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Gerard Rennick People First
Gerard Rennick People First, also styled People First Party, is an Australian party founded by Queensland Senator Gerard Rennick after leaving the LNP in 2024; registered as a Parliamentary party, defeated at the 2025 election, reclassified non-Parliamentary in August 2025.
Gerardo Barrios
Gerardo Barrios, born José Gerardo Barrios Espinoza, was a Salvadoran general and president of El Salvador from 1859 to 1863 who introduced the first liberal-positivist reforms in Central America.
Gerardo Machado
Gerardo Machado y Morales (1871–1939) was a Cuban general of the independence war who served as president of Cuba from 1925 to 1933, becoming a dictator.
Gerardo Pisarello Prados
Gerardo Pisarello Prados (born 1970 in Tucumán, Argentina) is a Spanish politician of Comuns who served as first deputy mayor of Barcelona under Ada Colau from 2015 to 2019.
GERB (Граждани за европейско развитие на България)
GERB (Граждани за европейско развитие на България) is Bulgaria's conservative, pro-European center-right party, EPP member led by Boyko Borisov since 2006; it governed 2009–2021, won 39.7% in 2009, and fell to 13.4% in 2026.
Gerhard Schröder
Gerhard Schröder (born 1944, Mossenberg), SPD politician, seventh German chancellor 1998–2005 and Lower Saxony premier 1990–1998; known for Agenda 2010/Hartz reforms, Iraq War refusal, and post-office Russian energy roles.
Germame Neway
Germame Neway, also spelled Garmame Neway, was an Ethiopian civil servant and governor who with his brother Mengistu planned the failed 1960 coup against Haile Selassie.
German American Bund
German American Bund (1936–1941), Amerikadeutscher Volksbund, pro-Nazi US organization of German-descended citizens led by Fritz Kuhn; held the 1939 Madison Square Garden rally, ran Nazi youth camps, disbanded after Pearl Harbor.
German Bundesrat
The German Bundesrat is the federal council of Germany's 16 state governments: 69 weighted votes cast en bloc under Basic Law Article 51, consent-bill veto power, an annually rotating presidency, and a history reaching back to the North German Federation.
Germán Busch
Germán Busch Becerra was a Bolivian military officer and Chaco War hero who served as president of Bolivia from 1937 until his death in 1939, ruling first as constitutional president and then as dictator.
German Democratic Party
German Democratic Party (Deutsche Demokratische Partei, DDP, later Deutsche Staatspartei/DStP): left-liberal Weimar Republic party founded 1918, Weimar Coalition member with SPD and Zentrum, won 18.5% in 1919, drafted the Weimar Constitution, declined to 3.8% by 1930 and dissolved in 1933.
Germán Martínez (Argentine politician)
Germán Martínez is an Argentine politician, a national deputy for Santa Fe and leader of the Union for the Homeland opposition bloc in the Chamber of Deputies.
German National People's Party
Deutschnationale Volkspartei (DNVP), German National People's Party, German nationalist-conservative monarchist party 1918-1933; largest right-wing party of the Weimar Republic, led by Alfred Hugenberg from 1928, allied with the NSDAP in the Harzburger Front and Hitler's 1933 cabinet, dissolved July 1933.
German nationalism
German nationalism: movement asserting German nationhood, from Napoleonic-era resistance and 1848 liberalism through völkisch racial ideology and Nazism to postwar constitutional patriotism and today's AfD.
German People's Party
Deutsche Volkspartei (DVP), German People's Party, right-liberal Weimar party founded 1918 from the National Liberals' right wing under Gustav Stresemann; peaked at 13.9% in 1920, sat in most Reich governments 1920–1931, dissolved 27 June 1933.
German political foundations
The German political foundations are six publicly funded, non-profit organizations, each politically close to a German party, conducting civic education at home and democracy assistance abroad.
Germán Riesco
Germán Riesco Errázuriz (1854–1916) was a Chilean lawyer, judge, and politician who served as President of Chile from 1901 to 1906, known for peace treaties with Argentina and Bolivia and major legal codifications.
German State Party
German State Party (Deutsche Staatspartei, DStP), left-liberal Weimar party formed 1930 from the DDP and Young German Order; in government until 1932, 2.8% in July 1932, voted for the Enabling Act, dissolved June 1933.
German treaties in Usagara
The German treaties in Usagara were 1884 cession agreements concluded by Carl Peters with twelve chieftains in what is now Tanzania, leading to German imperial protection in 1885.
German withdrawal from the European Union
Dexit (German withdrawal from the European Union) is a hypothetical German EU exit, proposed mainly by the AfD, whose 2021 manifesto and 2022 congress endorsed it; studies cite 7.2 million EU-export jobs and major GDP losses.
German Workers' Party
German Workers' Party (Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, DAP): right-wing antisemitic Munich party founded 5 January 1919 by Anton Drexler and Karl Harrer; Adolf Hitler joined September 1919 (member 555); renamed NSDAP after the 24 February 1920 Hofbräuhaus program.
German–Polish Non-Aggression Pact
The German–Polish Non-Aggression Pact, formally the German–Polish Declaration of Non-Aggression, was signed in Berlin on 26 January 1934; Hitler repudiated it in April 1939, months before invading Poland.
Germany–Japan relations
Germany–Japan relations, also known as Japanese-German relations, are the bilateral ties between Germany and Japan, beginning with a treaty of friendship signed by Prussia and Japan in 1861.
Germany–Russia relations
Germany–Russia relations: ties between Germany and Russia/Soviet Union, from Bismarck and Rapallo through Ostpolitik and energy partnership to the post-2022 rupture, Zeitenwende, sanctions, and Nord Stream sabotage.
Germany–Soviet Union relations (1918–1941)
Germany–Soviet Union relations, or Soviet-German relations, ran from 1918 to 1941: Rapallo restored ties in 1922, Hitler broke them in 1933, the 1939 pact partitioned Poland, and Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941.
Germany–United States relations
Germany–United States relations: bilateral ties between Germany and the USA, NATO allies since West German accession in 1955, with the US as Germany's second-largest trading partner in 2025 and about 36,000 US troops stationed in Germany.
Gerontocracy
Gerontocracy: rule by people significantly older than the governed population, de jure or de facto. Also called elder rule; coined in 19th-century France. Explained by strategic selection of experienced or short-tenure leaders, older voters' participation, and youth underrepresentation in parliaments and cabinets.
Gerry Adams
Gerry Adams, born Gerard Adams in Belfast in 1948, is an Irish republican politician who was President of Sinn Féin from 1983 to 2018 and helped broker the 1998 Good Friday Agreement.
Gerry Brownlee
Gerry Brownlee is a New Zealand National Party politician serving as Speaker of the House of Representatives, previously earthquake recovery minister for Christchurch after its earthquakes.
Gerry Connolly
Gerry Connolly (1950-2025), Democratic U.S. representative for Virginia's 11th District from 2009 to 2025, former Fairfax County Board of Supervisors chairman, Oversight ranking member, FITARA sponsor, died of esophageal cancer.