultural policies for integrating immigrants.

The current Chancellor of Germany is Angela Merkel, who was elected in 2005.

Helmut Kohl presided over 17 ministers at the start of his fourth term in 1994 ; the 2002 cabinet, the second of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, had 13 ministers and the Angela Merkel cabinet as of 22 November 2005 has 15.

The leader of the party, Angela Merkel, is the current Chancellor of Germany.

" The process of German unity has not ended yet ", proclaimed Chancellor Angela Merkel, who grew up in East Germany, in 2009.

In April 2006 Tomsk received international media attention as the venue of a major summit on economic cooperation, held in the city between Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

However, even the German Chancellor Angela Merkel used the term Weißrussland in her speech to the European Council Summit in March 2007.

Guido Westerwelle (; born 27 December 1961 ) is a German liberal politician, who, since 28 October 2009, has served as the Foreign Minister in the second cabinet of Chancellor Angela Merkel, and who was Vice Chancellor of Germany from 2009 to 2011.

When neither Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's Social Democrats and Greens nor a coalition of Christian and Free Democrats, favored by Angela Merkel and Westerwelle, managed to gain a majority of seats, Westerwelle rejected overtures by Chancellor Schröder to save his chancellorship by entering his coalition, preferring to become one of the leaders of the disparate opposition of the subsequently formed " Grand Coalition " of Christian and Social Democrats, with Merkel as Chancellor.

On November 9, 2009, Chancellor Angela Merkel, walked through Brandenburg Gate with Russia ’ s Mikhail Gorbachev and Poland's Lech Wałęsa as part of the 20-year celebration of tearing down the Berlin Wall.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel — who grew up behind the wall in Germany's communist eastern part — also attended the commemoration.

Merkel is also the first Chancellor elected since the fall of the Berlin Wall to have been raised in the former East Germany.

Merkel was confirmed as the first female Chancellor of Germany by the majority of delegates ( 397 to 217 ) in the newly assembled Bundestag on 22 November.

the British Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne in August 2010 to protest the decision to close the Council.

The only party convention in 2003 was planned for November 2003, but about 20 % of the local organisations forced the federal party to hold a special party convention in Cottbus early to discuss the party position regarding Agenda 2010, a major reform of the German welfare programmes planned by Chancellor Schröder.

He is now fully retired ; since 2010 he has been the oldest surviving German Chancellor in history.

In August 2010, Eastwood wrote to the British Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne to protest the decision to close the UK Film Council, warning that the closure could result in fewer foreign production companies choosing to work in the UK.

* Kenneth Dover ( 1920 – 2010 ), British academic ; former Chancellor of the University of St Andrews

While the moderate, Seeheimer Kreis social democrats strongly support the Agenda 2010 reformist programs introduced by former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, the Keynesian social democrats continue to defend classical left-wing policies such as the expansion of the welfare state.

The Minister of Foreign Relations, since June 2010, is Chancellor ( es: Canciller ) Héctor Timerman.

* Actresses Emilia Fox and Anna Chancellor and columnist and author Toby Young and co-producer Benjamin Rimmer are among current ( 2010 ) prominent local residents.

On January 22, 2010, Ulmer announced her intent to resign from the Chancellor position at the University of Alaska Anchorage effective in 2011.

On 12 May 2010, it was announced that Clarke had been appointed Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor by Prime Minister David Cameron in a coalition government formed from the Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties.

It was opened by the Chancellor of the University of Oxford, Lord Patten of Barnes, in April 2010.

In 2010, it was announced David Cameron wanted Howard to join his Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition, possibly as Lord Chancellor, via the House of Lords as part of David Cameron's appeal to rightwing Tories.

In May 2010, it was reported that Prime Minister David Cameron would also take up actual residence above Number 11, and his Chancellor George Osborne above Number 10.

On 16 June 2010, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, announced plans to abolish the FSA and separate its responsibilities between two new agencies, one to be part of the Bank of England.

On 16 June 2010, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, announced plans to abolish the FSA and separate its responsibilities between a number of new agencies and the Bank of England.

In the spending review statement to the House of Commons on 20 October 2010, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, announced that from 2013 the Civil List would be abolished.

From 2007 to 2010 he was the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain and the Secretary of State for Justice, appointed as part of Prime Minister Gordon Brown's first Cabinet.

When the Labour Party lost power in May 2010, he briefly became the Shadow Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, Shadow Secretary of State for Justice and the Shadow Deputy Prime Minister, but stood down from the frontbench after the Labour Party elected a new Shadow Cabinet.

Although the Department for International Development ’ s foreign aid budget was not affected by the cuts outlined by the Chancellor of the Exchequer ’ s 2010 spending review, DFID will see their administration budgets slashed by approximately 19 percent over the next four years.

On Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2010, Siegel was presented with Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism by the Journalism School of Columbia University.

On October 28, 2010 in response to a writ of mandamus a Tennessee Williamson County Chancellor Robbie Beal found that the sheriff or CLEO is not required to execute NFA documents according to Tenn. Code Ann.

Upon his death in 2010, UNESCO-IHE described him as a " towering figure and pioneer in hydrology " whilst the Chancellor of the NUI, Dr. Maurice Manning, described him as " that rare phenomenon in Irish life, a public intellectual whose life was devoted, without posture, to the public service .” Professor John Sweeney who was one of the scientists as part of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change honoured with the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 described him as " perhaps one of the most important, prolific and distinguished scientists of the past generation.

On March 17, 2010, current Chancellor and former president Dr. James R. Appleton was appointed interim president.

In July 2010, Huckabee became a fundraiser on behalf of for-profit Victory College in Memphis Tennessee and was designated Chancellor of the Victory University Foundation, although he did not take up residence in Memphis.