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 (1963).
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.