Whoever moves into the Chancellery with Scholz

Olaf Scholz and Wolfgang Schmidt

The 51-year-old is State Secretary to the Minister of Finance.

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Berlin The next Federal Chancellor will be Olaf Scholz (SPD) if the coalition negotiations do not unexpectedly break. With the SPD politician, significant parts of his staff will move from the Federal Ministry of Finance to the Chancellery. Merkel’s “girl camp”, as the advisory group around the Chancellor in Berlin is called, is followed by Scholz’s “boy group”.

Like Angela Merkel (CDU), Scholz has gathered a handful of loyal followers around him in his political career. You will continue to be his main adviser in the years to come. But who are the women and men in the background? And what posts in the Chancellery will you take on?

For a long time, the closest Scholz circle consisted of three people, all of them men: his State Secretary Wolfgang Schmidt, his spokesman Steffen Hebestreit and his department head Benjamin Mikfeld, whose role is underestimated by many.

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