Frank-Walter Steinmeier

I'll be honest — Frank-Walter Steinmeier is not the kind of politician who fills a room with charisma or grabs headlines for drama, and I think that's actually his whole point. The man climbed from a quiet city in northwestern Germany all the way to the German presidency through sheer methodical competence: law school, chief of staff to Gerhard Schröder, foreign minister twice, then head of state from 2017 onward. What impresses me is the international credibility he built — Legion of Honour from France, decorations from Italy, Portugal, Norway, Austria — these are not handed out to people who just showed up. He chaired the OSCE in 2016, right when Europe needed steady hands the most. No spectacle, no personality cult, just a Capricorn from Detmold quietly doing the work. The world could honestly use more of that energy.

Name (English)

Frank-Walter Steinmeier

Name (Japanese)

フランク＝ヴァルター・シュタインマイアー

Reading

ふらんく＝ゔぁるたー・しゅたいんまいあー

Born

January 5, 1956 (age 70)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Monkey

Origin

Detmold, Detmold Government Region, Germany

Height

178 cm

Occupation

politician / lawyer / vice-chancellor / jurist / foreign minister

University

University of Giessen

Awards & achievements

• 2006 Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
• 2007 Grand Cross of Royal Norwegian Order of Merit
• 2009 Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of Portugal
• 2016 Grand Cross of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria
• 2017 Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour
• 2015 honorary doctor of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• 2017 Grand Cross Special Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 2018 Grand Collar of the Order of Prince Henry

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttp://www.frank-walter-steinmeier.de
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/bundespraesident.steinmeier/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%82%AF%EF%BC%9D%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1%E3%83%AB%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A5%E3%82%BF%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%83%9E%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A4%E3%83%BC

Tags

• Detmold Government Region
• politician
• lawyer
• vice-chancellor

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.