page_title: Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger
section_title: Candidacy for Secretary General of the Council of Europe, 2013–14
hierarchical_section_title: Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger / Political career / Candidacy for Secretary General of the Council of Europe, 2013–14
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Der Vorstand der Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung für die Freiheit, 2017: v.l.n.r.: Dr. Wolf-Dieter Zumpfort, Steffen Saebisch/Hauptgeschäftsführer, Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, Dr. Wolfgang Gerhardt, Prof. Karl-Heinz Paqué, Manfred Richter.
context_page_description: Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger is a German politician of the liberal Free Democratic Party and a prominent advocate of human rights in Germany and Europe. Within the FDP, she is a leading figure of the social-liberal wing. She served as Federal Minister of Justice of Germany from 1992 to 1996 in the cabinet of Helmut Kohl and again in the second Merkel cabinet from 2009 to 2013. In 2013, the new German government announced Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger's candidacy for the office of the Secretary General of the Council of Europe.
context_section_description: In 2013, the new German government announced Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger's candidacy for the office of the Secretary General of the Council of Europe. From December 2013, Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger visited more than 20 member states.
  In the first round of the election on 24 June 2014, Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger lost against incumbent Thorbjørn Jagland who obtained an absolute majority.
caption: Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger with Wolf-Dieter Zumpfort, Steffen Saebisch, Wolfgang Gerhardt, Karl-Heinz Paqué and Manfred Richter (2017)
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