Eva Köhler, First Lady of Germany

Eva Köhler, First Lady of Germany

Eva Luise Köhler (born 2 January 1947 in Ludwigsburg as Eva Luise Bohnet) has been the First Lady of Germany since 2004. She is the wife of the German President Horst Köhler.
She took her Abitur in Ludwigsburg in 1966, and studied History, Germanistics and Religion. She then became a teacher of German. Eva Köhler was a member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) from 1972 to 1990 (as she advocated Willy Brandt’s Ostpolitik) and participated in local politics. She left the SPD because she disliked the politics of Oskar Lafontaine.

Eva and Horst Köhler have two children, Ulrike (born 1972) and Jochen (born 1977).