Roman Herzog
April 5, 1934 –January 10, 2017
Jurist, Politician, University teacher, Judge, Member of the Constitutional Court of Austria
Lived 82 years
- Born in
- Landshut
- Passed away in
- Bad Mergentheim
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.
Awards: Charlemagne Prize, German Leo Baeck Award, honorary citizen of Berlin, Order of Merit of Baden-Württemberg, Collar of the Order of Isabella the Catholic, European handicraft prize, Steiger Award, Order of the Three Stars, 1st Class, honorary doctor of Ben-Gurion University, Honorary doctor of the University of Oxford Education: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
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