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Roman Herzog
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Roman Herzog

1934 – 2017 · aged 83

Former President of the Federal Republic of Germany (1934–2017)

Born
5 Apr 1934 · Landshut
Died
10 Jan 2017 · Bad Mergentheim

Life timeline

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

Showing 95 years
  1. 5 Apr 1934BornBorn in Landshut
  2. 1978 – 1980RoleMinistry of Culture, Youth and Sport Baden-Württemberg
  3. 1980 – 1983RoleMember of the Landtag of Baden-Württemberg
  4. 1980 – 1983RoleMinistry of the Interior, for Digitalization and Municipalities of Baden-Württemberg
  5. 1983 – 1994RoleJustice of the Federal Constitutional Court
  6. 1994 – 1999RolePresident of Germany
  7. 1994AwardGrand Cross with Collar of the Order of the White Rose of Finland
  8. 1994AwardGrand Cross Special Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
  9. 1996AwardGrand Cross of the Order of Good Hope
  10. 1996AwardHonorary doctor of Ben-Gurion University
  11. 1996AwardHonorary doctor of the University of Oxford
  12. 1997AwardCharlemagne Prize
  13. 1997AwardCollar of the Order of Isabella the Catholic‎
  14. 1998AwardGerman Leo Baeck Award
  15. 1998AwardHonorary doctor of the University of Wrocław
  16. 1999AwardHonorary citizen of Bonn
  17. 2000AwardOrder of the Cross of Terra Mariana, 1st Class
  18. 2000AwardOrder of Karl Valentin
  19. 10 Jan 2017DiedDied in Bad Mergentheim

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1934 – 2017).

  1. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  2. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  3. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  4. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  5. 1938Munich Agreement
  6. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  7. 1939 – 1945World War II
  8. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  9. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  10. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  11. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  12. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  13. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  14. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  15. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  16. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  17. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  18. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  19. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  20. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  21. 1956Suez Crisis
  22. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  23. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  24. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  25. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  26. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  27. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  28. 1968Prague Spring
  29. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  30. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  31. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  32. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  33. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  34. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  35. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  36. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  37. 1985Schengen Agreement
  38. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  39. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
  40. 19901990 FIFA World Cup

Biography

Roman Herzog (5 April 1934 – 10 January 2017) 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 a professor of law. He received the 1997 Charlemagne Prize.

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