United States presidential visits to Germany

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

• Germany–United States relations
• Foreign policy of the United States
• Foreign relations of the United States

References

1. "Travels of President Harry S. Truman". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian.
2. "Travels of President Dwight D. Eisenhower". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian.
3. "Travels of President John F. Kennedy". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian.
4. "Travels of President Lyndon B. Johnson". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian.
5. "Travels of President Richard M. Nixon". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian.
6. "Travels of President Gerald R. Ford". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian.
7. "Travels of President Jimmy Carter". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian.
8. "Travels of President Ronald Reagan". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian.
9. "Travels of President George H. W. Bush". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian.
10. "Travels of President William J. Clinton". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian.
11. "Travels of President George W. Bush". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian.
12. "Travels of President Barack Obama". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian.
13. Boyle, Louise (June 19, 2013). "Obama makes historic speech at Brandenburg Gate in Berlin". Daily Mail (London).
14. Hjelmgaard, Kim (June 7, 2015). "Obama attends G-7 summit in Germany". USA Today.
15. Connolly, Kate (June 7, 2015). "Merkel welcomes Obama with beer and sausage breakfast before G7 summit". The Guardian. Retrieved June 7, 2015.