If anything unites the parties in Germany’s election campaign, it is running away from the former chancellor, whose legacy ...

He held the ceremonial post of German president after a finance-focused career. Shortly into his second term, he became the ...

Angela Merkel has praised Horst Koehler for his ... Horst Koehler was the head of the IMF before becoming Germany’s president in 2004 Credit: Getty Images North America But in May the following ...

A respected global policymaker with a particular interest in Africa, Köhler also helmed the International Monetary Fund for ...

Germany's former president Horst Koehler, who also once headed the International ... after being put forward by then ...

hands over the credentials to re-elected German chancellor Angela Merkel during a ceremony at the president’s residence ...

Horst Koehler, former German president from 2004 to 2010 and a respected global policymaker with a particular interest in ...

Merkel, then Germany's opposition leader ... In a letter of condolence to Köhler’s wife, Eva Louise, President Steinmeier wrote Saturday that “many people in our country will mourn with ...

As president, he was not afraid to defy the government, dissolving parliament in 2005 to call new elections and accusing then-Chancellor Angela Merkel in ... to be one of Germany's most popular ...

BERLIN — Horst Köhler, a onetime head of the International Monetary Fund who became a popular German president before stunning the country by resigning abruptly in a flap over comments about ...