Reactions to the death of Guido Westerwelle.
The shock at the death of former Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle on all party lines large. About the messaging service Twitter already announced a few minutes after learning of the tragic news FDP leader Christian Lindner to word
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said of Westerwelle. “His death shocked me deeply.” As foreign minister he had “fought with heart and passion for peace and human rights,” Merkel said at the margins of the EU summit in Brussels. “For the liberal movement, for policies in Germany and for me personally this is a really sad day,” Merkel commented on. Westerwelle was a successful politician, they got it as a “sensitive and thoughtful people” met, “whose word and validity had”.
Angela Merkel is deeply concerned about the death of Guido Westerwelle.
(Photo: Sean Gallup )Genscher: “He was a good-hearted person “
The FDP honorary chairman Hans-Dietrich Genscher said:” The death of Guido Westerwelle has shaken me deeply I have observed its way from the beginning and to accompany He was a great political talent.. and a good-hearted man. with him will never forget the election results of the FDP remain from the year 2009. In this difficult time my thoughts and sympathy to the bereaved relatives and friends of the deceased. “
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Philipp Rösler, former German Vice Chancellor and successor to Westerwelle as FDP chairman expressed dismay. He said the SZ: “Guido Westerwelle was a liberal through and through With him we lose a gifted politician, he has influenced an entire generation and enthusiastic for politics at the end of his life many was visible his human side and experience a side… to his friends have always known, and they will miss. the deep respect for his services is matched only by the grief that applies to man Guido Westerwelle. My thoughts are with his husband Michael Mronz and his family. “
Federal President Joachim Gauck honored Westerwelle as “passionate political people” who have rendered outstanding services to Germany. “He will be remembered as a passionate democrat and Europeans in memory,” Gauck said in Berlin. “Guido Westerwelle has rendered outstanding services to our country.”
Steinmeier: “We could always rely on each other”
Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier described his predecessor as people with attitude and ” true patriot “. “Today we have lost a man who then dominated our country for a generation as party leader of the FDP, as opposition leader and as foreign minister,” said Steinmeier. “We were not always agree, not in domestic politics, and not always in the foreign policy,” Steinmeier said. “But we could always rely on each other”
The deputy FDP Federal Chairman Katja Suding said , Westerwelle’s death “leaves us sad and stunned back”
Justice Minister Heiko Maas:.
the Austrian foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz praised Westerwelle’s “use at home and abroad” for freedom “. / p>
Greens leader Cem Özdemir:
Green Party politician Jürgen Trittin:
also, the President of the Region, left politician Bodo Ramelow, expressed his sadness expressed
the President of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz (SPD):
the Presidents of the Greens in the Bundestag, Katrin Göring-Eckardt and Anton Hofreiter, declared: “Germany loses an outstanding politician who pugnacious liberal was. In debates and present scharfzüngig he fought in the Bundestag for its positions. I have great consternation of the death of my friend Guido Westerwelle and will thus strengthen Parliament as a place negotiated passionately to the policy “
Volker Kauder, chairman of the Union faction in the Bundestag, was also dismayed”. , He was a great fighter for the liberal cause and a dedicated parliamentarian. He has served our democracy. We will miss Guido Westerwelle. “
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He was for many people a he has, as he, terminally ill, fought for a second life provocation. moving. he lost.
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