Gerhard Schröder
Chancellor of West Germany (1998–2005)
- Fame76.2
- Momentum7.3
- Global rank#230
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- Fame76.2
- Momentum7.3
- Global rank#230
- Germany rank#64
- Lawyers rank#25
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The German chancellor who steered Europe's largest economy for seven years, then walked straight into the executive suites of Russian state energy — a second career that turned him into one of the continent's most polarizing ex-leaders after tanks rolled into Ukraine.
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Born in 1944, Schröder worked as a lawyer before climbing the Social Democratic Party ladder to become Minister President of Lower Saxony in 1990. Eight years later he ended Helmut Kohl's sixteen-year run as chancellor, leading a coalition with the Greens and pushing through Agenda 2010, a controversial overhaul of Germany's welfare system meant to cut unemployment. In 2003, alongside French president Jacques Chirac, he refused to join the Iraq invasion and openly criticized Washington. He lost the 2005 election to Angela Merkel and left office, but didn't leave the spotlight: he took board po…
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