Olaf Scholz, born in Osnabrück, Germany, on 14 June 1958.
Year | Education and professional career |
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1977 | Graduated from secondary school in the Rahlstedt neighbourhood of Hamburg |
1978 - 1985 | Studied law |
since 1985 | Qualified as a lawyer |
1998 - 2001 | Member of the German Bundestag |
May 2001 - October 2001 | Interior minister of the city-state of Hamburg |
2002 - 2011 | Member of the German Bundestag |
2005 - 2007 | First Parliamentary Secretary of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) parliamentary group in the Bundestag |
2007 - 2009 | Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs |
2009 - 2011 | Deputy chair of the SPD parliamentary group in the Bundestag |
November 2009 - February 2018 | Deputy chair of the SPD |
2011 - 2018 | Mayor of Hamburg |
February 2018 - April 2018 | Acting chair of the SPD |
March 2018 - December 2019 | Deputy chair of the SPD |
since March 2018 | Federal Minister of Finance |