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Olaf Scholz Net Worth, Age, Height, Bio, Birthday, Wiki!

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Olaf Scholz Biography

Olaf Scholz is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on June 14, 1958 in Osnabrück, Lower Saxony, Germany. Olaf Scholz (German pronunciation: [‘o:laf’Solts] ; born (1958-06-14 ) 14 June 1958) is a German politician in the Federal Minister for Finance and Vice-Chancellor of the CDU under the Chancellor Angela Merkel from the CDU as of March 14, 2018. He was the first Bürgermeister of Hamburg between 7 March until 13 March 2018, and was the Acting Chief for the Social Democratic Party (SPD) from 13 February until 22 April 2018.

If Die Tageszeitung interviewed Scholz, who was then secretary general for the SPD, the ruling party SPD at the time of the party’s 2003 conference He later called for radical changes , and threatened to remove the entire article. The editors then said they’d be willing to publish the interview without permission, Scholz warned that the newspaper would be excluded from future SPD discussions on background. The paper published the interview in complete black and white, with all of Scholz’s comments blacked out. the editor-in chief of the paper Bascha Mika condemned the behavior as an “betrayal of the claim to a free press, a betrayal of the journalist’s self-definition, a betrayal of the reader.”

Scholz succeeded Franz Müntefering as Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs in the first cabinet of Chancellor Angela Merkel, when Müntefering left office in November 2007.

Following the 2009 elections, Scholz served as deputy chairman of the SPD parliamentary group. Between 2009 and 2011, he served on the group’s Afghanistan/Pakistan Task Force. In 2010 he also participated in the annual Bilderberg Meeting in Sitges, Spain.

Member of the Bundestag from 1998 until 2001, and then again from 2002 until 2011. Scholz served as Minister for the Interior of Hamburg under the first Bürgermeister Ortwin Runde, from the month of May until October 2001, and was the General Secretary of the party, under the chairmanship and then chancellor Gerhard Schroder from 2002 to 2004. He was the the Federal Minister for Labour and Social Affairs in Merkel’s first Grand Coalition from 2007 to 2009, and was the head of the SPD in Hamburg from 2000 until 2004 and then from 2009 until 2018.

NameOlaf Scholz
First NameOlaf
Last NameScholz
OccupationPolitician
BirthdayJune 14
Birth Year1958
Place of BirthOsnabrück
Home TownLower Saxony
Birth CountryGermany
Birth SignGemini
Full/Birth Name
FatherNot Available
MotherNot Available
SiblingsNot Available
SpouseBritta Ernst
Children(s)Not Available

Ethnicity, religion & political views

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On 20 February 2011 the Social Democrats led by Scholz won the 2011 Hamburg state election with 48.3% of the votes, resulting in 62 out of 121 seats in the Hamburg Parliament. Scholz resigned as a member of the seventeenth Bundestag on 11 March 2011 shortly after his election as First Mayor; Dorothee Stapelfeldt, also a Social Democrat, was made Deputy First Mayor.

Olaf Scholz Net Worth

Olaf Scholz is one of the richest Politician from Germany. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Olaf Scholz's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Olaf Scholz is married to Britta Ernst (born 1961) They do not have children. Additionally, she’s a politician (SPD).

A former vice-president of the International Union of Socialist Youth, Scholz represented Hamburg Altona in the Bundestag between 1998 until 2001, and between 2002 and. From May until the end of October, 2001, he served as in the position of Minister of Interior (Innensenator) in Hamburg under the First Mayor Ortwin Runde. From 2002 until 2004, he served as secretary-general of the SPD and resigned the post when the Chancellor Gerhard Schroder, facing disaffection within his own party and hindered by a persistently low satisfaction ratings, announced the Chancellor would be stepping down as the chairman of the Social Democratic Party.

Scholz served as the SPD parliamentary group’s spokesperson on the inquiry committee investigating the German Visa Affair in 2005. Following the federal elections later that year, he served as First Parliamentary Secretary of the SPD parliamentary group. In this capacity, he worked closely with the CDU parliamentary floor manager Norbert Röttgen to manage and defend the grand coalition led by Chancellor Angela Merkel in parliament. He also served as member of the Parliamentary Oversight Panel (PKGr), which provides parliamentary oversight of Germany’s intelligence services BND, MAD and BfV. In addition, he was a member of the parliamentary body in charge of appointing judges to the Highest Courts of Justice, namely the Federal Court of Justice (BGH), the Federal Administrative Court (BVerwG), the Federal Fiscal Court (BFH), the Federal Labour Court (BAG), and the Federal Social Court (BSG).

Net Worth$5 Million
SalaryUnder Review
Source of IncomePolitician
CarsNot Available
HouseLiving in own house.

Scholz participated in the exploratory talks between the CDU, CSU and SPD parties to form a coalition government following the 2013 federal elections. In the subsequent negotiations, he led the SPD delegation in the financial policy working group; his co-chair from the CDU/CSU was Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble. Alongside fellow Social Democrats Jörg Asmussen and Thomas Oppermann, Scholz was considered a possible successor to Schäuble in the post of finance minister at the time.

In 2013, Scholz opposed a public initiative aiming at a complete buyback of energy grids Hamburg had sold to utilities Vattenfall Europe AG and E.ON decades before; he argued this would overburden the city, whose debt pile stood at more than 20 billion euros at the time.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

Olaf Scholz height 5 ft 7 in Olaf weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.

Height5 ft 7 in
WeightNot Known
Body MeasurementsUnder Review
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In his capacity as mayor, Scholz represented Hamburg and Germany internationally. On 7 June 2011, Scholz attended the state dinner hosted by President Barack Obama in honor of Chancellor Angela Merkel at the White House. As host of Hamburg’s annual St. Matthias’ Day banquet for the city’s civic and business leaders, he has invited several high-ranking guests of honour to the city, including Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault of France (2013), Prime Minister David Cameron of the United Kingdom (2016), and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada (2017). From 2015 until 2018, he also served as Commissioner of the Federal Republic of Germany for Cultural Affairs under the Treaty on Franco-German Cooperation.

In 2015, Scholz – alongside Minister-President Torsten Albig of Schleswig-Holstein – negotiated a restructuring deal with the European Commission that allowed the German regional lender HSH Nordbank to offload 6.2 billion euros in troubled assets – mainly non-performing ship loans – onto its government majority owners and avoid being shut down, saving around 2,500 jobs.

Who is Olaf Scholz Dating?

According to our records, Olaf Scholz married to Britta Ernst . As of December 1, 2023, Olaf Scholz’s is not dating anyone.

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In a paper compiled in late 2014, Scholz and Schäuble proposed redirecting revenue from the so-called solidarity surcharge on income and corporate tax (Solidaritätszuschlag) to subsidize the federal states’ interest payments.

Facts & Trivia

Olaf Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Germany. Olaf Scholz celebrates birthday on June 14 of every year.

In 2015, Scholz led Hamburg’s bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympics at an estimated budget of 11.2 billion euros ($12.6 billion), competing against Los Angeles, Paris, Rome and Budapest; the citizens of Hamburg, however, later rejected the candidacy in a referendum, with more than half voting against the project.

What is Olaf Scholz religion?

The current German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, is irreligious but was raised Protestant.

How old is Olaf Scholz?

63 years (June 14, 1958)

Who is running Germany now?

Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany
Incumbent Olaf Scholz since 8 December 2021
Executive branch of the Government
StyleMr. Chancellor (informal) His Excellency (diplomatic)
StatusHead of government

Where is Olaf Scholz born?

Osnabrück, Germany

Which languages does Olaf Scholz speak?

German

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