Horst Kohlar was never a man to look for lelemlite. Nevertheless, in the 2010 spring, he made headlines in Germany for weeks. At that time he was the President of Germany, who was a large -scale head of the state. He had given an interview in which he commented on the role of Bundesvehar, the country’s armed forces.
Referring to Germany, the then 67 -year -old said, “A country of our size which is oriented towards foreign trade and therefore is very dependent on it, it should be known that in case of doubt, emergency, military intervention It may be necessary to maintain our interests, for example safe trade routes.
Resentment in Berlin political circles
This statement, it quickly became clear, what is the fault. Along with securing trade routes, party lines were criticized to justify controversial military deployment in Afghanistan. “Unclear,” “misunderstandings with a president,” “extreme position” and “extremely dangerous” had only some reactions in Berlin political circles.
This did not help Kohlar scold that he only said later that his statement was not in the context of Afghanistan’s operation, but for a Bundesvehar commitment against Piracy – and with a Bundesvehar white paper published by the government in 2006 The statement was published by the government in 2006. He was a policy of the official government over the years.
Kohaler, influenced by the scale of reaction, emptied his post. Neither Chancellor Angela Merkel nor his extremely high popular ratings among the population could prevent him from resigning.
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The public image of Horst Kohlar in Germany was given the correct shape by those misleading statements and his subsequent resignation. But his life work was very much involved.
In 1943, the seventh of the eight children, the German-Queen city of Polish, Skierbizzo, he grew up in Saxony and Baden-Chestembourg. He quickly made his career after studying economics in Tubingan and joining the Conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in the early 1980s.
As a high-level officer in the Finance Ministry, he was involved in a conversation around the reunion of Germany and the Mastrich Treaty of the European Union. In the year 2000, he became the managing director of the International Monetary Fund in Washington on the suggestion of the then German Chancellor Gerhard Shrodeer.
Despite holding the posts of great responsibility, Kohler was generally unknown to the general public. So much so that when he took over as German President in the summer of 2004, one of the country’s big tabloids “Horst Hu?” Was running?
The thesis managed to become one of the most popular politicians in Germany despite the difficult early conditions. In the referendum surveys conducted during their six years in the office, 70 percent of German men continued to be “very satisfied” with their President’s work.
What he goes, so by dealing with the global financial crisis, which at that time threatened to kill Germany with full force. As a former banker, Kohaler did not make his way around the issues and made no secret of his contempt for greed in the industry. In May 2008, he prepared the financial market as a “demon”, which “needed to place in his place.”
Kohaler not only condemned injustice in relation to financial juggles, but also saw Parish in relation to the continent in relation to the continent in relation to Africa due to the ignorance and dishonesty of the so -called “first world”.
Special interest in Africa
After his time as President, until his death, Kohlar remained active in most of the foreign affairs. His presidential successors regularly called him to represent Germany in international affairs above all in Africa.
His interest in a human globalization with the African continent, social projects, permanent business and reliable rules was not only philanthropist, but was based in political realism or “real policy”. An example has been seen in a speech in Hamburg in early 2018: “Giving perspective to the youth of Africa is one of the biggest challenges of the 21st century. Here a power grows, with which, for the batter or for the worse,”
In 2012, the then United Nations Secretary -General Ban Ki Moon appointed him to a committee working on global development goals. In 2017, Kohaler became the United Nations Special Envoy for Western Sahara. His job was to solve the struggle on the future of the disputed region occupied by Morocco. When Kohaler left the role for health reasons in May 2019, the two sides – Rabat Sarkar and Polisario Front – noted the move with regrets and thanked Kohlar’s effigies.
Kohaler rarely commented on the current domestic political issues after his resignation. In 2021, he showed that climate protection is an important issue for him when he had previously captured protection for the climate policy of nationwide citizens. A foundation established by Kohler and his wife promotes research in rare diseases.
Horst Kohlar, who lived in Berlin and Cheemgou in Bavaria, his wife Eva Louis, two children and many grandchildren.
This article was translated from German.
