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|birth_place = Bad Honnef, West Germany |death_date = |death_place = |party = '':'' Free Democratic Party '':'' Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe |partner = Michael Mronz |alma_mater = University of Bonn Distance University of Hagen |website = (Official website ) }} Guido Westerwelle (; born 27 December 1961) is a German politician who served as the Foreign Minister in the second cabinet of Chancellor Angela Merkel and was Vice Chancellor of Germany from 2009 to 2011. He is the first openly gay person to hold either of those positions. He had been the chairman of the Free Democratic Party of Germany (FDP) since May 2001, but stepped down in 2011.〔("Westerwelle gibt den FDP-Vorsitz ab" ) ''Die Zeit'' (3 April 2011) 〕 A lawyer by profession, he was member of the Bundestag from 1996 to 2013. ==Early life and education== Guido Westerwelle was born in Bad Honnef in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. He graduated from Ernst Moritz Arndt Gymnasium in 1980 after academic struggles resulted in his departure from previous institutions where he was considered an average student at best, but substandard otherwise.〔[Vgl. Setzen, Sechs! – Schulgeschichten aus Deutschland (3/3). Experiment Schule. Dokumentarfilm von Susanne Bausch im Auftrag des SWR. Deutsche Erstausstrahlung am 22. Dezember 2005〕 He studied law at the University of Bonn from 1980 to 1987. Following the First and Second State Law Examinations in 1987 and 1991 respectively, he began practising as an attorney in Bonn in 1991. In 1994, he earned a doctoral degree in law from FernUniversität Hagen. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Guido Westerwelle」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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