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Place of Birth: Hamburg, Germany
About Volker Rühe
- Volker Rühe (born September 25, 1942) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).
- He served as German Defence minister from April 1, 1992, succeeding Gerhard Stoltenberg during the first government of a reunified Germany in the fourth cabinet of Chancellor Kohl, to the end of the fifth Kohl Cabinet on October 27, 1998.
- During his time at the Defence Ministry Rühe played a central role in placing NATO enlargement on the German political agenda.
- He unsuccessfully ran for the office of minister-president of the German state Schleswig-Holstein in the year 2000, eventually losing against incumbent Heide Simonis.
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