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Guido Westerwelle is dead
The long-time FDP Chairman, died on Friday at the age of 54 years, his severe cancer illness. This is the Westerwelle Foundation announced on their Facebook page.
Westerwelle was from 2001 to 2011, the FDP-chief, and from 2009 to 2013, Federal Minister for foreign Affairs. 2014 found him in a leukemia disease.
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Mourning Guido Westerwelle
Federal President Joachim Gauck has paid tribute to the deceased FDP politician as a passionate Democrats and Europeans. Gauck wrote: “With Guido Westerwelle, our country lost a passionate political people, which is addressed in his various duties, whether in his party, in the office of Minister, or more recently in the Foundation named after him, always with great personal commitment.”
On the Homepage of the Westerwelle Foundation, a photo Westerwelle was to see it, along with his husband Michael Mronz. In addition, it says: “We have fought for. We had the goal in mind. We are grateful for an amazing time together. The love remains.”
Westerwelle and his husband Michael Mronz (R)at an event in 2014 in Aachen
Minister of foreign Affairs of the black-yellow coalition
Westerwelle belonged to since the 1980s, the formative figures of German policy. After many years in the Opposition, he was between 2009 and 2013, the Federal foreign Minister. In the first two years of the black-yellow coalition, until his resignation from the office of the FDP leaders, he was also Vice-Chancellor. FDP-Chef Christian Lindner showed up on the short message service Twitter upset.
I have no words. Guido has fought. The grief is great. CL #Westerwelle
— Christian Lindner (@c_lindner) 18. March 2016
About his cancer, Westerwelle had also written a book (“Between two lives”), which he had presented last autumn. At that time, there was hope that he could cope with the cancer disease. In December he had to go again to the hospital, which was officially justified with a “new Medication”. Since then, he was hardly seen in Public.
wl/se (dpa, afp, rtr)