As for Platzeck, I hope our German crew will supply you with details (especially as I took my time at ET now only because of these two urgent stories - this and the Hungarian), here are two images from his homepage - first Platzeck as he looks now:

Second, Platzeck at the time he gained his popularity, as provincial environment minister in media spotlight during the 1997 catastrophic flood on the Oder river (at the border to Poland):

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}