What is Richard von Weizsäcker?
{{Infobox President | name = Richard von Weizsäcker | nationality = German | image = Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1991-039-11, Richard v. Weizsäcker.jpg | caption=Weizsäcker in 1984 | order=10th [[President of Germany]]<br /><small>6th [[Federal Republic of Germany|President of the Federal Republic of Germany]]</small> | term_start = 1 July 1984 | term_end = 30 June 1994 | predecessor = [[Karl Carstens]] | successor = [[Roman Herzog]] | birth_date = {{birth date|1920|4|15|df=yes}} | birth_place = [[Stuttgart]], [[Weimar Republic|Germany]] | death_date = {{death date and age|2015|1|31|1920|4|15|df=yes}} | death_place = [[Berlin]], [[Germany]] | spouse = Marianne Freifrau von Weizsäcker | party = [[Christian Democratic Union of Germany|CDU]] }} '''Richard Karl [[Freiherr]] von Weizsäcker''' {{Audio|De-Richard_von_Weizsäcker.ogg|listen}} (15 April 1920 &ndash; 31 January 2015) was a [[Germany|German]] politician, and a member of the [[Christian Democratic Union of Germany|CDU]] party. He was [[President of Germany]] from 1984 to 1994. == Backgrounds == He was born in [[Stuttgart]], the son of the diplomat [[Ernst von Weizsäcker]] and brother of physicist and philosopher [[Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker]]. His grandfather Carl von Weizsäcker had been Minister President of Württemberg In [[World War II]] he served in the German Army. He was wounded in [[East Prussia]] in 1945 and was sent home to Stuttgart. Then he continued his study of history in [[University of Göttingen|Göttingen]] and eventually studied law. As a law student he was a member of his father's defence team at the [[Nuremberg Trials|Eleventh secondary Nuremburg Trial]] aka the [[Ministries Trial]]. He took his first judicial [[state exam]] in 1950, the second in 1953, and in 1955 was promoted ''doctor juris''. In 1953 he married Marianne von Kretschmann; they have four children. From 1967 to 1984 he was a member both of the [[Synod]] and the Council of the [[Evangelical Church in Germany]]. He leaded the German Evangelical Church Assembly from 1964 to