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Willy Brandt ( German: [ˈvɪliː ˈbʁant] ⓘ; born Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm; 18 December 1913 – 8 October 1992) was a German politician and statesman who was leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) from 1964 to 1987 and served as the chancellor of West Germany from 1969 to 1974. [1] He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in ...
Apr 12, 2024 · Willy Brandt was a German statesman, leader of the German Social Democratic Party of Germany (Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands, or SPD) from 1964 to 1987, and chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1969 to 1974. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1971 for his efforts to.
It was Brandt’s act that people around the world have recalled as they listened to Steinmeier’s statements. A bronze plaque at Willy Brandt Square in Warsaw helps ensure the Kniefall on that December day will be remembered as a milestone in the long and vexed history and memory of Nazi criminality in Eastern Europe.
Willy Brandt was born Karl Herbert Frahm on 18 December 1913 in Lübeck, northern Germany. He became a socialist in the late 1920s. In 1933, he changed his name and fled to Norway to avoid arrest ...
Biography. Willy Brandt 1913–1992. German, European, Citizen of the World. Willy Brandt is regarded as one of the outstanding statesmen of the 20 th century. Born into a working-class family in Lübeck, he made his way to Berlin and Bonn by way of Oslo and Stockholm and left behind an international political legacy.
Willy Brandt, orig. Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm, (born Dec. 18, 1913, Lübeck, Ger.—died Oct. 8/9, 1992, Unkel, near Bonn), German statesman. As a young Social Democrat, he fled to Norway to avoid arrest after the rise of the Nazis in the 1930s. There he assumed the name Willy Brandt and worked as a journalist. Returning to Germany after World ...
Oct 9, 1992 · Willy Brandt was born Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm on Dec. 18, 1913, the son of Martha Frahm, a young shopgirl in Lubeck. "I learned later who my father was," he told a biographer in 1974.
