Sigmar Gabriel

Sigmar Gabriel
Gabriel in 2018
Vice Chancellor of Germany
In office 17 December 2013 – 14 March 2018
Chancellor	Angela Merkel
Preceded by	Philipp Rösler
Succeeded by	Olaf Scholz
Leader of the Social Democratic Party
In office 13 November 2009 – 19 March 2017
Deputy	Olaf Scholz Hannelore Kraft Ralf Stegner Aydan Özoğuz Manuela Schwesig Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel
Preceded by	Franz Müntefering
Succeeded by	Martin Schulz
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office 27 January 2017 – 14 March 2018
Chancellor	Angela Merkel
Preceded by	Frank-Walter Steinmeier
Succeeded by	Heiko Maas
Minister of Economic Affairs and Energy
In office 17 December 2013 – 27 January 2017
Chancellor	Angela Merkel
Preceded by	Philipp Rösler (Economics and Technology)
Succeeded by	Brigitte Zypries
Minister of the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
In office 22 November 2005 – 27 October 2009
Chancellor	Angela Merkel
Preceded by	Jürgen Trittin
Succeeded by	Norbert Röttgen
Minister-President of Lower Saxony
In office 15 December 1999 – 4 March 2003
Deputy	Heidrun Merk Renate Jürgens-Pieper
Preceded by	Gerhard Glogowski
Succeeded by	Christian Wulff
Leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany in the Landtag of Lower Saxony
In office 4 March 2003 – 9 November 2005
Preceded by	Axel Plaue
Succeeded by	Wolfgang Jüttner
In office 30 March 1998 – 15 December 1999
Preceded by	Heinrich Aller
Succeeded by	Axel Plaue
Member of the Bundestag for Salzgitter – Wolfenbüttel
In office 18 October 2005 – 3 November 2019[1]
Preceded by	Wilhelm Schmidt
Succeeded by	Markus Paschke
Member of the Landtag of Lower Saxony for Goslar
In office 21 June 1990 – 9 November 2005
Preceded by	Jürgen Sikora
Succeeded by	Petra Emmerich-Kopatsch
Personal details
Born	Sigmar Hartmut Gabriel (1959-09-12) 12 September 1959 (age 64) Goslar, Lower Saxony, West Germany
Political party	Social Democratic Party
Spouses	Munise Demirel ​ ​ (m. 1989; div. 1998)​ Anke Stadler ​ (m. 2012)​
Children	3
Alma mater	University of Göttingen
Signature
Military service
Allegiance	Germany
Branch/service	Bundeswehr
Years of service	1979–1981
Unit	Air Force (Luftwaffe)

Sigmar Hartmut Gabriel (born 12 September 1959) is a German politician who was the Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2017 to 2018 and the vice-chancellor of Germany from 2013 to 2018. He was Leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) from 2009 to 2017,^[2] which made him the party's longest-serving leader since Willy Brandt.^[2] He was the Federal Minister of the Environment from 2005 to 2009 and the Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy from 2013 to 2017. From 1999 to 2003 Gabriel was Minister-President of Lower Saxony.

He represented Salzgitter – Wolfenbüttel in the Bundestag.

Gabriel is a member of the Seeheimer Kreis, an official internal grouping of the party with liberal economic positions.