Martin Hagen
German politician, member of the Bavarian Landtag of the FDP
Photo: Stefanie Hannes, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons, cropped)
- 3d ago
ZDF defends Böhmermann's truck sketch on Simson moped after AfD complaints
The ZDF has defended a satire segment in which Jan Böhmermann is run over by a truck on a Simson moped. Critics read the scene as a jab at AfD politician Ulrich Siegmund, who campaigned on a blue Simson Schwalbe.
- May 30
FDP wählt Wolfgang Kubicki zum neuen Vorsitzenden – 74-Jähriger setzt sich in Kampfabstimmung gegen Strack-Zimmermann durch
Wolfgang Kubicki has been elected as the new federal chairman of Germany's Free Democratic Party (FDP), defeating Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann in a surprise contested vote at the party's federal congress in Berlin.
