German politician. He created the "Ostpolitik" of chancellor Willy Brandt. Ostpolitik or Eastern Politics describes the realisation of the Change through Rapprochement principle, verbalised by Egon Bahr in 1963, by the effort of Willy Brandt, Chancellor of West Germany, to normalize relations with Eastern European nations including East Germany. ... Willy Brandt, Time Magazines Person of the Year, 1970. ...
The West German politician EgonBahr (born 1922) made significant contributions to the lessening of tensions between the German Democratic Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany, which eventually led to the crumbling of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and reunification a year later.
Bahr was born on March 18, 1922, in the small Thuringian town of Treffurt.
Egon Karlheinz Bahr (born March 18 1922 in Treffurt/Thüringen) is a German former politician for the SPD.
EgonBahr, a prominent figure in Bonn's opposition Social Democratic Party, said he believed that between 1.2 million and 1.4 million...
Thus, in 1982, EgonBahr, one of the architects of the Opening up to the East, affirmed...
In the Berlin trial of deaths at the wall, against Egon Krenz and his comrades, the controversial Social Democrat detente politician EgonBahr demonstrated in an impressive lesson that the history of German division cannot...
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