Hildegard Hamm-Brücher was a liberal politician in Germany. She held federal state secretary positions from 1969 to 1972 and from 1977 to 1982. She was the Free Democratic Party's candidate in the first two rounds of the federal presidency elections in 1994.
Hildegard Hamm-Brücher in 1976
Hildegard Hamm-Brücher in 2010
Die Neue Zeitung was a newspaper published in the American Occupation Zone of Germany after the Second World War. It was comparable to the daily newspaper Die Welt in the British Occupation Zone and was considered the most important newspaper in post-war Germany.
Masthead of a special edition of Die Neue Zeitung, Berlin Edition, 24 June 1948. The headline reads, "How Berlin Got the German Mark". Exchange of the old reichsmark for the new German mark in June 1948 was a vital step in the reform of Germany's postwar economy and set off the Soviet blockade of Berlin and the subsequent Berlin Airlift.