Wolfgang Schäuble

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Wolfgang Schäuble  link Website Wikileaks (Politician)
Born	18 September 1942 Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Died	26 December 2023
Nationality	German
Alma mater	University of Freiburg, University of Hamburg
Religion	Lutheranism
Children	4
Spouse	Ingeborg Schäuble
Party	Christian Democratic Union
German Bilderberger, MSC, WEF AGM, lawyer and politician. Saw Covid as an opportunity to ram through a centralized EU economic and financial union.

Dr Wolfgang Schäuble was a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party. "A committed transatlanticist", his political career has spanned more than four decades. A supporter of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, he attended the Bilderberg meeting the same year, and became finance minister in 2005.

Background

Born in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1942, Schäuble studied at both the University of Freiburg and the University of Hamburg.

Career

His political career began in 1969 as a member of the Junge Union, the youth division of the CDU and CSU. Schäuble considered the former Baden-Württemberg Minister-President Hans Filbinger as his political foster father, and paid homage to him until the very end. In 1978, it was exposed that Filbinger was a dedicated NSDAP-member and military judge during World War 2.

In 1972, Schäuble was elected to the Bundestag, and he was a member of the Bundestag until his death. His ministerial career began in 1984 when he was appointed minister for special affairs by chancellor Helmut Kohl. In a 1989 reshuffle, Schäuble was appointed minister of the interior, and he led negotiations for reunification on behalf of West Germany

During the German unification he argued to have the files of the East German intelligence agency Stasi destroyed.

During his tenure as minister of the interior, Schäuble was one of the most popular politicians in Germany and was regularly mentioned as a possible future chancellor,.

After the defeat of the CDU/CSU in the 1998 federal election, Schäuble succeeded his mentor Helmut Kohl as chairman of the CDU. He resigned from the post as chairman of the CDU, as well as from the leadership of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in 2000, in the wake of the party financing scandal where he received DM 100,000 from the arms dealer and lobbyist Karlheinz Schreiber back in 1994.

In 2003, he wanted Germany to support or even join in the US invasion of Iraq.

In 2005, 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.

On 27 September 2017, the CDU/CSU group in the Bundestag announced Schäuble's nomination as President of the Bundestag. He was elected to that position on 24 October 2017 and held that position until the CDU/CSU was defeated in the 2021 federal election.

Covid

In August 2020, he saw Covid as an opportunity to ram through a centralized EU economic and financial union:

The corona crisis is a great opportunity. Resistance to change becomes less during the crisis. We can now manage the [EU] economic and financial union, which we have not been able to achieve politically so far ...

Looting of Greece

He is much disliked in Greece owing to the looting ("austerity measures") he forced on the country, on behalf of international banks A prominent critic is Yanis Varoufakis, who was his negotiating partner.