Richard von Weizsäcker

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Richard Karl Freiherr von Weizsäcker (German: [ˈʁɪçaʁt fɔn ˈvaɪtszɛkɐ] ; 15 April 1920 – 31 January 2015) was a German politician who served as President of Germany from 1984 to 1994. Born into the aristocratic Weizsäcker family, he took his first public offices in the Protestant Church in Germany. A member of the CDU from 1954, Weizsäcker was elected as a member of parliament at the 1969 elections. He continued to hold a mandate as a member of the Bundestag until he became Governing Mayor of West Berlin, following the 1981 state elections. In 1984, Weizsäcker was elected as President of the Federal Republic of Germany and was re-elected in 1989 for a second term. As yet, he and Theodor Heuss (1949–1959) are the only two Presidents of the Federal Republic of Germany who have served two complete five-year terms. On 3 October 1990, during his second term as president, the reorganised five states of the German Democratic Republic and East Berlin joined the Federal Republic of Germany, making...

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