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The Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt Foundation was established in 1994. It serves to honor the memory of Brandt's political accomplishments and his commitment to peace, freedom and democracy. The foundation runs two permanent exhibitions: one in Berlin, and the other in Lübeck, where Brandt was born. Other works of the foundation include ...
Influenced by Egon Bahr, who proposed "change through rapprochement" in a 1963 speech at the Evangelische Akademie Tutzing, the policies were implemented beginning with Willy Brandt, fourth Chancellor of the FRG from 1969 to 1974, [1] and winner of the 1971 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to place this policy at the acme of the FRG.
The 1971 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the Chancellor of Germany Willy Brandt (1913–1992) "for paving the way for a meaningful dialogue between East and West." [1] [2] [3] Because of his efforts to strengthen cooperation in western Europe through the European Economic Community (EEC) and to achieve reconciliation between West Germany and the countries of Eastern Europe, he became the ...
In addition, enough West German voters were at last willing to give the Social Democratic leader, Foreign Minister Willy Brandt, a chance to govern West Germany. Brandt, who ran for the third time after 1961 and 1965 , had shown sympathy towards those groups, like left-wing intellectuals and activists of the German student movement , who had ...
Willy-Brandt-Placa in Warsaw Monument of the 'Kniefall' on the Skwer Willy’ego Brandta. Reviewing the Kniefall one tends to agree that it played an important part in easing the tension between the eastern and western block. The Treaty of Warsaw 1970 was signed on the very same day and it included the inviolability of the Oder-Neisse-line.
The First Brandt cabinet was the government of West Germany between 22 October 1969 and 15 December 1972, during the 6th legislature of the Bundestag. Led by the Social Democrat Willy Brandt , the cabinet was a coalition between the Social Democrats (SPD) and the Free Democratic Party (FDP).
From 1969 to 1982 social–liberal coalitions led by Federal Chancellors Willy Brandt and Helmut Schmidt governed the Federal Republic of Germany. [1] The term stems from social democracy of the SPD and the liberalism of the FDP.
Brandt and Guillaume, 1974. The Guillaume affair (German: Guillaume-Affäre) was an espionage scandal in Germany during the Cold War.The scandal revolved around the exposure of an East German spy within the West German government and had far-reaching political repercussions in Germany, the most prominent being the resignation of West German Chancellor Willy Brandt in 1974.