What is Horst Köhler?
{{Foreignchar|ö|Horst Koehler}} {{Infobox Officeholder |name = Horst Köhler |image = Horst Köhler.jpg |caption = Köhler in 2004 |order = [[President of Germany]] |chancellor = [[Gerhard Schröder]]<br>[[Angela Merkel]] |term_start = 1 July 2004 |term_end = 31 May 2010 |predecessor = [[Johannes Rau]] |successor = [[Christian Wulff]] |office2 = Chairman and Managing Director of the [[International Monetary Fund]] |term_start2 = 1 May 2000 |term_end2 = 4 March 2004 |predecessor2 = [[Michel Camdessus]] |successor2 = [[Rodrigo Rato]] |birth_date = {{birth date|1943|2|22|df=y}} |birth_place = [[Skierbieszów|Heidenstein]], [[General Government]]<small> (now Skierbieszów, [[Poland]])</small> |death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|2025|2|1|1943|2|22}} |death_place = [[Berlin]], [[Germany]] |party = [[Christian Democratic Union (Germany)|Christian Democratic Union]] |spouse = [[Eva Köhler|Eva Bohnet]] |profession = [[Economist]] |alma_mater = [[University of Tübingen]] |religion = |signature = Horst Köhler Signature.svg }} '''Horst Köhler''' (22 February 1943 &ndash; 1 February 2025) was a [[Germany|German]] [[politician]] of the [[Christian Democratic Union (Germany)|Christian Democratic Union]]. He was [[President of Germany]] from 2004 to 2010. He was the candidate of the two Christian Democratic sister parties, the [[Christian Democratic Union (Germany)|CDU]] and the [[Christian Social Union of Bavaria|CSU]], and the liberal [[Free Democratic Party (Germany)|FDP]], for becoming president. Köhler was [[German presidential election, 2004|elected]] to his first five-year term by the [[Bundesversammlung (Germany)|Federal Assembly]] on 23 May 2004. He was [[German presidential election, 2009|reelected]] to a second term on 23 May 2009. About one year later, on 31 May 2010, he resigned from his office in a [[controversy]] over his comment on the role of the [[Bundeswehr]] in light of a visit to the troops in [[Afghanistan]]. Köhler is an [[econ