Willy Brandt: architect of Ostpolitik and detente

Willy Brandt: architect of Ostpolitik and detente

Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm

German social democratic politician. After serving as Governing Mayor of West Berlin, Foreign Minister of West Germany, and Vice-Chancellor, he served as Federal Chancellor of West Germany from 1969 to 1974. He promoted "Ostpolitik" (Eastern Policy), which aimed at dialogue and improved relations with the Eastern Bloc countries, and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1971. Having experienced exile abroad in opposition to the Nazi regime, he played a major role in postwar German reconstruction and the relaxation of tensions under the East-West Cold War.

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Year Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm
1913
Birth of Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm (Period: December 18, 1913, Location: Lübeck, German Empire (current city name is also Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany))
1920
Start of socialist youth movement and political activities (Age: 6 years old, Period: Late 1920s–1933, Location: Lübeck, various parts of Germany)
1933
Establishment of the Nazi regime and emigration from Germany (Age: 19 years old, Period: 1933, Location: Germany, Norway)
Exile life and journalistic activities in Norway (Age: 19 years old, Period: 1933–1940, Location: Norway, Oslo, etc.)
1939
World War II (Age: 25 years old, Period: 1939–1945, Location: Britain, North Africa, Mediterranean region, etc.)
1940
Anti-Nazi activities in Sweden (Age: 26 years old, Period: 1940–1945, Location: Sweden, Stockholm, etc.)
German invasion of Norway (Age: 26 years old, Period: April 1940, Location: Norway)
1941
Marriage (Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm, Anna Carlotta (Carlota) Torkildsen, Age: 27 years old, Period: 1941–1948, Location: Norway)
1948
Marriage (Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm, Rut Brandt, Age: 34 years old, Period: September 4, 1948 – December 16, 1980, Location: West Berlin)
1957
Assumption of office as Governing Mayor of West Berlin (Age: 43 years old, Period: October 3, 1957–December 1, 1966, Location: West Berlin)
1966
Assumption of office as Foreign Minister and Vice-Chancellor of West Germany (Age: 52 years old, Period: December 1, 1966–October 21, 1969, Location: Bonn, West Germany)
1969
Promotion of Ostpolitik (Eastern Policy, Age: 55 years old, Period: 1969–1974, Location: West Germany, Soviet Union, Poland, East Germany, etc.)
Assumption of office as Federal Chancellor of West Germany (Age: 55 years old, Period: May 16, 1974, Location: Bonn, West Germany)
1970
Commitment to the international socialist movement and North-South issues (Age: 56 years old, Period: Late 1970s–1992, Location: Centers of activity for Europe and international organizations)
Kneeling at the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Monument (Age: 56 years old, Period: December 7, 1970, Location: Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Monument in Warsaw, Poland)
1973
Guillaume Affair (Age: 59 years old, Period: 1973–1974, Location: Bonn, West Germany)
1974
Resignation as Federal Chancellor (Age: 60 years old, Period: May 7, 1974, Location: Bonn, West Germany)
1983
Marriage (Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm, Brigitte Seebacher, Age: 69 years old, Period: December 9, 1983 – October 8, 1992, Location: Unkel, Germany)
1990
Receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize (Age: 76 years old, Period: 1971, Location: Oslo, Norway)
1992
Death of Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm (Age: 78 years old, Period: October 8, 1992)

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The Division of Germany Konrad Adenauer Walter Ulbricht Otto Grotewohl Wilhelm Pieck Erich Honecker Willy Brandt Helmut Kohl
Prague Spring Ludvík Svoboda Josef Smrkovský Ludvík Vaculík Alexander Dubček Václav Havel Milan Kundera Oldřich Černík
Fall of the Berlin Wall Erich Honecker Helmut Kohl Mikhail Gorbachev Egon Rudi Ernst Krenz Günter Schabowski Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm
Literature and Thought Václav Havel Milan Kundera Czesław Miłosz Wisława Szymborska Günter Grass Heinrich Böll Thomas Bernhard Ingeborg Bachmann Elfriede Jelinek
Arts & Film Sándor Pál Andrzej Wajda Krzysztof Kieślowski Miloš Forman Jiří Menzel Werner Herzog Rainer Werner Fassbinder Wim Wenders

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