Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party member and former German Minister of Interior Wolfgang Schäuble, who served 50 years as a member of the Bundestag, receives a record of his speeches, at his honour festive matinee, in Berlin, Germany, 16 January 2023;
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Veteran German politician Wolfgang Schäuble, who served as a member of the Bundestag parliament for over half a century, has died aged 81, German media reported on Wednesday 27 December 2023.
Schäuble, who spent much of his career devoted to re-unifying his country and later served as former chancellor Angela Merkel's frugal finance minister during the eurozone debt crisis, died peacefully late on Tuesday 26 December 2023, the DPA news agency reported.
Schäuble was a member of Merkel's centre-right Christian Democrats since 1965 and became a member of parliament in 1972, making him one of Germany's longest-serving politicians.
He was wheelchair-bound from 1990, when a deranged gunman's bullets crippled and almost killed him.
