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Minister-President of Thuringia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In office 5 February 2020 – 4 March 2020 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Deputy | vacant | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Preceded by | Bodo Ramelow | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Succeeded by | Bodo Ramelow | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Leader of the Free Democratic Party in the Landtag of Thuringia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Assumed office 26 November 2019 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chief Whip | Robert-Martin Montag | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Deputy | Dirk Bergner | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Preceded by | Uwe Barth (2014) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Leader of the Free Democratic Party in Thuringia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Assumed office 29 November 2015 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
General Secretary | Robert-Martin Montag | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Deputy | Dirk Bergner Thomas Nitzsche Gerald Ullrich | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Preceded by | Dirk Bergner (acting) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Thomas Karl Leonard Kemmerich 20 February 1965 Aachen, West Germany (now Germany) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Political party | Free Democratic Party | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Children | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Residence(s) | Erfurt Weimar | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Alma mater | University of Bonn | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Website | Landtag website | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Thomas Karl Leonard Kemmerich (born 20 February 1965) is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who served as the Minister-President of Thuringia from 5 February to 4 March 2020. With a tenure of only 28 days (3 days if his time as acting officeholder is excluded), he has been both the shortest-serving Minister-President of Thuringia and the shortest-serving head of a state government in the Federal Republic of Germany (as of 2024).
After Reinhold Maier, who had served as minister-president of Württemberg-Baden (1945–1952) and, after the state's fusion with two other southwestern states, of the new state Baden-Württemberg (1952–1953), he was the second minister-president from the FDP in German history.[1]