Olaf Scholz
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Olaf Scholz is a German politician who served as the chancellor of Germany from 2021 to 2025. A member of the Social Democratic Party, he previously served as Vice Chancellor in the fourth Merkel cabi
Scholz in 2024
Scholz at the Young Socialists Congress, 1984
Scholz in March 2011, on the government benches in the Hamburg Parliament, shortly after his election as First Mayor
Scholz and the spouses of the heads of state and government at the G20 in Hamburg, 2017
Angela Merkel
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Angela Dorothea Merkel is a German stateswoman and retired politician who served as Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021. She is the only woman to have held the office and the only former East Germ
Olaf Scholz
…Alliance 90/The Greens and the Free Democratic Party. On 8 December 2021, Scholz was elected and sworn in as chancellor by the Bundestag, succeeding Angela Merkel. As chancellor, Scholz oversaw Germany's response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Despite giving a restrained and timid response compared to many…
Merkel in 2019
Merkel's paternal grandparents when engaged: Margarethe and her betrothed, Ludwik Marian Kaźmierczak, in his Polish Blue Army uniform
Lothar de Maizière and Merkel, 1990
Merkel in a CDU campaign poster, 1995