Cabinet Member and Party Chairman of The FDP
He became a member of FDP in 1991. He was Federal Minister of Justice from 18 January 1991 to 18 May 1992, and was then Minister of Foreign Affairs to 26 October 1998. From 21 January 1993, he was also Vice Chancellor of Germany. He resigned as Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor after the government's defeat in the 1998 federal election.
From 1993 to 1995 he was chairman of the FDP.
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