Peer Steinbrück
| Peer Steinbrück | |
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| Minister of Finance | |
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In office 22 November 2005 – 28 October 2009 |
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| Chancellor | Angela Merkel |
| Preceded by | Hans Eichel |
| Succeeded by | Wolfgang Schäuble |
| Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia | |
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In office 6 November 2002 – 24 June 2005 |
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| Preceded by | Wolfgang Clement |
| Succeeded by | Jürgen Rüttgers |
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10 January 1947 Hamburg, West Germany (now Germany) |
| Political party | Social Democratic Party |
| Alma mater | University of Kiel |
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Peer Steinbrück (born 10 January 1947) is a German social democratic (SPD) politician. He was the SPD candidate for Chancellor of Germany in the 2013 federal election. From 2002 to 2005 he was the 8th Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia. From 2005 to 2009 he served as German Federal Minister of Finance in the cabinet of Angela Merkel. He was nominated by his party as opposition candidate for Chancellor on 28 September 2012. He is generally considered a member of the more conservative wing of the party.
Steinbrück was born in Hamburg, on 10 January 1947, to Ilse (née Schaper; 1919–2011) and Ernst Steinbrück (1914–1998), an architect born in Danzig. After having been trained as an officer of the reserve of the Bundeswehr, Steinbrück studied economics at the University of Kiel. He graduated in 1974.
After graduation Steinbrück worked for several German ministries and, from 1978 to 1981, in the office of German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. He held positions in the Permanent Representative Office of the Federal Republic of Germany in East Berlin from 1981 to 1985. In the 1980s, Steinbrück was the chief of staff to the Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia, Johannes Rau.
In 1993, he became the State Minister of Economic Affairs and Infrastructure in the state of Schleswig-Holstein. He then returned to North Rhine-Westphalia, where he became the Minister of Economic Affairs and Infrastructure in 1998 and Finance Minister in 2000.
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