Eva Köhler
Eva Luise Köhler ( born January 2, 1947 in Ludwigsburg as Eva Luise Bohnet ) is the wife of former German President Horst Köhler.
Biography and Family
In 1966, they put as Eva Bohnet in Ludwigsburg from the High School. She studied history, German and religion at the University of Education in Ludwigsburg. In 1969 she graduated from the first service exam for teachers at primary and secondary schools with a thesis on the origins of the trade union movement. On October 29, 1969 she married Horst Köhler, who also completed his studies this year and then worked as a research consultant in Tübingen. Eva Luise Köhler turn was until 1977 a teacher in special schools for children with learning disabilities and young people in Winnenden and Herrenberg. The second service exam, she passed in 1975. 1976 Horst Köhler was appointed to the Federal Ministry in Bonn. The family moved there, and Eva Luise Köhler was there from 1985 to 1989 and from 1994 to 1998 worked as a primary school teacher. 1998 saw a move to London. Two years later moved Eva Köhler with her husband to Washington, where Horst Köhler was appointed Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund.
The couple Köhler has a son and a daughter. They say the couple after a " symbiotic " relationship. In a star - portrait, the reporter wrote: "The whole president he is with her. "
Public duties
The first woman in the state of Eva Köhler took several patronages, including via the Müttergenesungswerk, through UNICEF Germany, and the German Children and Youth Foundation from its predecessor Christina Rau. In addition, she was active for the Christian Blind Mission and the Alliance for Rare Diseases ( AXIS), it has assumed ( retinitis pigmentosa) based on their own experience with the illness of her daughter. Eva Luise Köhler also served at official receptions as a hostess at Schloss Bellevue.
Political Activities
From 1972 to 1990 belonged to Eva Köhler of the SPD. It's made of enthusiasm for Willy Brandt's Ostpolitik member and engaged in the Tübingen local politics. In 1990, she left the party because you disliked the policy of Oskar Lafontaine.
Occasionally, Eva Köhler reports about the press on political issues to word, they (even Protestant) often calls for greater religiosity. So they advocated religious instruction for children in 2005. It was " tremendously important that children religious instruction or an appropriate counterpart have ". We need to teach the children, " that there is another force " and "we can not do everything yourself and go it alone ."
Awards
- 2005: Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland
- 2005: Grand Cross of the Order of Vytautas the Great
- 2006: Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
- 2007: Honorary Companion of the National Order of Merit (Malta )
- 2009: Grand Cross of the Order of Infante Dom Henrique
- 2010: Steiger Award
- 2012: Order of Merit of the State of Baden -Württemberg