Nuremberg (dpa / lby) - Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier shows 150 ambassadors sent to Germany and high-ranking representatives of international organizations from Franconia. On July 5, the German head of state will visit the cities of Nuremberg, Erlangen and Bamberg with the diplomatic corps, the Office of the Federal President announced on Tuesday.
Since 1996, German Federal Presidents have regularly organized such information and meeting trips for foreign diplomats. In the past two years it had to be canceled due to the pandemic. Before that, she went to a different state every year. In 2019 Rhineland-Palatinate, in 2018 Bremen and in 2017 Saxony-Anhalt was the destination of the trip.
In Nuremberg, Steinmeier will first visit the medium-sized mechanical engineering company Leistritz with the diplomats and then visit the Germanic Museum. In Erlangen, a visit to the Helmholtz Institute is on the agenda. Steinmeier will visit the cathedral in Bamberg and then give a speech in the new residence.
