Herbert Wehner
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Richard Herbert Wehner was a German politician. A former member of the Communist Party of Germany, he joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany after World War II. He served as Federal Minister of
Iconic portrait of Minister Wehner with his pipe, 1966
Wehner in the 1930s
Wehner (left), Brandt and Schmidt (right) at a SPD convention in Hanover, 1973
Willy Brandt
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Willy Brandt was a German politician and statesman who was leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany from 1964 to 1987 and concurrently served as the chancellor of West Germany from 1969 to 197
Herbert Wehner
…the implementation of a plurality voting system, which he later denoted as "nonsense". When the SPD assumed the reins of government under Chancellor Willy Brandt upon the 1969 federal election, Wehner became chairman of the SPD parliamentary faction. He was known as a hard disciplinarian who kept his members in…
Official portrait, 1980
Herbert Frahm's Norwegian passport photograph, c. 1938–1940
Brandt's official Bundestag portrait, 1953
Brandt in 1959 as Governing Mayor of West Berlin