A reserved man who, as his biographer Lars Haider puts it, " deliberately does not answer questions directly, " Scholz has yet to find his political rise impeded by his apparent reluctance to explain himself.

肖尔茨是个保守的人，正如他的传记作者拉尔斯·海德尔所说，他“故意不直接回答问题”，明显不喜欢自我辩解的肖尔茨还没有发现，他的沉默已经影响到了他的政治前途。