Wolfgang Schäuble studied law and economics and was awarded the degree of Dr. jur. in 1971. Dr Schäuble has been a member of the German Bundestag since 1972 and served as the Parliamentary Secretary of the CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group from 1981 to 1984. He then held the offices of Federal Minister for Special Tasks and Head of the Federal Chancellery, before serving as Federal Minister of the Interior from 1989 to 1991. Dr Schäuble has been a member of the CDU National Executive Committee since 1989 until 2021. He headed the CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group in the German Bundestag from 1991 until 2000;from 1998 until 2000 he was also the national chairman of the CDU. He has been a member of the CDU Presidium since that time until 2021. He was the Deputy Head of the CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group in the German Bundestag for Foreign, Security and European Policy from 2002 until he was again appointed Federal Minister of the Interior in 2005. From 2009 to 2017 he was Federal Minister of Finance and then President of the German Bundestag until 2021.