Walter Scheel, German soldier and politician, 4th President of West Germany (died 2016)

Walter Scheel

President of Germany from 1974 to 1979

Walter Scheel was a German statesman. A member of the Nazi Party who joined the Free Democratic Party of Germany (FDP) in 1946, he first served in government as the Federal Minister of Economic Cooperation and Development from 1961 to 1966 and later as President of Germany from…

List of presidents of Germany

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