The German statesman Willy Brandt (1913-1992) became the first Socialist chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, or West Germany, in 1969. Herbert Frahm, who later adopted the name Willy Brandt, was born in the North Sea port of Lübeck on...

Willy Brandt was a social democratic politician and statesman in the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG). He was mayor of West Berlin (in 1957–66) when the German Democratic Republic (GDR) built the Berlin Wall (on 13 August 1961) and was the first...

Willy Brandt, born Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm (December 18, 1913 - October 8, 1992), was a German politician, Chancellor of West Germany 1969 – 1974, and leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 1964 – 1987. His most important...

WILLY BRANDT, dead at 78, played a giant role in the great projects of restoring the good name and unity of Germany and easing and then ending the Cold War. He fitted himself to tackle these tasks early on by trimming his otherwise suspect...

WILLY BRANDT was one of the people who built West Germany's Social Democrats into a party that was splendidly capable of governing the country. That was a historic contribution to German democracy and to the stability of European politics. But by the time he...