File photo of Former President of Germany Horst Koehler. [Photo/Agencies] BERLIN - Former German President Horst Koehler ...

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Former German President who was also a one-time head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Horst Köhler, is dead.

Germany’s former president Horst Koehler, who served as head of state from 2004 to 2010, died on Saturday aged 81 after a ...