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
Minister president (Germany) eight Chancellors of Germany have been head of a state before becoming Chancellor: One out of nine Presidents of the Federal Constitutional Court has been head of a state before becoming President: Many more Ministers President went on to become members of the federal government, EU institutions or associate judges of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany for example. There have been seven female heads of a German state (one of them only acting): One person has managed to become minister president of two different states, which did not merge into one another: Two persons have been ministers president of