Genscher, Hans-Dietrich

Genscher, Hans-Dietrich

▪ German foreign minister
born March 21, 1927, Reideburg, near Halle, Germany
 
 chairman (1974–85) of the West German Free Democratic Party (Freie Demokratische Partei; FDP) and foreign minister (1974–92) in both Social Democratic Party (Social Democratic Party of Germany) and Christian Democratic UnionChristian Social Union ministries, before and after German unification in 1990.

      During World War II Genscher was drafted into the German armed services and was a prisoner of war at war's end. After his release he settled in what became East Germany, studying law and economics at the universities in Halle and Leipzig and becoming a junior barrister in 1949. In 1952 he fled to West Germany and soon joined the Free Democratic Party, rising quickly in its official ranks in Bremen. In 1965 he was elected to the Bundestag as a deputy for North Rhine-Westphalia. Beginning in 1969 the Free Democrats gave their support to the dominant Social Democrats in a coalition government, and Genscher became minister of the interior. Five years later he won the chairmanship of his party and the foreign ministry in the government. In 1982 the Free Democrats switched their allegiance to the Christian Democrats, who took over the government; Genscher continued as foreign minister.

      Genscher strongly favoured better relations with the Soviet Union and the old eastern bloc and, after Mikhail Gorbachev (Gorbachev, Mikhail) came to power, insisted that the West should take advantage of the historic opportunities for detente. In 1989–90 he worked vigorously for German reunification and became the first foreign minister of the unified Germany. He resigned from the cabinet in 1992 but remained a member of the Bundestag until his retirement in 1998.

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