Horst Caller, President of Germany, died in Berlin on Saturday after becoming a financial engineer behind the creation a few decades after the German unification and the Euro currency. He was 81 years old.
The German Presidential Office stated on behalf of Kaler's family, saying he died after a short illness.
Despite being a manager of the International Currency Fund, Kaler was rarely known in Germany before becoming a state president in 2004.
Kaler claims to turn Germany into a “land of ideas”, which will form his own future and function as a power for good at a global stage. He sought a more bold domestic economic reform and a more confident international position. In an acceptable speech in May 2004, he said, “Germany must fight for the 21st century.”
However, his bold statement questioned whether or not the unequal standard of living between the former East Germany and West Germany could be equal, broke the taboo in Germany's political establishment and sacrificed.
In 2010, one year after his second phase, Kaler suddenly resigned in a barrage of criticism of German soldiers serving in Afghanistan and Peace Maintenance Mission. His comments were conducted while visiting Afghanistan, which was deployed to protect Germany's economic interests, and attracted anger from political enemies calling for the withdrawal of his own army from Afghanistan. I did it.
It was the first German president to quit the post in 40 years. His successor, Christian Wolf, resigned about inappropriate relationships with businessmen after in office for less than two years.
The exit of Kaler from the political stage was a political blow to his allies and best friends, Merkel. The re -election of Her Cale, a member of the Christian Democratic Union Party, was considered a party's solidarity show, facing her own re -election a year ago in a broken political space.
HORSTKöhler was born on Skierbieszow, Polish on February 22, 1943. According to his official biography, he was the seventh of eight children. During World War II, his family fled from the Soviet army and settled in a town near Leipzig, Germany. Nine years later, they escaped again after the anti -Soviet rebellion, 1953 East Germany uprising. After living in some refugee camps, they settled in Ludwigsberg in West Germany.
After the school and military service, Kaler studied economics at the University of Tubingen and graduated in 1969. He continued to get a Ph.D. In 1977, he began working as a civil servant in the Ministry of Economics in Bonn, a year ago in a university economics. This was the capital of West Germany at the time.
Just as Germany worked on unification in the early 1990s, Kaler served as a senior in the Ministry of Finance in the country. Meanwhile, he was one of the major negotiators of the 1992 Mastrichit Treaty and created the euro.
From 1993 to 1998, he led the German Saving Bank Association, a subsidiary of German bank networks. Later, he led the European Bank for rebuilding and development, helping Germany and other countries to shift to the public market at the end of the Cold War. He also served as an advisor to Helmut Call.
Since May 2000, Köhler has been working as a manager of the International currency fund for four years and approved globalization views that more developing countries.
Nevertheless, he remained relatively unknown to the German people, and in 2004 he became a German president, despite having no career as a political party politician.
After the presidential position, he focused on humanitarian jobs through the foundation with his wife Eva Louise Caller, focusing on Africa's development and climate change.
Kaler survived by his wife. Their daughter, Ulurique. Son, Jochen. And four grandchildren.
