United States presidential visits to Germany

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There have been thirty-four U.S. presidential visits to Germany by twelve presidents, since the end of World War II in 1945.

Table of visits

President Dates Locations Notes
Harry S. Truman July 16-August 2, 1945 Potsdam Attended Potsdam Conference with British Prime Ministers Winston Churchill and Clement Attlee and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin.[1]
Dwight D. Eisenhower August 26-27, 1959 Bonn Informal meeting with Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and President Theodor Heuss.[2]
John F. Kennedy June 23-25, 1963 Bonn,
Cologne,
Frankfurt,
Wiesbaden		 Met with Chancellor Adenauer and other officials.[3]
June 26, 1963 West Berlin Delivered several public addresses.[3]
Lyndon B. Johnson April 23-26, 1967 Bonn Attended funeral of Chancellor Adenauer and conversed with various heads of state.[4]
Richard M. Nixon February 26-27, 1969 Bonn,
West Berlin		 Addressed the Bundestag.[5]
Gerald R. Ford July 26-28, 1975 Bonn,
Linz		 Met with President Walter Scheel and Chancellor Helmut Schmidt.[6]
Jimmy Carter July 14-15, 1978 Bonn,
Wiesbaden-Erbenheim,
Frankfurt		 State visit; met with President Scheel and Chancellor Schmidt. Addressed U.S. and German military personnel at Wiesbaden Army Airfield.[7]
July 15, 1978 West Berlin Spoke at the Berlin Airlift Monument.[7]
July 16-17, 1978 Bonn Attended 4th G7 summit.[7]
Ronald Reagan June 9-11, 1982 Bonn State visit; met with Chancellor Schmidt and President Karl Carstens; addressed the Bundestag; and attended a meeting of the North Atlantic Council.[8]
June 11, 1982 West Berlin Met with Chancellor Schmidt.[8]
April 30-May 4, 1985 Bonn Attended 11th G7 summit.[8]
May 5-6, 1985 Bonn,
Bergen-Belsen,
Bitburg,
Hambach Castle		 State visit; attended ceremonies commemorating 40th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe.[8]
June 11-12, 1987 West Berlin Delivered a speech in commemoration of Berlin's 750th anniversary; met with Chancellor Helmut Kohl.[8]
June 12, 1987 Bonn Met with Chancellor Kohl.[8]
George H. W. Bush May 30-31, 1989 Bonn,
Mainz		 Met with Chancellor Kohl.[9]
November 18, 1990 Speyer,
Ludwigshafen		 Met with Chancellor Kohl.[9]
July 5-8, 1992 Munich Attended 18th G7 summit. Also met with Russian President Boris Yeltsin.[9]
Bill Clinton July 10-12, 1994 Bonn,
Oggersheim,
Berlin		 Met with Chancellor Kohl and German political leaders. Delivered a public address at the Brandenburg Gate and attended deactivation ceremony for the Berlin Brigade.[10]
December 2, 1995 Baumholder Addressed U.S. military personnel and met with Chancellor Kohl.[10]
May 12-14, 1998 Berlin,
Potsdam,
Frankfurt,
Eisenach		 Met with Chancellor Kohl; commemorated 50th anniversary of the Berlin Airlift.[10]
May 4-6, 1999 Frankfurt,
Ramstein Air Base,
Spangdahlem Air Base,
Bonn,
Ingelheim		 Addressed U.S. military personnel; met with Chancellor Gerhard Schröder; met with Kosovo War refugees.[10]
June 17-21, 1999 Cologne,
Bonn		 Attended 25th G8 summit meeting.[10]
June 1-3, 2000 Berlin,
Aachen		 Met with President Johannes Rau and Chancellor Schröder; received Charlemagne Prize, and attended a Third Way Conference.[10]
George W. Bush May 22-23, 2002 Berlin Met with Chancellor Schröder and addressed the Bundestag.[11]
February 23, 2005 Mainz,
Wiesbaden		 Met with Chancellor Schröder and visited U.S. military personnel.[11]
July 12-14, 2006 Stralsund,
Trinwillershagen		 Met with Chancellor Angela Merkel.[11]
June 5-8, 2007 Heiligendamm Attended the 33rd G8 summit meeting. Also met with Chinese President Hu Jintao.[11]
June 10-11, 2008 Meseberg Met with Chancellor Merkel.[11]
Barack Obama April 3-4, 2009 Kehl,
Baden-Baden
(also Strasbourg, France)		 Attended NATO Leaders Summit.[12]
June 4-5, 2009 Dresden,
Weimar,
Landstuhl		 Met with Chancellor Merkel, visited the Buchenwald concentration camp and visited wounded U.S. military personnel.[12]
June 18-19, 2013 Berlin Met with President Joachim Gauck and Chancellor Merkel.[13]
June 7-8, 2015 Schloss Elmau Attended the 41st G7 summit meeting.[14] He also met with Chancellor Merkel for a traditional Frühschoppen breakfast with the village locals in Krün.[15]
April 24-25, 2016 Hanover Met with Chancellor Merkel. Toured Hannover Messe.

See also

References

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