That this and the closing of the East Berlin-West Berlin border have not been accepted by the Western governments appears in notes which Britain, France, and the United States sent to Moscow after the latter's gratuitous protest over a visit of Chancellor Adenauer and other West German officials to West Berlin.

Remembering the step-by-step fate of Danzig and the West German misgivings about `` salami '' tactics, it is to be hoped that the dispatch of General Clay to West Berlin as President Kennedy's representative will mark a stiffening of response not only to future indignities and aggressions but also to some that have passed.

As was to be expected Kennedy's latest speech was greeted with enthusiasm by revenge-seeking circles in Bonn, where officials of the West German government praised it ''.

The weekly loss is partly counterbalanced by 500 arrivals each week from West Germany, but the hard truth, says Crossman, is that `` The closing off of East Berlin without interference from the West and with the use only of East German, as distinct from Russian, troops was a major Communist victory, which dealt West Berlin a deadly, possibly a fatal, blow.

They are leaving so fast that the president of the West German Employers' Federation issued an appeal this week to factory workers in the West to volunteer for six months' front-line work in factories in West Berlin.

Was not this dropped primarily in order to `` appease '' the Chinese -- especially after `` Khrushchev's `` humiliating '' surrender to the West in canceling the German peace-treaty deadline of December 31??

The breeze and chancellor Neitzbohr, a movie melodrama that concerns the attempts of a West German politician to woo a plaster cast of the Apollo Belvedere.

In 1970, the character of Miss Marple was portrayed by Inge Langen in a West German television adaptation of The Murder at the Vicarage ( Mord im Pfarrhaus ).

The High German consonant shift is thought to have originated around the 5th century either in Alemannia or among the Lombards ; before that the dialect spoken by Alemannic tribes was little different from that of other West Germanic peoples.

* 1962 – East German border guards kill 18-year-old Peter Fechter as he attempts to cross the Berlin Wall into West Berlin becoming one of the first victims of the wall.

Aachen is at the western end of the Benrath line that divides High German to the south from the rest of the West Germanic speech area to the north.

* 1960 – The Netherlands and West Germany sign an agreement to negotiate the return of German land annexed by the Dutch in return for 280 million German marks as Wiedergutmachung.

A 1974 West German television adaptation, titled Nora Helmer was directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and starred Margit Carstensen in the title role.

After World War II, the city became divided into East Berlin — the capital of East Germany — and West Berlin, a West German exclave surrounded by the Berlin Wall ( 1961 – 1989 ).

In 1949, the Federal Republic of Germany was founded in West Germany and eventually included all of the American, British, and French zones, excluding those three countries ' zones in Berlin, while the Marxist-Leninist German Democratic Republic was proclaimed in East Germany.

West Berlin issued its own postage stamps, which were often the same as West German postage stamps but with the additional word " Berlin " added.

The choice of Bonn was made mainly due to the advocacy of West Germany's first chancellor, Konrad Adenauer, a former Cologne Mayor and a native of that area.

He was the first chancellor ( top official ) of the FRG, 1949 – 63, and until his death was the founder and leader of the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ), a coalition of conservatives, ordoliberals, and adherents of Protestant and Catholic social teaching that dominated West Germany politics for most of its history.

The governor of the state of West Bengal is its chancellor.

However, the daily administration is handled under the leadership of the vice chancellor, who is appointed by the governor on the recommendations of the government of West Bengal.

He was the first chancellor ( head of government ) of the Federal Republic of Germany ( FRG, called West Germany ), 1949 – 63.

While this tendency decreased under his successors, it established the image of West Germany ( and later reunified Germany ) as a " chancellor democracy ".

In West Germany, 1966 saw the emergence of the first Grand Coalition between the two main parties, the SPD and CDU, under chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger.

At the start of 1961, U. S. President John F. Kennedy saw Brandt as the wave of the future in West Germany and was hoping he would replace Konrad Adenauer as chancellor following elections later in the year.

At the time the Hallstein Doctrine was born ( or at least named ), Heinrich von Brentano was the foreign minister, a post that had been recently created, after West Germany largely regained its sovereignty in 1955 — before this, political responsibility for foreign policy had been retained by the chancellor, Konrad Adenauer.

On 22 December 1989, the Brandenburg Gate crossing was reopened when Helmut Kohl, the West German chancellor, walked through to be greeted by Hans Modrow, the East German prime minister.

Mayor of Cologne from 1917 until 1933 and future West German chancellor Konrad Adenauer acknowledged the political impact of this approach, especially that the British opposed French plans for a permanent Allied occupation of the Rhineland.

Many of the above mentioned music and dance have been styliled by Prof. Rex Nettleford artistic director ( ret, prof and vice chancellor of The University of the West Indies ) and Marjorie Whyle Musical Director ( Caribbean Musicologist, pianist, drummer, arranger lecturer at the University of the West Indies ).

Chancellor of Federal Republic of Germany ( West Germany ) Helmut Schmidt, Chairman of the Council of State of the German Democratic Republic ( East Germany ) Erich Honecker, U. S. president Gerald Ford and Austrian chancellor Bruno Kreisky

Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F037099-0021, Köln, Staatsempfang für Präsident Pompidou. jpg | Pompidou with West German chancellor Willy Brandt in Cologne, 3 July 1972.

On completion of his studies in political science and international relations, he taught and held administrative offices in various universities: teaching assistant and research associate, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts ( 1960 – 62 ); visiting lecturer, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont ( summer 1962 ); assistant professor, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, ( fall 1962 ); lecturer / senior lecturer, University of Ibadan, where he became professor ( 1965 – 88 ), head of department ( 1965 – 72 ), and dean of the Faculty of the Social Sciences ( 1966 – 68 ); Cadbury Visiting Professorial Fellow, University of Birmingham Center for West African Studies, Birmingham, UK ( 1972 – 73 ); founding vice chancellor, University of Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria ( 1975 – 79 ); visiting professor and head of department ; dean, Faculty of Social Sciences and Director of the Center for Development Studies ; and member of the Governing Council, all of the University of Cross River State, Uyo, Nigeria ( 1984 – 86 ).

On 11 December 2009, the social-democratic city government of Berlin announced that Berlin-Brandenburg International Airport would receive the secondary name " Willy Brandt ", after the former West German chancellor, mayor of West Berlin, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

After World War I many Prussian agriculturists gathered in the national conservative German National People's Party ( DNVP ), the term was also applied to Reich President Paul von Hindenburg, lord at Neudeck in West Prussia, and to the " camarilla " around him urging the appointment of Adolf Hitler as German chancellor, personified by men like Hindenburg's son Oskar and his West Prussian " neighbour " Elard von Oldenburg-Januschau, who played a vital role in the Eastern Aid ( Osthilfe ) scandal of 1932 / 33.

* Konrad Adenauer, first chancellor of West Germany after World War II, and architect of the social market economy.

* Helmut Kohl, chancellor of West Germany and later the unified Germany.

His military campaigns against Charles the Simple to regain the Duchy of Lorraine with the Imperial city of Aachen were failures, Archbishop Ratbod of Trier even became West Frankish chancellor in 913.

West Germany took the lead through Helmut Haller early on, but six minutes later Moore was fouled just inside the German half of the field.

: Gestalt und Wirklichkeit ; Welthistorische Perspektives )-The Decline of the West ; an Abridged Edition by Helmut Werner ( tr.

On 24 April 1975, the West German embassy in Stockholm was seized by members of the RAF ; two of the hostages were murdered as the German government under Chancellor Helmut Schmidt refused to give in to their demands.

* Chancellor Helmut Schmidt ( West Germany )

* Chancellor Helmut Kohl ( West Germany )

* April 20 – NATO debates modernising short range missiles ; although the U. S. and U. K. are in favour, West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl obtains a concession deferring a decision.

They were also made against Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau and Chancellor of West Germany ( later all of Germany ), Helmut Kohl, when in power.

Chancellor Helmut Kohl of West Germany had decided to visit Moscow to negotiate German reunification, signalling to Powell that the last gasp of American power in Europe to be replaced by a new balance of power not resting on military force but on the " recognition of the restraints which the ultimate certainty of failure places upon the ambitions of the respective national states.

He remains the only manager to have taken England to more than two World Cup Finals, and one of only two managers in the world to have managed the same national team at four consecutive World Cup Finals tournaments ( the other one being Helmut Schön of West Germany ).

He was received with full state honours by West Germany's Helmut Kohl — an act that seemed to confirm West Germany's acceptance of East Germany's existence.

His good relations with Western politicians, especially France's Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing and West Germany's Helmut Schmidt, were a catalyst for his receiving western aid and loans.

Helmut Heinrich Waldemar Schmidt (; born 23 December 1918 ) is a German Social Democratic politician who served as Chancellor of West Germany from 1974 to 1982.

CDU Chairman Helmut Kohl became the new Chancellor of West Germany and his CDU-FDP coalition was confirmed in the 1983 federal election.

East German CDU leader Lothar de Maizière ( left ) with West German CDU leader Helmut Kohl, September 1990

West Germany's Helmut Rahn put them into the semi-finals with a single goal against Yugoslavia, while Sweden went though at the expense of USSR.

The CDU / CSU managed to get the FDP to defect from its coalition with the SPD in 1982, and thus CDU leader Helmut Kohl became Chancellor of West Germany.

On 28 November 1989 — two weeks after the fall of the Berlin Wall — West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl announced a 10-point program calling for the two Germanies to expand their cooperation with the view toward eventual reunification.

Attending were: Gerald Ford ( United States ), Harold Wilson ( United Kingdom ), Aldo Moro ( Italy ), Takeo Miki ( Japan ) and Helmut Schmidt ( West Germany ).

East German Prime Minister Lothar de Maizière had proposed that Becher's lyrics be added to the united German anthem, but this was rejected by his West German counterpart, Helmut Kohl.

Joining a touring version of the musical Hair, she spent several years living in West Germany, where she married Helmut Sommer, whose surname she adopted as her stage name.

* Helmut Schmidt, former Chancellor of West Germany.

Erich Honecker ( East Germany | GDR, left ) and Helmut Schmidt ( West Germany | FRG ) at the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe held in Helsinki in 1975