births
January 10, 1947
Peer Steinbrück, German politician, German Minister of Finance
Peer Steinbrück
Peer Steinbrück is a German politician who was the Chancellor-candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) in the 2013 federal election. Steinbrück served as the eighth Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia from 2002 to 2005, a member of the Bundestag from 2009 to 2016, and as Federal Minister of Finance in the first Cabinet of Chancellor Angela Merkel from 2005 to 2009.
List of German finance ministers
The minister of finance of Germany is the head of the Federal Ministry of Finance and a member of the Federal Cabinet.