Bodo Ramelow first left-wing prime minister of German federal state

ERFURT, GERMANY - DECEMBER 05: Bodo Ramelow (R) of the left-wing party Die Linke waves to the audience at the Thuringian parliament Landtag before he was elected as president of the German federal state of Thuringia in Erfurt, Germany on December 05, 2014. Thuringia is the first federal state in Germany with a left-wing prime minister. (Photo by Jens-Ulrich Koch/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)