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The president of Germany, officially titled the Federal President of the Federal Republic of Germany (German: Bundespräsident der Bundesrepublik Deutschland ), [ 2] is the head of state of Germany . The current officeholder is Frank-Walter Steinmeier who was elected on 12 February 2017 and re-elected on 13 February 2022.
The Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany of May 1949 created the office of Federal President of the Federal Republic of Germany (German: Bundespräsident der Bundesrepublik Deutschland). Since German reunification in 1990, the President has been the head of state for all of Germany.
Frank-Walter Steinmeier ( German: [ˈfʁaŋkˌvaltɐ ˈʃtaɪnˌmaɪ.ɐ] ⓘ; born 5 January 1956) [ 1] is a German politician who became president of Germany on 19 March 2017. [ 2] He was previously federal minister for foreign affairs from 2005 to 2009 and again from 2013 to 2017, as well as vice chancellor of Germany from 2007 to 2009.
The German head of state is the federal president. As in Germany's parliamentary system of government, the federal chancellor runs the government and day-to-day politics, while the role of the federal president is mostly ceremonial. The federal president, by their actions and public appearances, represents the state itself, its existence, its ...
Chancellor Adolf Hitler assumed the duties of head of state as Führer and Chancellor from 1934 until his suicide in April 1945. In 1949, Germany was divided into two states. The Federal President, head of state of West Germany, became head of state for all of Germany following German reunification in 1990.
The Federal Cabinet (German: Bundeskabinett pronounced [ˈbʊndəskabiˌnɛt] ⓘ ), or according to the German Basic Law, the Federal Government (German: Bundesregierung ), is the chief executive body of the Federal Republic of Germany. It consists of the Federal Chancellor and cabinet ministers.
The chancellor of Germany, officially the federal chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, [ a] is the head of the federal government of Germany, and the commander-in-chief of the German Armed Forces during wartime. [ b] The chancellor is the chief executive of the Federal Cabinet and heads the executive branch.
2014. Woidke III. Bremen. President of the Senate and Mayor. Andreas Bovenschulte. ( 1965-08-11) 11 August 1965 (age 59) SPD. 15 August 2019.