Olaf Scholz: Self-irony in the farewell speech at the tap stroke

With Aretha Franklin's »Respect« Olaf Scholz's chancellorship comes to an end - a title matching the election campaign three and a half years ago, where he became head of government. In his last speech he practiced himself in self-irony.

The outgoing chancellor does not reveal anything about his inner life even in the big cone stroke. At the last song of his music selection a circle closes.

"Respect" was the key word for Olaf Scholz to win the Bundestag election in 2021, alongside "12 Euro minimum wage". At the big knock-off for his farewell, he wished for the song "Respect". But in his reign, Scholz often noticed one thing: lack of respect.

After three years and almost five months in office, Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) was adopted by the Bundeswehr with a big swipe of cones. The tears did not come to him as a not particularly emotionally well-known chancellor, when the staff music corps played the soul classic "Respect" for him at the farewell. However, he was already seized – and had to smile a little at the end. In the grandstand beside his wife Britta Ernst and most min…

Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz will be taken out of office with a big cone stroke. Minister of Defense Boris Pistorius reminds us that Scholz has done something unusual. And Scholz points out that one cannot necessarily read his writing on his face. There is a message about his music selection.