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The president of Germany, officially titled the Federal President of the Federal Republic of Germany (German: Bundespräsident der Bundesrepublik Deutschland), [2] is the head of state of Germany. The current officeholder is Frank-Walter Steinmeier who was elected on 12 February 2017 and re-elected on 13 February 2022. He is currently serving ...
Frank-Walter Steinmeier (German: [ˈfʁaŋkˌvaltɐ ˈʃtaɪnˌmaɪ.ɐ] ⓘ; born 5 January 1956) [1] is a German politician who has served as President of Germany since 2017. [2] He was previously federal minister for foreign affairs from 2005 to 2009 and again from 2013 to 2017, as well as vice chancellor of Germany from 2007 to 2009.
The East German constitution of October 1949 created the office of President of the German Democratic Republic (German: Präsident der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik). Upon the death of Wilhelm Pieck in 1960, the office of president was replaced by a collective head of state, the Staatsrat ("State Council").
BERLIN (Reuters) -President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Friday dissolved Germany's lower house of parliament to pave the way for snap elections on Feb. 23 following the collapse of Chancellor Olaf ...
The President of Germany replaced the monarch in 1919. Chancellor Adolf Hitler assumed the duties of head of state as Führer and Chancellor from 1934 until his suicide in April 1945. In 1949, Germany was divided into two states.
President of the Senate and Mayor Andreas Bovenschulte 11 August 1965 (age 59) SPD: 15 August 2019: 5 years, 157 days 2023 2019: Bovenschulte II Hamburg: First Mayor Peter Tschentscher 20 January 1966 (age 58) SPD: 28 March 2018: 6 years, 297 days 2020: Tschentscher II Hesse: Boris Rhein 2 January 1972 (age 53) CDU
Olaf Scholz (German: [ˈoːlaf ˈʃɔlts] ⓘ; born () 14 June 1958) is a German politician who has been Chancellor of Germany since 2021. A member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), he previously served as vice chancellor in the fourth Merkel cabinet and as Federal Minister of Finance from 2018 to 2021.
Germany is denying an assertion made by former President Donald Trump during the presidential debate Tuesday about the country's renewable energy industry. "You believe in things like we're not ...