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Wolfgang Schäuble

Wolfgang Schäuble

Federal Minister of Finance and member of the German Bundestag.

Wolfgang Schäuble is Federal Minister of Finance and a member of the German Bundestag. He has been a member of the Bundestag since 1972 and served as the Parliamentary Secretary of the CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group from 1981 to 1984. He then held the offices of Federal Minister for Special Tasks and Head of the Federal Chancellery before serving as Federal Minister of the Interior from 1989 to 1991.

A member of the CDU National Executive Committee since 1989, Dr. Schäuble headed the CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group in the German Bundestag from 1991 until 2000, and from 1998 until 2000 he was also national chairman of the CDU. He has been a member of the CDU Presidium since then. Wolfgang Schäuble was the Deputy Head of the CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group in the German Bundestag for Foreign, Security and European Policy from 2002 to 2005, following which he again served as Federal Minister of the Interior. He held that office until October 2009, when he was appointed Federal Minister of Finance.

Wolfgang Schäuble has written a number of books including Der Vertrag. Wie ich über die deutsche Einheit verhandelte (The treaty: How I conducted the negotiations on German unification, 1991); Und der Zukunft zugewandt (Looking to the future, 1994); Und sie bewegt sich doch (And yet it moves, 1998); Mitten im Leben (In the prime of life, 2000); Scheitert der Westen? Deutschland, Die neue Weltordnung (Is the West failing? Germany and the new world order, 2003) and Zukunft mit Maß. Was wir aus der Krise lernen können (Future of moderation: What we can learn from the crisis, 2009).

Dr. Schäuble studied law and economics at the University of Freiburg and the University of Hamburg and was awarded the degree of Dr. jur. in 1971.

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