Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Gerhard Schröder was a German politician. He was born on September 11, 1910 and died December 31, 1989. A member of the CDU party, he was Minister of the Interior from from 1953-61 and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1961-66 under the Bundeskanzler Konrad Adenauer and Ludwig Erhard. From 1966-69 he was Minister of the Defense under Bundeskanzler Kurt Georg Kiesinger. There is another Gerhard Schröder who is the current Bundeskanzler of Germany. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.