What is Guido Westerwelle?
[[File:Guido Westerwelle (Foreign ministry in Stockholm, 2010).jpg|thumb|Guido Westerwelle (2010)]] '''Guido Westerwelle''' (27 December 1961 &ndash; 18 March 2016) was a [[Germans|German]] [[politician]]. He was [[Foreign Office of Germany|Foreign Minister]] and [[Vice Chancellor of Germany|Vice-Chancellor]] of Germany. Westerwelle was born in [[Bad Honnef]], [[North Rhine-Westphalia]], [[Germany]]. He was an [[attorney]] before he became a politician. From 1994 to 2001 he was secretary general of the German liberal party, the Freie Demokratische Partei ([[Free Democratic Party (Germany)|FDP]]). In 2001 he became the leader of the party. Westerwelle was also the leader of the FDP parliamentary group and from 1999 to 2005 head of the opposition in the German [[Bundestag]]. In June 2014, he announced that he had [[acute myeloid leukemia]]. He died of the disease on 18 March 2016 in [[Cologne]], Germany at the age of 54. He was [[coming out|openly]] [[gay]] and was in a [[Same-sex marriage|civil partnership]] with sports manager [[Michael Mronz]].<ref>[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/29/guido-westerwelle-germany_n_302758.html Guido Westerwelle, openly gay]</ref> == References == {{reflist}} {{commonscat}} {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Westerwelle, Guido}} [[Category:1961 births]] [[Category:2016 deaths]] [[Category:Cancer deaths in Germany]] [[Category:Deaths from acute myeloid leukemia]] [[Category:Disease-related deaths in North Rhine-Westphalia]] [[Category:Gay men]] [[Category:Lawyers from North Rhine-Westphalia]] [[Category:German LGBT politicians]] [[Category:Foreign ministers of Germany]] [[Category:LGBT lawyers]] [[Category:Politicians from North Rhine-Westphalia]] [[Category:Politicians of the Free Democratic Party of Germany]] [[Category:Vice Chancellors of Germany]] [[Category:Leaders of the Opposition (Germany)]]