Gerhard Schröder

Gerhard Fritz Kurt Schröder , born the April 7th 1944, is a German Politician , federal chancellor of the October 27th 1998 with the November 22nd 2005.

Schröder was born with Mossenberg, in the district of Lippe. When it is not with Berlin, capital of Germany, it lives with Hanover.

Political course

Gerhard Schröder follows courses of the evening, after a training as salesman, then integrates the college and passes her baccalaureat in 1966. After studies of right, it settles as lawyer in Hanover in 1976.

In 1963, it adheres to the social democrat Party of Germany (Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands, SPD). He is elected president of Jusos (socialist Youths of the SPD) in 1971 and chairs starting from 1978 the management committee of the SPD of Hanover.

He obtains to be candidate SPD with the chancellery, in the place of the president of the party Oskar Lafontaine which had already failed into 1990 vis-a-vis the Chancellor CDU Helmut Kohl, after having gained into 1998 the regional elections in the Land of Lower Saxony of which he is the president.

He became federal Chancelier the October 27th 1998 and formed his first cabinet, putting fine at the sixteen years capacity of the Helmut Kohl Outgoing chancellor and his coalition CDU - FDP. He also occupied the position of president of SPD since the resignation of Oskar Lafontaine in March 1999, which was in addition its Minister for the Economy and president of the Land of the Saar. With the general elections of the September 22nd 2002, its mandate was renewed for four years thanks to very the short victory of the red coalition - green, with which it forms its second cabinet.

He was firmly opposed to the war in Iraq in 2003, one of his main themes of countryside during the summer 2002, and refused any military aid, which caused an increase in the political tensions between the the United States and the Germany, since this one was regarded as one of its more important and more close friends combined since the end of the Second world war. The refusal of the war by Schröder had several reasons, of which one was that the Fundamental law prohibits the entry in war as “an attacker”. These democratic Christian opponents rather seeing an operation intended there to gain the elections of September 2002, for which it started very low in the surveys.

Confronted with the dispute of its social reforms, the SPD was sanctioned in many regional elections. After its heavy defeat in its bastion of Rhineland-of-North-Westphalia the May 22nd 2005, ground traditionally acquired with the SPD and accounting for 20% of the German population, Gerhard Schröder announced the probable behavior of anticipated elections to the autumn 2005, which could lead it to leave its functions.

With the elections of September 18th, 2005 the SPD obtains 34,2 % of the voices, a sufficient result to prevent the formation coalition CDU/CSU-FDP (respectively 35,2 % and 9,8 % of the voice) awaited by many observers. Reinforced by this relative success and the good score of the SPD in Rhineland-of-North-Westphalia, Gerhard Schröder proclaims the victory of her party and seems to assert during several weeks her re-election at the post of chancellor. Finally, the two great parties accept the formation of a “great coalition” and Angela Merkel is elected chancelière on November 22nd, 2005. The following day, Schröder resigns of its mandate of deputy at the Bundestag.

Professional life

Gerhard Schröder takes again then her activities of lawyer and council.

To have shortly after yielded the capacity to preserving the Angela Merkel, Gerhard Schröder was engaged by Gazprom to direct the board of trustees of the German-Russian consortium charged to build this gas pipeline under the Baltic, whose Gazprom holds 51%. Schröder itself had stopped the construction of this pipeline as an attracted chancellor and that of many criticisms in Germany.

The March 30th 2006, Gerhard Schröder is unanimously elected president of the North-European Gas Pipeline Company , undertaken charged to supervise the management and the construction of a gas pipeline connecting the Russia and the Germany while passing by the the Baltic, thus avoiding the Poland, the Lithuania and the Ukraine.

In addition, the government of Gerhard Schröder had gone guaranteeing of a credit of a billion euros suggested by the banks Deutsche Bank and KfW to Gazprom for the construction of this German-Russian gas pipeline at sea Baltique. Gazprom however refused this loan of the two banks thereafter.

March 29th, 2006, the Russian daily newspaper Kommerssant , publishes an article which announces that Schröder will propose to the Russian president Putin a company public relations based in Germany aiming at improving the image of Russia in Western Europe. The two men are famous friendly goods and Schröder hopes to obtain the financing of Russian companies. Schröder denied this information shortly after speaking about a Think tank aiming to the dialog between Russia and the Occident.

It was also recruited by the Rotschild bank as to advise in the development of its activities in Eastern Europe, in Russia, in Turkey, in the Middle East and in China.

Gerhard Schröder, who adopted with his last wife a little girl originating in Russia, does not hide the friendly relations which it maintains with president Vladimir Poutine.

Political mandates

appointed at the Bundestag of 1980 has 1986
appointed with the diet of Lower Saxony of 1986 has 1990
Minister-president de Basse-Saxe of 1990 with 1998,
chairs the social democrat Party (SPD) of 1999 2004.
federal Chancelier of 1998 has 2005

Private life

Gerhard Schröder forever known her father Fritz Schröder, died in the combat the October 4th 1944 in Romania, and buried in the village of Ceanu Pond.

It was married several times, with:

Eva Schubach (of 1968 with 1972)
Anne Taschenmacher (of 1972 with 1984)
Hiltrud Hensel (of 1984 with 1997)
Köpf Dory (since 1997)

On his/her father and the Second world war

Fritz Schröder was a German soldier which was useful in the Wehrmacht during the Second world war. He died Caporal the October 4th 1944 in a Soviet ambush of the armies Rumanian and with Ceanu Mare (Romania). He belonged then to the Stange company of the Witzel battalion.

The April 7th 1944, his wife was confined of a second fore-mentioned child Gerhard, the future chancellor.

Gerhard Schröder is the first German chancellor not to have taken part or not have known the Second world war. He is also the first German head of government to attend the commemorations of the unloading of Normandy, considered as one of the principal defeats of Germany in 1944.

The tomb of the Schröder corporal was found by his/her daughter Gunhild Schröder-Kamp in April 2001 with Ceanu Mare. His/her Gerhard son collected in August 2004 there, at the time of an official visit in Romania.

External bonds

Official site of Gerhard Schröder
Nordeuropäische Gaspipeline - North European gas pipeline - Северо-Европейскийгазопровод

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