Frank Schäffler

Frank Schäffler (born 22 December 1968) is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has served as a member of the Bundestag from 2005 until 2013 and since 2017.

Schäffler was born 1968 in the German town of Schwäbisch Gmünd and studied business administration at the Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences.

In 2011, Schäffler led a group of fellow eurosceptic MPs from the FDP who collected enough signatures to force a non-binding inner-party referendum on the question of whether the party should oppose the creation of the €500 billion European Stability Mechanism and instead take a much tougher line opposing bail-outs for debt-strapped members of the eurozone.

[4] The referendum was widely seen as destabilizing the coalition government under the leadership of Chancellor Angela Merkel amid the European debt crisis.

[5] In the run-up to the vote, he became the target of attacks from the party's leadership, including from foreign minister Guido Westerwelle and FDP Secretary General Christian Lindner, who described Schäffler as "Germany's David Cameron"; Lindner subsequently resigned from his position.