A largely honorific post, the current Chancellor is Professor Sir Kenneth Calman, former Chief Medical Officer and former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Durham.

Mark Stephen Wrighton serves as the current Chancellor of the University.

The leader of the party, Angela Merkel, is the current Chancellor of Germany.

The current Chancellor of the Exchequer is George Osborne.

The current Chancellor, George Osborne, like his two predecessors, Alistair Darling and Gordon Brown, opts for water.

The role of Chancellor itself is largely honorific, the current Chancellor is Dr James Naughtie.

* Actresses Emilia Fox and Anna Chancellor and columnist and author Toby Young and co-producer Benjamin Rimmer are among current ( 2010 ) prominent local residents.

The current Chancellor is Nancy L. Zimpher.

The first university of Dublin ( unrelated to the current university ) was created by the Pope in 1311, and had a Chancellor, lecturers and students ( granted protection by the Crown ) over many years, before coming to an end at the Reformation.

Dr Mary Robinson is the current Chancellor of the University, its titular head, and there are an up to six pro-Chancellors, who can act in her place.

The Leader of the House of Lords is necessarily a member of the House of Lords and the Lord Chancellor was, until recently, always a member of the House of Lords, however the current holder is a member of the House of Commons, but otherwise it is now rare for a peer to sit in the Cabinet.

The current Chancellor is Adrienne Clarke, AC, appointed by the University Council on 26 February 2011.

The current Chancellor is Mr. Charles Chi ( B. Eng ' 88 ), a venture capitalist and executive chairman of Lytro.

The current Chancellor, Corina Casanova, a member of the Christian Democratic People's Party from Graubünden, was elected on 12 December 2007 to begin her term on 1 January 2008.

Traditionally, the role of Editor-in-Chief of Halsbury's Laws is held by a former Lord Chancellor, and the current incumbent is Lord Mackay of Clashfern.

The current Chancellor is Count Nikolai Tolstoy, the well-known historian, who took up the post in late 1987.

The current Lord Chancellor is Chris Grayling, who is also Secretary of State for Justice.

) This precedent has continued under the current Lord Chancellor, Kenneth Clarke.

The current Chancellor is Thomas Galbraith, 2nd Baron Strathclyde, who is also the Leader of the House of Lords.

The Courts Act provides the current framework for appointment of the justices, which is done by the Lord Chancellor in the name of Her Majesty.

The current college visitor is the Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, Lord Sainsbury of Turville.

These titles foreshadowed the modern office of Prime Minister, however, unlike the current office, the Grand Chancellor and State Minister were not formal heads of government.

The current Chancellor is William Kirwan.

Mainly due to reunification-related expenditures, Berlin as a German state has accumulated more debt than any other city in Germany, with the most current estimate being € 60 ($ 84 ) bn in December 2007.

Germany seeks to maintain peace through the " deepening " of integration among current members of the European Union member states

The situation is further complicated by the fact that parts of the current Polish population in historical eastern Germany are themselves expellees ( or descendants of expellees ) who were expelled from Polish areas annexed by the Soviet Union and were forced to leave their homes and property behind as well.

The current Board members are: Argentina, Australia, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Brazil, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, South Korea, Mongolia, Netherlands, Niger, Pakistan, Peru, Portugal, Russian Federation, Singapore, South Africa, Tunisia, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, and Venezuela ( IAEA Board of Governors 2010 – 2011 ).

The eight current contractors are: Yuzhmorgeologya ( Russian Federation ); Interoceanmetal Joint Organization ( IOM ) ( Bulgaria, Cuba, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland and Russian Federation ); the Government of the Republic of Korea ; China Ocean Minerals Research and Development Association ( COMRA ) ( China ); Deep Ocean Resources Development Company ( DORD ) ( Japan ); Institut français de recherche pour l ’ exploitation de la mer ( IFREMER ) ( France ); the Government of India, and the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources of Germany.

As British public opinion was turned against Germany, Admiral Sir John Fisher twice – in 1904 and 1908 – proposed using Britain ’ s current naval superiority to ' Copenhagen ' the German fleet, that is, to launch preemptive strikes against the Kiel and Wilhelmshaven naval bases as the Royal Navy had done against the Danish navy in 1801 and 1807.

* 1891 – The International Electro-Technical Exhibition opens in Frankfurt, Germany, and will feature the world's first long distance transmission of high-power, three-phase electrical current ( the most common form today ).

Another German official argued that the Soviets in their current bureaucratic form were harmless, the occupation would not produce a gain for Germany and " why should it not stew next to us in its damp Bolshevism?

Although there have been eight German Popes, Victor II is one of only three Popes from the territory of present-day Germany, the others being Pope Clement II ( 1046 – 47 ) and the current Benedict XVI.

The Tripartite Convention gave control of the islands west of 171 degrees west longitude to Germany, ( later known as Western Samoa ), containing Upolu and Savaii ( the current Samoa ) and other adjoining islands.

The current administrative unit of Silesian Voivodeship is just a fraction of the historical Silesia which is within the borders of today's Poland ( there are also fragments of Silesia in the Czech Republic and Germany ).

If the called party's line is available, the exchange sends an intermittent ringing signal ( about 90 volts alternating current ( AC ) in North America and UK and 60 volts in Germany ) to alert the called party to an incoming call.

* Josef Fendt, Germany ( 1994 – current )

In 1915, whilst living in Germany, Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud both tested the young Messing, although the results have not survived to the current day.

Taking advantage of better opportunities in Germany, he moved to Berlin where, in 1912, he founded his first company, Fokker Aeroplanbau, later moving to the Görries suburb just southwest of Schwerin, where the current company was founded, as Fokker Aviatik GmbH, on 12 February 1912.

Finland was the first state to do so, in 2007, Belgium did so in 2008 while Austria or Germany will not change their current designs for the time being.

Since the adoption of the current constitution of Germany in 1949 the formal title of the office in the German language is once again Bundeskanzler.

Other demands included keeping such territorial gains as Austria and the Sudetenland within the Reich, giving autonomy to Alsace-Lorraine, and even expansion of the current wartime borders of Germany in the south by annexing Tyrol as far as Bolzano and Merano.

The Seventeen Provinces were a personal union of states in the Low Countries in the 15th century and 16th century, roughly covering the current Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, a good part of the North of France ( Artois, French Flanders ), and a small part of Western Germany.

Moselle is part of the current region of Lorraine and is surrounded by the French departments of Meurthe-et-Moselle and Bas-Rhin, as well as Germany ( states of Saarland and Rhineland-Palatinate ) and Luxembourg in the north.

The current boundary between Meurthe-et-Moselle and Moselle was the border between France and Germany from 1871 to 1919 and again between 1940 and 1944.

The city's current name comes from a stallion that was named after the Coburg district of Bavaria, Germany, from whence the horse had been imported.

As to the current status of Cui the composer, in the last few decades one of his children's operas ( of which he composed four ) entitled Puss-in-Boots ( from Perrault ) has had wide appeal in Germany.