Berlin - In the summer of 2008 he lost his wife suffering from cancer Anke Petra.
Now, SPD chief Franz Muentefering has found a new happiness: Michelle Schumann. 29 it is pretty, with long brown hair, cheeky dimples when she smiles.
Muentefering is 40 years older than her! Recently, it has sparked! Franz Muentefering and Michelle Schumann - the two have known each other for an eternity, she accompanies him almost everywhere - in a year is a research fellow deputies in his office in the capital, drew it to Berlin's Kreuzberg district.
During the campaign, they will often be at his side. The 29-year-old also writes in the SPD Magazine "Vorwärts" glowing article about the politics of their SPD leaders.
As 2004, when she won a speech contest for political juniors, she said: In addition to former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder was Münte their rhetoric model.
Michelle Schumann is a trained nurse, graduated journalist. She comes from Herne. There she sits on the city council. The novelty of Müntefering's side as he is companion, body and soul. And she is ambitious, is considered to have communication skills, not afraid to reach out to other people, knows many in the SPD. And she is always pretty and neatly dressed.
Since 1999, Michelle Schumann SPD member from 1999 to 2004 she was Deputy Warden Young Socialists in Herne. Since 2002 she is a member of the board of the SPD-Westphalia region of West and delegates to the national party and member of the Land of NRW-SPD. Their focus: social, economic, Municipal. 2005 Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck said of her: "In ten years, Michelle is state chairman."
The SPD wanted the new love neither confirm nor deny. Michelle Schumann, for Express: "I say nothing."
The SPD leader (he has a 40-year-old daughter, Miriam just married her partner) had lost his wife Anke Petra 2008. For them the end of 2007 he stepped down as Labor Minister and Vice Chancellor, she used until her death. Thereafter, the "Iron Francis went" back to the political stage. As SPD leader. And now good with Michelle Schumann at his side.
