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(From L) Brandenburg Premier Matthias Platzeck, German President Christian Wulff, and Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit pose on the steps of the concerthall Konzerthaus am Gendarmenmarkt in Berlin January 24, 2012, before attending a function to commemorate the 300th aniversary of the birth of...

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Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit (L-R) German President Christian Wulff and Brandenburg state Minister Matthias Platzeck arrive for the celebrations to mark the 300th birthday of former Prussian king Frederick the Great, in Berlin January 24, 2012.

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Social Democratic state premiers Matthias Platzeck of Brandenburg, (C) and Erwin Sellering of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (2nd R) arrive at the Prime Ministers conference in Luebeck, October 27, 2011.

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State premiers Matthias Platzeck of Brandenburg, Hannelore Kraft of Northrhine-Westphalia and Jens Boehrnsen of Bremen (L-R) are pictured during the Prime Minister's conference in Luebeck, October 27, 2011.

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Greenpeace activists set fire to the chemical sign of carbon dioxide that is mounted on a boat on Templin near the venue of a party leaders' meeting of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) to protest against the local state premier's energy policies in Potsdam near Berlin, January 29, 2012.

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Activist of environmental group Greenpeace pile up coal outside the venue of a party leaders' meeting of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) in protest of the local state premier's energy policies in Potsdam near Berlin, January 29, 2012. The writing reads: "Dear SPD, Brandenburg State...

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POTSDAM, GERMANY - AUGUST 27: Matthias Platzeck and his wifeJeanette Platzeck attend the religious wedding ceremony of Georg Friedrich Ferdinand Prince of Prussia to Princess Sophie of Prussia in the Friedenskirche Potsdam on August 27, 2011 in Potsdam, Germany.

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Brandenburg state Minister Matthias Platzeck and his wife Jeanette Jesorka arrive at the Church of Peace in the grounds of Sanssouci Palace, to attend the religious wedding ceremony for Prince Georg Frederich of Prussia and Princess Sophie von Isenburg in Potsdam August 27, 2011.

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel (R) talks with Brandenburg State Premier Matthias Platzeck (L) and Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit before a meeting of the federal government with state premiers at the Chancellery in Berlin, June 9, 2011.

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State premiers Horst Seehofer of Bavaria, Jens Boehrnsen of Bremen, Reiner Haseloff of Sachsen-Anhalt, Hannelore Kraft of Northrhine-Westphalia, Stanislaw Tillich of Saxony, Erwin Sellering of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Olaf Scholz of Hamburg, Matthias Platzeck of Brandenburg, David McAllister...