1. From 2006 to 2013, Boris Pistorius was Lord Mayor of Osnabruck.
16 Facts About Boris Pistorius
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Boris Pistorius's mother was a member of the Osnabruck city council from 1972 to 1996 and served as a member of the Landtag of Lower Saxony from 1978 to 1990.
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Boris Pistorius was part of the city council from 1996 until 2013 and from 1999 to 2002 he served as second mayor of Osnabruck.
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From 2013 to 2017, Boris Pistorius was one of the state's representatives on the German Bundesrat; from 2017, he was an alternate member.
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Boris Pistorius was an alternate member of the German delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, where he was part of the Political Committee, its Sub-Committee on NATO Partnerships and its Sub-Committee on Transatlantic Relations.
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On 17 January 2023, Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced that Boris Pistorius would succeed Christine Lambrecht, who resigned on 16 January after numerous political blunders, as Minister of Defence in Chancellor Olaf Scholz's cabinet.
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Boris Pistorius was formally appointed by German president Frank-Walter Steinmeier and eventually took the oath of office at the Bundestag on 19 January 2023.
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In March 2023, Boris Pistorius participated in the first joint cabinet meeting of the governments of Germany and Japan in Tokyo, chaired by Chancellor Scholz and Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.
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Polling conducted in 2024 found Boris Pistorius to be the most popular politician in Germany.
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Boris Pistorius declined to be the SPD's Chancellor-candidate in the 2025 election.
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In 2018, Boris Pistorius suggested that sanctions against Russia should be reviewed.
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Amid the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Boris Pistorius condemned what he has called Russia's "brutal attacks" on Ukraine.
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In October 2023, following the outbreak of the Gaza war, Boris Pistorius expressed full support for Israel.
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Boris Pistorius has two daughters with his wife Sabine, who died in 2015 due to cancer.
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Boris Pistorius was in a relationship with Doris Schroder-Kopf from 2016 until spring 2022.
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Boris Pistorius has been in a relationship with Julia Schwanholz, a professor at the University of Duisburg-Essen, since 2022.