caption predecessor successor religion birth_place nationality party office width birth_date term_start image article_title term_end name
kurt beck in 2011 matthias platzeck rudolf scharping franz müntefering malu dreyer roman catholic bad bergzabern , germany german germany spd chairman president of rhineland-palatinate of the social democratic party of germany minister 150px 5 february 1949 10 april 2006 26 october 1994 kurt beck - deutschlandfest bonn 2011-3237 . jpg kurt beck
 7 september 2008 15 january 2013 kurt beck
kurt beck

kurt beck -lrb- born 5 february 1949 -rrb- is a german politician -lrb- spd -rrb- , serving as the minister-president of rhineland-palatinate from 1994 to 2013 and as president of the bundesrat in 2000/01 .
on 14 may 2006 he succeeded matthias platzeck as chairman of the german social democratic party -lrb- spd -rrb- .
he resigned from that post on 7 september 2008 .
on 28 september 2012 he announced his resignation from the post of minister-president .
he was succeeded by social minister malu dreyer .
following peter struck 's death in 2012 , kurt beck together with dieter schulte took chair of the friedrich ebert foundation .
