Thuringia

Thuringia Freistaat Thüringen
State of Germany
Flag Coat of arms
Position of Thuringia in Germany
Country	Germany
Capital	Erfurt
Government
• Minister President	Bodo Ramelow (Linke)
• Governing parties	Linke / SPD / Greens
Area
• Total	16,171 km2 (6,244 sq mi)
Population  (2020-12-31)
• Total	2,120,237
• Density	130/km2 (340/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Website	thueringen.de

Thuringia (German: Thüringen) is a Bundesland of Germany. It lies in central Germany and has an area of 16,251 km² (6,274.5 sq mi). This means Thuringia is the sixth smallest state in Germany by area. It has 2.1 million inhabitants,^[1] so it is the fifth smallest state in Germany by population. The capital is Erfurt.

1920 the Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar, the Duchies of Saxe-Meiningen, Saxe-Altenburg and Saxe-Gotha (part of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha) and the Principalities of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen, Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, Greiz and Gera united to make the Free State of Thuringia.

1949 Thuringia and Erfurt became a new state of the DDR

1952 It became divided in three Districts Bezirke (Erfurt, Gera and Suhl)

1990 Thuringia became a Bundesland in the reunited Germany.

Thuringia borders on the German states of Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony, Bavaria and Hesse. The most conspicuous geographical feature of Thuringia is the Thuringia Forest (Thüringer Wald). In the northwest Thuringia includes a small part of the Harz mountains. The Saale river runs through Jena. The biggest mountain in Thuringia is with 982m the Großer Beerberg in the Thuringia Forest.

1945: Hermann Brill

1945 - 1947: Rudolf Paul

1947 - 1952: Werner Eggerath

1990 - 1992: Josef Duchac

1992 - 2003: Bernhard Vogel (CDU)

2003 - 2009: Dieter Althaus (CDU)

2009 - 2014: Christine Lieberknecht (CDU)

since 2014: Bodo Ramelow (Die Linke)

• Erfurt
• Gera
• Jena
• Weimar
• Suhl
• Eisenach
• Gotha