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Guido Westerwelle
Guido Westerwelle was a German politician who served as foreign minister in the second cabinet of Chancellor Angela Merkel and Vice-Chancellor of Germany from 2009 to 2011, being the first openly gay person to hold any of these positions. He also led the liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP) from 2001 until he stepped down in 2011. A lawyer by profession, he was a member of the Bundestag from 1996 t…
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Born 27 December 1961 · Died 18 March 2016 · Q58284
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2016· 7 entries
Artnet: Former German Foreign Minister and Collector Guido Westerwelle Dead at 54
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Wall Street Journal: Former German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle Dies
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Bloomberg L.P.: Guido Westerwelle, Merkel's Former Deputy Chancellor, Dies
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Digital Journal: German ex-foreign minister Guido Westerwelle dies
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Washington Times: Germany: ex-foreign minister Guido Westerwelle dies at 54
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Died 2016-03-18.
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2015· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Merit of North Rhine-Westphalia (2015).
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2013· 2 entries
Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of Civil Merit (2013).
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Announced plans to launch an initiative at the United Nations General Assembly to agree an optional protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights that would give greater data protection to inter
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2012· 1 entry
And Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble were at loggerheads after a high-court ruling demanded the government provide equal tax treatment to gay civil servants and armed forces members
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2011· 1 entry
Called "The Ministry and the Past", which alleged the ministry's collusion with the Nazis
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2010· 3 entries
About the "welfare state", saying that promising the people effortless prosperity may lead to "late Roman decadence", in reference to a verdict in the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany regarding Hartz IV
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Westerwelle called on newly empowered Republicans in the U
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Westerwelle announced he would not be taking his civil partner Michael Mronz to anti-gay countries
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2009· 4 entries
Career landmark: member of the German Bundestag (2009–2013).
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Career landmark: Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs (2009–2013).
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Career landmark: Vice-Chancellor of Germany (2009–2011).
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“s appointment as chairman of the North European Gas Pipeline Company was”
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2006· 4 entries
Awarded honorary doctorate presented by Hanyang University (2006).
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Awarded European handicraft prize (2006).
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According to an internal agreement, Westerwelle succeeded Wolfgang Gerhardt as chairman of the parliamentary group
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Former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder won a court order against Westerwelle who had criticized Schröder for accepting a lucrative job at Gazprom, the Russian state-owned gas company, soon after losing the parliamentary elec
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2005· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the German Bundestag (2005–2009).
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2002· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the German Bundestag (2002–2005).
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2001· 5 entries
Awarded Tie Man of the Year (2001).
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Awarded Orden wider den tierischen Ernst (2001).
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“registered partnerships have the same responsibilities as married couples, then they should have the same rights. It is not weakening marriage but ending discrimination. We do not live in the 1950s.”
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Westerwelle was one of the first politicians to push for a biometric passport
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Westerwelle succeeded Wolfgang Gerhardt as party chairman
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1998· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the German Bundestag (1998–2002).
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1996· 2 entries
Career landmark: member of the German Bundestag (1996–1998).
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Westerwelle was first elected a member of the Bundestag, filling in for Heinz Lanfermann, who had resigned from his seat after entering the Ministry of Justice
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1994· 4 entries
Career landmark: Secretary General of the Free Democratic Party (1994–2001).
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Earned a doctoral degree in law from the University of Hagen
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Studied at FernUniversität in Hagen, Doctor of Laws (1994).
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Was appointed secretary general of the party
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1987· 2 entries
Studied at University of Bonn, Staatsexamen (1987).
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And 1991 respectively, he began practising as an attorney in Bonn in 1991
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1983· 1 entry
And he was its chairman from 1983 to 1988
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1980· 1 entry
After academic struggles resulted in his departure from previous institutions where he was considered an average student at best, but substandard otherwise
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1973· 1 entry
To establish a no-fly zone, along with veto powers Russia and China as well as Brazil and India
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1961· 1 entry
Born 1961-12-27.
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