Horst Köhler
German politician (CDU); president of Germany, 2004–2010
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- Fame66.0
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- Germany rank#250
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Lived 1943–2025, aged 82Germany
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A president who walked away. Köhler resigned Germany's largely ceremonial top office barely a year into his second term—over a single remark about troops in Afghanistan—ending a tenure marked by approval ratings that outpaced two chancellors.
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Horst Köhler came up as an economist, moving through the civil service into banking's highest tiers: president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in 1998, then head of the IMF in 2000. Four years later the Christian Democrats and the FDP put him forward for Germany's presidency, and the Federal Convention elected him in May 2004. He was inaugurated that July into an office of ceremony, not command—yet became more popular than either Gerhard Schröder or Angela Merkel during those years. Reelected in 2009, he lasted only until May 2010, when controversy over a comment he mad…
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