List of foreign trips by Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier
The list of Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier's trips abroad contains all of the official trips abroad published by the Office of the Federal President that it has carried out since taking office on March 19, 2017:
2017
date | place | Main reason |
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March 30 | Paris ( France ) | Meeting with the French President François Hollande |
4. April | Strasbourg ( France ) | Meeting with the President of the European Parliament Antonio Tajani and the President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker |
April 7th and 8th | Athens ( Greece ) | Talks with President Pavlopoulos and Prime Minister Tsipras |
May 3rd and 4th | Rome ( Italy ) | Meeting with President Sergio Mattarella and Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni |
May 6th to 9th | Jerusalem , Tel Aviv and Herzliya ( Israel ) & Ramallah ( Palestine ) | Meeting with the Israeli President Reuven Rivlin and the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as well as with the President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas |
May 19th | Warsaw ( Poland ) | Meeting with President Andrzej Duda and Prime Minister Beata Szydło |
3rd of June | Brdo pri Kranju ( Slovenia ) | Participation in the meeting of the heads of state of Southeast Europe ; bilateral meetings with the Slovenian President Borut Pahor , the Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović , the Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić and the Kosovar President Hashim Thaçi |
June 15th and 16th | Brussels ( Belgium ) | Meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg , the President of the European Council Donald Tusk and the Belgian King Philippe and Queen Mathilde |
July 1 | Strasbourg ( France ) | Participation in a European funeral ceremony for the late former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl |
July 11th and 12th | Astana ( Kazakhstan ) | Meeting with President Nursultan Nazarbayev and visiting Expo 2017 |
July 13th | Mazar-e Sharif and Kabul ( Afghanistan ) | Visit of German troops in Afghanistan as well as meeting with the Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and the Prime Minister Abdullah Abdullah |
July 14th and 15th | Vienna ( Austria ) | Meeting with Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen , Federal Chancellor Christian Kern and the former Federal President Heinz Fischer |
August 22nd and 23rd | Tallinn ( Estonia ) | Meeting with President Kersti Kaljulaid and Prime Minister Jüri Ratas |
August 23rd and 24th | Riga ( Latvia ) | Meeting with President Raimonds Vējonis and Prime Minister Māris Kučinskis |
August 24th and 25th | Vilnius and Rukla ( Lithuania ) | Meeting with President Dalia Grybauskaitė and Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis and visit of the NATO Enhanced Forward Presence command in Rukla |
12th September | Prague ( Czech Republic ) | Meeting with President Miloš Zeman |
September 14th and 15th | Valletta and Siġġiewi ( Malta ) | Participation in the meeting of the Arraiolos group of non-executive heads of state of the European Union |
September 27th | Luxembourg ( Luxembourg ) | Participation in the meeting of German-speaking heads of state |
October 8th and 9th | Rome ( Italy ) and Vatican City | Audience with Pope Francis , meeting with State Secretary Pietro Parolin and a visit to the Community of Sant'Egidio |
October 25th and 26th | Moscow ( Russia ) | Meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin and former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev as well as a visit to the Memorial Human Rights Center |
November 2nd and 3rd | Singapore ( Singapore ) |
state visit
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November 3rd to 5th | Perth and Sydney ( Australia ) |
state visit
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November 5th to 7th | Wellington and Auckland ( New Zealand ) |
state visit
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November 10th | Paris , Soultz-Haut-Rhin and Wattwiller ( France ) | Meeting with President Emmanuel Macron and visiting the memorial on the Hartmannswillerkopf |
November 17th | Bratislava and Žilina ( Slovakia ) | Meeting with President Andrej Kiska , Prime Minister Robert Fico and Parliament President Andrej Danko |
November 28th | London ( United Kingdom ) | Lunch with Queen Elizabeth II and Prince William, Duke of Cambridge , tour of Westminster Abbey |
December 11th to 13th | Accra ( Ghana ) | State visit; Meeting with President Nana Akufo-Addo , visiting the University of Ghana |
December 13th and 14th | Banjul ( Gambia ) | State visit; Meeting with President Adama Barrow |
2018
date | place | Main reason |
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January 27-29 | Amman and al-Azraq ( Jordan ) | Meeting with the Jordanian King Abdullah II , visiting a refugee camp in al-Azraq and visiting the Muwaffaq Salti Air Base |
January 29th to 31st | Beirut ( Lebanon ) | Meeting with Lebanese President Michel Aoun , Prime Minister Saad Hariri and other Jordanian officials. |
February 6th and 7th | Tokyo ( Japan ) | Meeting with Prime Minister Shinzō Abe and Emperor Akihito |
February 7-11 | Seoul , Pyeongchang and Gangneung ( South Korea ) |
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February 16 | Vilnius ( Lithuania ) | Participation in the celebrations of the 100th anniversary of the restoration of the Lithuanian state |
March 1st and 2nd | Lisbon and Porto ( Portugal ) |
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March 21-26 | Varanasi , New Delhi , Chennai and Mamallapuram ( India ) |
state visit
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April 25th and 26th | Kehrsatz , Bern , Friborg and Kilchberg ZH ( Switzerland ) |
state visit
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May 15th and 16th | Amsterdam and Delft ( Netherlands ) |
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May 29th and 30th | Kiev and Lviv ( Ukraine ) |
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June 5th and 6th | Warsaw ( Poland ) |
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June 17th to 21st | Los Angeles , Stanford and San Francisco ( United States ) |
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June 29th | Minsk ( Belarus ) |
Participation in the opening of the memorial for the victims of the former Maly Trostinez extermination camp and meeting with President Aljaksandr Lukashenka |
September 5th and 6th | Sils Maria and Riom-Parsonz ( Switzerland ) |
Participation in the meeting of the German-speaking heads of state from Belgium ( King Philippe ), Germany, Liechtenstein ( Hereditary Prince Alois of Liechtenstein ), Luxembourg ( Grand Duke Henri ), Austria ( Alexander Van der Bellen ) and Switzerland ( Alain Berset ) |
September 13th and 14th | Riga and Rundāle ( Latvia ) |
Participation in the meeting of the Arraiolos group of non-executive heads of state of the European Union |
September 17th to 19th | Helsinki and Oulu ( Finland ) |
state visit
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9th October | Vienna ( Austria ) |
Conversation with the Austrian Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen and the Slovak President Andrej Kiska |
October 10th to 12th | Athens , Chaidari and Kalamata ( Greece ) |
state visit
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October 24th and 25th | Madrid , Badajoz and Mérida ( Spain ) |
Official visit
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November 4th | Strasbourg ( France ) |
Participation in a commemorative concert for the end of the First World War 100 years ago in Strasbourg Cathedral and meeting with President Emmanuel Macron |
November 11th | London ( United Kingdom ) |
Attended a memorial ceremony marking the end of World War I 100 years ago at the National Monument and a memorial service at Westminster Abbey |
November 18-21 | Cape Town and Johannesburg ( South Africa ) |
state visit
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November 21 and 22 | Gaborone ( Botswana ) |
state visit
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December 4th to 10th | Guangzhou , Zhongshan , Chengdu , Dujiangyan and Beijing ( People's Republic of China ) |
state visit
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2019
date | place | Main reason |
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January 23 | Schaan ( Liechtenstein ) | Participation in the ceremony " 300 Years of the Principality of Liechtenstein " |
January 27th to 30th | Addis Ababa and Lalibela ( Ethiopia ) |
state visit
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February 11-13 | Cartagena , Isla Grande and Bogotá ( Colombia ) |
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February 13-16 | Quito , Baltra and Guayaquil ( Ecuador ) |
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March 20-22 | Zagreb and Split ( Croatia ) |
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April 4th to 5th | Sofia and Plovdiv ( Bulgaria ) |
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May 9-10 | Ljubljana and Kobarid ( Slovenia ) |
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May 27-29 | Tashkent , Urganch and Xiva ( Uzbekistan ) |
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3rd to 4th June | Linz ( Austria ) | Participation in the meeting of German-speaking heads of state |
June 5th | Ljubljana ( Slovenia ) | Participation in the summit of the Three Seas Initiative |
June 12-14 | Reykjavík and the Vestmannaeyjar ( Iceland ) | state visit
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June 15-16 | Kultaranta ( Finland ) |
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August 25 | Fivizzano ( Italy ) |
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August 31st and September 1st | Łódź , Wieluń and Warsaw ( Poland ) |
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September 19th and 20th | Rome and Naples ( Italy ) |
state visit
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30. September | Paris ( France ) |
Participation in the funeral service for the former French President Jacques Chirac |
October 6th to 8th | Tbilisi and Telavi ( Georgia ) |
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October 10th to 12th | Athens ( Greece ) |
Participation in the meeting of the Arraiolos group of non-executive heads of state of the European Union |
October 20-23 | Tokyo ( Japan ) |
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October 30th to November 1st | Boston ( United States ) |
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December 16 | Bastogne ( Belgium ) |
2020
date | place | Main reason |
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January 22nd and 23rd | Tel Aviv and Jerusalem ( Israel ) |
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January 27th | Oświęcim ( Poland ) |
Visit to Auschwitz concentration camp
Visit to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp
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February 23-26 | Nairobi and Kakuma ( Kenya ) |
state visit
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February 27th and 28th | Khartoum ( Sudan ) |
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Florian Gathmann: Steinmeier speaks to the French in conscience. In: Spiegel Online. March 30, 2017. Retrieved September 21, 2018 .
- ^ Federal President Steinmeier travels to Athens. In: bundespraesident.de. Office of the Federal President, March 29, 2017, accessed on September 21, 2018 .
- ^ Federal President Steinmeier travels to Israel and the Palestinian Territories. In: bundespraesident.de. Office of the Federal President, April 19, 2017, accessed on September 21, 2018 .
- ^ Berthold Kohler: Blood Brothers. In: FAZ. November 10, 2017. Retrieved September 21, 2018 .
- ^ Official visit to Ukraine. In: bundespraesident.de. Office of the Federal President, accessed on September 21, 2018 .
- ^ Trip to Poland. In: bundespraesident.de. Office of the Federal President, accessed on September 21, 2018 .
- ^ Trip to Los Angeles and San Francisco. In: bundespraesident.de. Office of the Federal President, accessed on September 21, 2018 .
- ↑ The sixth meeting of the heads of state of the German-speaking countries will take place this year on September 5th and 6th in Switzerland. In: admin.ch. The Federal Council, August 10, 2018, accessed on September 21, 2018 .
- ^ Meeting of the German-speaking heads of state. In: bundespraesident.de. Office of the Federal President, September 5, 2018, accessed on September 21, 2018 .
- ^ Arraiolos meeting in Latvia. In: bundespraesident.de. Office of the Federal President, September 13, 2018, accessed on September 21, 2018 .
- ^ Trip to Finland. In: bundespraesident.de. Office of the Federal President, September 13, 2018, accessed on September 21, 2018 .
- ↑ Stefan Braun: Finland has what Germany needs. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. 2018, accessed September 21, 2018 .
- ^ Visit to the Republic of Austria. In: bundespraesident.de. Office of the Federal President, accessed on October 7, 2018 .
- ^ State visit to the Hellenic Republic. In: bundespraesident.de. Office of the Federal President, October 10, 2018, accessed on October 7, 2018 .
- ↑ Steinmeier's speech at the award ceremony (full text)
- ↑ derwesten.de October 11, 2018: Steinmeier commemorates Nazi victims on a state visit to Athens
- ^ Official visit to the Kingdom of Spain. In: bundespraesident.de. Office of the Federal President, accessed on October 22, 2018 .
- ^ Trip to Strasbourg: Memorial concert at the end of the First World War 100 years ago. In: bundespraesident.de. Office of the Federal President, accessed on October 27, 2018 .
- ^ Commemorative events on the occasion of 100 years at the end of the First World War. In: bundespraesident.de. Office of the Federal President, accessed on November 2, 2018 .
- ↑ telegraph.co.uk: Prince Charles leads nation's tributes to war dead at the Cenotaph as the world marks First World War centenary
- ^ State visit to the Republic of South Africa. In: bundespraesident.de. Office of the Federal President, accessed on November 17, 2018 .
- ^ State visit to the Republic of Botswana. In: bundespraesident.de. Office of the Federal President, accessed on November 17, 2018 .
- ^ State visit to the People's Republic of China. In: bundespraesident.de. Office of the Federal President, accessed on November 29, 2018 .
- ^ State visit to the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. In: bundespraesident.de. Office of the Federal President, accessed on February 3, 2019 .
- ^ Trip to the Republic of Colombia. In: bundespraesident.de. Office of the Federal President, accessed on February 12, 2019 .
- ^ Trip to the Republic of Ecuador. In: bundespraesident.de. Office of the Federal President, accessed on February 17, 2019 .
- ^ Official visit to Croatia. In: bundespraesident.de. Office of the Federal President, March 20, 2019, accessed on March 26, 2019 .
- ^ Trip to Bulgaria. In: bundespraesident.de. Office of the Federal President, accessed on April 18, 2019 .
- ^ Trip to Slovenia. In: bundespraesident.de. Office of the Federal President, accessed on May 22, 2019 .
- ^ Trip to Uzbekistan. In: bundespraesident.de. Office of the Federal President, accessed on June 5, 2019 .
- ^ German-speaking heads of state in Linz. In: bundespraesident.de. Office of the Federal President, accessed on June 5, 2019 .
- ^ Participation in the dinner of the summit meeting of the Three Seas Initiative. In: bundespraesident.de. Office of the Federal President, accessed on June 5, 2019 .
- ^ State visit to Iceland. In: bundespraesident.de. Office of the Federal President, accessed on June 14, 2019 .
- ^ Trip to Finland. In: bundespraesident.de. Office of the Federal President, accessed on June 17, 2019 .
- ↑ Journey to the Italian Republic in memory of the victims of the Fivizzano massacre. In: bundespraesident.de. Office of the Federal President, accessed on August 27, 2019 .
- ^ Journey to the Republic of Poland. In: bundespraesident.de. Office of the Federal President, accessed on September 3, 2019 .
- ^ State visit to the Italian Republic. In: bundespraesident.de. Office of the Federal President, accessed on October 4, 2019 .
- ↑ Participation in the funeral service for Jacques Chirac. In: bundespraesident.de. Office of the Federal President, accessed on September 3, 2019 .
- ^ Official visit to Georgia. In: bundespraesident.de. Office of the Federal President, accessed on October 16, 2019 .
- ^ Arraiolos meeting in Greece. In: bundespraesident.de. Office of the Federal President, October 10, 2019, accessed on October 16, 2019 .
- ↑ Journey to Japan to see the emperor ascend to the throne. In: bundespraesident.de. Office of the Federal President, accessed on November 19, 2019 .
- ^ Journey to the United States of America. In: bundespraesident.de. Office of the Federal President, accessed on November 19, 2019 .
- ↑ Address at the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the start of the Battle of the Bulge. In: bundespraesident.de. Office of the Federal President, accessed on December 20, 2019 .
- ↑ Journey to Israel. In: bundespraesident.de. Office of the Federal President, accessed on January 26, 2020 .
- ^ Commemorative event in Auschwitz. In: bundespraesident.de. Office of the Federal President, accessed on January 30, 2020 .
- ^ State visit to the Republic of Kenya. In: bundespraesident.de. Office of the Federal President, accessed on March 5, 2020 .
- ^ Journey to the Republic of Sudan. In: bundespraesident.de. Office of the Federal President, accessed on February 6, 2020 .