Müntefering was born in Neheim (now part of Arnsberg). He trained as an industrial salesman and worked for local metalwork companies. Müntefering joined...

Müntefering is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: Franz Müntefering (born 1940), German politician Michelle Müntefering (born...

elections and also designated as acting SPD Chairman, pending the return of Müntefering to that position. In his election campaign, he argued for new tax rules...

Labour and Social Affairs in the first Merkel Government, succeeding Franz Müntefering. Following the 2009 federal election, when the SPD left the Government...

growing criticism from across his own party of his reform agenda; Franz Müntefering succeeded him as chairman. On 22 May 2005, after the SPD lost to the...

associate to Franz Müntefering at the German Bundestag. From 2008 to 2010 she did a traineeship at Vorwärts in Berlin. From 2010 Müntefering worked as a...

Schröder 1999–2004 9 Franz Müntefering (1st term) 2004–2005 10 Matthias Platzeck 2005–2006 11 Kurt Beck 2006–2008 12 (9) Franz Müntefering (2nd term) 2008–2009...

historian Franz Muhri (1924–2001), Austrian communist politician Franz Müntefering (born 1940), German politician and industrialist Franz Nachbaur (1835–1902)...

election, Müntefering resigned as party chairman and was succeeded as chairman by Matthias Platzeck, minister-president of Brandenburg. Müntefering's decision...

Rhine-Westphalia. Half an hour after the election results, the SPD chairman Franz Müntefering announced that the chancellor would clear the way for new federal...