Willy Brandt

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Chancellor of Germany Nobel Peace Prize laureate human politician

Willy Brandt was a prominent German Social Democratic politician and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who served as Chancellor of West Germany from 1969 to 1974 and pursued a groundbreaking policy of reconciliation with Eastern Europe known as Ostpolitik.

Aliases (2)

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Chancellor of Germany → Nobel Peace Prize laureate → human → politician →
awardReceived	Charlemagne Prize → Freedom Award → Nobel Peace Prize →
burialPlace	Waldfriedhof Zehlendorf →
causeOfDeath	colon cancer →
child	Lars Brandt → Matthias Brandt → Peter Brandt →
countryOfCitizenship	Germany → Norway →
dateOfBirth	1913-12-18 →
dateOfDeath	1992-10-08 →
employer	Federal Government of Germany → Senate of Berlin →
exiledTo	Norway → Sweden →
familyName	Frahm →
givenName	Herbert →
honorificTitle	Dr. h.c. mult. →
ideology	social democracy →
knownFor	improvement of East–West relations during the Cold War → policy of reconciliation with Eastern Europe →
memberOfPoliticalParty	Social Democratic Party of Germany →
movement	Ostpolitik →
notableWork	Ostpolitik →
officeEndTime	1974-05-07 →
officeStartTime	1969-10-22 →
participatedIn	German resistance to Nazism →
placeOfBirth	Lübeck →
placeOfDeath	Unkel →
politicalAlignment	centre-left →
positionHeld	Chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Germany → Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany → Foreign Minister of West Germany → Mayor of West Berlin → Vice-Chancellor of West Germany →
pseudonym	Willy Brandt →
religion	Lutheranism →
residence	Berlin → Bonn →
signature	Willy Brandt signature →
spouse	Brigitte Seebacher → Carlota Thorkildsen → Rut Brandt →

Referenced by (24)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Berlin Brandenburg Airport → Berlin Brandenburg Airport → Willy Brandt building →	namedAfter
Ostpolitik → Wandel durch Annäherung →	associatedWith
State funeral of John F. Kennedy →	attendedBy
Treaty of Moscow (1970) →	countryRepresentedBy
Lübeck Katharineum →	hasNotableAlumnus
Ostpolitik →	mainProponent
Treaty of Moscow (1970) →	negotiatedBy
Warsaw Ghetto Heroes Monument ("Willy Brandt Kniefall von Warschau") →	notableEvent
Social Democratic Party of Germany →	notableLeader
Governing Mayor of West Berlin →	notableOfficeHolder
Chancellor of Germany →	officeHoldersInclude
Treaty of Warsaw (1970) →	partyGovernmentLeader
Social Democratic Party of Germany →	producedChancellorOfGermany
Willy Brandt →	pseudonym
Egon Bahr →	servedUnder
Treaty of Moscow (1970) →	signedBy
Treaty of Warsaw (1970) →	signedByHeadOfGovernment
Basic Treaty between the FRG and the GDR (1972) →	signedUnderChancellor
Kurt Georg Kiesinger →	succeededBy
Treaty of Warsaw (1970) ("Willy Brandt’s Kniefall von Warschau") →	symbolicEventAssociated
Warsaw Ghetto Heroes Monument →	visitedBy