CDU leader and Union parliamentary group leader in the Bundestag, Friedrich Merz, is struck by the death of Wolfgang Schäuble. The news “fills me with great sadness. With Wolfgang Schäuble, I am losing my closest friend and advisor that I have ever had in politics,” writes Merz at X.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz emphasizes that Schäuble had a strong influence on the country. “With him, Germany is losing a sharp thinker, passionate politician and controversial democrat,” he writes at X. Scholz’s Chancellery Minister Wolfgang Schmidt calls Schäuble an “exceptional politician” https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/.”Conversations with him were a real pleasure.” Germany owes him a lot, he writes at X.
Federal Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock expresses its condolences to the family. She lifts in hers Post at X emphasized that Schäuble had made a contribution to the “democratic culture” in Germany. Bundestag President Bärbel Bas (SPD) writes at X that Schäuble’s death is sad news. She also expresses her condolences to the family.
CDU politician Jens Spahn writes that Europe is losing a great statesman. “I am losing my most important mentor and a fatherly friend.” Germany has lost one of its greatest servants, writes Saxony’s Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer (CDU) at X and emphasizes his services to German unity.