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After the recent US election, here's a new version of a German-US analogue list (did one in the old thread, but I wasn't that happy with it).


1948-1952: Ernst Reuter / Kurt Schumacher (SPD)
def. Jakob Kaiser / Wilhelm Külz (CDU/CSU), Kurt-Georg Kiesinger / Theodor Oberländer (GB/BHE)

1952-1960: Erwin von Witzleben / Franz-Josef Strauß (CDU/CSU)
def. Carlo Schmid / Wilhelm Hoegner (SPD)
1956 def. Carlo Schmid / Erwin Schoettle (SPD)

1960-1963: Willy Brandt / Gustav Heinemann (SPD)
def. Franz-Josef Strauß / Eugen Gerstenmaier (CDU/CSU)

1963-1964: Gustav Heinemann (SPD)
1964-1968: Gustav Heinemann / Herbert Wehner (SPD)
def. Ludwig Erhardt / Walter Hallstein (CDU/CSU)

1968-1973: Franz-Josef Strauß / Karl Carstens (CDU/CSU)
def. Herbert Wehner / Karl Schiller (SPD), Hans Filbinger / Ulrich de Maizière (NPD)
1973-1974: Franz-Josef Strauß / Rainer Barzel (CDU/CSU)
def. Peter von Oertzen / Egon Bahr (SPD)

1974-1976: Rainer Barzel / Richard von Weizsäcker (CDU/CSU)

1976-1980: Erhard Eppler / Johannes Rau (SPD)
def. Rainer Barzel / Helmut Kohl (CDU/CSU)

1980-1988: Lothar Späth / Heribert Hellenbroich (CDU/CSU)
def. Erhard Eppler / Johannes Rau (SPD), Norbert Blüm / Klaus von Dohnanyi (Free Voters)
1984 def. Johannes Rau / Ingrid Matthäus-Meyer (SPD)

1988-1992: Heribert Hellenbroich / Matthias Wissmann (CDU/CSU)
def. Björn Engholm / Hans-Jochen Vogel (SPD)

1992-2000: Gerhard Schröder / Joschka Fischer (SPD)
def. Heribert Hellenbroich / Matthias Wissmann (CDU/CSU), Dietmar Hopp / Dieter Wellershoff (Free Voters)
1996 def. Helmut Kohl / Gerhard Meyer-Vorfelder (CDU/CSU), Dietmar Hopp / Joachim Starbatty (Pro DM)

2000-2008: Roland Koch / Steffen Heitmann (CDU/CSU)
def. Joschka Fischer / Günther Verheugen (SPD), Hans-Christian Ströbele / Freya Klier (Greens)
2004 def. Franz Müntefering / Matthias Platzeck (SPD)

2008-2016: Karamba Diaby / Wolfgang Tiefensee (SPD)
def. Manfred Wörner / Kristina Schröder (CDU/CSU)
2012 def. Dieter Althaus / Friedrich Merz (CDU/CSU)

2016- : Uli Hoeneß / Günther Oettinger (CDU/CSU)
def. Gesine Schwan / Ralf Stegner (SPD)


Trump was a bit of a tricky one, as I dabbled with two other options. My first ideas were pop music producer/professional TV nerve-wracker Dieter Bohlen (as he's both more vulgar and sexist than Uli Hoeneß, plus he also oozes Trump's nouveau riche vibe) or developer Jürgen Schneider (similar career like Trump; he's also been involved in quite a few large scandals - unlike Trump, he went to jail, though). But I think Hoeneß fits better, because like Trump he always had connections to the political scene, and he's more of an ultimate "love him or hate him"-figure. And I guess unlike the other two, he'd probably also play the economically populist "man of the people" card during an election campaign.