Karl Carstens
President of the Federal Republic of Germany (1914-1992)
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Lived 1914–1992, aged 78Germany
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He held West Germany's highest office through the early Cold War eighties, a president whose tenure spanned the tail end of détente and the return of superpower chill.
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Born in December 1914, Karl Carstens came of age between two world wars. He entered politics in a divided Germany and rose through the ranks of West German public life. In 1979 he assumed the presidency, a largely ceremonial role that nonetheless carried symbolic weight in a nation still reckoning with its past and its place between East and West. He served a single five-year term, stepping down in 1984. He died in May 1992, three years after the Wall fell.
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