(1884 – 1963)
(first president of federal republic of germany)
(1949 – 1959)
(theodor heuss (31 january 1884 – 12 december 1963) was a liberal German politician who served as the first President of the Federal Republic of Germany (then West Germany) from 1949 to 1959.
(beside the stern chancellor Konrad Adenauer, Heuss’s cordial manners largely contributed to the stabilization of democracy in West Germany during the wirtschaftswunder years)