Genscher was born at Reideburg ( Province of Saxony ), now a part of Halle, in what later became East Germany.

In 1945, Genscher was a young soldier in General Walther Wenck's 12th Army.

In 1965 Genscher was elected on the North Rhine-Westphalian FDP list to the West German parliament and remained a member of parliament until his retirement in 1998.

Still, Genscher was one of the FDP's driving forces when, in 1982, the party switched sides from its coalition with the SPD to support the CDU / CSU in their Constructive Vote of No Confidence to have Helmut Schmidt replaced with Helmut Kohl as Chancellor.

Together with Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, Kohl was able to resolve talks with the former Allies of World War II to allow German reunification and the expansion of the NATO into the former East German state.

* Hans-Dietrich Genscher, a former Vice Chancellor and longest serving Foreign Minister of Germany, was born in Reideburg, which belongs to Halle today.

Jaruzelski attacked Rifkind and cancelled a meeting he was due to have with him but Rifkind's meeting with Solidarity created a precedent that was followed by the West German Foreign Minister, Hans-Dietrich Genscher and other Western ministers.

The man tasked with creating the tactics and strategies that would be used by Germany's first exclusive counter-terrorist force, Colonel Wegener was the Bundesgrenzschutz ( Federal Border Protection ) liaison officer for German Interior Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher at the time of the Munich Olympics.

There, he was personal secretary for the Federal Minister, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, from 1970 to 1974, and eventually the head of the Minister's bureau.

After Genscher was appointed Foreign Minister in 1974, Kinkel had senior positions in the Foreign Ministry, as head of the Leitungsstab and the Planungsstab.

Having finished his political career, Genscher has been active as a lawyer and in international relations organizations.

Together with Hans-Dietrich Genscher of Germany, beside the fact that the Arbitration Commission headed by Robert Badinter and setup by the Council of Ministers of the European Economic Community recommended that only Slovenia and Macedonia should be recognized as independent countries, they decided to acknowledge the independence of Croatia and Slovenia.

The German minister of foreign affairs at that time, Hans Dietrich Genscher, is said to have finally stopped the project under pressure from France and the Soviet Union, and West Germany joined the co-financed " European rocket " Ariane project, which made the OTRAG project unnecessary and eliminated political entanglements of a still divided Germany in the early 1980s.

In 1992, Genscher, together with his Danish colleague Uffe Ellemann-Jensen, took the initiative to create the Council of the Baltic Sea States ( CBSS ) and the EuroFaculty.

The Bavarian interior minister Bruno Merk, who headed the crisis centre jointly with Genscher and Munich's police chief Manfred Schreiber, denies that such an Israeli offer ever existed.

A few minutes later, Hans-Dietrich Genscher and Walter Tröger, the mayor of the Olympic Village, were briefly allowed into the apartments to speak with the hostages.

While Genscher and Tröger were talking with the hostages, Kehat Shorr had told the Germans that the Israelis would not object to being flown to an Arab country, provided that strict guarantees for their safety were made by the Germans and whichever nation they landed in.

According to the same program, the crisis committee delegated to make decisions on how to deal with the incident consisted of Bruno Merk ( the Bavarian interior minister ), Hans-Dietrich Genscher ( the West German interior minister ) and Manfred Schreiber ( Munich's Chief of Police ); in other words, two politicians and one tactician.

In 1992, Uffe Ellemann-Jensen, together with his German colleague Hans-Dietrich Genscher, took the initiative to create the Council of the Baltic Sea States ( CBSS ) and the EuroFaculty.

José Napoleón Duarte with Hans-Dietrich Genscher ( 1987 )

It has been claimed that the German authorities, under the leadership of Chancellor Willy Brandt and Minister for the Interior Hans-Dietrich Genscher, rejected Israel's offer to send an Israeli special forces unit to Germany.

* Hans-Dietrich Genscher ( FDP ) – Vice Chancellor and Minister of Foreign Affairs

* Hans-Dietrich Genscher ( FDP ) – Vice Chancellor and Minister of Foreign Affairs

* Hans-Dietrich Genscher ( FDP ) – Vice Chancellor and Minister of Foreign Affairs

Helmut Schmidt ( SPD ) succeeds Genscher as Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Hans-Dietrich Genscher, a leading FDP official, became Vice Chancellor and Foreign Minister.

* Hans-Dietrich Genscher, German politician, Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor

Meanwhile, messages of support were flooding in from all over the world: France ( President François Mitterrand ) ; the Soviet ( President Mikhail Gorbachev ); Hungary ( the Hungarian Socialist Party ); the new East German government ( at that time the two German states were not yet formally reunited ); Bulgaria ( Petar Mladenov, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Bulgaria ); Czechoslovakia ( Ladislav Adamec, leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, and Václav Havel, the dissident writer, revolution leader and future president of the Republic ); China ( the Minister of Foreign Affairs ); the United States ( President George H. W. Bush ) ; West Germany ( Foreign Minister Hans Dietrich Genscher ); NATO ( Secretary General Manfred Wörner ); the United Kingdom ( Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher ); Spain ; Austria ; the Netherlands ; Italy ; Portugal ; Japan ( the Japanese Communist Party ); and the Moldavian SSR.

From 1974 until 1992-with a short pause in 1982-Hans-Dietrich Genscher served as Foreign Minister continuing Brandt's Ostpolitik and playing a vital role in the preparation of German reunification.

Attending the meeting were the Foreign Ministers of each state: Roland Dumas of France, Hans-Dietrich Genscher of Germany, and Krzysztof Skubiszewski of Poland.

These were believed to number no more than two or three, according to what Genscher and Tröger had seen inside 31 Connollystraße.

George H. W. Bush and Hans-Dietrich Genscher, November 21st, 1989.

Genscher fought as a young man in the Wehrmacht at the end of the Second World War.

Genscher briefly became an American and British prisoner of war.

In 1991, Genscher raced to recognize the Republic of Croatia in the Croatian War of Independence shortly after the Serbian attack on Vukovar.

He founded his own Hans-Dietrich Genscher Consult GmbH in 2000.

In 2009 he expressed public concern at Pope Benedict XVI's lifting of excommunication of the bishops of the Society of Saint Pius X. Genscher wrote in the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung: " Poles can be proud of Pope John Paul II.

It is about respect for the victims of crimes against humanity ", Genscher said.

While being debriefed by the crisis team, Genscher and Tröger told them that they had seen " four or five " attackers inside the apartment.

The members of the crisis team — Schreiber, Genscher, Merk and Schreiber's deputy Georg Wolf — supervised and observed the attempted rescue from the airport control tower.

This desire, I went on, growing voluble as my conviction was aroused, had mounted at such a rate recently that I now found its realization necessary not only to my physical but also to my spiritual wellbeing.

It was certain now that Jess was in the house, but also, presumably, was Stacey Black.

But it also made him conspicuous to the enemy, if it was the enemy, and he hadn't been spotted already.

He was asking had it been she who left the love note in his sheets ( she also served as maid ) when he saw the Grafin followed by a stately blond girl approaching his table.

This was also a corpse -- a male, judging from the coral arm bands, the tribal scars still discernible on the maggoty face, the painted bone of the warrior caste which still pierced the septum of the rotting nose.

His superiors had also preached this, saying it was the way for eternal honor.

Charles, also fifteen, was tall and skinny, scraggly, with straight black hair like an Indian's and sharp brown eyes.

Although New Orleans was not to learn of it for a spell, she also was a sadist, a nymphomaniac and unobtrusively mad -- the perpetrator of some of the worst crimes against humanity ever committed on American soil.

There was also a dog, a dingo dog.

There was also a long wooden spear and a woomera, a spear-throwing device which gives the spear an enormous velocity and high accuracy.

There was also a boomerang, elaborately carved.

It was also subtly familiar, for it was the odor of the human body, but multiplied innumerable times because of the fact that the aborigines never bathed.

It was to provide a safe and spacious crossing for these caravans, and also to make a pleasance for the city, that Shah Abbas 2, in about 1657 built, of sun-baked brick, tile, and stone, the present bridge.

There was also a lesson, one that has served ever since to keep Americans, in their conflicts with one another, from turning from the ballot to the bullet.

Joseph Jastrow, the younger son of the distinguished rabbi, Marcus Jastrow, was a friendly, round-faced fellow with a little mustache, whose field was psychology, and who was also a punster and a jolly tease.

And just as `` Laurie '' Lawrence was first attracted to bright Jo March, who found him immature by her high standards, and then had to content himself with her younger sister Amy, so Joe Jastrow, who had also been writing Henrietta before he came to Johns Hopkins, had to content himself with her younger sister, pretty Rachel.

she also went to Washington and appealed to Senator George William Norris of Nebraska, the Fighting Liberal, from whose office a sympathetic but cautious harrumphing was heard.

The Indians who came aboard ship to collect the mail also interested her greatly, even if she was suitably shocked, according to the customs of the society in which she had been reared, to find them `` naked, except a piece of cotton cloth wrapped around their middle ''.

He also disliked Runyon, for no good reason other than the fact that the Demon's talent was so marked as to put him well beyond the Hetman's say-so or his supervision.