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Frank-Walter Steinmeier


Vice Chancellor of Germany
Incumbent
Assumed office 21 November 2007
Preceded by	Franz Müntefering
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Germany
Incumbent
Assumed office 22 November 2005
Preceded by	Joschka Fischer

Personal details
Born	(1956-01-05) 5 January 1956 (age 68) Detmold, West Germany
Political party	Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD)
Alma mater	University of Giessen

Frank-Walter Steinmeier (born 5 January 1956) is a German politician who has served as the Foreign Minister of Germany since 22 November 2005 in the grand coalition of Angela Merkel. On 21 November 2007, he replaced Franz Müntefering as Vice Chancellor. In the first half of 2007 he was also President of the European Council. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), and on 7 September 2008, Steinmeier was designated as the candidate of the SPD for the office of Chancellor of Germany in the 2009 federal election. After exit polls showed a victory for the Christian Democrats and the Liberals, Steinmeier conceded defeat and announced his intention to become head of the opposition in the Bundestag.

Early life

Steinmeier was born in Detmold. Following his Abitur, he served his military service from 1974 until 1976. He then studied law and political science at the Justus-Liebig-Universität of Gießen. In 1982 he passed his first and 1986 his second state exam in law. He worked as scientific assistant to the professor of public law and political science at the Gießen university, until he obtained his doctorate of law in 1991.

Steinmeier is married and has one daughter.

Political career

Steinmeier became an adviser in 1991 for law of communication media and media guidelines in the state Chancellery of Lower Saxony in Hanover. In 1993, he became director of the personal office for the then Prime Minister of Lower Saxony, Gerhard Schröder. In 1996, he became the Undersecretary of State and Director of the State Chancellery of Lower Saxony.

Steinmeier was appointed in November 1998 as Undersecretary of State in the Office of the Chancellor following Schröder's election victory. He replaced Bodo Hombach as the head of the Office of the Chancellor in 1999. Because of his effective management beyond the spotlight of politics, he was nick-named Die Graue Effizienz (The Grey Efficiency) - a play on Graue Eminenz, the German for éminence grise

In government

On 22 November 2005 he became the new Foreign Minister of Germany in the coalition cabinet formed by Angela Merkel. Steinmeier is the first SPD Foreign Minister since Willy Brandt (1966-1969).

Following Franz Müntefering's announcement that he would leave the government on 21 November 2007, Steinmeier was announced as Müntefering's replacement as Vice-Chancellor.

Interim chairman of the Social Democratic Party

On 7 September 2008, SPD Chairman Kurt Beck resigned at a party meeting in Werder and Steinmeier was chosen as the SPD candidate for Chancellor in the 2009 election. Steinmeier was also designated as interim SPD Chairman, although Müntefering was expected to return to that position.

References

Thüringer Allgemeine, retrieved 2008-12-06.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/6237210/Merkels-rival-concedes-defeat-in-German-election.html
http://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2009-09/spd-steinmeier-opposition
Andreas Cremer and Brian Parkin, "Muentefering, Vice-Chancellor Under Merkel, Quits", Bloomberg.com, November 13, 2007.
"German SPD party reshuffles leadership, with eye on election", Xinhua, September 7, 2008.

External links

Media related to Frank-Walter Steinmeier at Wikimedia Commons

Political offices Template:Incumbent succession box
Preceded byErkki Tuomioja	President of the Council of the European Union First-Half 2007	Succeeded byLuís Amado
Preceded byJoschka Fischer	Foreign Minister of Germany 2005–present	Succeeded byIncumbent
Preceded byBodo Hombach	Chief of the Chancellery 1999–2005	Succeeded byThomas de Maizière

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v t e Foreign Ministers of Germany
German Empire (1871–1918)	Thile Balan B. E. von Bülow Radowitz Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst Limburg-Stirum Busch Hatzfeldt zu Wildenburg Bismarck Marschall B. von Bülow Richthofen Tschirschky-Bögendorff Schoen Kiderlen-Waechter Jagow Zimmermann Kühlmann Hintze Solf Brockdorff-Rantzau
Weimar Republic (1918–33)	Brockdorff-Rantzau Müller Köster Simons Rosen Wirth Rathenau Rosenberg Stresemann Curtius Brüning Neurath
Nazi Germany (1933–45)	Neurath Ribbentrop Seyss-Inquart Schwerin von Krosigk
German Democratic Republic (1949–90)	Dertinger Ackermann Bolz Winzer O. Fischer Meckel de Maizière
Federal Republic of Germany (1949–present)	Adenauer von Brentano Schröder Brandt Scheel Genscher Schmidt Genscher Kinkel J. Fischer Steinmeier Westerwelle Steinmeier Gabriel Maas Baerbock
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v t e Foreign ministers of the Group of Seven
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v t e Chiefs of Staff of the German Chancellery
Franz-Josef Wuermeling Otto Lenz Hans Globke Ludger Westrick Werner Knieper Karl Carstens Horst Ehmke Horst Grabert Manfred Schüler Manfred Lahnstein Gerhard Konow Waldemar Schreckenberger Wolfgang Schäuble Rudolf Seiters Friedrich Bohl Bodo Hombach Frank-Walter Steinmeier Thomas de Maizière Ronald Pofalla Peter Altmaier Helge Braun Wolfgang Schmidt

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