| Guido Westerwelle | | | | Born | December 27, 1961
Bad Honnef, Germany | | Political party | FDP | | Residence | Berlin, Bonn | | Occupation | Politician, Lawyer | | Member of Parliament | | In office | | 1996 – current | | Preceded by | Heinz Lanfermann | | Succeeded by | Incumbent | | Chairman of the FDP | | In office | | 2004 – Current | | Preceded by | Wolfgang Gerhardt | | Succeeded by | Incumbent | | Leader of the Opposition | | In office | | 2006 – Current | | Preceded by | Wolfgang Gerhardt | | Succeeded by | Incumbent | Dr. iur. Guido Westerwelle (born December 27, 1961) is a German politician and leader of the center right party Free Democratic Party of Germany (FDP), sometimes called the liberal party, meaning the party is for liberalization of markets. As such he is also the current Leader of the Opposition within the German parliament. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2000x2711, 571 KB) Summary Description: Guido Westerwelle Source: http://www. ...
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1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1961 calendar). ...
Bad Honnef seen from the Drachenfels Bad Honnef is a spa town in Germany near Bonn in the Rhein-Sieg district, North Rhine-Westphalia. ...
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December 27 is the 361st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (362nd in leap years). ...
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Early life and education Guido Westerwelle was born in Bad Honnef, Germany. After graduating from Gymnasium in 1980, he studied law at the University of Bonn from 1980 to 1987. Following the First and Second State Law Examinations in 1987 and 1991 respectively, he began practicing as an attorney in Bonn in 1991. In 1994, he earned a doctoral degree in law from the University of Hagen. Bad Honnef seen from the Drachenfels Bad Honnef is a spa town in Germany near Bonn in the Rhein-Sieg district, North Rhine-Westphalia. ...
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Life in the FDP Westerwelle joined the FDP in 1980. He was a founding member of Junge Liberale, the youth organisation of the FDP and was their chairman from 1983 to 1988. He has been a member of the Executive Board of the FDP since 1988 and became Secretary General in 1994. In 1996, he was elected to the German parliament (Bundestag), succeeded Wolfgang Gerhardt in 2001 as FDP chairman and in the elections of September 2002, he was the FDP's chancellor-candidate. It was the first and only time that the FDP nominated one. In the elections of 2005, he was just "head candidate" again. In the spring of 2006, he is also succeeded Gerhardt as leader of the Bundestag parliamentary group. Junge Liberalen (Young Liberals), generally called JuLis, a political youth organization in Germany. ...
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His politics Westerwelle is a staunch supporter of the free market and has proposed reforms that would curtail the German welfare state and liberalise German labour law. He has advocated for substantial tax cuts and believes in smaller government. While this is in line with the general direction of his party, his chairmanship has seen considerable controversy. Critics inside and outside the FDP have accused him of focusing his energy on public relations, as opposed to developing and promoting sound public policy. Westerwelle himself, who was made party chairman particularly because his predecessor Wolfgang Gerhardt had been viewed by many as dull and stiff, has labeled his approach as Spaßpolitik (fun politics) in the past, a description that many now consider to be a liability. A free market is an idealized market, where all economic decisions and actions by individuals regarding transfer of money, goods, and services are voluntary, and are therefore devoid of coercion and theft (some definitions of coercion are inclusive of theft). Colloquially and loosely, a free market economy is an economy...
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Public relations (PR) is the business, organizational, philanthropic, or social function of managing communication between an organization and its audiences. ...
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Wolfgang Gerhard Wolfgang Gerhardt (born December 31, 1943 in Ulrichstein) is a German politician and the former leader of the FDP (1995 - 2001). ...
Furthermore, Guido Westerwelle has been strongly criticized for supporting the anti-Israeli and anti-Semitic campaigns of Jürgen Möllemann. It was only after an infamous anti-Israeli leaflet was distributed before the general election in 2002 that Westerwelle was forced to distance himself of Möllemann as he intended to become the foreign minister in a new government.
After the 2005 elections he gained reputation by not compromising the political party line in ruling out a possible participation in a coalition with the SPD and the Green party.
Personal life On July 20, 2004, Westerwelle attended Angela Merkel's 50th birthday party accompanied by his male partner, Cologne businessman Michael Mronz and thereby officially acknowledged that he is gay. It was the first time he was at an official gathering with his partner. It made clear that he no longer expected his relationship with Mronz to be treated discreetly. This move generated little controversy in the German public. (IPA: ) (born in Hamburg, Germany, on July 17, 1954, as Angela Dorothea Kasner), is the Chancellor of Germany. ...
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