Christian Gaebler's work also decides whether the Germans can visit grandma and grandpa this Christmas, whether the children still go to school in Advent and whether the whole family can go on a skiing holiday between the years.
Christian who? The 55-year-old qualified engineer is not yet known to a wider public. He runs a Spanish tapas bar in the trendy Kreuzberg district and heads a West Berlin SPD district that is powerful within the party. He is also head of the Berlin Senate Chancellery. And she is currently preparing the next Corona resolutions.