Roman Herzog

President of Germany

5 April 1934 Landshut, Bavaria, Nazi Germany

10 January 2017(2017-01-10) (82) Jagsthausen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

1 July 1994 – 30 June 1999

Roman Herzog (German: ( listen ) ; 5 April 1934 – 10 January 2017) was a German politician, judge and legal scholar, who served as President of Germany from 1994 to 1999. A member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), he was the first president to be elected after the reunification of Germany. He previously served as a judge of the Federal Constitutional Court, and he was the President of the court 1987–1994. Before his appointment as a judge he was a professor of law. He received the 1997 Charlemagne Prize.