Philipp Rösler
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Philipp Rösler GOM |
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| Vice Chancellor of Germany | |
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In office 16 May 2011 – 17 December 2013 |
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| Chancellor | Angela Merkel |
| Preceded by | Guido Westerwelle |
| Succeeded by | Sigmar Gabriel |
| Leader of the Free Democratic Party | |
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In office 13 May 2011 – 7 December 2013 |
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| Preceded by | Guido Westerwelle |
| Succeeded by | Christian Lindner |
| Minister of Economics and Technology | |
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In office 12 May 2011 – 17 December 2013 |
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| Chancellor | Angela Merkel |
| Preceded by | Rainer Brüderle |
| Succeeded by | Sigmar Gabriel (Economics and Energy) |
| Minister of Health | |
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In office 28 October 2009 – 12 May 2011 |
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| Chancellor | Angela Merkel |
| Preceded by | Ulla Schmidt |
| Succeeded by | Daniel Bahr |
| Minister for Economics, Labour and Transport of Lower Saxony | |
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In office 18 February 2009 – 22 October 2009 |
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| Governor | Christian Wulff |
| Preceded by | Walter Hirche |
| Succeeded by | Jörg Bode |
| Personal details | |
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24 February 1973 Ba Xuyen, South Vietnam (now Soc Trang, Vietnam) |
| Political party | Free Democratic Party |
| Spouse(s) | Wiebke Rösler (2003–present) |
| Children | Grietje Gesche |
| Alma mater | Hannover Medical School |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
| Website | Official website |
Philipp Rösler, GOM (born 24 February 1973) is a German politician who was the Federal Minister of Economics and Technology and Vice Chancellor of Germany from 2011 to 2013. He was also Chairman of the liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP) from 2011 to 2013. Following the 2013 federal election in which the FDP left the Bundestag, Rösler announced his resignation from the chairmanship. Born in Vietnam, Rösler was the first cabinet minister of Asian background in Germany.
Rösler was born in Khánh Hung, Ba Xuyen Province, in South Vietnam (now Soc Trang Province, Vietnam) on 24 February 1973. Nobody has any information of his Vietnamese family when he was born. He was adopted from a Roman Catholic orphanage near Saigon by a German couple who already had two biological children, and brought to West Germany at the age of nine months. He was raised by his adoptive father, who is a career military officer, after the couple separated when he was four years old. He grew up in Hamburg, Bückeburg and Hanover, where he graduated from high school in 1992. After training to become a combat medic in the German Bundeswehr (the Federal Defence Force), Rösler was accepted to study medicine at the Hanover Medical School. Following this, he continued his education at the Bundeswehr hospital in Hamburg. He earned his Doctorate in cardio-thoracic-vascular surgery in 2002. Then he left the service as a Stabsarzt (a rank for German medical officers equivalent to an army captain) in 2003.
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