Gerhard Schröder
Gerhard Schröder was Chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005.
He was born on 7 April 1944 in Mossenberg, North Rhine-Westphalia. After school he learned retail sales in a Lemgo from 1958 to 1961. After that he made his abitur (highest school exam in Germany) in Bielefeld. Then he studied law in Göttingen. After that he worked as a lawyer.
He joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1963 and became chairman of its youth organisation in 1978. In 1986 he became a member of the State Parliament of Lower Saxony. In 1990 he was elected as Prime-Minister of Lower Saxony.
He became the chancellor of Germany in 1998. After elections in 2005, he was replaced by Angela Merkel. He is a member of the SPD (Social Democratic Party of Germany).
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Chancellors of Germany Reich Chancellor (Reichskanzler): 1871-1945 Federal Chancellor (Bundeskanzler): 1945- | |
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 German Empire (1871–1918) | |
 Weimar Republic (1918–1933) | |
 Nazi Germany (1933–1945) | |
 Germany (since 1949) | Konrad Adenauer · Ludwig Erhard · Kurt Georg Kiesinger · Willy Brandt · Walter Scheel (acting) · Helmut Schmidt · Helmut Kohl · Gerhard Schröder · Angela Merkel
· Olaf Scholz |
Chairmen of the Social Democratic Party of Germany | ||
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| SPD-in-exile (SoPaDe) (1933-1945) | ||
| SPD (since 1946) | Kurt Schumacher · Erich Ollenhauer · Willy Brandt · Hans-Jochen Vogel · Björn Engholm · Johannes Rau · Rudolf Scharping · Oskar Lafontaine · Gerhard Schröder · Franz Müntefering · Matthias Platzeck · Kurt Beck · Franz Müntefering · Sigmar Gabriel · Martin Schulz · Olaf Scholz (Acting) · Andrea Nahles · Saskia Esken / Norbert Walter-Borjans | |