Wolfgang Schäuble is Federal Minister of Finance. This is his fourth Cabinet post. From 1984 to 1989 he was Federal Minister of Special Tasks and Head of the Federal Chancellery, then from 1989 to 1991 and again from 2005 to 2009 Federal Minister of the Interior.

Vita

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Born on 18 September 1942 in Freiburg; married, four children

1961
Abitur (higher education entrance qualification)

1961
Studied Law and Economics in Freiburg und Hamburg

since 1961
Joined the Junge Union, the CDU youth organisation

since 1965
Member of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU)

1966 - 1970
1. State law examination, then assistant lecturer at Freiburg University and representative of the Vice-Chancellor on political education, second state examination

1971
Conferred a doctorate in a subject of commercial law and joined the tax authorities of the federal state (Land) of Baden-Württemberg

1969 - 1972
District Chairman of Junge Union Südbaden

since 1972
Member of the German Bundestag

1975 - 1984
Member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe

1978 - 1984
Barrister in the regional court of Offenburg

1976 - 1984
Chairman of CDU Special Committee for Sport

1979 - 1982
Chairman of the Working Group of European Border Regions

1981 - 1984
Parliamentary secretary of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the German Bundestag

1984 - 1989
Federal Minister of Special Tasks and Head of the Federal Chancellery, then Federal Minister of the Interior

1991 - 2000
Chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the German Bundestag

1998 - 2000
Federal Chairman and since then member of the Presidium of the Christian Democratic Union Germany (CDU)

2002 - 2005
Vice-Chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the German Bundestag for foreign policy, security policy and European policy

2005 - 2009
Federal Minister of the Interior

since October 2009
Federal Minister of Finance

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Berlin office
Wilhelmstraße 97
10117 Berlin
Phone: +49 (0) 30 18 682-0
Fax: +49 (0) 30 18 682-4248

Bonn office
Am Propsthof 78a
53121 Bonn
Phone: +49 (0) 30 18 682-0
Fax: +49 (0) 30 18 682-4420

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