Portal:Mecklenburg-Vorpommern/Politics

Politics, History and Religion

Administrative structure:

State flag of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Present-day: Mecklenburg - Western Pomerania (Vorpommern) - 2011 state elections

Historical: Mecklenburg-Schwerin - Mecklenburg-Strelitz - Land Mecklenburg - Province of Pomerania: 1653–1815 - 1815–1945 - Swedish Pomerania - Barony of Stargard - Districts: Neubrandenburg - Rostock - Schwerin

Districts

Districts and independent towns in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Ludwigslust-Parchim - Mecklenburgische Seenplatte - Nordwestmecklenburg district - Rostock - Vorpommern-Greifswald - Vorpommern-Rügen

Independent Towns

Hanseatic city of Rostock - State capital of Schwerin

Politics

Angela Merkel – her home constituency is Stralsund

Institutions and Organisations: Constitution - State parliament - Elections

Politicians: Christian Ahrendt - Dietmar Bartsch - Heidrun Bluhm - Martina Bunge - Kurt Bürger - Lorenz Caffier - Joachim Gauck - Alfred Gomolka - Angela Merkel - Bernhard Quandt - Harald Ringstorff - Manuela Schwesig - Erwin Sellering

History

Mecklenburg - Pomerania - Rostock - Stralsund

Historical Events

Mecklenburg after the 3rd major state reorganisation until 1934

Treaty of Stralsund - Hamburg Settlement - Siege of Stralsund - Mecklenburg Territorial Allocations - State Constitutional Inheritance Law - 1872 Baltic Sea flood - Rostock Inheritance Agreement - Battle of Recknitz - Battle of Gadebusch - Great Slav Rising - Papenbrand thom Sunde - Bombing of Peenemünde in 1943

Historical places / places formerly belonging to Mecklenburg or Pomerania

Fürstenberg/Havel

Historic People - Historians

Frederick Francis I

Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher - Henry Borwin I - Frederick Francis I of Mecklenburg - Leopold von Plessen - Gunzelin von Hagen - Henry V of Mecklenburg - Heinrich Schliemann - Axel, Count of Löwen - Daniel Georg Morhof - Klaus Störtebeker - Johann Heinrich von Thünen - Henry II of Mecklenburg - Albert III of Mecklenburg, King of Sweden

Archaeological Sites

Jaromasburg - Castle ramparts on Cape Arkona

Boitiner Steintanz - Brandgräberfeld von Mühlen Eichsen - Jaromarsburg - Menzlin - Reric

Special

Prussian Columns - Wöbbelin concentration camp - Parchimer Landwehr

Religion

Organisations and Establishments

Consistorium of the Pomeranian Evangelical Church in Greifswald

Evangelical Lutheran Church of Mecklenburg - Pomeranian Evangelical Church - Archdiocese of Hamburg - Archdiocese of Berlin - Archdiocese of Schwerin - New Apostolic Church - Christianity in East Germany

People

Johann Quistorp the Elder

Hugo Grotius - Bernhard Schwentner - Theodor Kliefoth - Bishops of Pomerania - Johann Quistorp the Elder

Church buildings

St. Peter’s Church, Rostock

Ahrenshoop: Schiffer Church - Bad Doberan: Minster - Barth: St. Mary's - Bobbin: St. Paul's - St. Mary's - Elmenhorst bei Wismar: village church - Greifswald: St.Mary's - St. Nicholas' Cathedral - St. Mary's - Ludorf: village church - Neubrandenburg: St. Mary's - St. Mary's, Neustadt-Glewe - Neustrelitz: town church - Plau am See: St. Mary's - Rostock: Christ's - St.James' - Holy Spirit - St. Mary’s - St.Nicholas' - St. Peter's - university church - Reinberg: village church - Schwerin: Schwerin Cathedral - St. Paul's - Schelfkirche - St. Anne's - Stralsund: Holy Trinity - Holy Spirit - St.James' - St. Catharine's - St. Mary's - St.Nicholas' - Tribohm: village church - Warlitz: Trinity - Wismar: St.George's - St. Mary's - St.Nicholas' - Wiek auf Rügen: parish church - Wolgast: St. Peter's - Zingst: St. Peter and St. Paul's ... more

Church Music

Friedrich Friese I - Rostock Motet Choir - Organs at St. James, Stralsund