(Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP, File) German President Horst Koehler, right, hands over the credentials to re-elected ...

Angela Merkel has praised Horst Koehler for his ‘outstanding services to Germany’ Credit: Tobias Schwarz/Reuters He became Germany’s head of state, a mostly ceremonial role, after being put ...

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

Horst Kohler, a former head of the International ... not always make himself popular with the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose choice he was for the presidency – a largely ...

BERLIN — (AP) — Horst Köhler, a onetime head of the International ... make himself popular with the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose choice he was for the presidency — a ...

Former President of Germany Horst Koehler looks on ahead of the state commemoration ... dissolving parliament in 2005 to call new elections and accusing then-Chancellor Angela Merkel in 2007 of not ...

Horst Koehler, Former German President and ... dissolving parliament in 2005 to call new elections and accusing then-Chancellor Angela Merkel in 2007 of not preparing the country sufficiently ...

Horst Kohler, a former head of the International Monetary ... concerns and did not always make himself popular with the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose choice he was for the presidency – ...

Horst Kohler with then-German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder in 2005 (AP) Mr Kohler occasionally refused to sign bills into law due to constitutional concerns and did not always make himself popular ...

BERLIN – Mr Horst Koehler, who served as Germany ... in 2005 to call new elections and accusing then Chancellor Angela Merkel in 2007 of not preparing the country sufficiently for globalisation.