FDP leader Guido Westerwelle became the unofficial leader of the opposition by virtue of the FDP's position as the largest opposition party in the Bundestag.

Philipp Rösler is FDP chairman, having succeeded Guido Westerwelle, the party's second-longest serving chairman, in May 2011.

The FDP supports gay rights ; former party leader Guido Westerwelle is openly gay.

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

Because of the losses Guido Westerwelle had to resign as chair of the FDP in favor of Philipp Rösler, Federal Minister of Health, who was consequently appointed as vice chancellor.

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.

** People: Guido Westerwelle ( Chancellor-Candidate of the FDP )

In January 2010, German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle demonstrated the same respect when he concluded his visit to Japan with a visit of the shrine.

Die Linke has twice nominated Beate Klarsfeld for the Federal Cross of Merit, but the foreign ministers Joschka Fischer and Guido Westerwelle did not approve her.

Wulff's candidacy for President of Germany in the 2010 presidential election was formally confirmed by Angela Merkel, Guido Westerwelle and Horst Seehofer, the heads of the CDU, FDP and CSU parties, during the evening of 2010.

Michael Mronz ( left ) and his longtime partner, German foreign minister Guido Westerwelle ( 2009 )

Michael Mronz ( Born March 1, 1967 in Cologne ) is a German sports manager and longtime partner of German foreign minister Guido Westerwelle.

The Reding initiative led a group of foreign affairs ministers of the European Union to put together a reflection group animated by the German foreign minister Guido Westerwelle on the future of Europe.

* Guido Westerwelle ( 1983 – 1988 )

Early in the campaign, Guido Westerwelle, leader of the Free Democrats, declared himself a " Chancellor Candidate ," usually a title reserved for the main election leaders of the SPD and CDU / CSU.

The current office holder is Guido Westerwelle.

France's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and minister of culture and communications Frédéric Mitterrand, German foreign minister Guido Westerwelle, Canadian government, Finnish Green MP Rosa Meriläinen and Human Rights Watch have condemned the arrest.

In response to this non legally-binding direction, German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said it " has nothing to do with any other cases in the world " including Cyprus.

* Guido Westerwelle ( b. 1961 ), Foreign Minister and Vice-Chancellor of Germany

Guido Westerwelle

Since 2009, Guido Westerwelle has served as Foreign Minister, and Werner Hoyer and Cornelia Pieper as Ministers of State.

Also, German politician and leader of the Free Democratic Party Guido Westerwelle was born in Bad Honnef.

Guido Gelli, director of science at the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics ( IBGE ), told the Brazilian TV network Globo in June 2007 that it could be considered as a fact that the Amazon was the longest river in the world.

Guido, as he was called before his elevation to the papacy, was the son of William I, Count of Burgundy.

The greatest resistance was seen in France and was led by Guido, who still held the office of the papal legate.

Guido was later created cardinal by Pope Paschal II.

On the fourth day after the death of Gelasius II, February I, 1119, owing mainly to the exertions of Cardinal Cuno, Guido was elected pope and assumed the title of Callistus II.

Fra Angelico ( born Guido di Pietro ; c. 1395 – February 18, 1455 ) was an Early Italian Renaissance painter described by Vasari in his Lives of the Artists as having " a rare and perfect talent ".

Fra Angelico was born Guido di Pietro at Rupecanina

Guy Fawkes ( 13 April 1570 – 31 January 1606 ), also known as Guido Fawkes, the name he adopted while fighting for the Spanish in the Low Countries, was a member of a group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605.

Cardinale ( 1983 ), the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary was founded by two Bolognese nobles Loderingo degli Andalò and Catalano di Guido in 1233, and approved by pope Alexander IV in 1261.

So, that day, German diplomat Hans von Herwarth, whose grandmother was Jewish, informed Guido Relli, an Italian diplomat, and American chargé d ' affaires Charles Bohlen on the secret protocol regarding vital interests in the countries ' allotted " spheres of influence ", without revealing the annexation rights for " territorial and political rearrangement ".

This line was initiated by Guido Orsini, second son of Romano, who inherited the county of Soana.

Python was conceived in the late 1980s and its implementation was started in December 1989 by Guido van Rossum at CWI in the Netherlands as a successor to the ABC language ( itself inspired by SETL ) capable of exception handling and interfacing with the Amoeba operating system.

Pope Celestine II ( died 8 March 1144 ), born Guido di Castello, was pope from 1143 to 1144.

Guido di Castello, possibly the son of a local noble, Niccolo di Castello, was born either in Città di Castello, situated in Paterna Santa Felicità upon the Apennines, or at Macerata in the March of Ancona.

Guy ( or Guido ) was apparently made cardinal at some point by Paschal II, who died on 21 January 1118.

A crucial turning point was the murder, in 1979, of Guido Rossa, a member of the PCI and a trade union organizer.

Amongst these, world-renowned physicists Emilio Segrè, Enrico Fermi ( whose wife was Jewish ), Bruno Pontecorvo, Bruno Rossi, Tullio Levi-Civita, mathematicians Federigo Enriques and Guido Fubini and even the fascist propaganda director, art critic and journalist Margherita Sarfatti, who was one of Mussolini's mistresses.

Other Italian poets of the time, including Dante Alighieri ( 1265 – 1321 ) and Guido Cavalcanti ( c. 1250 – 1300 ) wrote sonnets, but the most famous early sonneteer was Petrarca ( known in English as Petrarch ).

Isaac Asimov, whose specialties included both science fiction and humor and who was a self-described " punster ", wrote a short story called " Shah Guido G .", referring to the story's Atlantean ruler.