Kurt Beck is a German politician, serving as the Minister-President of Rhineland-Palatinate from 1994 to 2013 and as President of the Bundesrat in 2000/01. On 14 May 2006 he succeeded Matthias Platzeck as Chairman of the German Social Democratic Party. He resigned from that post on 7 September 2008. On 28 September 2012 he announced his resignation from the post of minister-president. He was succeeded by social minister Malu Dreyer. Following Peter Struck's death in 2012, Kurt Beck together with Dieter Schulte took chair of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation. 

February 5th, 1949 in Bad Bergzabern (Age 75)