High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Richard Karl Freiherr von Weizsäckerlisten (help·info) (born April 15, 1920), known as Richard von Weizsäcker, is a German politician (CDU). He served as Governing Mayor of West Berlin from 1981 to 1984, and as President of Germany from 1984 to 1994 (West Germany only 1984-1990).Weizsäcker was born in the New Castle in Stuttgart, the son of diplomat and politician Ernst von Weizsäcker and Marianne, née von Graevenitz, a member of the noted Weizsäcker family.