page_title: Roman Herzog
section_title: Political career
hierarchical_section_title: Roman Herzog / Political career
caption_attribution_description: Roman Herzog CDU Aktive DemokratieAbbildung:PorträtfotoPlakatart:Kandidaten-/Personenplakat mit PorträtAuftraggeber:Verantw.: CDU Landesverband Rheinland-PfalzDrucker_Druckart_Druckort:Kunze KG, MainzObjekt-Signatur:10-010&#160;: 360Bestand:Landtagswahlplakate Rheinland-Pfalz (10-010)GliederungBestand10-18:Landtagswahlplakate Rheinland-Pfalz (10-010)&#160;» CDULizenz:KAS/ACDP 10-010&#160;: 360 CC-BY-SA 3.0 DE
context_page_description: Roman Herzog was a German politician, judge and legal scholar, who served as President of Germany from 1994 to 1999. A member of the Christian Democratic Union, he was the first president to be elected after the reunification of Germany. He previously served as a judge of the Federal Constitutional Court, and he was the President of the court 1987–1994. Before his appointment as a judge he was a professor of law. He received the 1997 Charlemagne Prize.
context_section_description: Herzog's political career began in 1973, as a representative of the state (Land) of Rhineland-Palatinate in the Federal government in Bonn. He served as State Minister for Culture and Sports in the Baden-Württemberg State Government led by Minister-President Lothar Späth from 1978. In 1980 he was elected to the Landtag of Baden-Württemberg and took over the State Ministry of the Interior. As the regional interior minister, he attracted attention when he imposed a levy on nonapproved demonstrations and his proposal for the police to be equipped with rubber-bullet guns.
  Herzog was long active in the Evangelical Church in Germany. Until 1980, he was head of the Chamber for Public Responsibility of this church, and, beginning in 1982, he was a member of the synod. In 1983 Herzog was elected a judge at the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany (Bundesverfassungsgericht) in Karlsruhe, replacing Ernst Benda. From 1987 until 1994, he also served as the president of the Court, this time replacing Wolfgang Zeidler. In September 1994, he was succeeded in that office by Jutta Limbach.
caption: Election poster for the state election of Rhineland-Palatinate with Roman Herzog, 1975
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