Roman Herzog, German lawyer and politician, 7th President of Germany (d. 2017)
Roman Herzog (German: [ˈʁoːman ˈhɛʁt͡soːk] (listen); 5 April 1934 – 10 January 2017) was a German politician, judge and legal scholar, who served as the president of Germany from 1994 to 1999. A member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), he was the first president to be elected after the reunification of Germany. He previously served as a judge of the Federal Constitutional Court, and he was the President of the court 1987–1994. Before his appointment as a judge he was a professor of law. He received the 1997 Charlemagne Prize.