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Blockade & Airlift. It was an uphill battle. But Reuter's position was sound in the light of subsequent events. His position today as one of the top three West Germans is the result of the clarity of his thinking and the staunchness of his principles...
...typified and toughened, brought results. The U.S. and Britain mounted the huge and magnificent airlift effort. While the struggle raged in the air, it also crackled on the ground. In August 1948 Communist hooligans raided the City Hall, which was in the Soviet sector. As they burst in on Reuter, he waved them away: "Can't you see I've got work to do?" When the City Hall finally became untenable, Reuter led the municipal administration (minus the Communists) to Western Berlin. The split of the city into East and West was now final. In the December...
Work & Wait. Along with his people, Ernst Reuter was working and waiting. In his modest home in the suburb of Zehlendorf, in the U.S. sector, he got up every morning at 7:30 and ate a modest breakfast. ("He has no time for exercise and he doesn't want to get fat," his petite, redheaded wife explained.) At 8:15, he set a black beret on his unruly grey hair, picked up his cane and went out to his official car, a black Mercedes sedan. At 8:30, he arrived at the great, grey Rathaus Schoneberg and walked...
...Reuter also had to make frequent trips to Western Germany, mostly to plead the city's case at Bonn, sometimes to meet with the Minister-Presidents of the eleven Western Länder (states), sometimes to confer with Socialist Party colleagues. Whenever time permitted, he traveled by car on the Autobahn through the Soviet zone, even though he was anathema to the Russians; he was determined to assert the Berliners' right of free access to their city...
...other children by a previous marriage-son Harry, now a British subject, who is studying at Manchester University, and daughter Hella, who is ill and lives in Western Germany.) His leisure wants were simple: cigars to smoke and a library to browse in. "All we own," Frau Reuter said, "is a sofa, some armchairs and a few rugs. Everything else is rented. My husband is really only interested in his books, but they are all special ones. I don't think you will find a novel in the house. You will find all the Greek philosophers and just about...