Thomas Schaefer, the finance minister of Germany’s Hesse
state, has committed suicide apparently after becoming “deeply worried” over
how to cope with the economic fallout from the coronavirus, state premier
Volker Bouffier said Sunday.
Schaefer, 54, was found dead near a railway track on
Saturday. The Wiesbaden prosecution’s office said they believe he died by
suicide.
“We are in shock, we are in disbelief and above all we are
immensely sad,” Bouffier said in a recorded statement.
Hesse is home to Germany’s financial capital Frankfurt,
where major lenders like Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank have their headquarters.
The European Central Bank is also located in Frankfurt.
A visibly shaken Bouffier recalled that Schaefer, who was
Hesse’s finance chief for 10 years, had been working “day and night” to help
companies and workers deal with the economic impact of the pandemic.
“Today we have to assume that he was deeply worried,” said
Bouffier, a close ally of Chancellor Angela Merkel.
“It’s precisely during this difficult time that we would
have needed someone like him,” he added.
Popular and well-respected, Schaefer had long been touted as
a possible successor to Bouffier.
Like Bouffier, Schaefer belonged to Merkel’s centre-right
CDU party.
He leaves behind a wife and two children.
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