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5 unusual facts about Richard von Weizsäcker


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.

Freusburg

On October 23, 1986, after a complete renovation, it was ceremonially reopened by German President Richard von Weizsäcker.

Martin Heisenberg

Martin Heisenberg is married to Apollonia, Countess of Eulenburg, a niece of philosopher and physicist Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker and the politician Richard von Weizsäcker.

Reichstag building

The official German reunification ceremony on 3 October 1990, was held at the Reichstag building, including Chancellor Helmut Kohl, President Richard von Weizsäcker, former Chancellor Willy Brandt and many others.

Richard von Weizsäcker

In 1947, when Ernst von Weizsäcker was a defendant in the Ministries Trial for his role in the deportation of Jews from occupied France, Richard von Weizsäcker served as his father's assistant defence counsel.


Deutsche Gesellschaft für auswärtige Politik

Prominent members are the former foreign minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, the former President of Germany Richard von Weizsäcker, as well as some other famous German politicians Volker Rühe, Günter Verheugen, Klaus von Dohnanyi, Eberhard Diepgen, Theodor Waigel, Michael Glos, Friedbert Pflüger, Rudolf Scharping, Dieter Schulte, Manfred Stolpe, Rita Süssmuth and Antje Vollmer.

Ludger Kühnhardt

He was speechwriter for Germany’s Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker (1987–1989) and a visiting professor at prestigious universities around the world, including the University of Cape Town (1991), College of Europe (1995), Dartmouth College (2000), Stanford University (2004), Seoul National University (2004–2005) and St Antony's College, Oxford (2005–2006).

Nikolaus Meyer-Landrut

He is the nephew of Andreas Meyer-Landrut, head of the Bundespräsidialamt under former German president Richard von Weizsäcker (1984–94), and first cousin once removed of singer Lena Meyer-Landrut.

Richard Fleischman

In 1988, with the Salzau String Quartet and pianist Justus Frantz at the Schleswig-Holstein Festival in Germany, he performed at the Villa Hammerschmidt in Bonn for an audience of the President of Germany, Richard von Weizsäcker and Sir Yehudi Menuhin.

Villas-Bôas brothers

They also received the GEO prize, delivered by the president of Germany, Richard von Weizsäcker, and the ex-Chancellor of West Germany Willy Brandt, in 1984, as a recognition for their humanitarian work.


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Marianne von Weizsäcker

Marianne and Richard von Weizsäcker married in 1953, and have four children, including Robert K. von Weizsäcker, Professor of Economics.