He said yes right away. When the Chancellor called him on a Sunday in mid-January and asked if he wanted to become defense minister, Boris Pistorius didn't hesitate for a second. If you are offered this position, there is nothing to think about, Pistorius later said.

It is said to have happened in a similar way when Stephan Weil asked the then mayor of Osnabrück ten years ago to move to Hanover as his interior minister. A firm yes, what else.

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