Former German President Horst Kohaler dies at 81

Berlin (AP) – A lifelong head of the International Monetary Fund, Horst Kohaler, who suddenly resigned in a flap on the comments about the country’s army, became a popular German President before the country. He was 81 years old.

The office of the current German President Frank-Walter Steinmear said in a statement, “Kohaler, who was the head of the state from 2004 to 2010, died in Berlin on Saturday morning after a minor illness.

Kohlar was mostly known for Germans and a stranger, before he won the President. His nomination was largely congratulated by the headline “Horst Hu” by the periphery Dainik Build.

However, he once created a high popularity rating in the job, something that he achieved himself as an outsider for the country’s political elite.

He sometimes refused to sign the bill in the law due to constitutional concerns and not always made himself popular with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government, which he was for the post of President – a large -scale formal job but often Is seen as a source of moral rights.

Kohaler was elected before Merkel came to power, at a time when Germany was struggling to come up with the labor market reforms and cuts in the welfare state. He said that the Germans should not rest on the previous achievements, and said that he was “deeply convinced that Germany has strength to change.”

In July 2005, Kohaler agreed to dissolve the Parliament and to struggle to the then Chancellor Gerhard Shrodeer in an unusual initial election. He announced that Germany faced “huge challenges” and “our future and our children’s future is at stake.”

Merkel won power, but after talking about intense reforms, almost a big pole lead, closed voters. Kohaler also spoke less about economic change in later years and strongly criticized the financial markets during banking and economic crisis – he was described as a “demon” that was not yet nominated.

Between the criticism that he saw very little to say after winning the second term, Kohlar dramatically resigned in a sudden fashion. He cited criticism on a radio interview, which he gave after a visit to German soldiers in Afghanistan.

In that broadcast, he said that for a country with German dependence on exports, military deployment “necessary … to protect our interests, for example can be free trade routes”.

It was taken by several people related to the Aoplasmic Mission of Germany in Afghanistan, although his office later stated that he was referring to anti-parsi patrol on the banks of Somalia.

Many were surprised whether sometimes the real reason for the resignation of a thin-chasi Kahller was anticipated that he was just fed up with a lack of support from Merkel-for which his resignation was an embarrassment.

In Foreign Policy, Kohler won praise for trying to pay attention to the needs of Africa. He became the second German President to address the Parliament of Israel, told Cassett: “I bow my head in shame and humility to Holocaust’s victims”.

Kohaler also focused on relations with East neighboring Poland, making it the first foreign destination of both his two conditions and said that he would like to become an important partner for Germany as the country as France.

Kohalar, son of Romania’s ethnic German farmers, was born on 22 February 1943, in Skierbizo, in Poland with Nazi-Kabje. His family fled to Germany after the war – the first Communist in Leapzig became East Germany, then in 1954 in West Germany.

Before getting up to the presidency, Kohler had a long record as an officer behind a skilled.

In the early 1980s, he worked for more than a decade in the Finance Ministry under Chancellor Helmut Kohal, who once called him a “treasure” and trusted him in economic diplomacy.

He helped draft a legal framework for Europe’s single currency, Euro, and played a role in interacting on the German reunion in 1990.

He later served as the chairman of the European bank for reconstruction and development.

In 2000, Kohler emerged as a backup option of the shodder for the IMF leadership. He won American support after Berlin’s first candidate, Deputy Finance Minister Cio Coach-Vecer, was rejected as very light by the United States.

American Treasury Secretary John Snow later praised Kohlar’s tenure, saying “he changed the institution in terms of his transparency … and worked to develop better crisis prevention equipment and more effective crisis management.”

Merkel, then the opposition leader of Germany, brought him back to Germany as his amazing alternative to the presidency after four years, obtained his election by a parliamentary meeting.

In a letter of condolences to Eva Lewis, the wife of Kohaler, President Steinmier wrote on Saturday that “Many people of our country will mourn you.” We have lost a highly respected and highly popular person for Horst Kohlar, who has achieved great things for our country and the world. ,

“This was all his attitude, his infectious laughter and his optimism, his faith in the strength of our country and the energy and creativity of its people who won so many hearts. But this was also often clear and in any way always comfortable adorable and speeches that won speeches, ”Steinmear wrote.

Kohaler is alive by his wife, daughter Ulrik and son Jochen.