Matthias Platzeck, born 29 December 1953 in Potsdam, is a German politician. Since 2002, he is the Minister-President of Brandenburg. On November 15, 2005, he was elected party chairman of the SPD. December 29 is the 363rd day of the year (364th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 2 days remaining. ... 1953 (MCMLIII) is a common year starting on Thursday. ... (This article is about the German city of Potsdam. ... 2002(MMII) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A minister-president (Ministerpräsident) is the head of government of a German federal state; the office corresponds to the governorship of a state in the United States. ... Surrounding but excluding the national capital Berlin, Brandenburg is one of Germanys sixteen Bundesländer (federal states). ... November 15 is the 319th day of the year (320th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 46 days remaining. ... 2005 (MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Social Democratic Party of Germany (Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands in German) Serial Presence Detect of computer memory modules Categories: Disambiguation ...

Platzeck represented ARGUS, a Potsdam environmental organization he had co-founded, at the founding of the Grüne Liga association of local environmental organizations in East Germany in 1989, was their speaker at the nationwide round table talks 1989/1990, and for 3 months delegated from the round table into the last non-democratic East German government to help control it until after the first free elections in March 1990. In 1990 he joined Bündnis 90 (Alliance 90), but in 1993 he skipped the merger of this party with the West German Green Party. Instead, he joined the SPD in 1995. The German Democratic Republic (GDR) (German: Deutsche Demokratische Republik), also commonly known as East Germany, was a communist state that existed from 1949 to 1990 in the former Soviet occupation zone of Germany. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Alliance 90 (Bündnis 90) was an alliance of opposition groups in East Germany. ... Bündnis 90/Die Grünen (literally: Alliance 90/The Greens), the German Green Party, is a political party in Germany whose regional predecessors were founded in the late 1970s as part of the new social movements. ... Social Democratic Party of Germany (Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands in German) Serial Presence Detect of computer memory modules Categories: Disambiguation ...

Matthias Platzeck was Brandenburg 's Minister for Environmental Affairs from 1990 to 1998 and became popular during a flood of the Oder river for organizing public support for the affected population. In 1998 he was elected mayor of Brandenburg's capital Potsdam. In 2002 he succeeded the first Minister-President of Brandenburg after 1990, Manfred Stolpe. His was reelected to the Landtag (state parliament) in 2004 and campaigned succesfully to again make the SPD the strongest political force and renew the coalition with the CDU. He is also chairman of the SPD in Brandenburg (since 2000). The Oder (or Odra) River (German: Oder, Polish/Czech: Odra, Ancient Latin: Viadua, Viadrus, Medieval Latin: Odera, Oddera) is a river in Central Europe (mostly in Poland). ... (This article is about the German city of Potsdam. ... Federal Minister of Transport, Building and Housing of the Federal Republic of Germany. ... In Germany, Austria and South Tyrol, a Landtag is a unicameral legislature for a federal land. ... This article needs cleanup. ...