# Frank-Walter Steinmeier

> Germany's president since 2017, twice foreign minister before that - a behind-the-scenes architect of welfare reform who ran for chancellor once and lost, now criticized for going soft on autocracies in the name of business.

*German politician, president of Germany since 2017*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/frank-walter-steinmeier

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Politician
- **Category:** Politicians
- **Country:** Germany
- **Born:** 1956-01-05
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born 5 January 1956, Steinmeier holds a law doctorate and spent the 1990s as a career civil servant close to Gerhard Schröder, following him from Lower Saxony to the Chancellery in 1998. As Chief of Staff from 1999 to 2005, he helped design Agenda 2010, the controversial welfare overhaul that split his own Social Democratic Party. He became Foreign Minister in Angela Merkel's first grand coalition in 2005, added the vice-chancellorship in 2007, then led the SPD into the 2009 election as their candidate for chancellor - and lost badly. A second stint as Foreign Minister followed from 2013 to 2017, before the Federal Convention elected him president in February 2017 with 74% of the vote, then re-elected him in 2022 with 78%. His approach to Russia and China - accommodating, trade-focused - has drawn sharp criticism for putting German commercial interests ahead of human rights.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 74.2 / 100
- **Momentum:** 6.8 / 100  (trend: FALLING)
- **Historical depth:** 28.5 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 6.2 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 80.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 90.0 / 100
- **Country rank:** #26
- **Category rank:** #129

## Platforms
- **INSTAGRAM**: https://www.instagram.com/bundespraesident.steinmeier/ (@bundespraesident.steinmeier)
- **FACEBOOK**: https://www.facebook.com/Bundespraesident.Steinmeier (@Bundespraesident.Steinmeier)
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2841272/ (@nm2841272)
- **WEBSITE**: http://www.frank-walter-steinmeier.de

## Topics
#Politicians, #Politician, #Politics, #Law, #Germany, #Europe, #20th Century

## Timeline
- **2022** - Decoration for Exceptional Merits
- **2021** - Knight of the Order of the Elephant
- **2018** - Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of the White Rose of Finland
- **2017** - Grand Cross of the Order of the White Double Cross
- **2017** - Order of Merit of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- **2016** - Honorary Doctor of the University of Paderborn
- **2009** - Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of Portugal
- **2006** - Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
- **1956** - Born

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