He suffered from leukemia. Westerwelle died Friday at the Cologne University Hospital.
Guido Westerwelle served as the 10th foreign minister in the second cabinet of Chancellor Angela Merkel and was the 15th Vice Chancellor of Germany from 2009 to 2011.
Wir trauen um unseren Chef Guido Westerwelle. Er verstarb am 18. März 2016 in der Uni-Klinik Köln an den Folgen seiner…
Posted by Westerwelle Foundation on Friday, 18 March 2016
"We mourn our leader Guido Westerwelle. He died on March 18, 2015 at the Cologne University Hospital following complications from leukemia treatment. He will be missed," the post of the Westerwelle Foundation of Facebook read.
Guido Westerwelle left politics in 2013, after his Free Democrats (FDP) party lost all of its seats in German parliament. On June 20, 2014 it was reported that Westerwelle suffered from acute leukemia.
