What is Olaf Scholz?
{{Infobox officeholder | name = Olaf Scholz | image = 2025-01-23 Politik, SPD-Kanzlerkandidat Olaf Scholz im Gespräch in Erfurt STP 6070 (3x4 cropped).jpg | honorific-suffix = [[Member of the German Bundestag|MdB]]<!-- , [[Hamburg Parliament|MdHB]] a. D., [[Government of Hamburg#Executive|Senator]] a. D., [[Bundesrat of Germany|MdBR]] a. D. --> | caption = Scholz in 2025 | office = [[Chancellor of Germany]] | president = {{plainlist|*[[Frank-Walter Steinmeier]]}} | 1blankname = {{nowrap|[[Vice-Chancellor of Germany|Vice Chancellor]]}} | 1namedata = {{plainlist|*[[Robert Habeck]]}} | term_start = 8 December 2021 | term_end = | predecessor = [[Angela Merkel]] | successor = [[Friedrich Merz]] (designate) | office1 = [[Vice Chancellor of Germany]] | chancellor1 = Angela Merkel | term_start1 = 14 March 2018 | term_end1 = 8 December 2021 | predecessor1 = [[Sigmar Gabriel]] | successor1 = Robert Habeck | office2 = [[Federal Ministry of Finance (Germany)|Federal Minister of Finance]] | chancellor2 = Angela Merkel | term_start2 = 14 March 2018 | term_end2 = 8 December 2021 | predecessor2 = [[Wolfgang Schäuble]] | successor2 = [[Christian Lindner]] | office3 = [[List of mayors of Hamburg|First Mayor of Hamburg]] | 1blankname3 = {{nowrap|[[List of mayors of Hamburg|Second Mayor]]}} | 1namedata3 = [[Dorothee Stapelfeldt]]<br />[[Katharina Fegebank]] | term_start3 = 7 March 2011 | term_end3 = 13 March 2018 | predecessor3 = [[Christoph Ahlhaus]] | successor3 = [[Peter Tschentscher]] {{Collapsed infobox section begin |last=yes |Early political career <br>{{nobold|2001–2009}} |titlestyle=border:1px dashed lightgrey;}}{{Infobox officeholder |embed=yes | office4 = [[Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs|Federal Mini