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Biography

Roman Herzog was born in Landshut, Germany in 1934 to a Protestant family. Landshut is a city in Bavaria, Germany, the capital of the Niederbayern region. ...

He studied law in Munich and took his first juristic state exam in 1957. In 1958, he gained the title Dr.jur. and worked as an assistant at the University of Munich until 1964, where he also passed his second juristic state exam. For his paper Die Wesensmerkmale der Staatsorganisation in rechtlicher und entwicklungsgeschichtlicher Sicht ("Characteristics of State Organization from a Juristic and Developmental-Historical Viewpoint"), he was awarded the title of professor in 1964, a title of academic distinction in Germany and taught at the University of Munich until 1966. From 1966 he taught state law and political science as a full professor at the Free University of Berlin (FUB). In 1969 he accepted an administrative position at the FUB in Speyer, and was the University President from 1971 to 1972. While Law is a part of society, the academic study of law, both as a science, that is, jurisprudence, and by students preparing to be lawyers is taught in the United States at specialized postgraduate law schools. ... Munich: Frauenkirche and Town Hall steeple Munich: St. ... With approximately 48,000 students, the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (German: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München or LMU) is one of the largest universities in Germany. ... A professor giving a lecture The meaning of the word professor (Latin: one who claims publicly to be an expert) varies. ... Political science is the field of the social sciences concerning the theory and practice of politics and the description and analysis of political systems and political behavior. ... Satellite photo of Berlin. ... Speyer (English formerly Spires) is a city in Germany (Rhineland-Palatinate) with approx. ...

In 1973 his political career began as a representative of the state (Land) of Rheinland-Pfalz with the Federal government in Bonn. He was minister for culture and sports in the Baden-Württemberg State Government from 1978. In 1980 he was elected to the State Parliament (Landtag), and took over the state Ministry of the Interior. Rhineland-Palatinate (German Rheinland-Pfalz) is one of 16 Bundesländer of Germany. ... Bonn is the 19th largest city in Germany, located about 20 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia. ... Baden-Württemberg is a federal state in southwestern Germany to the east of the Upper Rhine. ...

Roman Herzog was also always active in the Protestant Church. Until 1980 he was head of the Chamber for public responsibility of the Protestant Church of Germany and since 1982 he has been a member of the synod of the Protestant Church of Germany. He has also been a member of the Evangelical Church in Germany since 1972. A synod (also known as a council) is a council of a church, usually a Christian church, convened to decide an issue of doctrine, administration or application. ... Evangelical Church in Germany is a wrong translation of (German Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland, abbreviated as EKD). ...

In 1983 he became vice president of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany in Karlsruhe, which he presided over from 1987 to 1994, when he was elected President of Germany by the Federal Assembly (Bundesversammlung). He retained this position until 1999, when he was succeeded by Johannes Rau. The Bundesverfassungsgericht The Federal Constitutional Court (in German: Bundesverfassungsgericht, BVerfG) is a special court established by the German constitutional document, the Grundgesetz (Basic Law). ... Karlsruhe (population 283,959 in 2005) is a city in the south west of Germany, in the Bundesland Baden-Württemberg, located near the French-German border. ... Johannes Rau (January 16, 1931 – January 27, 2006) was the President of Germany from July 1, 1999 until June 30, 2004. ...

His wife, Christiane Herzog, died on June 19, 2000. He later married Alexandra Freifrau von Berlichingen. June 19 is the 170th day of the year (171st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 195 days remaining. ... This article is about the year 2000. ...