Olaf Scholz
| Olaf Scholz | |
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| First Mayor of Hamburg | |
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Assumed office 7 March 2011 |
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| Preceded by | Christoph Ahlhaus |
| Minister of Labour and Social Affairs | |
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In office 21 November 2007 – 27 October 2009 |
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| Chancellor | Angela Merkel |
| Preceded by | Franz Müntefering |
| Succeeded by | Franz Josef Jung |
| Minister of the Interior of Hamburg | |
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In office 30 May 2001 – 31 October 2001 |
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| Mayor | Ortwin Runde |
| Preceded by | Hartmuth Wrocklage |
| Succeeded by | Ronald Schill |
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6 June 1958 Osnabrück, Germany |
| Political party | Social Democratic Party |
| Alma mater | University of Hamburg |
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| Website | Official website |
Olaf Scholz (German pronunciation: [ˈoːlɐf ˈʃɔlts]; born 14 June 1958, in Osnabrück) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany and First Mayor of Hamburg since 7 March 2011.
A former Vice President of the International Union of Socialist Youth, Scholz represented Hamburg Altona in the Bundestag between 1998 and 2001 as well as between 2002 and 2011. From May to October 2001, he was Minister of the Interior (Innensenator) of Hamburg under First Mayor Ortwin Runde and from 2002 to 2004 he was Secretary-General of the SPD; he resigned from that office when Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, facing disaffection within his own party and hampered by persistently low public approval ratings, announced that he would step down as chairman of the Social Democratic Party.
Scholz served as the SPD parliamentary group’s spokesperson on the inquiry committee investigating the German Visa Affair in 2005. Following the federal elections later that year, he served as First Parliamentary Secretary of the SPD parliamentary group. In this capacity, he worked closely with the CDU parliamentary floor manager Norbert Röttgen to manage and defend the grand coalition led by Chancellor Angela Merkel in parliament. He also served as member of the Parliamentary Control Panel, which provides parliamentary oversight of Germany’s intelligence services BND, MAD and BfV. In addition, he was a member of the parliamentary body in charge of appointing judges to the Highest Courts of Justice, namely the Federal Court of Justice (BGH), the Federal Administrative Court (BVerwG), the Federal Fiscal Court (BFH), the Federal Labour Court (BAG), and the Federal Social Court (BSG).
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