Minister of the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
In office 22 November 2005 – 27 October 2009
Chancellor
Angela Merkel
Preceded by
Jürgen Trittin
Succeeded by
Norbert Röttgen
Minister-President of Lower Saxony
In office 15 December 1999 – 4 March 2003
Deputy
Heidrun Merk Renate Jürgens-Pieper
Preceded by
Gerhard Glogowski
Succeeded by
Christian Wulff
Leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany in the Landtag of Lower Saxony
In office 4 March 2003 – 9 November 2005
Preceded by
Axel Plaue
Succeeded by
Wolfgang Jüttner
In office 30 March 1998 – 15 December 1999
Preceded by
Heinrich Aller
Succeeded by
Axel Plaue
Member of the Bundestag for Salzgitter – Wolfenbüttel
In office 18 October 2005 – 3 November 2019[1]
Preceded by
Wilhelm Schmidt
Succeeded by
Markus Paschke
Member of the Landtag of Lower Saxony for Goslar
In office 21 June 1990 – 9 November 2005
Preceded by
Jürgen Sikora
Succeeded by
Petra Emmerich-Kopatsch
Personal details
Born
Sigmar Hartmut Gabriel
(1959-09-12) 12 September 1959 (age 64) Goslar, Lower Saxony, West Germany
Political party
Social Democratic Party
Spouses
Munise Demirel
(m. 1989; div. 1998)
Anke Stadler
(m. 2012)
Children
3
Alma mater
University of Göttingen
Signature
Military service
Allegiance
Germany
Branch/service
Bundeswehr
Years of service
1979–1981
Unit
Air Force (Luftwaffe)
Sigmar Hartmut Gabriel (born 12 September 1959) is a German politician who was the Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2017 to 2018 and the vice-chancellor of Germany from 2013 to 2018. He was Leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) from 2009 to 2017,[2] which made him the party's longest-serving leader since Willy Brandt.[2] He was the Federal Minister of the Environment from 2005 to 2009 and the Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy from 2013 to 2017. From 1999 to 2003 Gabriel was Minister-President of Lower Saxony.
He represented Salzgitter – Wolfenbüttel in the Bundestag.
Gabriel is a member of the Seeheimer Kreis, an official internal grouping of the party with liberal economic positions.
^Georg Ismar (27 September 2019), "Dann soll man besser gehen": Ex-SPD-Chef Gabriel hört auf Der Tagesspiegel.
^ abHolger Hansen and Madeline Chambers (5 January 2017), SPD leader Gabriel expected to challenge Merkel in German: sources Reuters.
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