# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
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# Generated: 2026-09-01T09:19:52.815Z

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description: "He led Germany through the rupture of the Russian invasion, declared a Zeitenwende — a turning point — in defense policy, then watched his coalition splinter over budget limits and his party collapse to its worst postwar result in the snap election that ended his chancellorship in 2025."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in Osnabrück in 1958 and raised in Hamburg, Scholz studied law and worked as a labour lawyer before joining the SPD in the 1970s. He entered the Bundestag in 1998, became the party's general secretary in 2002 under Gerhard Schröder, and served as Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs in the first Merkel government from 2007 to 2009. After leading the SPD to victory in Hamburg's 2011 state election, he served as first mayor until 2018, when he returned to federal politics as finance minister and vice chancellor. Nominated as the SPD's chancellor candidate in 2020, he won a plurality in 2021 and formed a traffic light coalition with the Greens and Free Democrats. His tenure saw Germany confront the invasion of Ukraine — he raised defense spending, sent weapons, and suspended Nord Stream 2 — and later authorized major aid to Israel during the Gaza war. In November 2023, a constitutional court ruling forced €60 billion in budget cuts, straining the coalition until it broke in November 2024 when he dismissed finance minister Christian Lindner. He lost a confidence vote in December, and in the February 2025 snap election the SPD fell to third place, its l