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Joachim Gauck is the current President of Germany (since 18 March 2012).

In 1990 he served as a member of the only freelyelected People's Chamber for the Alliance 90. A former Lutheran pastor, he came to prominence as an anti-communist civil rights activist in East Germany. FollowingGerman reunification, he was elected by the Bundestag as the firstFederalCommissioner for the Stasi Archives, serving from 1990 to 2000.

Education

Already in school in East Germany, he made no secret of his anti-communist position, and he steadfastly refused to join the communist youth movement, the Free German Youth. Gauck has lauded the SPD for distancing itself from Die Linke, stating that Kurt "Schumacher was an avowed opponent of any totalitarian rule

Interests

• Philosophers & Thinkers

  Martin Lither

Connections

Son:

Christian Gauck

Son:

Martin Gauck

Wife:

Daniela Schadt

Daugther:

Gesine Gauck

Daugther:

Katharina Gauck

Who is Joachim Gauck?

Joachim Gauck is the President of Germany, servingsinceMarch 2012.

Following German reunification, he was elected by the Bundestag as the first Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Archives, serving from 1990 to 2000.

Gauck supports the observation of Die Linke by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and the corresponding state authorities. As Federal Commissioner, he earnedrecognition as a "Stasi hunter" and "tireless pro-democracy advocate," exposing the crimes of the formercommunistsecret police.

He was nominated as the candidate of the SPD and the Greens for President of Germany in the 2010 election, but narrowly lost to Christian Wulff, the candidate of the government coalition.

Jörg Schönbohm, former Chairman of the CDU of Brandenburg, also supported Gauck.

During the Peaceful Revolution, he was a co-founder of the New Forum opposition movement in East Germany, which contributed to the downfall of the Soviet-backed dictatorship of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). He wanted to study German and become a journalist, but because he wasn't a communist, he wasn't allowed to do so

Career

Gauck is widely respected across the political spectrum[56] and is very popular also among CDU/CSU and FDP politicians due to his record as an upstanding, moral person during the communist dictatorship as well as his record as a "Stasi hunter" in the 1990s.His main contender, Christian Wulff, and politicians of all the government parties, stated that they greatly respected Gauck and his life and work.

A formerLutheran pastor, he came to prominence as an anti-communist civilrightsactivist in East Germany.

During the Peaceful Revolution, he was a co-founder of the New Forumoppositionmovement in East Germany, whichcontributed to the downfall of the Soviet-backed dictatorship of the SocialistUnityParty of Germany. In 1990 he served as a member of the only freely elected People's Chamber for the Alliance 90.

Achievements

• Theodor Heuss Medal

• Federal Cross of Merit

• Geschwister-Scholl Preis

• Das Glas der Vernunft

Works

• book

Politics

He has written on Soviet-era concentration camps such as the NKVD Special Camp No.

1, the crimes of communism, and political oppression in East Germany, and contributed to the German edition of The Black Book of Communism.In 2007, Joachim Gauck was invited to deliver the main speech during a commemoration ceremony at the Landtag of Saxony in memory of the Reunification of Germany and the fall of the communist government.

All parties participated, except The Left (the successor of the communist Socialist Unity Party (SED)), whose members walked out in protest against Gauck delivering the speech.