Kapitel: Peer Steinbruck, Franz Blucher, Willi Weyer, Adolf Flecken, Friedrich Halstenberg, Jochen Dieckmann, Artur Strater, Diether Posser, Heinrich Weitz, Helmut Linssen, Liste Der Finanzminister Von Nordrhein-Westfalen, Joseph Putz, Heinz Schleusser, Hans Wertz. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Peer Steinbruck (born January 10, 1947 in Hamburg) is a German social democratic politician. From 2005 to 2009 he served as German Federal Minister of Finance in the cabinet of Angela Merkel. After having been trained as an officer of the reserve of the Bundeswehr, Steinbruck studied economics in Kiel. He graduated in 1974. After graduation Steinbruck worked for several German ministries and, from 1978 to 1981, in the office of then German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. In the 1980s, Steinbruck was Chief of Staff to the Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia, Johannes Rau. In 1993, he became Minister of Economy and Infrastructure in the State of Schleswig-Holstein. He then returned to North Rhine-Westphalia, where he became Minister of Economy and Infrastructure in 1998 and Finance Minister in 2000. From 2002 to 2005, Peer Steinbruck served as Minister President (Ministerprasident) of North Rhine-Westphalia. He headed a coalition government between the SPD and the Green Party. In the state election on May 22, 2005 Steinbruck's SPD lost to the Christian democratic (CDU) opposition. This loss also had consequences for federal politics: then German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder, who already was enfeebled by weak opinion polls and criticism within his own party, announced to call for an early federal election for the Bundestag. This ultimately resulted in the German federal election, 2005. After the 2005 Bundestag election, SPD and CDU formed a grand coalition under the leadership of new Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU). Peer Steinbruck became finance minister of Germany. Since 2005, he also has been deputy chairman of the SPD. He i...http: //booksllc.net/?l=