Willy Brandt (* 18. Dezember 1913 in Lübeck; † 8. Oktober 1992 in Unkel)
What JFK was for the American was Willy for the West Germans.
After twenty years with three chancellors from the Christ Democrats and one year after massive protest from the APO (außerparlamentarische Opposition/ outer parliament opposition) it was time for a change. This change was embodied in Willy Brandt, the former Mayor of West Berlin and first social democratic Chancellor.
Helmut Kohl (CDU) (* 3. April 1930 in Ludwigshafen )
The Chancellor who was in charge during the reunification of Germany, he is also known for achievements in …
Errm
I am really sorry for speaking it out loud, but beside the fact, that Kohl was coincidently Chancellor at the time when the wall falls down and therefore sixteen years in total in charge, there is nothing important what comes into my mind when it comes to him.
Imanuel Kant (* 22. April 1724 in Königsberg; † 12. Februar 1804 the very same)
Only idiots or kooky people would try to recap the whole work of this man, so I will just sum up the central points of his work:
Konrad Adenauer (* 5. Januar 1876 in Köln; † 19. April 1967 in Rhöndorf)
There are three things that describe Adenauer at is best: He was old, he was clean and he had his own will. Those were also the reasons why the Nazis never really trusted him, he was too quick witted for them. He maybe never saw an equal in them. During the Weimarer Republic he recognized them most certainly only as the smaller damage compared to the social democrats and communists.
And it came the day, where I was looking on YouTube for german history and only found Hitler and Prostitutes.
I mean WTF? Two thousand years of history and the only thing i can find outside from Wikipedia are Hitler and prostitutes. That sucks pretty much.
And what it makes even worse is, that the british BBC once asked their viewership to name the 100 most important british people, a concept copied by the german Broadcast. And did they gave us? A collection of Top Ten Rankings which also includes our most famous vehicle and shows us, that the germans think, that the wheel was the most important invention of all time is the wheel.
That is just plain stupid.
So here is now my alternative collection, the order of apereance don't reflect the importance of each person. It is just the order how I came up with them and nobody is a former "Idol" singer or producer.
Every week there will be at least one new name one the list.
