Wolfgang Schäuble

Politician

1942 –

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Who is Wolfgang Schäuble?

Wolfgang Schäuble is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union who has served as Germany's Federal Minister of Finance in the Second and Third Merkel cabinets since 2009.

From 1984 to 1991 he was a member of Helmut Kohl's cabinet, first as Federal Minister for Special Affairs and Chief of the Chancellery and then as Federal Minister of the Interior. Between 1991 and 2000, he was chairman of the CDU/CSU group in the parliament, and from 1998 to 2000 also CDU party chairman. He served again as Federal Minister of the Interior in the First Merkel cabinet from 2005 to 2009.

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Born
Sep 18, 1942
Freiburg im Breisgau
Also known as
  • Wolfgang Schauble
  • Wolfgang Schaeuble
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Religion
  • Lutheranism
Nationality
  • Germany
Profession
Education
  • University of Hamburg
  • Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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