Minister-President of Baden-Württemberg: Günther Oettinger Minister-President of Bavaria: Edmund Stoiber Governing mayor of Berlin: Klaus Wowereit First mayor of Bremen: Jens Böhrnsen Minister-President of Brandenburg: Matthias Platzeck First mayor of Hamburg: Ole von Beust Minister-President of Hesse: Roland Koch Minister-President of Lower Saxony: Christian Wulff Minister-President of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern: Harald Ringstorff Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia: Jürgen Rüttgers Minister-President of Rhineland-Palatinate: Kurt Beck Minister-President of the Saarland: Peter Müller Minister-President of Saxony: Georg Milbradt Minister-President of Saxony-Anhalt: Wolfgang Böhmer Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein: Peter Harry Carstensen Minister-President of Thuringia: Dieter Althaus