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Christian Wolfgang Lindner is a German retired politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who was the Federal Minister of Finance from 2021 until his dismissal in 2024 during a government crisis. Serving from 2013 to 2025, Lindner was the longest-serving party-leader of the FDP and a Member of the Bundestag (MdB) for North Rhine-Westphalia from 2017 to 2025, having previously held a seat from 2…
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“In so doing, the idea forces itself upon him that religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis, and he is optimistic enough to suppose that mankind will surmount this neurotic phase, just as so many children grow out of their similar neurosis.”
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Campaign: 2025 federal election and retirement.
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“politically open to the idea of seizing”
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Lindner called for renewed talks over a free trade agreement between the European Union and the United States, aiming to revive discussions on the so-called Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)
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Christian Lindner was re-elected federal chairman of the FDP with 93 percent of the vote and at the same time was chosen as the party's top candidate for the federal election
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Career landmark: Federal Minister of Finance (2021–2024).
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Arguing that, if put into practice, they would pose a threat to the economic future of Germany and Europe
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Career landmark: member of the German Bundestag (2021).
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Awarded Sexist Man Alive (2020).
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Awarded Award "For Freedom of Mass Media" (2018).
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Started dating journalist Franca Lehfeldt, whom he married in 2022
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Where he endorsed the government's candidate Frank-Walter Steinmeier
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Career landmark: member of the German Bundestag (2017–2021).
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Awarded Orden wider den tierischen Ernst (2014).
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Career landmark: Chairperson of the Free Democratic Party of Germany (2013–2025).
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Career landmark: member of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia (2012–2017).
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Lindner married journalist Dagmar Rosenfeld; they had started dating in 2009
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Career landmark: Secretary General of the Free Democratic Party (2009–2011).
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Career landmark: member of the German Bundestag (2009–2012).
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Was a liaison officer to the state command Landeskommando of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in Düsseldorf
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Also became a member of the federal executive board of the FDP
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Began writing his dissertation under supervision from political science professor Frank Decker, which he has so far not completed due to his political activities
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Career landmark: general secretary (2004–2010).
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Was promoted to First Lieutenant (Oberleutnant) in the Reserve
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Career landmark: member of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia (2000–2009).
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And an alternative civilian service, Christian Lindner studied political science at the University of Bonn from 1999 to 2006
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“Jokes and their Relation to the Cognitive Unconscious”
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Born 1979-01-07.
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“We are working on further sanctions. I am particularly concerned that the oligarchs should be affected. Those who have profited from Putin and stolen the wealth of the Russian people, including through corruption, should not be allowed to enjoy their prosperity in our Western democracies”
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“The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm”
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“Analysis Terminable and Interminable”
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“New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis”
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“But [William] Glen [a distinguished geologist and historian of science at the United States Geological Survey in Menlo Park, CA...] reminded me of the famous statement by Freud that I have often quoted in these essays: The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.”
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“The Dissolution of the Oedipus Complex”
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“Gesammelte Schriften, Volume 6”
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“...we must begin to love in order not to fall ill.”
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“Three Essays On The Theory Of Sexuality”
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