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Olaf Scholz
MdB
Scholz in 2023
Chancellor of Germany
Incumbent
Assumed office 8 December 2021
President
Frank-Walter Steinmeier
Vice Chancellor
Robert Habeck
Preceded by
Angela Merkel
Vice Chancellor of Germany
In office 14 March 2018 – 8 December 2021
Chancellor
Angela Merkel
Preceded by
Sigmar Gabriel
Succeeded by
Robert Habeck
Minister of Finance
In office 14 March 2018 – 8 December 2021
Chancellor
Angela Merkel
Preceded by
Wolfgang Schäuble
Succeeded by
Christian Lindner
First Mayor of Hamburg
In office 7 March 2011 – 13 March 2018
Second Mayor
Dorothee Stapelfeldt Katharina Fegebank
Preceded by
Christoph Ahlhaus
Succeeded by
Peter Tschentscher
Early political career 2001–2011
Deputy Leader of the Social Democratic Party in the Bundestag
In office 27 October 2009 – 11 March 2011
Serving with Joachim Poß, Angelica Schwall-Düren, Elke Ferner, Ulrich Kelber, Gernot Erler, Florian Pronold, Dagmar Ziegler, Hubertus Heil, Axel Schäfer
Leader
Frank-Walter Steinmeier
Preceded by
Ludwig Stiegler Walter Kolbow Fritz Rudolf Körper Klaas Hübner Christel Humme
Succeeded by
Christine Lambrecht
Minister for Labour and Social Affairs
In office 21 November 2007 – 27 October 2009
Chancellor
Angela Merkel
Preceded by
Franz Müntefering
Succeeded by
Franz Josef Jung
Chief Whip of the Social Democratic Party in the Bundestag
In office 13 October 2005 – 21 November 2007
Leader
Peter Struck
Preceded by
Wilhelm Schmidt
Succeeded by
Thomas Oppermann
General Secretary of the Social Democratic Party
In office 20 October 2002 – 21 March 2004
Leader
Gerhard Schröder
Preceded by
Franz Müntefering
Succeeded by
Klaus Uwe Benneter
Senator for the Interior of Hamburg
In office 30 May 2001 – 31 October 2001
First Mayor
Ortwin Runde
Preceded by
Hartmuth Wrocklage
Succeeded by
Ronald Schill
Parliamentary constituencies
Member of the Bundestag for Potsdam – Potsdam-Mittelmark II – Teltow-Fläming II
Incumbent
Assumed office 26 October 2021
Preceded by
Manja Schüle (2019)
Member of the Bundesrat for Hamburg
In office 7 March 2011 – 13 March 2018
Preceded by
Christoph Ahlhaus
Succeeded by
Peter Tschentscher
Member of the Hamburg Parliament
In office 2 March 2015 – 2 March 2015
Preceded by
Himself (2011)
Electoral list
Social Democratic Party
In office 7 March 2011 – 7 March 2011
Preceded by
Multi-member district
Succeeded by
Andrea Rugbarth
Electoral list
Social Democratic Party
Member of the Bundestag for Hamburg-Altona
In office 17 October 2002 – 11 March 2011
Preceded by
Himself (2001)
Succeeded by
Ingo Egloff
In office 26 October 1998 – 6 June 2001
Preceded by
Marliese Dobberthien
Succeeded by
Himself (2002)
Deputy Member of the Bundesrat for Hamburg
In office 30 May 2001[1] – 31 October 2001[2]
Appointed by
Ortwin Runde
Preceded by
Hartmuth Wrocklage
Succeeded by
Multi-member district
Personal details
Born
(1958-06-14) 14 June 1958 (age 65) Osnabrück, Lower Saxony, West Germany
Political party
Social Democratic Party (since 1975)
Spouse
Britta Ernst
(m. 1998)
Residence(s)
Old Market Square, Potsdam
Alma mater
University of Hamburg
Signature
Website
olaf-scholz.spd.de
Olaf Scholz (German:[ˈoːlafˈʃɔlts]ⓘ; born (1958-06-14)14 June 1958) is a German politician who has been serving as the chancellor of Germany since 8 December 2021. A member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), he previously served as Vice Chancellor in the fourth Merkel cabinet and as Federal Minister of Finance from 2018 to 2021. He was also First Mayor of Hamburg from 2011 to 2018, deputy leader of the SPD from 2009 to 2019, and Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs from 2007 to 2009.
Scholz began his career as a lawyer specialising in labour and employment law. He became a member of the SPD in the 1970s and was a member of the Bundestag from 1998 to 2011. Scholz served in the Hamburg Government under First Mayor Ortwin Runde in 2001 and became General Secretary of the SPD in 2002, where he served alongside SPD leader and then-Chancellor Gerhard Schröder. He became his party's Chief Whip in the Bundestag, later entering the First Merkel Government in 2007 as Federal Minister for Labour and Social Affairs. After the SPD moved into the opposition following the 2009 election, Scholz returned to lead the SPD in Hamburg. He was then elected Deputy Leader of the SPD. He led his party to victory in the 2011 Hamburg state election and became First Mayor, a position he held until 2018.
After the Social Democratic Party entered the fourth Merkel government in 2018, Scholz was appointed as both Minister of Finance and Vice Chancellor of Germany. In 2020, he was nominated as the SPD's candidate for Chancellor of Germany for the 2021 federal election. The party won a plurality of seats in the Bundestag and formed a "traffic light coalition" with Alliance 90/The Greens and the Free Democratic Party. On 8 December 2021, Scholz was elected and sworn in as Chancellor by the Bundestag, succeeding Angela Merkel.
As Chancellor, Scholz has overseen Germany's response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Despite taking a more restrained and cautious response than many other Western leaders, Scholz oversaw a significant increase in the German defence budget, weapons shipments to Ukraine, and the cancellation of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. Three days after the invasion, Scholz set out the principles of a new German defence policy in his Zeitenwende speech. During the Israel–Hamas war, he authorized substantial German military and medical aid to Israel, and denounced the actions of Hamas and other Palestinian militant groups.
OlafScholz (German: [ˈoːlaf ˈʃɔlts] ; born (1958-06-14)14 June 1958) is a German politician who has been serving as the chancellor of Germany since 8...
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(Article 63 of the German Constitution). The current officeholder is OlafScholz of the SPD, who was elected in December 2021, succeeding Angela Merkel...
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together with Lars Klingbeil, who joined her in December 2021. After OlafScholz was elected chancellor in 2021, the SPD became the leading party of the...
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serving as the Federal Minister of Defence in the cabinet of Chancellor OlafScholz since 19 January 2023. Pistorius had previously been State Minister for...
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Bridge. Four Air Force officers prepared a briefing from Chancellor OlafScholz on the topic at an online meeting. A Russian intelligence service, media...
coalition with the most seats in the Bundestag. The chancellor, currently OlafScholz, is the head of government and exercises executive power through his...
for geopolitical advantage with Europe and Ukraine. German Chancellor OlafScholz suspended its certification on 22 February 2022, following official recognition...
as State Minister of Finance in the first and second governments of OlafScholz. Tschentscher graduated from high school in Oldenburg in 1985. He later...
awarding overhang and leveling seats in place since the 2013 election. The Scholz cabinet passed a reform law in March 2023 to fix the size of future Bundestags...
couldn't rule out that the recording might have been edited; Chancellor OlafScholz promised a swift investigation. The leak of the conversation between...
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over after the second longest term for a chancellor in German history. OlafScholz was sworn in as the new chancellor on 8 December 2021. His Social Democrats...
Merkel's Christian Democrats lost to the Social Democratic Party led by OlafScholz. Since the 2014 European Parliament election, Germany does not have an...
Angela Merkel were both born in Hamburg. The former Mayor of Hamburg, OlafScholz, has been the current German chancellor since December 2021. Hamburg...
attack "the latest spillover of the Gaza conflict". Germany: Chancellor OlafScholz condemned the Iranian attack as "unjustifiable and highly irresponsible"...
of the Kultusministerkonferenz in 2021. She is the wife of Chancellor OlafScholz. Ernst was born in Hamburg. After her Abitur in 1980, she completed an...
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