eightieth birthday: Former Chancellor Schröder celebrates with Kubicki, Gysi and Ramsauer | EUROtoday

eightieth birthday
Former Chancellor Schröder celebrates with Kubicki, Gysi and Ramsauer

Former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder celebrated his eightieth birthday in Berlin's celeb restaurant Borchardt. His friends additionally included lively politicians such because the deputy FDP chairman Wolfgang Kubicki along with his spouse Annette Marberth-Kubicki in addition to the Bundestag members Gregor Gysi (Left) and Peter Ramsauer (CSU). Former get together chief and Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel along with his spouse Anke Stadler and Hanover's former mayor Herbert Schmalstieg from his personal get together, the SPD, had been there within the restaurant on Gendarmenmarkt.

Also among the many friends: Schröder's former Minister of State for Culture Michael Naumann in addition to his former authorities spokespersons Béla Anda and Thomas Steg, ex-Bild editor-in-chief Kai Diekmann, the painter Markus Lüpertz and the administration advisor Roland Berger. The former SPD and left-wing chief Oskar Lafontaine truly needed to come back along with his spouse Sahra Wagenknecht, with whom Schröder had solely reconciled a number of weeks in the past after a few years of radio silence. According to his personal statements in a “Spiegel” interview, he needed to cancel due to an appointment in France.

Schröder turned 80 on April seventh. Because he maintains his friendship with Russian President Vladimir Putin regardless of the Russian assault on Ukraine, he’s ostracized by the SPD management. After all, get together leaders Lars Klingbeil and Saskia Esken in addition to Chancellor Olaf Scholz had congratulated him in writing on his birthday. To at the present time, Schröder works for almost all Russian firms on the Nord Stream pipelines by way of the Baltic Sea. From 1998 to 2005 he was chancellor of the primary red-green authorities on the federal degree.

Guest checklist secret till the top

The get together was organized by Schröder's spouse Soyeon Schröder-Kim. She stored the visitor checklist secret till the top. On the event of his seventieth birthday, the SPD honored its former chancellor and former chairman in 2014 – a number of days after the Russian annexation of the Ukrainian Crimea – with a ceremony within the Berlin artwork museum Hamburger Bahnhof. In his laudation, the then SPD chief Gabriel known as Schröder “one of the most unusual social democratic politicians.”

The metropolis of Hanover additionally organized a ceremony for its then honorary citizen, Schröder. The ex-chancellor has since resigned his honorary citizenship after proceedings to revoke it had been initiated in opposition to him.

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