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Minister of Foreign Affairs Annalena Baerbock tests positive for COVID-19.
2022-06-7

Frank-Walter Steinmeier is re-elected as president of Germany.
2022-02-13

President Frank-Walter Steinmeier signs into law changes to the Infectious Diseases Protection Act that will give the federal government the power to impose "emergency brake" measures in areas where the infection rate exceeds certain levels. The signing comes after the Bundesrat gave its final approval for the controversial law.
2021-04-22

President Frank-Walter Steinmeier receives his first dose of the Oxford–AstraZeneca vaccine.
2021-04-1

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier asks Poland's forgiveness at a remembrance ceremony in Wieluń, Poland, attended together with Polish President Andrzej Duda. The heads of state commemorate Nazi Germany's bombing of Wieluń on the first day of World War II, the world's bloodiest conflict, 80 years ago.
2019-09-1

Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu cancels a visit with the foreign minister of Germany Sigmar Gabriel after the latter's refusal to cancel a meeting with the Israel Defense Forces veterans NGO Breaking the Silence saying the group "slanders IDF soldiers as war criminals
2017-04-25

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier apologizes that, for decades, German diplomats failed to act on abuses at Colonia Dignidad, the secretive German enclave in Chile whose story is told in the movie "Colonia".
2016-04-26

Asked to assess the chances of the ceasefire deal succeeding, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says 49 percent while German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier says 51 percent
2016-02-13

Germany and France's foreign ministers say they are in favour of new sanctions to target Iranian finance, trade and oil in around ten days, if talks about Iran's nuclear program do not "make any substantial progress."
2012-09-7

Christian Wulff, the President of Germany, resigns over a corruption scandal.
2012-02-17