Who is the president of germany?
Germany’s president is Horst Köhler. However, note that Germany is a parliamentary democracy, and not a presidential one. This means that real power resides with a chancellor (called a prime minister in most other parliamentary systems); the current chancellor is Angela Merkel. The chancellor is a member of the parliament (the national legislature) and leads the coalition of parties that form the parliamentary majority, and so is the chief legislator. They come to power by being the leader of the party that wins the majority (chosen by that party), or can form a coalition government with other parties, and are elected to the parliament like any other member of the legislature. However, the chancellor/prime minister also controls the executive branch, which enforces the laws passed by parliament and turns them into policy. It is the chancellor who supervises the cabinet ministers, who in turn oversee the bureaucracy. The chancellor, in turn, is responsible to the parliament, and can onl
