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Frank Steffel
Frank Steffel (born 2 March 1966 in West Berlin) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Party (CDU).
Early life and education.
Steffel grew up in Berlin’s Frohnau district.
Political career.
Steffel has been a member of the CDU since 1983. He was a member of the State Parliament in Berlin from 1991 to 2009. In the Berlin state elections of 2001 he was the CDU's candidate for the position as Governing Mayor of Berlin. His election campaign was
hand over power until 2002 when the European monetary union would be completed with the introduction of the euro. However, as the CDU/CSU lost the 1998 election, Schäuble never became Chancellor.
After Eberhard Diepgen was voted out as mayor of Berlin, Schäuble was in talks to be the top candidate for the early election on 21 October 2001, but was rejected by the Berlin branch of the CDU in favour of Frank Steffel.
Some quarters of the CDU and CSU wanted to put Schäuble forward as their candidate for