What is Ole von Beust?
{{Infobox politician | name = Ole von Beust | image = Ole von beust.jpg | imagesize = | caption = Ole von Beust at the [[German-American Steuben Parade|Steuben Parade]] in 2006 | small_image = | office = [[Government of Hamburg#Executive|First Mayor of Hamburg]] | term_start = 31 October 2001 | term_end = 25 August 2010 | predecessor = [[Ortwin Runde]] | successor = [[Christoph Ahlhaus]] | office2 = [[President of the German Bundesrat]] | term_start2 = 2007 | term_end2 = 2008 |president2 = [[Horst Köhler]] |chancellor2 = [[Angela Merkel]] |predecessor2 = [[Harald Ringstorff]] |successor2 = [[Peter Müller (German politician)|Peter Müller]] | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1955|4|13|mf=y}} | birth_place = [[Hamburg]], [[Germany]] | nationality = [[Germany|German]] | death_date = | death_place = | party = [[Christian Democratic Union (Germany)]] | birthname = Carl-Friedrich Arp Ole von Beust | relations = | residence = Hamburg | alma_mater = [[University of Hamburg]] | occupation = | signature = Signature of Ole von Beust.gif | website = | footnotes = }} '''Carl-Friedrich Arp Ole Freiherr{{efn|{{German title Freiherr}}}} von Beust''', generally called '''Ole von Beust''', born 13 April 1955, in [[Hamburg]], [[Germany]], was Ole von Beust [[Government of Hamburg|First Mayor of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg]] ({{lang-de|Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg}}) from 31 October 2001 to 25 August 2010, serving as [[President of the German Bundesrat|President]] of the [[Bundesrat of Germany|Bundesrat]] from 1 November 2007 on for one year.<ref>{{Citation |url=http://www.bundesrat.de/cln_051/nn_9020/DE/organe-mitglieder/praesident/bisherige/bisherige-node.html?__nnn=true |title=Präsidenten des Bundesrates seit 1949 |access-date=2008-11-10 |archive-date=2008-06-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080625094144/http://www.bundesrat.de/cln_051/nn_9020/DE/organe-mitglieder/praesident/bishe