A former President of Germany, Horst Koehler is dead. Koehler, who served as head of state from 2004 to 2010, died on Saturday at the age of 81. A statement by Germany’s Presidency said the ...

He held the ceremonial post of German president after a finance-focused career. Shortly into his second term, he became the first German president in four decades to resign. By Lynsey Chutel Horst ...

Many wondered whether that was the real reason for the sometimes thin-skinned Koehler's resignation, with critics speculating that he had simply become fed up with a lack of backing from Merkel ...

BERLIN, Feb 1 (Reuters) - Horst Koehler, former German president from 2004 to 2010 and a respected global policymaker with a particular interest in Africa, died on Saturday after a short illness ...

"With the death of Horst Koehler, we have lost a highly esteemed and extremely popular person who achieved great things –- for our country and in the world," President Frank-Walter Steinmeier ...

(FILES) United Nations (UN) envoy for the Western Sahara Horst Koehler attends a press briefing following two days of talks on the Western Sahara region, a disputed region since 2012, on December ...