FORMER GERMAN PRESIDENT HORST KÖHLER PASSES AWAY AT 81
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Former German President Horst Köhler, who led the country from 2004 to 2010, has passed away.
Officials from the presidency announced that Köhler died on Saturday at the age of 81 following a brief illness.
“Koehler passed away early this morning in Berlin after a short, serious illness surrounded by his family”, the German presidency noted in a statement.
Before Koehler’s tenure as german president, he held several prominent international positions, including serving as the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund from 2000 to 2004.
Köhler stepped down as Germany’s president in 2010 amid controversy over his comments on the country’s military involvement.
He was born on February 22, 1943, in Skierbieszów, a territory under Nazi-occupied Poland at the time.
Of German heritage, his family later relocated to Leipzig in East Germany before fleeing to West Germany in 1953.
Köhler was raised in Ludwigsburg, Baden-Württemberg. He pursued economics and political science at the University of Tübingen, where he earned a doctorate in economics in 1977.
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