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Horst Köhler

1943 - 2025

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Horst Köhler (German: [ˈhɔʁst ˈkøːlɐ] ; 22 February 1943 – 1 February 2025) was a German politician who served as President of Germany from 2004 to 2010. As the candidate of the two Christian Democratic sister parties, the CDU (of which he was a member) and the CSU, as well as the liberal FDP, Köhler was elected to his first five-year term by the Federal Convention on 23 May 2004 and was subsequently inaugurated on 1 July 2004. He was reelected to a second term on 23 May 2009. Just a year later, on 31 May 2010, he resigned from his office in a controversy over a comment on the role of the German Armed Forces in light of a visit to the troops in Afghanistan. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Horst Köhler is the 1,626th most popular politician (down from 1,570th in 2019), the 83rd most popular biography from Poland (up from 95th in 2019) and the 18th most popular Polish Politician.

Horst Köhler is most famous for being the President of Germany from 2004 to 2010.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Horst Köhler ranks 1,626 out of 19,576. Before him are Francis, Duke of Guise, Dionysius I of Syracuse, Reuven Rivlin, Pepin the Hunchback, Moshe Katsav, and Emperor Kōkaku. After him are Archduchess Maria Amalia of Austria, Xianfeng Emperor, Publius Clodius Pulcher, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Magnus I of Sweden, and Berenice I of Egypt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Horst Köhler ranks 29. Before him are Keith Richards, Sadako Sasaki, Elena Ferrante, Christopher Walken, Salvatore Adamo, and Joseph Stiglitz. After him are Jean-Louis Tauran, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Khalifa Haftar, Louise Glück, Raffaella Carrà, and Howard Gardner. Among people deceased in 2025, Horst Köhler ranks 17. Before him are Brian Wilson, Sebastião Salgado, Leo Beenhakker, Eddie Jordan, Khamtai Siphandon, and Ágnes Keleti. After him are Aga Khan IV, George E. Smith, George Foreman, Sofia Gubaidulina, Fouad Mebazaa, and Frederick Forsyth.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Horst Köhler ranks 83 out of 1,694. Before him are Erwin von Witzleben (1881), Benoit Mandelbrot (1924), Erich von Falkenhayn (1861), Konrad Emil Bloch (1912), Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1785), and Andrzej Sapkowski (1948). After him are Jan Matejko (1838), Krzysztof Penderecki (1933), Duchess Elisabeth of Württemberg (1767), Johannes Hevelius (1611), Stefan Banach (1892), and Anna Jagiellon (1523).

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Among POLITICIANS In Poland

Among politicians born in Poland, Horst Köhler ranks 18. Before him are Władysław III of Poland (1424), Zbigniew Brzezinski (1928), John II Casimir Vasa (1609), Yitzhak Shamir (1915), Ladislaus I of Hungary (1046), and Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1785). After him are Duchess Elisabeth of Württemberg (1767), Anna Jagiellon (1523), Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (1858), Bolesław I the Brave (967), Egon Krenz (1937), and Catherine Jagiellon (1526).

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