After the German Social Democratic Party, the Green Party and the Liberal Democratic Party formally signed a joint cabinet formation agreement on the 7th, the SpD party member Scholz was elected German prime minister on the 8th and sworn in. The "Merkel era" officially came to an end, Germany ushered in a new head of government and "first family", scholz's wife, Germany's new "first lady" Britta Ernst also attracted attention.
Ernst is probably not an ordinary "first lady", because she and Scholz are a pair of "politicians", which can be described as equal in the political arena. Ernst is also a member of the SpDD, currently minister of education of the Brandenburg region, and chairman of the German Council of Ministers of Culture. In some of her photos with Scholz, the new German chancellor is a bit "birdy".
Born in 1961, three years younger than Scholz, Ernst was born and raised in Hamburg ( a city on a par with the German federal state ) – a city where Scholz also grew up and is said to have known each other as a student. After graduating from high school, Ernst received vocational training in the real estate industry and later entered the university to study general economics and social economics.
The couple, which bear many similarities, both joined the German Social Democratic Party at the age of 17 and have since served as parliamentarians. From 1991 to 1993, Ernst was a member of the Hamburg District Council of Altona, and from 1993 to 1997 she was a personal adviser to two German Federal Senators. From 1997, Ernst became a member of the Hamburg City Council as a member of the Social Democratic Party, where he remained until August 2011. Also in 2011, her husband Scholz became mayor of Hamburg.
During his tenure as a Hamburg city councillor, Ernst represented the SPD in the work of the Municipal Board of Education, the Scientific Committee and the Special Committee for Neglected Children, and was a member of the School Development Committee. Perhaps she confirmed the direction of the policy during this period, with most of her political advocacy focused on schools, education, and gender equality.
After the 2008 Hamburg City Council election, Ernst served as a member of the City Council as speaker of the Social Democratic Party in the City Council. After the 2011 german local elections, she had been elected to the Hamburg City Council, but resigned in order to hold a position in the Bundesrat for a position within the SPD. In 2014, Ernst was appointed Minister of Schools and Vocational Education in Schleswig-Holstein (Schleswig-Holstein) as Minister of Schools and Vocational Education until 2017, while she also held a position in the Bundesrat.
Since 2017, Ernst has been minister of education in Brandenburg – after the German Bundestag election that year, Merkel opened her last term as chancellor, and her Coalition party (made up of the CDU and its sister party, the CSU), formed a coalition government with Scholz's SpD, which became deputy chancellor and finance minister. In January, Ernst became president of the German Council of Ministers of Culture.
Ernst and Scholz were married in 1998, and the two have been together for 23 years, and they now live in Potsdam, the capital of Brandenburg, where they have no children and are a good couple. Scholz once said in an interview, "Breita (Ernst) is the love of my life and has not changed for a long time. Political positions come and go, and love lives on. He also said, "Wife means everything to me," that it was Ernst who made him better, and that "I would be a completely different person without Britta Ernst."
However, on the political road outside of marriage, Ernst and Scholz were independent of each other and did not cling to each other. It is said that Ernst did not like to attend events that were merely acting as "Scholz wives". The equal relationship between the husband and wife is also manifested in the title of their respective names, Ernst has not changed his surname to Scholz so far, and when they mention each other, they rarely call each other "my husband" or "my wife", but directly call them by their first names.
Early in this year's Bundestag election campaign, Scholz was asked the following question on television: "If elected chancellor, will your wife continue to work?" Scholz "went crazy" on the spot: "Honestly, this question makes me very unhappy. If it were a man as the spouse [of a candidate for prime minister], I don't know if you would have asked such a question. It seems that Scholz, who has become Chancellor of Germany, will not ask his wife to give up her career.
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