# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/frank-walter-steinmeier
# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:44:50.727Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
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.