Richard von Weizsäcker, German captain and politician, 6th President of Germany (born 1920)

Richard von Weizsäcker

President of Germany from 1984 to 1994

Richard Karl Freiherr von Weizsäcker was a German politician (CDU), who served as President of Germany from 1984 to 1994. Born into the aristocratic Weizsäcker family, who were part of the German nobility, he took his first public offices in the Protestant Church in Germany.

List of presidents of Germany

A number of presidential offices have existed in Germany since the collapse of the German Empire in 1918.