Frank-Walter Steinmeier

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, center left, with his wife Elke Budenbender, left, and Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. with his wife Liza Araneta Marcos pose for pictures in Manila, Philippines Tuesday, June 16, 2026. (Ezra Acayan/Pool Photo via AP)

German president says Europe is worried over tensions in the disputed South China Sea

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier says Europe is worried over tensions in the disputed South China Sea that could endanger freedom of navigation as happened in the Strait of Hormuz.

A person takes a photo of the painting "Im Buero des Bundespraesidenten" (In the office of the Federal President), by Christopher Lehmpfuhl, during the press preview of an exhibition of contemporary art at the German President's residency, Bellevue Palace, in Berlin, Germany, Monday, June 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Pop-up art show takes over German president’s residence before yearslong renovation

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun, right, meets with his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier, at the presidential palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Feb. 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Germany will keep supporting Lebanon after UN peacekeepers leave, the German president says

Germany's President Frank-Walter Steinmeier speaks to the media on the grounds of the old Coventry Cathedral, in Coventry, England, Friday, Dec. 5, 2025, on the final day of the state visit to the UK. (Hannah McKay/Pool Photo via AP)

German president visits WWII bombing site as Europe seeks to bolster united front against Russia

On the stage from left, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Britain's King Charles III, Queen Camilla, wife of Steinmeier Elke Buedenbender, Prince William and Kate, Princess of Wales, attend a welcome ceremony on the Royal Dais at Datchet Road, in Windsor, England, Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2025. (Toby Melville/Pool Photo via AP)

Germany’s president gets a royal welcome at start of the first UK state visit in 27 years

Pop-up art show takes over German president’s residence before years-long renovation

A pop-up art show featuring contemporary works is set to open at the German president’s official residency this week before renovations begin. The exhibition, called Freiraum Kunst, will run for two weeks starting Friday and is organized by Berlin’s Academy of Arts. ( AP Video shot by Fanny Brodersen)

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Boualem Sansal speaks during the 62 edition of International Film Festival Berlinale, in Berlin Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

Author Boualem Sansal welcomed in France after release from Algerian prison

Boualem Sansal speaks during the 62 edition of International Film Festival Berlinale, in Berlin Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

Algeria pardons French-Algerian author Sansal after yearlong imprisonment

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, right, and his wife Elke Buedenbender, left, welcome Britain's King Charles III and Queen Camilla, in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, March 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File)

Germany’s president accepts invitation for state visit to UK in December

Margot Friedlander accepts the applause after being awarded with the Mevlude Genc Medal at the Bode Museum in Berlin, Tuesday June 4, 2024. (Bernd von Jutrczenka/dpa via AP, File)

German Holocaust survivor Margot Friedländer dies at age 103

French President Emmanuel Macron, right, lays a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown soldier during ceremonies marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe, Thursday May 8, 2025 in Paris. (Thomas Samson, Pool via AP)

World War II ended in Europe 80 years ago. Celebrating V-E Day is now tinged with some dread

Germany's President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, left, and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, right, participate in a wreath laying ceremony to mark the 70th anniversary of Germany's accession to NATO at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Monday, April 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

‘You can count on us.’ German president marks 70 years of NATO membership with pledge for future

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pauses during a interview with Bret Baier during a taping of FOX News Channel's Special Report with Bret Baier in Washington, Friday, Feb. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

The Latest: Most European leaders back Zelenskyy as he joins crisis talks in London

Markus Soeder, Prime Minister of Bavaria, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Dieter Reiter (SPD),Mayor of Munich, from right, bring flowers to the site where a car crashed into a Ver.di demonstration the day before, Munich, Germany, Friday, Feb. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

German prosecutors investigate possible Islamic extremist motive for Munich car-ramming attack

Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty, right, meets with Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa, in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Middle East latest: Palestinians say Trump’s proposal for Gaza violates international law

Horst Koehler, Personal Envoy of the Secretary General of the United Nations to the parties to the conflict in Western Sahara, arrives for a round table on Western Sahara at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, Dec. 05, 2018. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP, File)

Former German President Horst Köhler dies at 81

Survivor of White Rose group that resisted Nazis dies at 103

FILE - Britain's King Charles III and Camilla, Queen Consort, walkabout to meet members of the public following a ceremony at Micklegate Bar, in York, England, Wednesday Nov. 9, 2022. King Charles III will travel to France and Germany for his first state visits since becoming monarch, underscoring Britain’s efforts to build bridges with its European neighbors. Buckingham Palace announced Friday, March 3, 2023 that Charles and Camilla, the queen consort, will visit the European Union’s two biggest countries March 26-31, hosted by Presidents Emanuel Macron of France and Frank-Walter Steinmeier of Germany. (James Glossop/Pool Photo via AP, File)

King Charles III picks France, Germany for 1st state visits

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, left, speaks next to his Albanian counterpart Bajram Begaj during a join news conference and after their meeting in Tirana, Albania, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022. Steinmeier is on a two-day official visit to Albania. (AP Photo/Franc Zhurda)

German president hails Albania’s pro-European stand

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier speaks, during a joint news conference with North Macedonia's President Stevo Pendarovski at the presidential palace in Skopje, North Macedonia, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2022. Steinmeier is on a two-day official visit to North Macedonia. (AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski)

German president presses N Macedonia on EU-required reforms

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, left, is welcomed by Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at the Prime Minister's Office Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2022, in Tokyo. (Kyodo News via AP)

Germany stresses increasing defense role in Indo-Pacific

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, second left, and his wife Elke Buedenbender, left, welcome Spain's King Felipe, second right, and Queen Letizia, right, for a meeting at the Belevue Palace in Berlin, Germany, Monday, Oct. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

Spanish royals start delayed state visit to Germany

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, left, and Israeli President Isaac Herzog, right, attend a wreath laying ceremony to commemorate the victims of the attack by Palestinian militants on the 1972 Munich Olympics in Fuerstenfeldbruck near Munich, Germany, Monday, Sept. 5, 2002. The German and Israeli presidents are to join relatives of the 11 Israeli athletes killed in the attack by Palestinian militants on the commemoration event. (Sven Hoppe/dpa via AP)

German president apologizes for 1972 Olympic attack failures

A visitor walks during an exhibition of artist Agus Our Amal PMTOH from Indonesia during the press preview of the documenta 15, the world's most significant exhibition of contemporary art, in Kassel, Germany, Wednesday, June 15, 2022. This years documentary is curated by Indonesian artist collective Ruangrupa, every documenta is limited to 100 days of exhibition and takes place every 5 years. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Major German art show opens amid antisemitism controversy

The Chairman of the German Christian Democratic Party (CDU) Friedrich Merz, center right, hugs with Halyna Yanchenko, a member of the Servant of the People political party, in Irpin, Ukraine, Tuesday, May 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

German opposition leader visits Kyiv, Scholz refuses to go

FILE - German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier gestures at a news conference during his meeting with Polish President Andrzej Duda in Warsaw, Poland, Tuesday, April 12, 2022. The German government signaled irritation Wednesday, April 13, 2022 at a diplomatic snub by Ukraine for the German president, but otherwise sought to sidestep tensions that have flared at a delicate moment in German policymaking on the war. Steinmeier, the largely ceremonial head of state, hoped to travel to Ukraine with his Polish and Baltic counterparts but said Tuesday that his presence “apparently ... wasn't wanted in Kyiv.” (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)

Germany irritated by Ukraine’s snub of a presidential visit

The urn with ashes and a photo of Poland's award-winning composer and conductor Krzysztof Penderecki during his much-delayed burial service at St. Peter and Paul Church in Krakow, Poland, on Tuesday, March 29, 2022. Penderecki died in March 2020, at 86, but his state funeral was delayed by two years by the global COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo)

Poland holds composer Penderecki’s state funeral after delay

FILE - German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier addresses the media during a statement at Bellevue Palace in Berlin, Germany, Friday, Feb. 25, 2022. A speaker of the Presidential office announced today, that he German President and his wife Elke Buedenbender got infected with the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File)

German president and his wife test positive for COVID-19

FILE - Inge Deutschkron, contemporary witness and writer, takes part in the groundbreaking ceremony for Otto-Weidt-Platz in Europacity, Berlin, Germany, April 17, 2018. The Holocaust survivor has died at the age of 99. This was confirmed by the Schwarzkopf Foundation Young Europe on Wednesday, citing her personal environment. (Britta Pedersen/dpa via AP, File)

Holocaust survivor Inge Deutschkron dies at 99 in Berlin

Reelected German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier is congratulated by his wife Elke Buedenbender , left, during the German Federal Assembly which came together to elect the country's president in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, Feb. 13, 2022 (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, Pool)

Re-elected German president vows to fight for democracy

Conductor Simon Rattle holds the 'The Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany' after he received it by German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier during a reception at Bellevue palace in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

Conductor Simon Rattle receives Germany’s highest honor

Max Otte, chairman of the Values Union and CDU party member, takes part in an Alternative for Germany party (AfD) press conference at the beginning of the AfD parliamentary group meeting in the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2022. The far-right Alternative for Germany party is nominating the member of former Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union as its long-shot candidate to become the country’s next president, prompting calls within his own party for him to leave or be expelled. (Kay Nietfeld/dpa via AP)

German far-right names long-shot presidential candidate

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, center. attends a discussion about the pros and cons of mandatory vaccination to overcome the Covid 19 pandemic in Germany with guests, as well as digitally connected participants, at Bellevue Palace in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2022. (Bernd von Jutrczenka/dpa via AP)

German president calls for debate over COVID vaccine mandate

FILE - German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier poses after the recording of the traditional presidential Christmas message at Bellevue Palace in Berlin in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2021. Germany's environmentalist Greens have come out in favor of a second term for President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, leaving the head of state well-placed for another five years in office. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File)

Main German opposition party backs second term for president

FILE - German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier poses after the recording of the traditional presidential Christmas message at Bellevue Palace in Berlin in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2021. Germany's environmentalist Greens have come out in favor of a second term for President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, leaving the head of state well-placed for another five years in office. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File)

Germany’s Steinmeier on course for 2nd term as president

Floral tributes left at the memorial "Der Riss" commemorating the victims of the 2016 terrorist attack at Breitscheidplatz square in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, Dec. 19, 2021. Five years after a terrorist killed 13 people at a Berlin Christmas market, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said Sunday that Germany’s government had not lived up to its duty to protect its citizens that day. “We have to admit that the state has not been able to keep its promises of protection, security and freedom,” he said, adding that the years since the attack had shown that mistakes were made by German officials. (Hannibal Hanschke/Pool Photo via AP)

Germany acknowledges mistakes 5 years after Berlin attack

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