Wolfgang Schäuble, born in 1942, is one of the most important German politicians of the past forty years. He has been a member of the German Bundestag since 1972, and leader of the CDU as well as the Christian Democrat faction in the Bundestag, and has spent three decades holding some of the most important offices of state, including head of the Federal Chancellery, Interior Minister and Finance Minister. In 2017 he became president of the German Bundestag.