PORTRAIT – Boris Pistorius succeeds Christine Lambrecht, who resigned following embarrassing faux pas for the government of Olaf Scholz. His appointment was criticized by the Christian Democrat opposition.
He was not on the possible list of candidates compiled by the German press. A regional politician, member of the Social Democratic Party, Boris Pistorius, was appointed Minister of Defense on Tuesday morning to replace Christine Lambrecht, who resigned the day before, following missteps which ended up damaging the image of the Scholz government. and the Bundeswehr.
Aged 62, the new head of the German army has been Minister of the Interior of the Land of Lower Saxony since 2013 and is best known for his skills in internal security, involving himself in particular in the problems of hooliganism, reception of refugees, and Islamism. He also sits in the parliament of Hanover, the state capital, and was mayor of Osnabrück from 2006 to 2013.
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Widowed and father of two daughters, he had since founded a couple with the former wife of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, Doris Schröder-Köpf, before their separation in 2022, recall the German media.
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