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crazy moments out of the political life of germany, the heart of europe 🇪🇺🇩🇪 dms open for submissions, with credits if wanted

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Crazy Ass Moments of German Politics
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1950: Member of Bundestag and former NSDAP member Wolfgang Hedler (DP, Deutsche Partei) after being beaten up by multiple SPD deputies, including Herbert Wehner, for defaming resistance members and making antisemitic statements
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2021: German entrepreneur and parfum influencer Jeremy Fragrance on a state visit to Pakistan. He was invited by then-Prime Minister Imran Khan.
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2000: Then Chancellor Gerhard Schröder while autograph cards posters: "Bring me a bottle of beer or I'll go on strike here and won't write anymore."
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2021: Olaf Scholz (SPD), then candidate for Chancellor, is interviewed by Bild editor Paul Ronzheimer dressed as a Native American
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2018: Armin Laschet (CDU), then minister president of Northrhine-Westphalia, visiting a mine for the last time before it closes, he's the only one with soot in the face
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2023: Bavarian Minister-President Markus Söder (CSU) in a reel with an animated Baby Groot figure. He is asking: "Aren't we all a little groot?"
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2008: Actor Hugh Jackman and Ursula von der Leyen (CDU), then minister of Family Affairs, in entertainment show "Wetten, dass..?"
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2016: Horst Seehofer, Minister President of Bavaria, presents his model railroad in a documentary on ARD, Germany's largest public broadcaster.
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2016: Election Poster of The Lefts Leading Candidate Wulf Gallert for the regional election in Saxony-Anhalt. The poster says "Frauenversteher" (womanizer)
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2022: Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Protection's official twitter account posting "I Can Truss It" under the announcement that British Prime Minister Liz Truss has resigned
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2022: Soyeon Schröder-Kim, wife of former chancellor Gerhard Schröder (SPD), praying in Moscow while her husband is negotiating peace with Putin as he's invading Ukraine. The negotiations weren't successful.
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Bavarian Minister President Markus Söder (CSU) and his costumes for Fasching
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1968: Left-Wing activist Beate Klarsfeld slapping chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger (CDU) to protest against a former Nazi Party member being head of government
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1991: Eggs are thrown at Chancellor Helmut Kohl (CDU) during his visit in the eastern German city of Halle.
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2021: Supporters of candidate for Chancellor Armin Laschet (CDU) chanting "Armin Laschet wird Kanzler" (Armin Laschet becomes chancellor) in the rhytm of Seven Nations Army
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2002: Guido Westerwelle, FDP chairman, presents the 'Guidomobil' - a caravan named after himself - as part of his party's campaign for the 2002 federal election.
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2018: former minister president of Hesse Volker Bouffier (CDU) rides a giant chicken figure
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2023: after an incident chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) suffered an injury to his eye. As a consequence he now wears an eye patch
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2018: Markus Söder (CSU), minister president of Bavaria, announcing a bavarian space program under the name "Bavaria One"
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1986: Future foreign minister Joschka Fischer (right, Greens) taking his oath of office as minister of the environment of Hesse with sneakers on. Conservative politicians are enraged about it
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2020: Far-Right AfD member in the Bavarian State Parliament Stefan Löw wearing a gas mask to protest against mask mandates at the beginning of the COVID pandemic. The parliament was currently debating memorials of nazi war criminals
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Happy Herbert Wehner punching a Nazi in parliament Day to all who celebrate
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1950: Member of Bundestag and former NSDAP member Wolfgang Hedler (DP, Deutsche Partei) after being beaten up by multiple SPD deputies, including Herbert Wehner, for defaming resistance members and making antisemitic statements
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2014: Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy Sigmar Gabriel (SPD) taking part in the Ice Bucket Challenge after being nominated by journalist Anne Will
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2020: Far-Right Stephan Brandner (AfD) hides from the police in a train toilet because he refuses to wear a mask
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2023: Far-Right AfD leader Alice Weidel (right) and her partner in an instagram reel performing cardancing
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2024: Bavarian minister president Markus Söder (CSU) lip syncing "Dancing Queen" by Abba.
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2022: President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen (CDU) asking Kosovan President Vjosa Osmani how Dua Lipa is doing
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2002: During an election campaign event, candidate for chancellor of CDU/SCU Edmund Stoiber injures a woman on the forehead with a football
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2021: Member of Bundestag Philipp Amthor (CDU) singing the Pommernlied in a clubhouse debate when asked about his additional income.
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2014: Then chancellor and president Angela Merkel (CDU) and Joachim Gauck (independent) cheering the german football team in the final match against Argentina.
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2013: Former SPD member of the Bundestag and later minister for labor and SPD chairwoman Andrea Nahles singing title song of Pippi Longstocking in response to the CDU-FDP government's policies
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2023: minister of justice Marco Buschmann (FDP) celebrates #starwarsday2023 while posing with a stuff toy of Grogu which he confuses with Yoda
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1999: Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer (Greens) is attacked with a paint bag as a protest against NATO and German Bundeswehr war effort in Kosovo.
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2023: Thomas Diener (CDU), member of the state parliament of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, in a wolf costume in front and inside the parliament building.
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2015: The football game between Germany and the Netherlands is cancelled due to terror warnings. When asked about further details by journalists, German Interior minister Thomas de Maizière answered that "parts of his answer could unsettle the population".
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2017: Former chancellor Angela Merkel together with famous german drag queen Olivia Jones during the Federal Convention (the election of the Federal President)
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where do I even start
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2023: upon opening the new state parliament of Bavaria, newly elected MP Daniel Halemba from far-right AfD is arrested for alleged ownership of Nazi material
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1967: Chancellor Willy Brandt (SPD) giving the symbolical kickoff for the german color television
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2024: After the publications about a secret meeting of his party with other far-right activists, where deportations of millions of citizens were planned, AfD MP Springer states that those deportations are no "secret plan" but a "promise".
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2016: then Vice President of the Bundestag Claudia Roth (Grüne), now Federal Commissioner for Culture and Media, singing "I am what I am" by Gloria Gaynor
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1955: West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer (CDU) recommends his delegation on his trip to Moscow to take a spoon of olive oil to prevent getting drunk during the negotiations over prisoners of war.
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2017: Far-Right AfD enters the Bundestag for the first time and becomes third strongest party. Then leader Frauke Petry announces one day after the election that she will not become a part of the parties parliamentary group. Some days later she leaves the party.
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note: he was't chancellor yet in that year, he was vice chancellor and foreign minister! thanks for the comment.
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sorry for the typo, his party is spelled CSU ofc
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