-> ,validPeriod= 1 -> The politician died surrounded by his family. Genscher played a significant role in overcoming the division of Europe into hostile blocks of military and political, in the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany in 1990. He was an ardent advocate of an agreement with the Polish. For many years he headed the liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP), a smaller coalition partner of the SPD and CDU. "Thanks to its reliability and diplomatic craftsmanship Hans-Dietrich Genscher became the face of our country in the world and won the trust of partners abroad," - said the President of Germany Joachim Gauck. Genscher contributed to the "peaceful reunification of our country and our continent" - stressed the President in a letter of condolence to the widow of a politician. Genscher was a "great statesman" - he said on behalf of the German government's deputy spokesman Georg Streiter. Office of the Minister of Foreign Affairs Frank-Walter Steinmeier Genscher described as "the great German and a great European." Genscher is guaranteed a place in the history books - said the SPD politician. For the head of the Bundesrat, Stanislaw Tillich Genscher was the "architect of German unity." The French government called it "a convinced European" and "the foundation of German-French". Genscher was born in 1927 in Halle. Like most of his peers he belonged to the Nazi Hitler youth. At the end of the war he was captured American. After the war he became ill with tuberculosis, which in those days often ended in death. In 1952, after graduating from law school in the GDR Genscher he fled with his mother to West Germany. In Bremen, where he initially lived, he joined the Free Democratic Party (FDP), grouping, which since the late 60s was the West German politics tip the scales. In the existing since 1969 a coalition government with the SPD under the leadership of Chancellor Willy Brandt, Genscher was initially the Ministry of Internal Affairs. When after the disclosure of the scandal with the "spy chancellor" Guenter Guillaume in 1974, Brandt was replaced as leader of the SPD and the head of government of Helmut Schmidt, Genscher took with him the position of Foreign Minister. Soon after, the new chairman of the FDP in place on the German President Walter Scheel - Foreign Minister in the government Brandt. In 1982, in the face of ever-closer political rifts between the Social Democrats and Liberals their alliance fell apart, and directed by Genscher FDP supported the Bundestag constructive vote of no confidence against Chancellor Schmidt, entering into a coalition government with the Christian Democratic bloc CDU / CSU new Chancellor Helmut Kohl. Genscher remained with him foreign minister, fulfilling this function almost continuously for 18 years, which is a kind of record, not only in Germany. As one of the first Western politicians Genscher made in the second half of the 80s, despite Kohl, the diplomatic game with the Secretary General of the CPSU Mikhail Gorbachev, to check the credibility of detente gestures Soviet leadership. Essential to achieve Genscher as foreign minister considered to negotiate by him in September 1989 agreement to allow to go more than four thousand GDR refugees from the German embassy in Prague to West Germany. Using the trust leadership of the USSR, first of all good, the personal relations with the then Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, Genscher played a major role in negotiations 2 + 4, which led to the reunification of Germany in 1990. The FDP politician resigned unexpectedly in 1992 from the post. Earlier, in 1985, he ceased to follow the party. In 1998, he left after 33 years with the Bundestag. Almost to the end of life of public appearances, giving interviews and participating in conferences and meetings. In surveys and polls was one of the most popular politicians in Germany. From Berlin Jacek Lepiarz Subscribe to digital Electoral available through the internet, phone, tablet and eReader from 19.90 per month
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