Philipp R%C3%B6sler

Philipp Rsler is a German politician who was the Federal Minister of Economics and Technology and Vice Chancellor of Germany from 2011 to 2013. He was also Chairman of the liberal Free Democratic Party from 2011 to 2013. Following the 2013 federal election in which the FDP left the Bundestag, Rsler announced his resignation from the chairmanship. Born in Vietnam, Rsler was the first cabinet minister of Asian background in Germany.

Rsler was born in Khanh Hung, Ba Xuyen Province, in South Vietnam onFebruary 1973. He was adopted from a Roman Catholic orphanage near Saigon by a German couple who already had two biological children, and brought to West Germany at the age of nine months. He was raised by his adoptive father, who is a career military officer, after the couple separated when he was four years old. He grew up in Hamburg, Bckeburg and Hanover, where he graduated from high school in 1992. After training to become a combat medic in the German Bundeswehr , Rsler was accepted to study medicine at the Hanover Medical School. Following this, he continued his education at the Bundeswehr hospital in Hamburg. He earned his Doctorate in cardiothoracicvascular surgery in 2002. Then he left the service as a Stabsarzt in 2003.

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