The frontrunner to become chancellor has bold plans for economic reform, but a flirtation with the far-right has hurt his ...

Extremely popular’ head of state and IMF boss was ‘virtually unknown’ before achieving ‘great things’ for Germany, says ...

Germany's former president Horst Koehler, who also once headed the International Monetary Fund and was a strong backer of ...

Horst Köhler, a onetime head of the International Monetary Fund who became a popular German president before stunning the ...

Yet he gained popularity after taking office, serving much of his nearly six years in the post alongside Chancellor Angela Merkel ... Germany. Nine years later, they fled again after the 1953 East ...

Koehler, head of state from 2004 to 2010, passed away in Berlin in the early ... Germany's head of state, a mostly ceremonial role, after being put forward by then opposition leader Angela Merkel ...

(Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP, File) FILE - German President Horst Koehler, right, hands over the credentials to re-elected German chancellor Angela Merkel ... early election. He declared that ...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — It soars over the borders and divisions of the war-torn Middle East, bringing Arab and Israeli ...