Hans-Dietrich Genscher (1927–2016)
Auteur van Rebuilding a House Divided
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- Geboortedatum
- 1927-03-21
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2016-03-31
- Geslacht
- male
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- Germany
- Geboorteplaats
- Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
- Plaats van overlijden
- Wachtberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
- Oorzaak van overlijden
- heart failure
- Opleiding
- Martin-Luther-University, Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany (laws and economics)
Leipzig University (laws and economics) - Beroepen
- lawyer
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West German Minister of the Interior (1969-1974)
West German Foreign Minister (1974-1982)
Vice Chancellor of West Germany (1974-1982)
Vice Chancellor of West Germany (1982-1990) (toon alle 9)
Vice Chancellor of Germany (1990-1992)
West German Foreign Minister (1982-1990)
German Foreign Minister (1990-1992) - Organisaties
- Reichsarbeitsdienst (RAD)
National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP) (member #10123636)
Wehrmacht (Armee Wenck)
Liberal-Democratic Party of Germany (LDP) (1946-1952)
Free Democratic Party (FDP) (1952) (chairman 1974-1985)
German Bundestag (1965-1998) (toon alle 7)
German Council on Foreign Relations (president 2001-2013) - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1973 and 1975)
Order of Isabella the Catholic (1977)
Bambi Award (1977)
Grand Cross of the Order of Christ (1978)
Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (1979)
Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria (1979) (toon alle 20)
Grand Cross of the Order of Saint James of the Sword (1980)
Grand Cross of the Order of Prince Henry (1984)
Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour (1986)
Grand Cross of the Ordem do Mérito (1987)
Prince of Asturias Award (1990)
Honorary doctorate of the University of Silesia in Katowice (1992)
Order of Duke Trpimir (1996)
Order of the Three Stars (1997)
Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana, First Class (1997)
Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas (1998)
Honorary doctorate of the University of Szczecin (2002)
Honorary doctorate of Leipzig University (2003)
Order of Merit of North Rhine-Westphalia (2007)
Order of Merit of Saxony-Anhalt (2010)
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The book makes very clear that the German Communist government failed to develop a containment strategy and even added fuel to the crisis, e.g. when it sent refugee trains through its territory as visible proof instead of using the direct route between Germany and Czechoslovakia. Still, it could not have survived the emigration as it was the young and educated who wanted to go. The West German government, with foreign minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher in the lead, himself a former refugee, in contrast, delivered an outstanding performance using multiple levers in multiple places (New York, Prague, Berlin, Budapest, Vienna, Moscow) to crack the Communist resistance. In the end, it was the East German people demonstrating in masses that broke the regime. The government of the workers and peasants had no answer to the claim "Wir sind das Volk". The opening of the Berlin Wall to the citizens marked the end of the 40th anniversary celebrations of East Germany. Recommended.… (meer)