Roesler Named Main Candidate To Head FDP

BERLIN, GERMANY - APRIL 06: Current German Health Minister and leading member of the German Free Democrats (FDP) political party Philipp Roesler (L) chats with Economy Minister Rainer Bruederle (R) before the beginning of the weekly German government cabinet meeting on April 6, 2011 in Berlin, Germany. The day before the FDP leadership named Roesler the official candidate to succeed embattled FDP chairman and current German Vice Chancellor Guido Westerwelle, who recently announced that he will make way for a successor in both posts at the federal FDP congress in May. Born in 1973 in Vietnam, Roesler was adopted as an infant by a German couple and grew up in northern Germany, where he studied medicine and trained to become a heart surgeon before switching to politics. (Photo by Carsten Koall/Getty Images)