Former foreign gay minister Guido Westerwelle died
Former party chairman of the Liberal FDP and former foreign minister succumbs his cancer.
Guido Westerwelle died at the age of 54 years university clinic in Cologne from leukemia.
He lived in Cologne and Berlin.
Since the September 17, 2010, he lived with the manager Michael Mronz in a registered partnership.
The FDP politician was 2001-2011 chairman of the party, from 2009 to 2013 Federal Foreign Minister. He is survived by his life companion Michal Mronz.
He was after Wowereit (2001) and von Beust (2003), the third leading German politicians who made known to a wider public his homosexuality.
From 2009 to 2013 he was Minister for Foreign Affairs in the Cabinet Merkel II. As such, he was the in office until May 2011 also Deputy Federal Chancellor, known colloquially as Vice Chancellor.
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