Richard von Weizsäcker
President of Germany from 1984 to 1994
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Lived 1920–2015, aged 95Germany
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The German president who told his country what it needed to hear, not what it wanted. Weizsäcker's 1985 speech marking forty years since the war's end reframed May 8th as a day of liberation, not defeat — a moral reckoning that made him both beloved and isolated within his own party.
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Born into aristocracy in 1920, Weizsäcker entered public life through the Protestant Church before joining the CDU in 1954. He won a Bundestag seat in 1969, then became Governing Mayor of West Berlin after the 1981 elections. Elected President of Germany in 1984 and again in 1989, he became one of only two presidents to serve two full five-year terms. On 3 October 1990, during his second term, reunification made him president of a whole Germany for the first time in decades. His impartiality and moral clarity often put him at odds with Chancellor Helmut Kohl and his own CDU colleagues. When he…
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