Word: albertz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...East," robbing the city of its old excitement and sense of purpose. To make matters worse, the West German recession has caused a severe Berlin business slump. On top of all that, Mayor Willy Brandt went to Bonn last December and turned his job over to Heinrich Albertz, a hapless preacher-turned-politician who was unable to rule his own party, let alone the largest (pop. 2,191,000) city in Germany...
...Mayor Albertz had been in office only six months when he began to lose his grip. His trouble started with the Shah of Iran's visit in June, when West Berlin police fired on student demonstrators, killing one of them. Albertz backed up his police, but later had to back down when the city's parliament decided that the police had, in fact, used too much muscle. After that, internal party squabbles forced Albertz to resign. Last week, by a vote of 81 to 38, the West Berlin parliament gave the problem-packed mayoral post to energetic Klaus...
Though he was not anxious to lose his protégé, Brandt could hardly object to Schütz's return to Berlin. Schütz quickly made it clear that he, has little faith in Albertz's plan to rebuild West Berlin prosperity by turning the city into a center for trade and cultural exchange between East and West. Not that he is against "building bridges," said Schütz, but he is unwilling to pay the price the Communists demand for their cooperation. The East Germans want West Berlin turned into a "Free City" without...
...last two years a left has begun to form again. It has drawn men from both sides of the old dividing line, men united by a sympathy for the students and an increased willingness to look across the Wall. By the end of his abbreviated term Albertz depended on leftists for support; it was the right-wingers, angered by his indecision and economic problems who overthrew...
...leftists quickly demanded guarantees that the new mayor would work with them as Albertz had. Schutz, feeling himself publicly challenged, refused to make any commitments. The leftists then caucused and several small groups did vote against accepting him as mayor; the majority was, inevitably, for him. The alternative, which Brandt presented with some glee, was to turn the city over to the Christian Democrats...