How tall is Olaf Scholz?

Olaf Scholz's listed height is 170 cm (5'7"). He is taller than about 15% of men in Germany.

Where 170 cm sits among men in Germany

Taller than about 15% of men in Germany born in 1958 (average 177.4 cm).

About Olaf Scholz

Olaf Scholz is a German politician, born on 14 June 1958 in Osnabrück, Lower Saxony. He grew up in Hamburg and studied law at the University of Hamburg. He began his career as a lawyer specialising in labour and employment law and joined the Social Democratic Party in the 1970s.

Scholz was a member of the Bundestag from 1998 to 2011 and became general secretary of the SPD in 2002. He entered the first Merkel government in 2007 as Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs, serving until 2009. He was deputy leader of the SPD from 2009 to 2019 and led the party to victory in the 2011 Hamburg state election, becoming First Mayor of Hamburg, a position he held until 2018. From 2018 to 2021 he was Federal Minister of Finance and Vice Chancellor.

At a listed 170 cm (5'7"), Scholz is married to Britta Ernst. He served as chancellor of Germany from 2021 to 2025, leading a coalition formed after the SPD won a plurality of seats in the 2021 federal election.

Frequently asked

How tall is Olaf Scholz in feet and inches? Olaf Scholz is 5'7" tall, which is 170 cm, 66.9 inches or 1.70 m.

Is Olaf Scholz tall for men in Germany? At 170 cm he is taller than about 15% of men in Germany born in 1958, whose average height is 177.4 cm.

Sources

Heights are as publicly listed, rounded to the nearest centimetre; listed heights for public figures are often self-reported. Biographical details adapted from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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