Further south, the SPD also enjoys solid support in northern Hesse ( Hans Eichel was mayor of Kassel, then Hesse's minister president, then finance minister in the Schröder administration, while Brigitte Zypries served as Justice Minister ), parts of Palatinate ( Kurt Beck was party leader until 7 September 2008 ), the Saarland ( political home of one-time candidate for federal chancellor Oskar Lafontaine, defected from the SPD in 1999 ), and southwestern Baden ( Marion Caspers-Merk, Gernot Erler ).

Hans Eichel ( January 2010 )

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He was Minister-President of Hesse from April 7, 1999, immediately becoming President of the Bundesrat, completing the term begun by his predecessor as Minister President, Hans Eichel, until his resignation on August 31, 2010.

Koch was able to win the election and displace the incumbent, Hans Eichel.

This occurred in April 1999 when Roland Koch replaced Hans Eichel as minister-president of Hesse.

* 1998-1999 Hans Eichel, Hesse, SPD

Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt was born into a medical family in Harburg, which was incorporated into Hamburg in 1937.

Hans Rudolf " Ruedi " Giger (; born February 5, 1940 ) is a Swiss surrealist painter, sculptor, and set designer.

Hans Baldung was born in Swabia, Germany in the year 1484 to a family of intellectuals, academics and professionals.

* Hans Memling ( – 1494 ), Early Netherlandish painter, born in Germany.

Kohl was born in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ( at the time part of Bavaria, now in Rhineland-Palatinate ) Germany, the third child of Cäcilie ( née Schnur ; 1890 – 1979 ) and her husband Hans Kohl ( 1887 – 1975 ), a civil servant.

He was the elder brother, by about three years, of Hans Holbein the Younger and like his brother was born in Augsburg ( which today is in Bavaria, but then was a free imperial city ), a center of art, culture and trade at that time.

Hans Dürer ( born February 21, 1490 in Nuremberg-ca.

Artist Hans von Kulmbach ( real name Hans Suess or Hans Süß ) was born around 1480 in Kulmbach, Franconia and died previous to Dec. 3, 1522 in Nuremberg.

* Pete Arnesen ( born Hans Peter Arnesen, 25 August 1947, Salzburg, Austria )-piano

* Johann " Hans " Rickmers, retired cavalry captain who had fought in World War I ; born 7 May 1881 in Bremen.

* Hans Florine ( born 1964 ), an American rock climber

Hans Göran Persson () ( born 20 January 1949 ) was the Prime Minister of Sweden from 1996 to 2006 and the leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 1996 to 2007.

He was born at Kronach in upper Franconia and learned the art of drawing from his father Hans Maler ( his surname meaning " painter " and denoting his profession, not his ancestry, after the manner of the time and class ).

He was also godfather to their first child, Johannes " Hans " Luther, born 1526.

Cranach had two sons, both artists: Hans Cranach, whose life is obscure and who died at Bologna in 1537 ; and Lucas Cranach the Younger, born in 1515, who died in 1586.

Paul Klee was born as the second child of the German music teacher Hans Wilhelm Klee ( 1849 – 1940 ) and the Swiss singer Ida Marie Klee, née Frick ( 1855 – 1921 ).

* Hans Uwe Hielscher ( born 1945 ) – Germany

In Das Buch vom Kitsch ( The Book of Kitsch ), Hans Reimann defines it as a professional expression “ born in a painter's studio ”.

Douglas Sirk ( born Hans Detlef Sierck ; April 26, 1897 – January 14, 1987 ) was a Danish-German film director best known for his work in Hollywood melodramas in the 1950s.

Sirk was born Hans Detlef Sierck in Hamburg, Germany to Danish parents.

Hans Sloane was born on 16 April 1660 at Killyleagh in County Down, Ireland, His father was the head of a Scottish colony sent over by James I

Werner Hans Erhard ( born John Paul Rosenberg, September 5, 1935 ) is an author of transformational models and applications for individuals, groups, and organizations.

Medal of Honor recipient Col. Merlyn Hans Dethlefsen, USAF, was born in Greenville.

* September 24 – Johannes Hans Geiger, German physicist and inventor ( b. 1882 )

* July 24 – Hans Albers, German actor and singer ( b. 1891 )

* October 24 – Hans Dreier, German art director ( b. 1885 )

Hans " Gengar " Geiger ( 30 September 1882 – 24 September 1945 ) was a German physicist.

Difficulties with these projects made Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen his first printed work, however, in 1916 — a title that included 16 colour plates and more than 24 monotone illustrations.

Robert Hans van Gulik (, August 9, 1910, Zutphen – September 24, 1967, The Hague ) was a highly educated orientalist, diplomat, musician ( of the guqin ), and writer, best known for the Judge Dee mysteries, the protagonist of which he borrowed from the 18th-century Chinese detective novel Dee Goong An.

Haas 24 ( Hans Hartwich )

The United States Army Signal Corps employed 24 specialists — including the physicists Georg Goubau, Gunter Guttwein, Georg Hass, Horst Kedesdy, and Kurt Lehovec ; the physical chemists Rudolf Brill, Ernst Baars, and Eberhard Both ; the geophysicist Dr. Helmut Weickmann ; the optician Gerhard Schwesinger ; and the engineers Eduard Gerber, Richard Guenther, and Hans Ziegler.

Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom, ( also spelled Strydom ) commonly called JG Strydom or Hans Strydom ( 14 July 1893 – 24 August 1958 ), nicknamed the Lion of the North, was Prime Minister of South Africa from 30 November 1954 to 24 August 1958.

During a battle at Kolberg on April 24, 1715, Wessel captured the Swedish Rear-Admiral Hans Wachtmeister, as well as the frigate Vita Örn ( White Eagle ), which he was granted as his new flagship under the name Hvide Ørn.

Thus Schubert's numbers would run 1-5, 13, 6-8, 14-21, 9-10, 23, 11-12, 22, 24, a sequence occasionally attempted by Hans Joachim Moser and Günther Baum.

Jonsok ( St. John's Passing ), or St. Hans ( St. John's Day ), i. e. 24 June, is also a commonly revered holiday.

* Hans Ritter: 24 Vierundzwanzig Etüden für Gitarre, op.

During the championship season the TWR team had also won the Spa 24 Hours race with an XJS driven by Tom Walkinshaw, Hans Heyer and Win Percy.

The first documented idea of building a railway between Norway's two largest cities was launched by Hans Gløersen on 24 August 1871 in Bergensposten.

Johannes Frederik Janse Van Rensburg ( known as Hans ) ( 24 September 1898 – 25 September 1966 ) was a South African lawyer, and leader of the Ossewabrandwag.

The organizers decided that only 24 of the 35 entries should be allowed to start, notable victims of this rule being Hans Stuck Sr. in an Ecurie Espadon Ferrari, all three HWMs, both Enrico Platé's old Maseratis and most of the privateers.

Hans Philipp August Albers ( September 22, 1891 – July 24, 1960 ) was a German actor and singer.

Hans Klenk ( born October 28, 1919 at Künzelsau, died March 24, 2009, Vellberg ) was a racing driver from Germany.

The Porsche 917 K driven to victory in the 1970 24 Hours of Le Mans by Dickie Attwood and Hans Herrmann.

Attwood subsequently went on to win the Le Mans 24 Hours in 1970 with a Porsche 917K, along with Hans Herrmann.

On the morning of August 24, 1939, he visited the Third Reich diplomat Hans von Herwarth and received the full content of the secret protocol to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, signed the day before.