Query: Who is the mayor of Berlin?

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Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin <=SEP=> The Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin is the state parliament (Landtag) of Berlin, Germany according to the city-state's constitution. In 1993 the parliament moved from Rathaus Schöneberg to its present house on Niederkirchnerstraße in Mitte, which until 1934 was the seat of the Prussian Landtag. The current president of the parliament is Ralf Wieland (SPD).

Altes Stadthaus, Berlin <=SEP=> Altes Stadthaus "\Old City Hall") is a former administrative building in Berlin, currently used by the Senate. It faces the Molkenmarkt and is bound by four roads; Jüdenstraße, Klosterstraße, Parochialstraße, and Stralauer Straße.

Arthur Werner <=SEP=> Arthur Victor Hugo Werner (born 15 April 1877 in Berlin; died 27 July 1967) was the first Mayor of Berlin after World War II. In 1907 Werner had graduated as an engineer at the Technical University of Charlottenburg.

Berlin, Connecticut <=SEP=> Berlin (/ˈbɜrlɪn/ BUR-lin) is a town in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 19,866 at the 2010 census. It was incorporated in 1785.  The geographic center of Connecticut is located in the town.  Berlin is residential and industrial, and is served by the Amtrak station of the same name. Berlin also has two hamlets: Kensington and East Berlin.

Berlin, New Hampshire <=SEP=> Berlin /ˈbɜrlɨn/ is a city along the Androscoggin River in Coos County in northern New Hampshire, United States.  The population was 10,051 at the 2010 census. It includes the village of Cascade. Located on the edge of the White Mountains, the city's boundaries extend into the White Mountain National Forest.

Berlin, New Jersey <=SEP=> Berlin is a borough in Camden County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough's population was 7,588, reflecting an increase of 1,439 (+23.4%) from the 6,149 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn increased by 477 (+8.4%) from the 5,672 counted in the 1990 Census.Berlin was incorporated as a borough on March 29, 1927, from portions of Berlin Township, based on the results of a referendum held on April 26, 1927.

Berlin <=SEP=> Berlin (/bərˈlɪn/, German: [bɛɐ̯ˈliːn]) is the capital of Germany and one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.5 million people, it is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union. Located in northeastern Germany on the banks of Rivers Spree and Havel, it is the centre of the Berlin-Brandenburg Metropolitan Region, which has about six million residents from over 180 nations.

Berlin Blockade <=SEP=> The Berlin Blockade (1 April 1948 – 12 May 1949) was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. The Soviets offered to drop the blockade if the Western Allies withdrew the newly introduced Deutschmark from West Berlin.

Berlin Wall <=SEP=> The Berlin Wall (German: Berliner Mauer) was a barrier that divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. Constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany), starting on 13 August 1961, the wall completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin until it was opened in November 1989. Its demolition officially began on 13 June 1990 and was completed in 1992.

Boroughs and localities of Berlin <=SEP=> Berlin is both a city and one of Germany’s federal states (See: City state). Since a 2001 administrative reform, it is made up of twelve boroughs (German: Bezirke, pronounced [bəˈʦɪʁkə]), each with its own local government, though all boroughs are subject to Berlin’s city and state government.Each borough is governed by a council (Bezirksamt) with five councillors (Bezirksstadträte) and a borough mayor (Bezirksbürgermeister).

Burgomaster <=SEP=> Burgomaster (alternatively spelled burgomeister, literally master of the town, borough or master of the fortress) is the English form of various terms in or derived from Germanic languages for the chief magistrate or chairman of the executive council, usually of a sub-national level of administration such as a city or a similar entity.

Christian Democratic Union of Germany <=SEP=> The Christian Democratic Union of Germany (German: Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands, CDU; German pronunciation: [ˈkʁɪstlɪç ˌdemoˈkʁaːtɪʃə uˈni̯oːn ˈdɔʏtʃlants]) is a Christian democratic and liberal-conservative political party in Germany. It is the major catch-all party of the centre-right in German politics.

Coat of arms of Berlin <=SEP=> The coat of arms of Berlin is used by the German city state as well as the city itself. On top of the shield is a special crown, created by the amalgamation of the mural crown of a city with the so-called people's crown (Volkskrone), used in Germany to denote a republic. Berlin's various boroughs use their own emblems.The bear was for many centuries only the charge in one out of three fields in the shield, the others displaying the eagles of Brandenburg and Prussia, respectively.

Diego Bottacin <=SEP=> Diego Bottacin (Noale, 7 September 1959) is an Italian politician from Veneto.In the 1980s Bottacin started his political career in the early green movements and in 1992 he was elected Mayor of Mogliano Veneto, an office he held until 2005. From 2002 to 2007 he was regional coordinator of Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy (DL). He was elected to the Regional Council of Veneto in 2005 for DL and in 2010 for the Democratic Party (PD), the party he had contributed to establish in Veneto.

Dietrich Stobbe <=SEP=> Dietrich Stobbe (25 March 1938 – 19 February 2011) was a German politician from Weepers, East Prussia.Stobbe served as Mayor of West Berlin from 2 May 1977 till 23 January 1981. From 1 November 1978 till 31 October 1979 he was also President of the Bundesrat.Stobbe was a member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD).He died on 19 February 2011 at the age of 72 after long illness.

Eberhard Diepgen <=SEP=> Eberhard Diepgen (born 13 November 1941 in Berlin-Wedding)  is a German politician of the CDU. He studied law at the Free University of Berlin. He was mayor of West Berlin from 1984 to 1989 and a reunited Berlin from 1991 to 2001.

Edzard Reuter <=SEP=> Edzard Hans Wilhelm Reuter (born February 16, 1928) was the CEO of Daimler-Benz from 1987 to 1995.Edzard Reuter was born in Berlin, his father was the popular social democratic politician and mayor of Berlin from 1948 to 1953, Ernst Reuter. His mother Hanna Reuter née Kleinert was a secretary at the party newspaper Vorwärts. After the Machtergreifung (putsch) of the NSDAP, the family was forced to flee Germany and they found exile in Ankara, Turkey.

Erhard Krack <=SEP=> Erhard Krack (9 January 1931 – 13 December 2000) was an East German politician and mayor of East Berlin from 1974 to 1990. Born in Danzig, he was a member of the Socialist Unity Party (SED). He was also a deputy in the Volkskammer and a member of the Central Committee of the SED.

Ernst Reuter <=SEP=> Ernst Rudolf Johannes Reuter (29 July 1889 – 29 September 1953) was the German mayor of West Berlin from 1948 to 1953, during the time of the Cold War.

Eva Galambos <=SEP=> Eva Cohn Galambos (July 1, 1928 – April 19, 2015) was a German-born American economist and politician who served as the first mayor of Sandy Springs, Georgia.  She served as the city's inaugural Mayor from December 1, 2005, until January 7, 2014, when Rusty Paul was inaugurated as the city's second mayor. She had a Ph.D.

Ferdinand Friedensburg <=SEP=> Ferdinand Friedensburg (born 17 November 1886 in Schweidnitz (present-day Świdnica); died 11 March 1972) was the interim Mayor of Berlin due to the illness of mayor Louise Schroeder during the Berlin Blockade in 1948.

Francesco Rutelli <=SEP=> Francesco Rutelli, MP (born 14 June 1954) is an Italian politician and current President of Alliance for Italy. He also chairs the "Centro per un Futuro Sostenibile" (Centre for a Sustainable Future – a bipartisan think tank on climate change and environmental issues). He is co-president of the European Democratic Party, a centrist European political party, today counting approximately 20 MEPs.

Frank Steffel <=SEP=> Frank Steffel (born March 2, 1966 in West Berlin) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Party (CDU).Steffel has been a member of the CDU since 1983. He was a member of the state parliament in Berlin from 1991 to 2009. In the Berlin state elections of 2001 he was the CDU's candidate for the position as Governing Mayor of Berlin. His election campaign was considered unfortunate. For instance he described Munich as Germany's "most beautiful city" and as its "secret capital".

Friedrich-Wilhelm Kiel <=SEP=> Friedrich-Wilhelm Kiel (born 17 May 1934 in Berlin-Charlottenburg) is a German politician and member of the FDP.Kiel studied physics, mathematics and sport at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and became a member of the FDP in 1964 whilst teaching at a gymnasium in Ettlingen, where he later became mayor (1966–1970).

Friedrich Ebert, Jr. <=SEP=> Friedrich "Fritz" Ebert, Jr. (12 September 1894 – 4 December 1979) was a German politician and East German communist official, the son of Germany's first President Friedrich Ebert.He was originally a Social Democrat like his father before him, but is best known for his role in the origins of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany and the German Democratic Republic, in which he served in various positions.

Georg Voigt (politician) <=SEP=> Georg Philipp Wilhelm Voigt (16 September 1866 in Klein-Schellmühl bei Danzig – 13 April 1927 in Marburg) was a German politician. Voigt was the mayor of Rixdorf, Barmen, Frankfurt und Marburg.

Giuseppe Berlato Sella <=SEP=> Giuseppe Berlato Sella (born 20 October 1939) is an Italian politician from Veneto.He was born in San Vito di Leguzzano.A long-time Christian Democrat, Berlato Sella was continuously municipal councillor of Schio from 1975 to 2004 and Mayor from 1987 to 2004. In 1994, after the dissolution of Christian Democracy, he joined the Italian People's Party. From 2000 to 2005 he was president of the regional association of mayors.

Governing Mayor of Berlin <=SEP=> The Governing Mayor (German: Regierender Bürgermeister) of Berlin is the head of government, presiding over the Berlin Senate. As Berlin is an independent city as well as one of the constituent States of Germany (Bundesländer), the office is the equivalent of the Ministers-President of the other German states —except the two other city-states of Hamburg and Bremen, where the heads of government are called "First Mayor" and "Mayor and President of the Senate", respectively.

Hans-Jochen Vogel <=SEP=> Hans-Jochen Vogel (born 3 February 1926) is a German politician.

Heinrich Albertz <=SEP=> Heinrich Albertz (22 January 1915 – 18 May 1993) was a German Protestant theologian, priest and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). He served as Governing Mayor of Berlin (West Berlin) from 1966 to 1967.

Heinrich Sahm <=SEP=> Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Martin Sahm (12 September 1877 – 3 October 1939), no party affiliation, was a German lawyer, mayor and statesman from the Free City of Danzig.Sahm was born in Anklam, present-day Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and educated as a lawyer, in 1906 he became a member of the Magdeburg city council and served from 1912 to 1919 as a deputy mayor of Bochum.

Heinz Buschkowsky <=SEP=> Heinz Buschkowsky (born 31 July 1948 in Berlin) is a German SPD politician and former Mayor of the Neukölln borough of Berlin.After various positions in the Berlin civil service he became mayor of Neukölln in 2001.He is an outspoken proponent of government support for integration of the immigrant population.His 2012 book Neukölln ist überall, describing the integration problems in Neukölln became a bestseller in Germany.

Klaus Schütz <=SEP=> Klaus Schütz (September 17, 1926 – November 29, 2012) was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD).

Klaus Wowereit <=SEP=> Klaus Wowereit (born 1 October 1953) is a German politician, member of the SPD (Social Democratic Party), and was the Governing Mayor of Berlin from 21 October 2001 to 11 December 2014. In 2001 state elections his party won a plurality of the votes, 29.7%. He served as President of the Bundesrat (the fourth highest office in Germany) in 2001/02.

Leoluca Orlando <=SEP=> Leoluca Orlando (born 1 August 1947), is an Italian politician and current Mayor of Palermo. He was also mayor of the city in 1985–1990 and 1993–2000. He is best known for his strong opposition to the Sicilian Mafia, but also for his vocal criticism of Giovanni Falcone, a leading prosecuting magistrate murdered by Cosa Nostra in 1992.

List of Berlin U-Bahn stations <=SEP=> This is an alphabetical list of Berlin U-Bahn stations.  Currently, there are 170 active stations.

List of films set in Berlin <=SEP=> Berlin is a major center in the European and German film industry. It is home to more than 1000 film and television production companies and 270 movie theaters. Three hundred national and international co-productions are filmed in the region every year. The historic Babelsberg Studios and the production company UFA are located outside Berlin in Potsdam.

List of mayors of Kitchener, Ontario <=SEP=> This is list of reeves and mayors of Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. The village, town and later city were known as Berlin until 1916, when the city's name was changed to Kitchener. Berlin was incorporated as a village in 1854, became a town in 1870, and a city in 1912.

List of places of worship in Berlin <=SEP=> This list of places of worship in Berlin records past and present places of worship in the city. The list is organised as a sortable table assorted following the given names of the various institutions.

List of railway stations in the Berlin area <=SEP=> This list covers the railway stations in the Berlin area. These include both passenger stations and marshalling yards, but not goods stations. Because the Berlin S-Bahn network has expanded to include stations in the state of Brandenburg, the table shows only those stations lying within the present-day fare zones ABC (i.e. those up to about 15 kilometres from the Berlin city boundary) and those formerly served by  Berlin’s suburban services.

Lists of mayors by country <=SEP=> This is a list of mayors organised by country.

Lord Mayor <=SEP=> The lord mayor is the title of the mayor of a major city, with special recognition.

Louis Jacob Breithaupt <=SEP=> Louis Jacob Breithaupt (1855–1939) was an Ontario manufacturer and political figure. He represented Waterloo North in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1899 to 1902 as a Liberal member.He was born in Buffalo, New York, the son of Philip Louis Breithaupt, who went on to serve as mayor of Berlin (later Kitchener, Ontario). Louis Jacob moved to Berlin with his family in 1857 and was mayor of Berlin himself from 1888 to 1889.

Louise Schroeder <=SEP=> Louise Dorothea Schroeder (2 April 1887 in Altona (Elbe) – 4 June 1957 in Berlin) was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) party. She was the first female member of the Weimar National Assembly during the Weimar Republic. An educator and activist central in the Arbeiterwohlfahrt (Workers Welfare Institution) movement, and she was under scrutiny of the Nazi Party during the 1930s and 1940s for her socialist positions.

Matteo Renzi <=SEP=> Matteo Renzi (Italian pronunciation: [matˈtɛːo ˈrɛntsi]; born 11 January 1975) is an Italian politician who has been Prime Minister of Italy since 22 February 2014 and the Secretary of the Democratic Party since 15 December 2013.

Maurizio Fistarol <=SEP=> Maurizio Fistarol (Belluno, 12 April 1957) is an Italian politician from Veneto.A member of the Italian Communist Party and, later, of the Democratic Party of the Left, Fistarol was elected Mayor of Belluno in 1993. Re-elected in 1997, he was active in the North-East Movement and The Democrats. A founding member of Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy, he was elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies in 2001 and re-elected in 2006.

Max von Forckenbeck <=SEP=> Maximilian (Max) Franz August von Forckenbeck (October 23, 1821 - May 26, 1892) was a German lawyer and politician and served as Mayor of Berlin from 1878 to 1892. His is considered one of the most important mayors of the city because of his prudent management style.

Michael Müller (politician) <=SEP=> Michael Müller (born 9 December 1964 in Berlin) is a German politician of the SPD. He has been Governing Mayor of Berlin since 11 December 2014.

Otto Ostrowski <=SEP=> Otto Ostrowski (born 28 January 1883 in Spremberg; died 16 June 1963 in Knokke, Belgium) was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and Mayor of Berlin in 1946–1947.Ostrowski graduated in Romance studies and after World War I joined the SPD. From 1922 he served as mayor of Finsterwalde until he was elected mayor of the Berlin borough of Prenzlauer Berg in 1926. He held this office up to the Nazi seizure of power in 1933, when he was forced to resign.

Otto Suhr <=SEP=> Otto Suhr (17 August 1894 - 30 August 1957) was a German politician as a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). He served as the Governing Mayor of Berlin (i.e. West Berlin) from 1955 until his death.

Politics of Berlin <=SEP=> Berlin is a city-state and the capital of the Federal Republic of Germany. The President of Germany, whose functions are primarily ceremonial under the German constitution, has his official residence in Schloss Bellevue. Berlin is the seat of the German executive, housed in the Chancellery (the Bundeskanzleramt). Facing the Chancellery is the Bundestag, the German Parliament, housed in the renovated Reichstag building since the government's move to Berlin in 1998.

Rathaus Schöneberg <=SEP=> Rathaus Schöneberg is the city hall for the borough of Tempelhof-Schöneberg in Berlin. From 1949 until 1993 it served as the seat of the state senate of West Berlin and until 1991 also as the office of the Governing Mayor.

Richard von Weizsäcker <=SEP=> Richard Karl Freiherr von Weizsäcker (About this sound listen ; 15 April 1920 – 31 January 2015) was a German politician (CDU). Born into the aristocratic Weizsäcker family, he took his first public offices in the Evangelical Church in Germany.A member of the CDU since 1954, he was elected as member of parliament in 1969. He continued to hold a mandate as member of the Bundestag until he became Governing Mayor of West Berlin, following the 1981 state elections.

Rosa Russo Iervolino <=SEP=> Rosa Russo Iervolino (born 17 September 1936 in Naples) is an Italian politician.She is a member of the Democratic Coalition (Olive Tree).  She was leader of Christian Democratic Women (1968 to 1978). In 1979 she was senator for Christian Democracy party. In 1993 was the president of Italian People's Party (1994–2002).

Rotes Rathaus <=SEP=> The Rotes Rathaus (Red City Hall) is the town hall of Berlin, located in the Mitte district on Rathausstraße near Alexanderplatz. It is the home to the governing mayor and the government (the Senate of Berlin) of the Federal state of Berlin. The name of the landmark building dates from the facade design with red clinker bricks.

Senate of Berlin <=SEP=> The Senate of Berlin is the executive body governing the city of Berlin, which at the same time is a state of Germany.  According to the Constitution of Berlin the Senate consists of the Governing Mayor of Berlin and up to eight Senators appointed by the Governing Mayor, two of whom are appointed (Deputy) Mayors.  The Senate meets weekly at the Rotes Rathaus (Red Town Hall).

Social Democratic Party of Germany <=SEP=> The Social Democratic Party of Germany (German: Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands, SPD) is a social-democratic political party in Germany.

Timeline of Berlin <=SEP=> The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Berlin, Germany.

Tino-Antoni Schwierzina <=SEP=> Tino Antoni Schwierzina (born  Königshütte 30 May 1927: died Berlin 29 December 2003) was an East German lawyer who became a politician.   Between May 1990 and January 1991 he served as the first and last freely elected mayor of East Berlin.   His term of office was dominated by the fusion of the two halves of Berlin which had been politically (and increasingly also, till 1989, physically) divided since before 1949.

Walter Momper <=SEP=> Walter Momper (born 21 February 1945) is a German politician and former Governing Mayor of Berlin (West Berlin 1989–1990, reunited Berlin 1990–1991). Whilst Governing Mayor, he served as President of the Bundesrat in 1989/90. He attended the opening of the Brandenburg Gate on 22 December 1989, and, on October 3, 1990, became the first mayor of a reunited Berlin.He was born in Sulingen (near Bremen), today Lower Saxony, and is a member of the SPD (Social Democrats).

Walther Schreiber <=SEP=> Walter Schreiber (10 June 1884, Wipperdorf – 30 June 1958) was a German politician and was Mayor of Berlin from 1953 to 1955.He was a member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Party.

West Berlin <=SEP=> West Berlin was a free city and political enclave surrounded by East Berlin and East Germany that existed between 1949 and 1990.  It was located some 100 miles east of the East/West German border and was accessible by land from West Germany only by a narrow rail and highway corridor.  It comprised the western regions of Berlin, which were bordered by East Berlin and parts of East Germany.

West Berlin state election, 1950 <=SEP=> Early elections to the Berlin House of Representatives were held on December 3, 1950. In October 1950, Germany's new constitution went into force in West Berlin which made the election required. This was the first election to the new Berlin House of Representatives as opposed to the City Council.The top candidate of the SPD was not the popular mayor Ernst Reuter, but Franz Neumann; The CDU nominated Walther Schreiber.

West Berlin state election, 1967 <=SEP=> The election to the Berlin House of Representatives on March 12, 1967 was the first election after the resignation of Willy Brandt as mayor, who, due to the forming of a CDU-SPD coalition on a national level, had become Vice-Chancellor and Foreign Minister.Brandt's successor in Berlin was Heinrich Albertz, who assumed the role of mayor on December 14, 1966, he was selected as the top candidate for the SPD in this election.Albertz had to manage a difficult legacy, Brandt was overwhelmingly popular in Berlin upon his leaving to become Vice-Chancellor and had become somewhat of an icon among the populous, according to surveys, about 90% of Berlin were happy.

Willy Brandt <=SEP=> Willy Brandt (German pronunciation: [ˈvɪli ˈbʁant]; born Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm; 18 December 1913 – 8 October 1992) was a German statesman and politician, leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) from 1964 to 1987 and chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1969 to 1974.