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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

Former Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier is elected President of Germany.
2017-02-12

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

The Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe rules that Germany's participation in the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) is, conditionally, within the German Constitution's limits, allowing President Gauck to approve the Bundestag's previous agreement with the mechanism.
2012-09-12

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

German prosecutors ask the Bundestag to lift the immunity from prosecution of President Christian Wulff over corruption claims.
2012-02-16

Christian Wulff is nominated for President of Germany by Chancellor Angela Merkel.
2010-06-3

German President Horst Köhler resigns after being criticized for some remarks about German military deployments. Pundits and opposition politicians call it an "overreaction" on his part.
2010-05-31