German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble, who is a member of the German parliament for the center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU), is 67 years old. He has been in the Bundestag for 37 years, longer than any other current member of the parliament. Under former Chancellor Helmut Kohl, he helped reunite Germany and ran the Chancellery. He has been his party's parliamentary leader and its chairman, and he has served twice as interior minister. He is now serving as finance minister under Chancellor Angela Merkel, who sees Schäuble as the most important cornerstone of her government.
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