The state funeral for former German President Horst Köhler was underway in Berlin on Tuesday, with current President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Chancellor Olaf Scholz, and former Chancellor Angela ...

The exercises commenced with the singing of a German funeral song by a choir of students. Prof. C. C. Everett then made remarks, an abstract of which we give: We gather to pay the last sad offices ...

Steinemeier also praised Köhler's dedicated engagement in Africa. Born in 1943 in German-occupied Poland, Köhler's parents were ethnic German and Romanian and moved around often when he was a ...