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Kurt-Georg Kiesinger, President of the Bundesrat (1962–1963), Chancellor of Germany (1966–1969) Karl Carstens , President of the Bundestag (1976–1979), President of Germany (1979–1984) Johannes Rau , President of the Bundesrat (1982–1983 and 1994–1995), President of Germany (1999–2004)
If the chancellor's term in office ends or if they resign, the Bundestag has to elect a new chancellor. The president of Germany may ask the former chancellor to act as chancellor until a new office holder is elected, but if they are unwilling or unable to do so, the president may also appoint the vice chancellor as acting chancellor.
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. He is currently serving ...
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 ...
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz faces a confidence vote on Monday he is expected to lose, ... Scholz himself called the vote, and if he loses, he will have to ask Germany’s president, Frank-Walter ...
German Chancellor Olaf Scholtz holds a news conference in Brussels, Belgium, on Feb. 18, 2022. ... German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has 21 days to decide whether to dissolve Parliament, a ...
If the Chancellor loses a simple confidence motion (without the election of a new Chancellor by the Bundestag), this does not force them out of office, but allows the Chancellor, if they wish to do so, to ask the President of Germany for the dissolution of the Bundestag, triggering a snap election within 60 days (this happened in 1972, 1983 ...
The Chancellor of Germany (Bundeskanzler) is the head of government in Germany. In German politics, the Bundeskanzler is equivalent to a prime minister and is elected by the Bundestag ("Federal Diet", the directly elected federal parliament) every four years on the beginning of the electoral period after general elections.