The half-brother of former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder (SPD), Lothar Vosseler, is dead. The pensioner from Detmold died on the 29. January at the age of 71 years, such as the “lippische Landes-Zeitung” reported on Monday. The author and columnist, had written critically about his famous half-brother.
Vosseler was according to the paper on 5. April born in 1947 and Dating from the second marriage of the mother of Eric Paul Vosseler. From his first marriage with the laborer, Fritz Schröder, Gerhard and Gunhild Schröder. The mother, Erika Schröder-Vosseler died in 2012 at the age of 99 years.
Vosseler wrote in the years 1999 and 2000, a weekly column for the Cologne “Express”, in which he was critical of the policy of Gerhard schröder. In 2004, the Detmold had a guest appearance in the TV show “Big Brother” on RTL2. In the same year, his biography of “The Chancellor, unfortunately, my brother appeared, and I”. Vosseler was married and leaves a son.
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Vosseler had the newspaper report says that after training as a heating engineer as a sewer worker worked and repeated with odd jobs. In 2007, he went, therefore, early retirement for health reasons and because he found no new employment. Since then, it had become the younger half-brother of the Exkanzlers quiet. AFP
