# Olaf Scholz Social Democratic Chancellor of Germany from December 2021 to May 2025. His three-party coalition collapsed in late 2024, forcing the snap [[2025 German Federal Election]], which his party lost. [[Friedrich Merz]] succeeded him. In the vault he appears mainly as the target of [[Elon Musk]]'s campaign for the [[AfD]]: Musk called him an "incompetent fool" who "should resign immediately" after the December 2024 Magdeburg attack, and Scholz publicly rejected Musk's January 2025 "past guilt" speech. See [[Musk AfD Campaign]]. > [!note] Stub — expand with > Career (Hamburg mayor, finance minister under Merkel), the Zeitenwende speech after Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, and the coalition collapse. ## See Also - [[Musk AfD Campaign]] · [[2025 German Federal Election]] · [[Friedrich Merz]]