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Name	Locale	Remarks	Date
Harry S. Truman	Potsdam	Potsdam Conference with British Prime Ministers Churchill and Attlee and Soviet Premier Stalin.	July 16–August 2, 1945
Dwight D. Eisenhower	Bonn	Informal meeting with Chancellor Adenauer and President Heuss.	August 26–27, 1959
John F. Kennedy	Bonn, Cologne, Frankfurt, Wiesbaden	Met with Chancellor Adenauer and other officials.	June 23–25, 1963
John F. Kennedy	West Berlin	Delivered several public addresses.	June 26, 1963
Lyndon B. Johnson	Bonn	Attended funeral of Chancellor Adenauer and conversed with various heads of state.	April 23–26, 1967
Richard M. Nixon	West Berlin	Addressed the Bundestag on February 26.	February 26–27, 1969
Gerald R. Ford	Bonn, Linz	Met with President Scheel and Chancellor Schmidt.	July 26–28, 1975
Jimmy Carter	Bonn, Wiesbaden-Erbenheim Air Base, Frankfurt	State visit; met with President Scheel and Chancellor Schmidt. Addressed U.S. and German military personnel.	July 14–15, 1978
Jimmy Carter	West Berlin	Spoke at the Airlift Memorial.	July 15, 1978
Jimmy Carter	Bonn	Attended Economic Summit Meeting of the Heads of State and Government of France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Canada, Italy, Japan, and the United Kingdom.	July 16–17, 1978
Ronald Reagan	Bonn	State visit; met with Chancellor Schmidt and President Carstens; addressed the Bundestag; and attended a meeting of the North Atlantic Council.	June 9–11, 1982
Ronald Reagan	West Berlin	Met with Chancellor Schmidt.	June 11, 1982
Ronald Reagan	Bonn	Attended Economic Summit Meeting of the Heads of State and Government of Canada, France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, Japan, and the United Kingdom.	April 30–May 4, 1985
Ronald Reagan	Bonn, Bergen-Belsen, Bitburg, Hambach Castle	State visit; attended ceremonies commemorating 40th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe.	May 5–6, 1985
Ronald Reagan	West Berlin	Attended 750th Anniversary celebrations; met with Chancellor Kohl.	June 11–12, 1987
Ronald Reagan	Bonn	Met with Chancellor Kohl.	June 12, 1987
George H.W. Bush	Bonn, Mainz	Met with Chancellor Kohl.	May 30–31, 1989
George H.W. Bush	Speyer, Ludwigshafen	Met with Chancellor Kohl.	November 18, 1990
George H.W. Bush	Munich	Attended an Economic Summit Meeting with the Heads of State and Government of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the United Kingdom. Also met with Russian President Yeltsin.	July 5–8, 1992
William J. Clinton	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.	July 10–12, 1994
William J. Clinton	Baumholder	Addressed U.S. military personnel and met with Chancellor Kohl.	December 2, 1995
William J. Clinton	Berlin, Potsdam, Frankfurt, Eisenach	Met with Chancellor Kohl; commemorated 50th anniversary of the Berlin Airlift.	May 12–14, 1998
William J. Clinton	Frankfurt, Ramstein Air Force Base, Spangdahlem Air Force Base, Bonn, Ingelheim	Addressed U.S. military personnel; met with Chancellor Schroeder; met with Kosovo refugees.	May 4–6, 1999
William J. Clinton	Cologne, Bonn	Attended G-8 Economic Summit meeting.	June 17–21, 1999
William J. Clinton	Berlin, Aachen	Met with President Rau and Chancellor Schroeder; received Charlemagne Prize, and attended a Third Way Conference.	June 1–3, 2000
George W. Bush	Berlin	Met with Chancellor Schroeder and addressed the Bundestag.	May 22–23, 2002
George W. Bush	Mainz, Wiesbaden	Met with Chancellor Schroeder and visited U.S. military personnel.	February 23, 2005
George W. Bush	Stralsund, Trinwillershagen	Met with Chancellor Merkel.	July 12–14, 2006
George W. Bush	Heiligen-damm	Attended the G-8 Summit Meeting. Also met with Chinese President Hu Jintao.	June 5–8, 2007
George W. Bush	Meseberg	Met with Chancellor Merkel.	June 10–11, 2008
Barack Obama	Baden-Baden, Kehl	Attended a working dinner for NATO leaders.	April 3–4, 2009
Barack Obama	Dresden, Weimar, Landstuhl	Met with Chancellor Merkel, visited the Buchenwald concentration camp and visited wounded U.S. military personnel.	June 4–5, 2009
Barack Obama	Berlin	Met with President Joachim Gauck and Chancellor Angela Merkel.	June 18–19, 2013
Barack Obama	Ramstein Air Force Base	Visited wounded U.S. military personnel.	March 29, 2014
Barack Obama	Ramstein Air Force Base	Stopped while returning to Washington.	May 26, 2014
Barack Obama	Ramstein Air Force Base	Stopped en route to India.	January 24, 2015
Barack Obama	Ramstein Air Force Base	Stopped while returning to Washington.	January 27, 2015
Barack Obama	Munich, Krun, Elmau	Attended the G-7 Summit Meeting.	June 7–8, 2015
Barack Obama	Ramstein Air Force Base	Stopped en route to Nairobi, Kenya.	July 24, 2015
Barack Obama	Ramstein Air Force Base	Stopped en route from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.	July 28, 2015
Barack Obama	Ramstein Air Force Base	Stopped en route to Saudi Arabia.	April 19, 2016
Barack Obama	Hannover	Met with Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, and British Prime Minister David W. D. Cameron.	April 24–25, 2016
Barack Obama	Berlin	Met with Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande, Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, and British Prime Minister Theresa May.	November 16–18, 2016
Donald J. Trump	Hamburg	Attended the G–20 Summit.	July 6–8, 2017
Joseph R. Biden	Schloss Elmau	Attended the G7 Leaders’ Summit.	June 25–28, 2022
Joseph R. Biden	Berlin	Met with Chancellor Olaf Scholz.	October 17–18, 2024