2024-01-05 11:04:32
Schäuble died on St. Stephen’s Day at the age of 81 after a long, serious illness. He will find his final resting place at the Waldbach Cemetery in Offenburg.
Several hundred people, including leading German politicians, said goodbye to the late CDU politician Wolfgang Schäuble on Friday in the Protestant town church in Offenburg, southern Germany. Among the mourners were Germany’s Interior Minister Nancy Faeser, the President of the German Federal Constitutional Court, Stephan Harbarth, the CDU federal chairman Friedrich Merz and the former CDU leader Armin Laschet.
The Baden-Württemberg Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann and the former Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker also came. Schäuble died on St. Stephen’s Day at the age of 81 after a long, serious illness.
In his career, Schäuble from Baden held important political positions: he was Germany’s finance minister at the time of Greece’s severe economic crisis and the country’s struggle to remain in the Eurogroup, CDU leader, parliamentary group leader and president of the German Bundestag. Nobody has been a member of Parliament longer than him. His work has recently been recognized across party lines. German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier called Schäuble a “stroke of luck for German history.”
An act of mourning will follow at the end of January
Schäuble’s coffin was laid out in front of the altar with a black, red and gold flag and a German federal eagle, flanked by six police officers. There were also many wreaths placed in front of the church, including yellow and red flowers, the colors of Baden. After the service, a military honor was planned in front of the church. A funeral procession should then move over a distance of a kilometer to the Waldbach cemetery, as the city of Offenburg announced.
Political Berlin will say goodbye to the former German Bundestag President and minister on January 22nd. On this day, the Bundestag will host the state mourning ceremony ordered by Steinmeier in the plenary hall of the Reichstag building. French President Emmanuel Macron wants to attend the state mourning ceremony, as the Élysée Palace confirmed. Who from Austria is taking part is still unknown.
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