Mayors of Berlin - West Berlin, Willy Brandt, East Berlin, Ernst Reuter, Richard Von Weizsacker, Klaus Wowereit, List of Mayors of Berlin (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 38. Chapters: West Berlin, Willy Brandt, East Berlin, Ernst Reuter, Richard von Weizsacker, Klaus Wowereit, List of mayors of Berlin, Ludwig Steeg, Max von Forckenbeck, Friedrich Ebert, Louise Schroeder, Heinrich Sahm, Ferdinand Friedensburg, Hans-Jochen Vogel, Walter Momper, Martin Kirschner, Otto Ostrowski, Julius Lippert, Heinrich Albertz, Otto Suhr, Governing Mayor of Berlin, Dietrich Stobbe, Arthur Werner, Eberhard Diepgen, Klaus Schutz, Erhard Krack, Walther Schreiber. Excerpt: West Berlin was a political exclave that existed between 1949 and 1990. It comprised the western regions of Berlin, which were bordered by East Berlin and parts of East Germany. West Berlin consisted of the American, British, and French occupation sectors, which had been established in 1945. It was politically closely affiliated with West Germany, although it had a special status, because its administration was formally conducted by the Allies. East Berlin encompassed the region occupied and administered by the Soviet Union, and was claimed as capital by East Germany. The Western Allies did not recognise this claim, as they asserted that the entire city of Berlin was legally under four-power administration. The building of the Berlin Wall in 1961 physically divided East Berlin and West Berlin until the Fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. With about two million inhabitants, West Berlin had the highest number of residents of any city in Cold War-era Germany. West Berlin, as of 1978The Potsdam Agreement established the legal framework for the occupation of Germany in the wake of World War II. According to the agreement, Germany would be formally under the administration of the four major wartime Allies-the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and the Soviet Union-until a German government acceptable to all parties would be established. The territory ...