Bundestag First Deputy Leader of the CDU/CSU Group
In office 4 November 1982 – 16 November 1988
Leader
Alfred Dregger Wolfgang Schäuble
Preceded by
Friedrich Zimmermann
Succeeded by
Wolfgang Bötsch
Member of the Bundestag for Neu-Ulm
In office 3 October 1976 – 17 October 2002
Preceded by
Leo Wagner
Succeeded by
Georg Nüßlein
Personal details
Born
Theodor Waigel
(1939-04-22) 22 April 1939 (age 85) Ursberg, Bavaria, Deutsches Reich
Political party
Christian Social Union (CSU)
Alma mater
University of Würzburg
Profession
Lawyer
Theodor Waigel (born 22 April 1939) is a German politician of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU). He represented Neu-Ulm in the Bundestag from 1976 to 2002.
Waigel is a lawyer, and earned a doctorate in 1967. He was a member of the Bundestag from 1972 to 2002. He served as Federal Minister of Finance of Germany in the Cabinet of Chancellor Helmut Kohl from 1989 to 1998, and as Chairman of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria from 1988[1] to 1999. He is known as the father of the Euro, the European currency.[2] He played a vital role in its introduction as German Minister of Finance. He also managed to impose an austerity program on West Germans and overcome the massive deficits of German unification to meet the strict fiscal benchmarks mandated by Europe's single currency.[3] In 2009, he was appointed Honorary Chairman of the CSU.
^Tuohy, William (14 April 1989). "Kohl Shuffles Cabinet to Aid Image Before Election". Los Angeles Times. Bonn. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
^Stone, Randall W. and Gent, Stephen E. (1 February 2006) Formalizing Informal Cooperation: Norm-Based Cooperation and the European Stability and Growth Pact
^John Schmid (27 May 1998), German Opposition Advertises a Cabinet International Herald Tribune.
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independent director in charge of compliance and accepting oversight from TheoWaigel, a former German finance minister. Siemens implemented new anti-corruption...
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director 31 March – Karl-Heinz Schnellinger, German footballer 22 April – TheoWaigel, German politician 24 April – Ernst Zündel, German publisher and pamphleteer...
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several owners over the following centuries, and is still in private hands. Notable guests there have been Theodor Heuss, Horst Köhler and TheoWaigel....
office 12 September 1988 – 12 December 1994 Leader Franz Josef Strauß TheoWaigel Preceded by Gerold Tandler Succeeded by Bernd Protzner Member of the...
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