Willy Brandt

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Biography

Chancellor of West Germany , SPD

  • Country
  • Germany
  • Nationality
  • German
  • Gender
  • Male
  • Birth date
  • 18 December 1913
  • Place of birth
  • Lübeck
  • Death date
  • 1992-10-08
  • Death age
  • 79
  • Place of death
  • Unkel
  • Cause of death
  • Natural causes
  • Children
  • Ninja Frahm·Matthias Brandt·Lars Brandt·Peter Brandt
  • Spouses
  • Anna Carlotta Thorkildsen·Rut Brandt·Brigitte Seebacher
  • Education
  • Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg·University of Strasbourg·University of Göttingen
  • Knows language
  • Swedish language·German language·Norwegian language
  • Member of
  • Social Democratic Party of Germany·Social Democratic Party of Germany·Socialist Workers' Party of Germany
  • Parents
  • Martha Frahm

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Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (22 October 1969 to 7 May 1974).

Winner of Nobel Peace Prize, 1971.

Mayor of West Berlin from 1957 to 1966. He stood next to US President John F. Kennedy when he gave his famous speech criticizing communism on his Berlin trip.

Foreign minister and vice chancellor of West Germany from 1966 to 1969.

Was the first Social-Democratic chancellor of the Bundesrepublik Deutschland. He was followed by Helmut Schmidt (SPD) in 1974.

Father of Peter Brandt , Lars Brandt and actor Matthias Brandt.

Politician (Federal Republic of Germany)

Time Magazines Person of the Year.

Honorary citizen of Lbeck.

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