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...lives for politics." - Hartmut Knüppel, a close friend who has known Westerwelle since they met through a youth wing of the FDP close to 30 years ago (TIME, Sept...
...living embodiment of Germany's national stereotype. Square-jawed, bronzed and urbane, the 47-year-old leader of the liberal Free Democratic Party doesn't exactly radiate humor. Asked what motivates him, he answers solemnly, "I burn internally." "He lives for politics," confirms close friend Hartmut Knüppel, who has known Westerwelle since they met through a youth wing of the FDP almost three decades...
...character. They're not easy to locate. His stolid public persona turns out to be just as misleading as the notion that all Germans lack a funny bone. The private Guido is complex. An art collector, he is "witty, self-deprecating, a completely normal person," says Knüppel, these days head of the association of German derivative securities issuers. "He hasn't lost his moorings by being in the public...
Berlin. A squad of police met up with a band of "demonstrators" armed with knives and brass knuckles, laid about them with their gummi knüppel (rubber clubs), grievously injured one. In the west-Prussian town of Halle, Communists opened fire on the police, who retaliated in kind, killing...
Last week the Ministry of the Interior solemnly invoked the Defense of the Republic Act, suppressed Rote Fahne for two weeks, Knüppel for two months...