(Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel who was old Volkswagen in worth 130,000 euros ($172.100) wrong online bidder had it to earlier this month, but the first woman of Chancellor's 1990 Golf eventually went to the highest bidder on Monday for 10.165 euros.
Bidder Dirk Fricke, bought the car for his company fresh light, told of Reuters that he was happy with what he saw as a low cost, even though he not a fan of Merkel.
"We are completely politically neutral," he said by telephone. "It was pretty much keep the car in Germany." "A car like this cannot car for Germany, such as the Pope years ago lost."
In a similar auction in 2005, a U.S. bidder paid nearly $250,000 for a 21-year-old, VW 1990 grey Golf, which once belonged to Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the later Pope Benedict.
A previous attempt Merkel's car earlier this month could sell after noticed by fake bidders to sign a second auction in which bidders had to and and to identify online auction platform eBay, that the offers came in.
The seller, an anonymous Berlin resident, had announced the vehicle on eBay, with 190,000 km (118.000 km) on the clock as "Angela Merkel first Western car: unique collector's item".
Papers and photos at the Chancellor's Office include sending a copy of the registry parked.
Merkel bought the golf, model knows about a month before the German reunification on 3 October 1990 1990 amounting to a few hundred euros today.
At that time she had moved democratic awakening of the Eastern Group of the Christian Democrats political opposition movement from East Germany.
She drive their golf entry by Chancellor Helmut Kohl in 1994 Cabinet as Minister. It was sold in 1996.
Today goes to Merkel in an armored Audi but media reports say, that her husband is still a Volkswagen, which literally means "people's car".
(Reporting by Elisa Oddone and Annika Breidthardt;) (Editing by Michael Roddy)
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