Stock Photo - German Federal President Joachim Gauck (R) awards the Federal Cross of Merit to Ulrich Wessel from Haltern am See at Bellevue Palace in Berlin, Germany, 5 December 2016. Ulrich Wessel is the principal of the Joseph Koenig secondary school which lost 16 students and two teachers through a plane crash in the French alps in March 2015. Wessel did all that was within his capacities to provide comfort and counsel to the traumatized students, parents and colleagues. President Gauck will award 24 orders on International Volunteers' Day to citizens with special merits. Photo: Wolfgang Kumm/dpa | usage worldwide. - Berlin/Berlin/Germany

Stock Photo: German Federal President Joachim Gauck (R) awards the Federal Cross of Merit to Ulrich Wessel from Haltern am See at Bellevue Palace in Berlin, Germany.

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