Former German president Roman Herzog dies aged 82

Former German President Roman Herzog arrives for a church service to commemorate former German President Richard von Weizsaecker in Berlin February 11, 2015. REUTERS/Odd Andersen/Pool

BERLIN (Reuters) - Roman Herzog, who as German president was a powerful advocate of economic reforms in the 1990s after the fall of the Berlin Wall, has died, the president's office said on Tuesday. He was 82.

Herzog was a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative Christian Democratic Union. He served as the chief justice of Germany's highest court before being elected to a five-year term as president in 1994, four years after reunification.