Bernhard Vogel (politician)
- Bernhard Vogel (politician)
Bernhard Vogel (born December 19, 1932) is a German
politician (CDU).Vogel was born in
Göttingen . He was Minister-President ofRhineland-Palatinate from 1976 to 1988, where he was succeeded byCarl-Ludwig Wagner , and ofThuringia from February 5, 1992 to June 5, 2003, where he was succeeded byDieter Althaus . He is the only person to have been premier of two different German federal states and is the longest governing Ministers-Presidents of Germany. His brother is the SPD politicianHans-Jochen Vogel . He twice served as President of the Bundesrat in 1976/77 and 1987/88.From 1965 to 1967, Vogel was a member of the German
Bundestag , a position from which he resigned to assume the job of Minister of Culture and Education in Rhineland-Palatinate under PremierPeter Altmeier . He continued in the same cabinet position under Altmeier's successor in 1969,Helmut Kohl . In 1973, when Kohl became chair of the national CDU, Vogel succeeded him as state party chair in Rhineland-Palatinate. His failure to be re-elected to this party office in 1988 led to his resignation as premier in a famous speech which he ended with the often-quoted phrase: "May God protect Rhineland-Palatinate!", an unusual display of public piety for German standards. Vogel is a devout Roman Catholic.Trivia
During this premiership in Thuringia he earned the nicknamed "Vogelbernie" (Vogel translates to bird in Englisch) and therefore his office, the
Staatskanzlei Erfurt , got nicknamed "Vogelkäfig", which translates to birds cage in English.
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