Roman Herzog

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Roman Herzog

Roman Herzog in 2006
President of Germany
In office 1 July 1994 – 30 June 1999
Chancellor	Helmut Kohl Gerhard Schröder
Preceded by	Richard von Weizsäcker
Succeeded by	Johannes Rau
President of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany
In office 16 November 1987 – 30 June 1994
Preceded by	Wolfgang Zeidler
Succeeded by	Jutta Limbach
Personal details
Born	(1934-04-05) 5 April 1934 Landshut, Bavaria, Germany
Nationality	German
Political party	Christian Democratic Union
Spouse(s)	Christiane Krauß (marr. 1959 to 2000) Alexandra Freifrau von Berlichingen
Children	2
Alma mater	Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Profession	Lawyer
Religion	Lutheran
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Roman Herzog (born 5 April 1934) is a German politician as a member of the Christian Democratic Union, (CDU) and served as President of Germany from 1994 to 1999. He was the first President of the Federal Republic of Germany to be elected to office after the reunification of Germany that took place in 1990. Prior to his election to the presidency of Germany he served as a judge of the Federal Constitutional Court, and he was the President of the Constitutional Court from 1987 until his election as President of Germany.

Life and career

Roman Herzog was born in Landshut, Bavaria, Germany, in 1934 to a Protestant family.

He studied law in Munich. In 1958, he completed his doctoral studies and worked as an assistant at the University of Munich until 1964, where he also passed his second juristic state exam. For his paper Die Wesensmerkmale der Staatsorganisation in rechtlicher und entwicklungsgeschichtlicher Sicht ("Characteristics of State Organization from a Juristic and Developmental-Historical Viewpoint"), in 1964 he was awarded the title of professor, a title of academic distinction in Germany, and taught at the University of Munich until 1966. From 1966 he taught constitutional law and political science as a full professor at the Free University of Berlin (FUB). In 1969, he accepted a chair of public law at the German University of Administrative Sciences and served as university president from 1971 to 1972.

In 1973 his political career began as a representative of the state (Land) of Rhineland-Palatinate with the Federal government in Bonn. He was minister for culture and sports in the Baden-Württemberg State Government from 1978. In 1980 he was elected to the State Parliament (Landtag) and took over the state Ministry of the Interior.

Roman Herzog has also always been active in the Evangelical Church in Germany. Until 1980, he was head of the Chamber for Public Responsibility of this church, and, since 1982, he has been a member of the synod of the Evangelical Church in Germany.

In 1983 he became a judge at the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany (Bundesverfassungsgericht) in Karlsruhe. From 1987 until 1994, he also served as the president of this Court. During his term as President of the Constitutional Court, Herzog was elected President of Germany by the Federal Assembly (Bundesversammlung) on 23 May 1994. Herzog took office as Federal President on 1 July 1994. He retained this position until 30 June 1999 and did not seek reelection. Upon the end of his five-year term as Head of State, Herzog was succeeded by Johannes Rau.

In 1994, as President of Germany, Herzog participated in the commemorations of the 50th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising during the Nazi occupation of Poland. In a widely commended speech, he paid tribute to the Polish fighters and people and asked Poles for "forgiveness for what has been done to you by the Germans".^[1]

Between December 1999 and October 2000, Herzog was chair of the European Convention which drafted the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.

His wife, Christiane Herzog, died on 19 June 2000. He later married Alexandra Freifrau von Berlichingen.

References

↑ Borodziej, Włodzimierz; Harshav, Barbara (2006), The Warsaw Uprising of 1944, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, p. 147 .

External links

"Roman Herzog (1994–1999)". Retrieved 25 May 2010.
"Roman Herzog (1994–1999)" (in German). Retrieved 25 May 2010.

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Political offices
Preceded by Richard von Weizsäcker	President of Germany 1994–1999	Succeeded by Johannes Rau

v t e Presidents of Germany

Theodor Heuss Heinrich Lübke Gustav Heinemann Walter Scheel Karl Carstens Richard von Weizsäcker Roman Herzog Johannes Rau Horst Köhler Christian Wulff Joachim Gauck

v t e Recipients of the Charlemagne Prize

1950–1969	1950 Richard Nikolaus Graf Coudenhove-Kalergi 1951 Hendrik Brugmans 1952 Alcide de Gasperi 1953 Jean Monnet 1954 Konrad Adenauer 1955 1956 Sir Winston S. Churchill 1957 Paul Henri Spaak 1958 Robert Schuman 1959 George C. Marshall 1960 Joseph Bech 1961 Walter Hallstein 1962 1963 Edward Heath 1964 Antonio Segni 1965 1966 Jens Otto Krag 1967 Joseph Luns 1968 1969 European Commission

1970–1989	1970 François Seydoux de Clausonne 1971 1972 Roy Jenkins 1973 Don Salvador de Madariaga 1974 1975 1976 Leo Tindemans 1977 Walter Scheel 1978 Konstantinos Karamanlis 1979 Emilio Colombo 1980 1981 Simone Veil 1982 King Juan Carlos I 1983 1984 1985 1986 People of Luxembourg 1987 Henry Kissinger 1988 François Mitterrand / Helmut Kohl 1989 Brother Roger

1990–2009	1990 Gyula Horn 1991 Václav Havel 1992 Jacques Delors 1993 Felipe González Márquez 1994 Gro Harlem Brundtland 1995 Franz Vranitzky 1996 Queen Beatrix 1997 Roman Herzog 1998 Bronisław Geremek 1999 Tony Blair 2000 Bill Clinton 2001 György Konrád 2002 Euro 2003 Valéry Giscard d'Estaing 2004 Pat Cox / Pope John Paul II¹ 2005 Carlo Azeglio Ciampi 2006 Jean-Claude Juncker 2007 Javier Solana 2008 Angela Merkel 2009 Andrea Riccardi

2010–2029	2010 Donald Tusk 2011 Jean-Claude Trichet 2012 Wolfgang Schäuble 2013 Dalia Grybauskaitė

¹ Received extraordinary prize.

v t e Presidential candidates of the CDU/CSU

Theodor Heuss (1949, 1954) Heinrich Lübke (1959, 1964) Gerhard Schröder (1969) Richard von Weizsäcker (1974, 1984, 1989) Karl Carstens (1979) Roman Herzog (1994) Dagmar Schipanski (1999) Horst Köhler (2004, 2009) Christian Wulff (2010) Joachim Gauck (2012)

(non-members endorsed in italics, sucessful candidacies in bold)

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 27123610 LCCN: n86147250 ISNI: 0000 0001 0881 770X GND: 119155087 SUDOC: 031307876 BNF: cb12254797x NKC: jn20010602668

Persondata
Name	Herzog, Roman
Alternative names
Short description	President of Germany from 1994 to 1999
Date of birth	5 April 1934
Place of birth	Landshut, Germany
Date of death
Place of death

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