Spiegel reports.

According to the German edition, Pistorius has been the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Lower Saxony since 2013. 

The politician has been a member of the state parliament in Hannover since 2017.

Between 2006 and 2013 he was mayor of Osnabrück.

Earlier it was reported that German Chancellor Olaf Scholz accepted the resignation of Defense Minister Christina Lambrecht, a decision on a successor will be made in the near future.

Scholz stressed that he would not report yet how events would develop against the backdrop of the minister's resignation.