Awarded Konrad Adenauer Award in Cologne City Hall (2025).
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Wolfgang Schäuble
Wolfgang Schäuble was a German politician whose political career spanned more than five decades. A member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), he was the longest-serving member of any democratic German parliament. Schäuble served as the 13th president of the Bundestag from 2017 to 2021.
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Born 18 September 1942 · Died 26 December 2023 · Q16019
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2025· 1 entry
2024· 3 entries
BBC: Wolfgang Schauble: Holding the fate of the Euro?
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Anadolu Ajansi: French president pays tribute to late German statesman Wolfgang Schauble
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Yahoo: Family of German statesman Schäuble, top politicians attend funeral
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2023· 2 entries
L'Unione Sarda: Wolfgang Schauble, former German Finance Minister and austerity hawk, has died
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Died 2023-12-26.
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2021· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the German Bundestag (2021–2023).
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2020· 1 entry
Earned Silver Olympic Order (2020).
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2019· 1 entry
Awarded Global Economy Prize (2019).
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2018· 1 entry
Schäuble publicly endorsed Friedrich Merz to succeed Angela Merkel as the party's chair
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2017· 2 entries
Career landmark: President of the Bundestag (2017–2021).
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Career landmark: member of the German Bundestag (2017–2021).
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2016· 1 entry
Schäuble urged Member States to be more pragmatic and take an intergovernmental approach to solving problems
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2015· 5 entries
Awarded Point Alpha Prize (2015).
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Awarded Johann Heinrich Voß Prize for Literature (2015).
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Then-Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis of Greece called Schäuble "the intellectual force behind the project of European Monetary Union"
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“people are right to fear Islamist terrorism. But not Islam.”
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Schäuble raised the idea of stripping the European Commission of regulatory powers, expressing concern over its neutrality and willingness to fulfil its role as "guardian of the treaties", in particular with regard to th
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2014· 3 entries
Pushed through a national budget of 299 billion euros that allowed Germany not to take on any new debt for the first time since 1969
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That Britain's EU membership was particularly important for Germany as both countries share a market-oriented reform approach in many economic and regulatory questions
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Both reiterated their ideas in an op-ed for the Financial Times, renewing their call for a core group of European Union countries to move ahead faster with economic and political integration
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2013· 2 entries
Career landmark: member of the German Bundestag (2013–2017).
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For example, Schäuble and Vítor Gaspar, his counterpart in Portugal, announced a plan to use the German state development bank KfW to help set up a financial institution to assist Portuguese under age 25 in getting jobs
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2012· 3 entries
Awarded Charlemagne Prize (2012).
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Following the resignation of Jean-Claude Juncker as president of the 17 euro zone finance ministers, known as the Eurogroup, suggestions soon gathered pace that Chancellor Angela Merkel was pressing for Schäuble to take
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Schäuble rejected calls from the chairwoman of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, to give Greece more time to make additional spending cuts to rein in deficits
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2011· 2 entries
Awarded Grand Officer of the Order of the Oak Crown (2011).
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Schäuble and his wife lived in Gengenbach before moving to Offenburg in 2011.
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2009· 5 entries
Awarded BigBrotherAwards (2009).
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Also banned the Homeland-Faithful German Youth (HDJ), a far-right group, on grounds that it organizes seemingly harmless activities, such as holiday activities, to promote racist and Nazi ideology among children and y
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Career landmark: Federal Minister of Finance (2009–2017).
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Career landmark: member of the German Bundestag (2009–2013).
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“clarify whether our constitutional state is sufficient for confronting new threats”
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2008· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Merit of Baden-Württemberg (2008).
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2005· 4 entries
Won Robert Schuman Medal (2005).
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Schäuble again became minister of the interior in the cabinet of chancellor Angela Merkel, and in 2009 minister of finance, a position he remained in for almost eight years
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Career landmark: member of the German Bundestag (2005–2009).
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Career landmark: Federal Minister of the Interior (2005–2009).
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2002· 2 entries
Career landmark: member of the German Bundestag (2002–2005).
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Shortly before the Iraq War, Schäuble accused German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder of "strengthening Saddam Hussein" by undermining the unanimity of international pressure on Iraq to open up to United Nations weapons inspe
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2000· 3 entries
As another consequence of the financing scandal
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Schäuble was forced to resign from the post as CDU chairman, as well as leader of the parliamentary group in the Bundestag in the CDU Donations scandal, known in German as the Schwarzgeldaffäre (the 'Black Money Affair')
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In the wake of the party financing scandal, over the acceptance of cash donation over DM 100,000 contributed by the arms dealer and lobbyist Karlheinz Schreiber back in 1994
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1999· 1 entry
Schäuble initiated a CDU/CSU petition campaign against the reform of German nationality law under the slogan "Integration: yes – double citizenship: no"
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1998· 2 entries
Career landmark: leader of the Christian Democratic Union (1998–2000).
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Career landmark: member of the German Bundestag (1998–2002).
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1997· 1 entry
Helmut Kohl stated that Schäuble was his desired candidate to succeed him, but he did not want to hand over power until 2002
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1995· 1 entry
Awarded European handicraft prize (1995).
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1994· 2 entries
Career landmark: member of the German Bundestag (1994–1998).
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Urged the European Union to adopt a policy they called "variable geometry" under which five countries most committed to integration – Germany, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg – would proceed swiftly towar
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1991· 4 entries
Awarded Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1991).
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Awarded Grand Cross 1st class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1991).
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Career landmark: Chairman of the CDU/CSU Bundestag fraction (1991–2000).
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Schäuble clinched the argument in favour of moving the German capital from Bonn to Berlin
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1990· 2 entries
Awarded Pipe Smoker of the Year (1990).
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Career landmark: member of the German Bundestag (1990–1994).
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1989· 1 entry
Career landmark: Federal Minister of the Interior (1989–1991).
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1987· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the German Bundestag (1987–1990).
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1986· 3 entries
Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic (1986).
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Awarded Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (1986).
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Soviet press belabored Kohl for having, in a magazine interview, made a comparison between the propaganda skills of Mikhail S
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1984· 2 entries
When he was appointed minister for special affairs by chancellor Helmut Kohl
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Career landmark: Federal Minister for Special Affairs of Germany (1984–1989).
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1983· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the German Bundestag (1983–1987).
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1980· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the German Bundestag (1980–1983).
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1976· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the German Bundestag (1976–1980).
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1971· 1 entry
Schäuble obtained his doctorate in law, with a dissertation called "The public accountant's professional legal situation within accountancy firms"
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1969· 1 entry
As a member of the Junge Union, the youth division of the CDU and CSU; in 1972, Schäuble was elected to the Bundestag by winning the constituency seat of Offenburg, and he was a member of the Bundestag until his death
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1965· 1 entry
Schäuble also became a member of the CDU
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1961· 2 entries
With him joining the Junge Union ("Young Union"), the youth division of the CDU
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Schäuble studied law and economics at the University of Freiburg and the University of Hamburg, which he completed in 1966 and 1970 by passing the First and Second State Examinations respectively, becoming a fully qualif
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1948· 1 entry
His late brother, Thomas Schäuble (1948–2013), was a former Interior Minister of Baden-Württemberg, and an executive chairman of the Baden-Württemberg state brewery Rothaus from 2004 to 2013.
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1942· 2 entries
Born 1942-09-18.
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Schäuble studied at both the University of Freiburg and the University of Hamburg and subsequently began a career in law at the district court of Offenburg in 1978
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1938· 1 entry
To the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation
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