Former Chancellor Schröder belatedly invited people to his 80th birthday in Berlin. The guests included politicians from almost all parties and other celebrities.
Former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder celebrated his 80th birthday on Saturday evening in the Berlin celebrity restaurant “Borchardt”. His guests also included active politicians such as the deputy FDP chairman Wolfgang Kubicki with his wife Annette Marberth-Kubicki as well as the Bundestag members Gregor Gysi (Left) and Peter Ramsauer (CSU). However, only former members of his own party, the SPD, were seen in the bar on Gendarmenmarkt, such as former party leader and Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel with his wife Anke Stadler and Hanover's former mayor Herbert Schmalstieg.
Also among the guests: Schröder's former government spokesman Béla Anda, ex-Bild editor-in-chief Kai Diekmann, the artist Markus Lüppertz and the management consultant Roland Berger. Schröder turned 80 on April 7th.
Because he maintained his friendship with Russian President Vladimir Putin even after the Russian attack on Ukraine, he is ostracized by the SPD leadership. However, party leaders Lars Klingbeil and Saskia Esken as well as Chancellor Olaf Scholz congratulated him in writing on his birthday.
To this day, Schröder works for the majority Russian companies on the Nord Stream pipelines through the Baltic Sea. From 1998 to 2005 he was chancellor of the first red-green government at the federal level.