Schröder is 80: Scholz and the SPD leadership congratulate. Schröder was born on April 7, 1944 in Mossenberg in the Lippe district of North Rhine-Westphalia.
He was Chancellor from 1998 to 2005 and chairman of the SPD from 1999 to 2004. In 2014, the SPD honored its former chancellor and former chairman on his 70th birthday - shortly after the Russian annexation of Ukrainian Crimea - with a ceremony in the Berlin art museum Hamburger Bahnhof.