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Hage Geingob
Hage Geingob · Brussels - EC/Berlaymont, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Person

Hage Geingob

1941 – 2024 · aged 83

President of Namibia from 2015 to 2024

Born
3 Aug 1941 · Otjiwarongo
Died
4 Feb 2024 · Windhoek
Part ofNamibia1904 – todayLutheranism1471 – today

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 95 years
  1. 3 Aug 1941BornBorn in Otjiwarongo
  2. 1980AwardOfficer of the French Order of Academic Palms
  3. 1990 – 2015RoleMember of the National Assembly of Namibia
  4. 1990 – 2002RolePrime Minister of the Republic of Namibia
  5. 1994AwardNational Order of Merit Carlos Manuel de Céspedes
  6. 2004AwardHonorary degree of the University of Leeds
  7. 2008 – 2012RoleMinister of Trade and Industry
  8. 2012 – 2015RolePrime Minister of the Republic of Namibia
  9. 2015 – 2024RolePresident of the Republic of Namibia
  10. 2015AwardHonorary doctor of Fordham University
  11. 2015AwardOrder of the Welwitschia
  12. 2017 – 2024RolePresident of SWAPO
  13. 4 Feb 2024DiedDied in Windhoek

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1941 – 2024).

  1. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  2. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  3. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  4. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  5. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  6. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  7. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  8. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  9. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  10. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  11. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  12. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  13. 1956Suez Crisis
  14. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  15. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  16. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  17. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  18. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  19. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  20. 1968Prague Spring
  21. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  22. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  23. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  24. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  25. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  26. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  27. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  28. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  29. 1985Schengen Agreement
  30. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  31. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
  32. 19901990 FIFA World Cup
  33. 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
  34. 19941994 FIFA World Cup
  35. 1994 – 1996First Chechen War
  36. 19981998 FIFA World Cup
  37. 2001 – 2021War in Afghanistan
  38. 2003 – 2011Iraq War
  39. 20042004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
  40. 20062006 FIFA World Cup

Biography

Hage Gottfried Geingob (3 August 1941 – 4 February 2024) was a Namibian politician who served as the third president of Namibia from 2015 until his death in February 2024. Geingob was the country's first prime minister from 1990 to 2002, and served again from 2012 to 2015.

Between 2008 and 2012 Geingob served as Minister of Trade and Industry. In November 2014, Geingob was elected president of Namibia by an overwhelming margin. In November 2017, Geingob became the third president of the ruling SWAPO Party after winning by a large margin at the party's sixth Congress. He served as the party's president until his death. In August 2018, Geingob began a one-year term as chairperson of the Southern African Development Community.

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