Portrait of the new German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder

Author: (German) Posche, (German) Rebeke (Photography), Guo Yezhou et al. (Translation)
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Publish Date: 1999-04-01
Features: On April 7, 1944, a boy named Gerhard Fritz Kurt Schr?der was born in No. 17, M?rserberg Street, Bülzig, under the sign of Aries. Like other children of the time, little Schr?der was born in his bedroom. His grandmother stood guard by the side of 30-year-old Erich Schr?der, the mother-in-law, who was struggling in the pain of childbirth, bit her arm. When the midwife arrived, the boy had already been born. To make the infant cry and breathe, the grandmother forcefully blew air into his face. The world brought little Schr?der one thing—a sudden, chilling breeze. In later life, any sudden breeze would make Schr?der immediately mobilize all his energy, just as his grandmother’s breath had once done.