Volker Rühe

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Volker Rühe

Federal Minister of Defence Germany
In office April 1, 1992 – October 27, 1998
Preceded by	Gerhard Stoltenberg
Succeeded by	Rudolf Scharping
Personal details
Born	(1942-09-25) September 25, 1942 Hamburg
Political party	CDU
Occupation	teacher

Volker Rühe (born September 25, 1942) is a German politician affiliated to the 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.^[1] He unsuccessfully ran for the office of minister-president of the German state Schleswig-Holstein in the year 2000.

From 1976 to 2005 he was a member of the German Bundestag. Volker Rühe is currently resigned from active participation in electoral politics. He was recently quoted by Neue Presse expressing sympathy for Russian President Vladimir Putin and arguing for an intensive dialogue between the German government and "the Kremlin" on the subject of the American proposed "missile defense system". "We are talking as if Iran already had nuclear weapons... we can't continue with deterrence, like during the Cold War."

References

↑ Hyde-Price, Adrian (2000). Germany & The European Union: Enlarging NATO and the EU. Manchester University Press. p. 149. ISBN 0719054273.

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Political offices
Preceded by Gerhard Stoltenberg	Federal Minister of Defence (Germany) 1992 – 1998	Succeeded by Rudolf Scharping

v t e Defence Ministers of Germany

Weimar Republic (1918–1933)	Gustav Noske Otto Gessler Wilhelm Groener Kurt von Schleicher

Third Reich (1933–1945)	Werner von Blomberg (1933–1938)

East Germany (1949–1990)	Willi Stoph Heinz Hoffmann Heinz Kessler Theodor Hoffmann Rainer Eppelmann

Federal Republic of Germany (1949–)	Theodor Blank Franz Josef Strauss Kai-Uwe von Hassel Gerhard Schröder Helmut Schmidt Georg Leber Hans Apel Manfred Wörner Rupert Scholz Gerhard Stoltenberg Volker Rühe Rudolf Scharping Peter Struck Franz Josef Jung Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg Thomas de Maizière Ursula von der Leyen

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 13116512 LCCN: n87931137 ISNI: 0000 0000 8358 3088 GND: 119368927

Persondata
Name	Ruhe, Volker
Alternative names
Short description	German politician
Date of birth	September 25, 1942
Place of birth	Hamburg
Date of death
Place of death

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