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4 unusual facts about Johannes Rau


Christina Rau

On 9 August 1982, she married Johannes Rau, 25 years her senior, who was at that time the Prime Minister of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Christina Rau, née Delius (born October 30, 1956 in Bielefeld) is the wife the late Johannes Rau, the President of Germany.

Petra Roth

Roth was briefly considered as a potential successor to Federal President Johannes Rau.

Rolf Clemens Wagner

In 2003 president Johannes Rau pardoned Wagner, who was then 59 and suffering from ill-health.


Detlev Karsten Rohwedder

On April 10, 1991, Rohwedder was honoured in Berlin with a day of mourning by German President Richard von Weizsäcker, Minister-President of North-Rhine Westphalia, Johannes Rau, and Chairman of the Board of Treuhandanstalt Jens Odewald.

Gustav Heinemann

Gustav and Hilda Heinemann had three daughters: Uta (later Uta Ranke-Heinemann), Christa (mother of Christina Rau, federal president Johannes Rau's wife), and Barbara, and a son: Peter.

Norman Paech

One event noted at the time, for which German president Johannes Rau laid a memorial wreath at the time, was the Massacre of Kalavryta.

Uta Ranke-Heinemann

In 1999, to protest against the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, she entered the German presidential election as a candidate of the left-wing PDS, running against her niece's husband, Johannes Rau, who was elected in the end.


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