When '' Die Tageszeitung '' interviewed Scholz , then serving as secretary general of the ruling SPD , during a 2003 party conference , he later demanded massive changes and threatened to pull the entire piece . When the editors said they would go ahead and publish it without authorization , Scholz warned that the paper would be excluded from all future SPD background talks . The newspaper published the interview with all of Scholz 's answers blacked , and the paper 's editor-in-chief condemned his behavior as a " betrayal of the claim to a free press , a betrayal of the journalist 's self-definition , a betrayal of the reader . " Scholz was criticized for his handling of the riots that took place during 2017 G20 summit in Hamburg ; Mayor Scholz apologized to residents , but refused to resign
2017 G20 summit
2017 G20 Hamburg summit
Olaf Scholz