German ex-finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble, who helped steer the eurozone through the debt crisis, has died at the age of 81.
An MP for 51 years in Germany’s Bundestag, he played a key role in negotiating German reunification after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
He then survived an attempt on his life by a mentally unstable gunman.
He then survived an attempt on his life by a mentally unstable gunman.
Current Chancellor Olaf Scholz said he had shaped his country for more than half a century and Germany had lost “a sharp thinker, a passionate politician and a pugnacious Democrat”.
Angela Merkel, whose cabinet he served in for 12 years, said when she was a young minister Wolfgang Schäuble was her “political mentor”.
Posting on X, formerly Twitter, Former UK Chancellor George Osborne praised Schäuble as “a great man, who had unified his country and was the last of the post-war Germans”.
For many Greeks, however, he was a hate figure during the eurozone debt crisis, as architect of a highly unpopular austerity programme imposed on their country. Former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis said history would “judge him harshly”.
Wolfgang Schäuble joined the conservative CDU party in 1965 and entered the Bundestag seven years later when he was 30.
German ex-finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble, who helped steer the eurozone through the debt crisis, has died at the age of 81.
He then survived an attempt on his life by a mentally unstable gunman.
An MP for 51 years in Germany’s Bundestag, he played a key role in negotiating German reunification after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
Current Chancellor Olaf Scholz said he had shaped his country for more than half a century and Germany had lost “a sharp thinker, a passionate politician and a pugnacious Democrat”.
He then survived an attempt on his life by a mentally unstable gunman.
He then survived an attempt on his life by a mentally unstable gunman.
Current Chancellor Olaf Scholz said he had shaped his country for more than half a century and Germany had lost “a sharp thinker, a passionate politician and a pugnacious Democrat”.
Angela Merkel, whose cabinet he served in for 12 years, said when she was a young minister Wolfgang Schäuble was her “political mentor”.
Posting on X, formerly Twitter, Former UK Chancellor George Osborne praised Schäuble as “a great man, who had unified his country and was the last of the post-war Germans”.
For many Greeks, however, he was a hate figure during the eurozone debt crisis, as architect of a highly unpopular austerity programme imposed on their country. Former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis said history would “judge him harshly”.
Wolfgang Schäuble joined the conservative CDU party in 1965 and entered the Bundestag seven years later when he was 30.
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