Biography willy brandt

Willy Brandt is regarded as one of the outstanding statesmen of the 20^th century. Born into a working-class family in Lübeck, he made his way to Berlin and Bonn by way of Oslo and Stockholm and left behind an international political legacy.

Dedicated European and German Patriot - Willy Brandt

Whether as a social democrat, opponent of the Nazis, governing mayor of Berlin, foreign minister, federal chancellor, Nobel Peace Prize recipient or international statesman: Willy Brandt constantly devoted himself to freedom, peace, democracy and justice.

Youth in Lübeck and Exile in Scandinavia

Willy Brandt is born in 1913 into Lübeck’s working-class milieu.

At the early age of sixteen he already joins the SPD (Social-Democratic Party of Germany). In 1933, when the national socialists put an abrupt end to democracy in Germany, Brandt flees to Norway. From there he continues to offer resistance to the NS regime, which revokes his citizenship in 1938. During the Second World War he finds asylum in Sweden where he continues his pol biography willy brandt5 XOQ