President of Germany them to the President of the Bundesrat. If the president dies, resigns or is otherwise removed from office, a successor is to be elected within thirty days. Horst Köhler, upon his resignation on May 31, 2010, became the first president to trigger this re-election process. Jens Böhrnsen, President of the Senate and Mayor of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen and at the time President of the Bundesrat, assumed the powers and duties of head of state. Similarly, when Christian Wulff resigned in 2012, it was Horst Seehofer, Minister-President of Bavaria, as President of the Bundesrat, who assumed the powers
SIAI S.51 course required 13 laps, a total distance of , over which the S.51 averaged . On 28 December 1922 the S.51, flown again by Passaleva, set a world speed record for seaplanes of . SIAI S.51 The SIAI S.51, Savoia Marchetti S.51 or Savoia S.51 was an Italian racing flying boat built by SIAI for the 1922 Schneider Trophy race. The S.51 was a single-seat sesquiplane flying boat. Its 224-kilowatt (300-horsepower) Hispano-Suiza 8A V8 engine, mounted on two N struts above the hull and below the upper wing, drove a two-bladed propeller in a pusher configuration. The inclined interplane struts