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

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 ‘outstanding services to Germany’ Credit: Tobias Schwarz/Reuters He became Germany’s head of state, a mostly ceremonial role, after being put ...

He became Germany's head of state, a mostly ceremonial role, after being put forward by then opposition leader Angela Merkel ... presidency with the headline "Horst who?" But the plain-speaking ...

BERLIN: 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 largely ceremonial ...

Horst Köhler, a onetime head of the International ... t always make himself popular with the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel. Mr. Köhler was elected before Merkel came to power, at ...