is the wife of the former German

Germany

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 President

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 Horst Köhler

Horst Köhler

Horst Köhler is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union. He was President of Germany from 2004 to 2010. As the candidate of the two Christian Democratic sister parties, the CDU and the CSU, and the liberal FDP, Köhler was elected to his first five-year term by the Federal Assembly on...

 and First Lady of Germany

First Lady of Germany

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 from 2004 to 2010.

She completed her Abitur

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in Ludwigsburg

Ludwigsburg

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 in 1966, and studied History, Germanistics and Religion. She then became a teacher of German

German language

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. Eva Köhler was a member of the Social Democratic Party

Social Democratic Party of Germany

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 (SPD) from 1972 to 1990 (as she advocated Willy Brandt's

Willy Brandt

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 Ostpolitik

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) and participated in local politics. She left the SPD because she disliked the politics of Oskar Lafontaine

Oskar Lafontaine

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.

Eva and Horst Köhler have two children, Ulrike (born 1972) and Jochen (born 1977).