He held the ceremonial post of German president after a finance-focused career. Shortly into his second term, he became the ...
State secretary, International Monetary Fund head, President of Germany: Horst Köhler's career reads like something out of a ...
State secretary, International Monetary Fund head, President of Germany: Horst Köhler's career reads like something out of a novel. Africa was a big focus of his work. He has died at the age of 81.
Horst Köhler, a onetime head of the International Monetary Fund who became Germany’s president before stunning the country by resigning amid an uproar over comments about the country’s ...
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BERLIN -- Horst Köhler, a onetime head of the International Monetary Fund who became a popular German president before stunning the country by resigning abruptly in a flap over comments about the ...
Köhler, the son of ethnic German farmers from Romania, was born on Feb. 22, 1943, in Skierbieszow, in Nazi-occupied Poland. His family fled to Germany after the war — first to Leipzig in what ...