Gerhard Schröder

Gerhard Schröder was Chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005.

He was born on 7 April 1944 in Mossenberg, North Rhine-Westphalia. After school he learned retail sales in a Lemgo from 1958 to 1961. After that he made his abitur (highest school exam in Germany) in Bielefeld. Then he studied law in Göttingen. After that he worked as a lawyer.

He joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1963 and became chairman of its youth organisation in 1978. In 1986 he became a member of the State Parliament of Lower Saxony. In 1990 he was elected as Prime-Minister of Lower Saxony.

He became the chancellor of Germany in 1998. After elections in 2005, he was replaced by Angela Merkel. He is a member of the SPD (Social Democratic Party of Germany).

Gerhard Schröder Media

"SPD – Trust in Germany": Schröder in Esslingen.
Gerhard Schröder with US President George W. Bush in Washington on 9 October 2001
Gerhard Schröder attending Quadriga awards ceremony with President of Serbia Boris Tadić
Schröder with his friend Russian President Vladimir Putin at a dinner in Moscow on 10 April 2002
Schröder at Putin's inauguration with Dmitry Medvedev and Patriarch Kirill on 7 May 2018
Kim So-Yeon [de] and Gerhard Schröder, 2018
Ribbon bar: Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany – Grand Cross
Ribbon bar: Golden Fleece Order (Georgia).
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Ribbon bar: Order of the Star of Romania (model 1999) – Grand Cross – Romania.

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