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Dr. Frank Walter Steinmeier (born 5 January 1956 in Detmold) is a German politician, and has been nominated to serve as Foreign Minister of Germany in the Grand Coalition of Angela Merkel. He is member of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD). Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Ongoing events • Abramoff-Reed gambling scandal • Atlantic hurricane season • Avian influenza (H5N1) outbreak • Bali bombings investigation • Civil unrest in France • UK Conservative Party leadership election • DeLay political financing scandal • Fuel prices • Irans nuclear program • Kashmir earthquake • London bombings investigation • Malawi food crisis • NaNoWriMo • Niger food crisis • North Koreas... January 5 is the 5th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Detmold is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, with a poulation of about 80,000. ... This page lists State Secretaries for Foreign Affairs under the German Empire (1873-1918), and Ministers of Foreign Affairs under succeeding governments thereafter. ... A grand coalition is a coalition government in a parliamentary system where political parties representing a vast majority of the parliament unite in a coalition. ... Dr Angela Merkel Dr. Angela Dorothea Merkel (born July 17, 1954) is a German politician. ... There are a large number of political parties named the Social Democratic Party. ... Social Democratic Party of Germany (Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands in German) Serial Presence Detect of computer memory modules Categories: Disambiguation ...

Political career

Steinmeier became an adviser in 1991 for law of communication media and media guidelines in the state Chancellery of Lower Saxony in Hanover. In 1993, he became director of the personal office for the then Prime Minister of Lower Saxony, Gerhard Schröder. In 1996, he became the Undersecretary of State and Director of the State Chancellery of Lower Saxony. 1991 (MCMXCI) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... With an area of 47,618 km and nearly eight million inhabitants, Lower Saxony (German Niedersachsen) lies in north-western Germany and is second in area and fourth in population among the countrys sixteen Bundesl nder (federal states). ... Map of Germany showing Hanover Hanover (German: Hannover [haˈnoːfɐ]), on the river Leine, is the capital of the state of Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen), Germany. ... i dont like this page. ... Gerhard Fritz Kurt Schröder [] (born April 7, 1944 in Mossenberg-Wöhren), a German politician, served as Chancellor of Germany, leading a coalition of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and the Greens from 1998 until 2005. ... 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...

Steinmeier was appointed in November 1998 as Undersecretary of State in the Office of the Federal Chancellor following Schröder's election victory. He replaced Bodo Hombach as the head of the Office of the Federal Chancellor in 1999. For other uses, see November (disambiguation). ... 1998(MCMXCVIII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Bundeskanzleramt, Berlin, Germany The Bundeskanzleramt (federal chancellory), or more common: Kanzleramt, is the administrative body of the Chancellor of Germany. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) is a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...

On 13 October 2005 he was nominated to become the new Foreign Minister of Germany in the coalition cabinet expected to be formed by Angela Merkel. Unlike many of his predecessors, Steinmeier will not hold the position of Vice-Chancellor, which is given to SPD chairman Franz Müntefering. Steinmeier is the first SPD Foreign Minister since Helmut Schmidt in 1982. October 13 is the 286th day of the year (287th in leap years). ... 2005 (MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Dr Angela Merkel Dr. Angela Dorothea Merkel (born July 17, 1954) is a German politician. ... The Vice-Chancellor of Germany (Vizekanzler) in Germany is often the Minister of Foreign Affairs. ... Franz Müntefering, 2004 Franz Müntefering (born January 16, 1940) is a German politician and chairman of the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD). ... Helmut Heinrich Waldemar Schmidt (born December 23, 1918) is a German SPD politician. ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

External links

• Werner A. Perger: Dr. Makellos. 2000
• Hans-Peter Schütz: Frank Walter Steinmeier: Der Kanzler-Flüsterer. 2005
• The Curator of Germany's Secret Services Will Shape his Country's Foreign Policy
• Germany's New Face Abroad