Tag: Federal Republic of Germany

  • Today is Willy Brandt’s 100th birthday

    Today is Willy Brandt’s 100th birthday

    As mayor of West Berlin, as Foreign Minister and as Chancellor of Germany, Willy Brandt (1913-1992) changed the Federal Republic of Germany (BDR) like no other politician. Brandt was born in Lübeck on the 18th of December 1913 as an illegitimate child by the name of Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm. The name under which he…