01 December 2022, Bavaria, Munich: The interior ministers and senators of the German states stand on a staircase in the Munich Residenz during a photo session as part of the fall conference of interior ministers. Front row (l-r): Boris Pistorius (SPD), interior minister of Lower Saxony, Nancy Faeser (SPD), federal interior minister, Joachim Herrmann (CSU), interior minister of Bavaria, and Iris Spranger (SPD), senator for interior affairs in Berlin. Second row (l-r): Herbert Reul (CDU), Interior Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, Andy Grote (SPD), Interior Senator of Hamburg, Tamara Zieschang (CDU), Interior Minister of Saxony-Anhalt, and Thomas Strobl (CDU), Interior Minister of Baden-Württemberg. Third row: Sabine Sütterlin-Waack (CDU), Interior Minister of Schleswig-Holstein, Armin Schuster (CDU), Interior Minister of Saxony, Christian Pegel (SPD), Interior Minister of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, and Michael Ebling (SPD), Interior Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate. Fourth row: Georg Maier (SPD), Minister of the Interior of Thuringia, Michael Stübgen (CDU), Minister of the Interior of Brandenburg, Ulrich Mäurer (SPD, Senator for the Interior in Bremen, and Reinhold Jost (SPD), Minister of the Interior of Saarland. The Conference of Interior Ministers (IMK) will be held in Munich from Nov. 30 to Dec. 2, 2022. Photo: Matthias Balk/dpa