The Guardian: The best books to read in August: new paperbacks from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Salman Rushdie and Werner Herzog
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Roman Herzog
Roman Herzog was a German politician, judge and legal scholar, who served as President of Germany from 1994 to 1999. A member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), he was the first president to be elected after German reunification. He previously served as a judge of the Federal Constitutional Court, and he was president of the court from 1987 to 1994. Before his appointment as a judge, he was…
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politics · President of Germany from 1994 to 1999 · jurist · politician · university teacher · judge · Member of the Constitutional Court of Austria · also Roman Herzog, Herzog
Born 5 April 1934 · Died 10 January 2017 · Q2563
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2026· 6 entries
בית הנשיא: President Herzog Meets with U.S. Special Envoy Jared Kushner and Board of Peace High Representative Nickolay Mladenov
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The Sunday Guardian: US-Israel-Iran War Latest Live News: Israeli President Herzog ‘Grateful’ for Board of Peace Efforts to Support Gaza Plan & Advance Regional Peace Talks
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Yahoo: Isaac Herzog meets with 'Make-A-Wish' child who wished to know the feeling of being president
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News On AIR: PM Modi thanks Israeli President Isaac Herzog and PM Benjamin Netanyahu for Independence Day greetings
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Whalesbook: Israel's President Herzog Strengthens Ties on India's 80th Independence Day
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2017· 2 entries
Died 2017-01-10.
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“Integrated Structural Analysis and Design Using Graphic Statics”
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2012· 1 entry
Awarded European handicraft prize (2012).
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2009· 1 entry
Awarded Steiger Award (2009).
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2005· 1 entry
Awarded Leibniz-Ring-Hannover (2005).
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2003· 2 entries
Awarded Franz Josef Strauss Award (2003).
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The then-opposition leader and CDU chair Angela Merkel assigned the task of drafting alternative proposals for social welfare reform to a commission led by Herzog
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2002· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Merit of Baden-Württemberg (2002).
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2001· 3 entries
Awarded German citizenship award (2001).
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Married Alexandra Freifrau von Berlichingen
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That an absolute ban on research on embryonic stem cells – which have the ability to develop into the body's different tissues – would be excessive, stating: "I am not prepared to explain to a child sick with cystic fibr
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2000· 2 entries
Awarded Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana, 1st Class (2000).
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Awarded Order of Karl Valentin (2000).
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1999· 1 entry
Awarded honorary citizen of Bonn (1999).
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1998· 3 entries
Awarded German Leo Baeck Award (1998).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Wrocław (1998).
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“threatened with falling behind.”
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1997· 2 entries
Awarded Charlemagne Prize (1997).
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Awarded Collar of the Order of Isabella the Catholic (1997).
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1996· 3 entries
Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of Good Hope (1996).
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Awarded honorary doctor of Ben-Gurion University (1996).
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Awarded Honorary doctor of the University of Oxford (1996).
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1995· 1 entry
Herzog was one of the few foreign dignitaries taking part in the observances on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp who chose to attend a Jewish service at the site
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1994· 3 entries
Awarded Grand Cross Special Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1994).
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Awarded Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of the White Rose of Finland (1994).
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Career landmark: president of Germany (1994–1999).
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1993· 1 entry
Chancellor Helmut Kohl had selected Herzog as candidate for the 1994 presidential election, after his previous choice, the Saxon State Minister of Justice, Steffen Heitmann, had to withdraw because of an uproar about sta
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1984· 1 entry
Awarded Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1984).
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1983· 2 entries
Career landmark: Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court (1983–1994).
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Herzog was elected a judge at the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany (Bundesverfassungsgericht) in Karlsruhe, replacing Ernst Benda
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1980· 3 entries
Was elected to the Landtag of Baden-Württemberg and took over the State Ministry of the Interior
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Career landmark: member of the Landtag of Baden-Württemberg (1980–1983).
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Career landmark: Ministry of the Interior, for Digitalization and Municipalities of Baden-Württemberg (1980–1983).
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1978· 1 entry
Career landmark: Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport Baden-Württemberg (1978–1980).
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1973· 1 entry
As a representative of the state (Land) of Rhineland-Palatinate in the Federal government in Bonn
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1969· 1 entry
Accepted a chair of public law at the German University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer, serving as university president in 1971–1972
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1958· 1 entry
With a dissertation on Basic Law and the European Convention on Human Rights
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1945· 1 entry
“s official day of remembrance for the victims of Hitler”
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1934· 1 entry
Born 1934-04-05.
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