It is not a question of distributing the 35,000 job losses “fairly” between east and west Germany, but of preventing them.

Horst Koehler, former German president from 2004 to 2010 and a respected global policymaker with a particular interest in ...

Horst Köhler, a onetime head of the International Monetary Fund who became a popular German president before stunning the ...

The attack on sick pay on the pretext of “work-shyness” is cynical and dishonest. The same corporations and politicians ...

A trained economist and member of the Christian Democrats, Koehler rose to the position of deputy finance minister under ex-Chancellor Helmut Kohl, playing a key role in bringing the West German ...

Before becoming president, he was a key economic official in the 1980s and '90s when chancellor Helmut Kohl was in power. He played a central role in Germany's monetary unification in 1990 -- when ...

He held the ceremonial post of German president after a finance-focused career. Shortly into his second term, he became the ...

Starting in the early 1980s, he worked for more than a decade in the Finance Ministry under Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who once called him "a treasure" and relied on him in economic diplomacy.