Horst Kohler of the IMF
WAP2000032311 - 23 MARCH 2000 - WASHINGTON. DC, USA: The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) today agreed unanimously to select Horst Kohler as Managing Director and Chairman. Mr. Kohler will succeed Michel Camdessus, who resigned on February 14, 2000. Mr. Kohler, 57, a national of Germany, is currently President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, a post to which he was appointed in September 1998. Mr. Kohler earned a doctorate in economics and political sciences from the University of TŸbingen, where he was a scientific research assistant at the Institute for Applied Economic Research from1969 to1976. After completing his education, he held various positions in Germany's Ministries of Economics and Finance between 1976 and 1989. He is married to Eva Kohler and has two children. jr/cc/IMF UPI
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BERLIN, June 1 (UPI) -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel begged President Horst Kohler to remain in office instead of submitting his resignation, Der Spiegel reported Tuesday.
BERLIN, May 31 (UPI) -- German President Horst Kohler resigned from office Monday citing the critical firestorm he sparked with remarks about his nation's military deployments.
ESSEN, Germany, Jan. 9 (UPI) -- Essen, a city best known as the capital of Germany's industrial Ruhr Valley, is the European Capital of Culture for 2010.
BERLIN, May 23 (UPI) -- German President Horst Kohler was re-elected as the country's head of state by a razor-thin margin of one vote Saturday, officials said.
BERLIN, Oct. 17 (UPI) -- A German official says President Horst Kohler and Parliament members approved a bank bailout plan Friday worth more than $674 billion.
BERLIN, April 27 (UPI) -- The United States and Germany have signed a deal allowing the two nations to share data on suspected terrorists, officials said.
BERLIN, Nov. 12 (UPI) -- Protesters greeted the neo-Nazi Democratic Party's biennial convention in Berlin as a new report said anti-Semitism was on the rise in Germany.
MUNICH, Germany, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Jewish leaders in Germany have opened the newly built Munich synagogue on the 68th anniversary of the "Night of Broken Glass." The synagogue, which is part of a Jewish Center that also contains a museum and a kindergarten, opened Thursday, exactly 68 year
BERLIN, Oct. 24 (UPI) -- Germany's president exercised his first presidential veto Tuesday, quashing a law that would have partially privatized the nation's air traffic control.
DRESDEN, Germany, Sept. 14 (UPI) -- Three rabbis were ordained Thursday in Dresden, Germany, marking another break from the country's Nazi past.
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