Former German finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble has died. The CDU politician first entered the Bundestag in 1972. Between 1989 and 2017 Mr Schäuble served as minister for the Interior and Finance under Chancellors Helmut Kohl and Angela Merkel. As finance minister, he was known internationally for backing austerity measures on Germany and the rest of the EU during the Euro crisis in 2009 and 2010. He was left partially paralysed after an attack in 1990.
Germany’s ‘Mr. Austerity’ Wolfgang Schäuble dies at 81 | DW News
