He fell deep, made it back. If he wins the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, the CDU man Hendrik Wüst can become just about anything.
On the day that Olaf Scholz was elected the ninth chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, on this December day that was so sad for Christian Democrats, a man leaned back in his chair, crumbled a pretzel and didn’t give the impression that he wanted to spread misery .
He has little reason to.
How does it feel to be the most powerful government politician in the CDU?
“I haven’t developed any feelings about that yet,” says Hendrik Wüst, 46, who had been Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia for six weeks at the time.