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