German Chancellor Scholz’s Government Suffers First Cabinet Departure
- Family minister resigns under pressure from ill-timed vacation
- Green politician took four-week break days after flooding
Olaf Scholz talks to Anne Spiegel in Berlin, on March 16.
Photographer: Michael Kappeler/AFP/Getty Images
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Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government suffered its first cabinet departure after Family Minister Anne Spiegel resigned when her party, the Greens, withdrew support.
Spiegel, 41, was under pressure over taking a four-week vacation last summer shortly after flooding devastated parts of her home state of Rhineland-Palatinate, where she was environment minister.