Volker Rühe is a German politician affiliated with the 'CDU'. He served as German Defence minister from April 1, 1992, succeeding Gerhard Stoltenberg during the first government of a reunified Germany in the fourth cabinet of Chancellor Kohl, to the end of the fifth Kohl Cabinet on October 27, 1998. He unsuccessfully ran for the premiership of "Schleswig-Holstein" in the year 2000. From 1976 to 2005 he was a member of the German "Bundestag". Wikipedia
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