Armin Laschet wants to become Federal Chancellor. Who is the woman who supports the Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia?
Berlin / Aachen – Little is known about Armin Laschet’s private life. The Union’s candidate for chancellor in the 2021 federal election hardly reveals any details. He only kept mentioning details about his father in speeches. The central point was his activity as a miner. He referred to this, for example, in his speech when he was elected CDU chairman: “If you are underground, then it doesn’t matter where your colleague comes from […], what matters is you can rely on him “, he said.
For a short time, Laschet showed his personal side. As a rule, he acts professionally and shows himself to be an experienced politician. A large part of his private life is his wife: Susanne Laschet, married to Armin Laschet since 1985. She has been by his side for more than 36 years – and walks with him, for example, through difficult times during the election campaign when he lost TV trielle or had a laugh in the flood area.
Susanne Laschet – the woman at the side of the CDU candidate for chancellor
According to media reports, Susanne and Armin Laschet met long before their marriage: in the children’s and youth choir in Aachen (North Rhine-Westphalia). The 59-year-old once told WDR a story from their childhood that caused a sensation. “We had a row with a girl he thought was great at the time – and then he beat me up. Then I went to my mother and said: ‘Mom, today I met the most disgusting boy in my life’ “, she said in the” Kölner Treff “. The “most disgusting boy” eventually became her husband.
Armin and Susanne Laschet have three children together: Johannes, Eva and Julius. Susanne mainly took care of the upbringing and the household. Nonetheless, she doesn’t want to be a “mother of the country” or “first lady” like Melania Trump or currently Jill Biden. She said to WDR: “Both sucks.” Nevertheless, she enjoys the limelight that falls on her through her husband Armin. When asked why she fell in love with Armin Laschet, she replied in the “Kölner Treff”: “Yes, why do you fall in love? He had beautiful eyes and somehow, I thought he was really nice. (…) I cannot explain it to you. All I can say is that we both always looked to the right and left, it’s not like that. But we haven’t found anything better, both of them, that’s just the way it is. “
If the worst comes to the worst, she would definitely not move to Berlin, she said. “I would definitely stay in Aachen, that’s where the center of my life is, that’s where I have my work, that’s where my friends are, that’s where my social contacts are.” But she has a lot of fun getting to know interesting people. “I think it’s nice to have a papal audience with eight people or to shake hands with the Queen or Hape Kerkeling to chat with him.” (Tu / dpa)
