Solingen’s Walter Scheel, German president and foreign minister, dies at 97
Walter Scheel, who helped negotiate closer relations with the Soviet bloc as West Germany’s foreign minister in the early 1970s and who later served five years as his country’s president, a largely ceremonial position, died Aug. 24 in Bad Krozingen, Germany. He was 97. His death was announced by the office of German President Joachim Gauck. […]