Guido Westerwelle, Germany's former foreign minister and first openly gay leader of a mainstream political party, has died aged 54, just months after presenting the book he had written on battling leukaemia.
Westerwelle led German diplomacy from 2009-2013, when his business-friendly Free Democrats (FDP) were in government with Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives.
He became party leader in 2001 and also went on to serve as German Vice Chancellor after the FDP's best ever election result in…
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