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{{Short description|Chancellor of West Germany from 1969 to 1974}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name                = Willy Brandt
| image               = Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F057884-0009, Willy Brandt.jpg
| caption             = Brandt in 1980
| signature           = Willy Brandt signature.svg
| office              = Chancellor of Germany{{efn|Due to the division of Germany, Willy Brandt was only the Federal Chancellor in West Germany. The term '''West Germany''' is the common English name for the '''Federal Republic of Germany''' between its formation on 23 May 1949 and the German reunification through the accession of [[Place:East Germany|East Germany]] on 3 October 1990. The office of chancellor did not exist in East Germany.}}
| president           = Gustav Heinemann
| 1blankname          = Vice-Chancellor
| 1namedata           = Walter Scheel
| term_start          = 22 October 1969
| term_end            = 7 May 1974
| predecessor         = Kurt Georg Kiesinger
| successor           = {{unbulleted list|Walter Scheel {{small|(interim)}}|Helmut Schmidt}}
|office1              = Leader of the Social Democratic Party
|1blankname1          = {{nowrap|Federal Manager}}
| 1namedata1          = {{unbulleted list|Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski|Holger Börner|Egon Bahr|Peter Glotz}} 
| term_start1         = 16 February 1964
| term_end1           = 14 June 1987
| predecessor1        = Erich Ollenhauer
| successor1          = Hans-Jochen Vogel
| office2             = Vice-Chancellor of Germany
| chancellor2         = Kurt Georg Kiesinger
| predecessor2        = Hans-Christoph Seebohm
| successor2          = Walter Scheel
| term_start2         = 1 December 1966
| term_end2           = 22 October 1969
| office3             = Minister for Foreign Affairs
| chancellor3         = Kurt Georg Kiesinger
| term_start3         = 1 December 1966
| term_end3           = 20 October 1969
| predecessor3        = Gerhard Schröder
| successor3          = Walter Scheel
| office4             = Governing Mayor of West Berlin
| 1blankname4        = {{nowrap|Mayor}}
| 1namedata4         = {{unbulleted list|Franz Amrehn|Heinrich Albertz}} 
| term_start4         = 3 October 1957
| term_end4           = 30 November 1966
| predecessor4        = Otto Suhr
| successor4          = Heinrich Albertz
|office5              = President of the Bundesrat
|1blankname5          = {{nowrap|First Vice President}}
| 1namedata5          = {{unbulleted list|Kurt Sieveking}}
| term_start5         = 1 November 1957
| term_end5           = 31 October 1958
| predecessor5        = Kurt Sieveking
| successor5          = Wilhelm Kaisen
| office6             = President of the<br />Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin
| term_start6         = 11 January 1955
| term_end6           = 2 October 1957
| predecessor6        = Otto Suhr
| successor6          = {{ill|Kurt Landsberg|de}}
| party               = Social Democratic Party (1930–1931; from 1948)
| otherparty          = Socialist Workers' Party (1931–1946)
| birth_name          = Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm
| birth_date          = {{birth date|1913|12|18|df=y}}
| birth_place         = [[Place:Lübeck|Lübeck]], Free City of Lübeck, [[Place:German Empire|German Empire]] {{small|(now Schleswig-Holstein, {{wipe|Germany}})}}
| death_date          = {{death date and age|1992|10|8|1913|12|18|df=y}}
| death_place         = Unkel, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
| spouse              = {{unbulleted list|{{marriage|Carlotta Thorkildsen|1941|1948|end=divorced}}| {{marriage| Rut Hansen|1948|1980|end=divorced}}|{{marriage|Brigitte Seebacher|1983}}}}
| children            = 4, including Matthias
| citizenship         = Germany (revoked 1938; regained 1948) <br />Norway (from 1940)<!--Brandt never loss his norwainian citezenship.-->
| resting_place       = Zehlendorf, Berlin
| awards              = Nobel Peace Prize (1971)
}}
'''Willy Brandt''' ({{IPA-de|ˈvɪliː ˈbʁant|lang|De-Willy Brandt.ogg}}; born '''Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm'''; 18 December 1913 – 8 October 1992) was a German politician and statesman who was leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) from 1964 to 1987 and served as the chancellor of West Germany from 1969 to 1974. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1971 for his efforts to strengthen cooperation in western Europe through the EEC and to achieve reconciliation between West Germany and the countries of [[Place:Eastern Europe|Eastern Europe]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1971/press.html |title=The 1971 Nobel Prize – Presentation Speech |website=Nobelprize.org |access-date=17 April 2017}}</ref> He was the first Social Democratic chancellor since 1930.<ref>Since Hermann Müller in 1930</ref>

Fleeing to Norway and then Sweden during the Nazi regime and working as a [[Social:Left-wing politics|left-wing]] journalist, he took the name Willy Brandt as a pseudonym to avoid detection by Nazi agents, and then formally adopted the name in 1948. Brandt was originally considered one of the leaders of the right wing of the SPD, and earned initial fame as Governing Mayor of West Berlin. He served as the foreign minister and as the vice-chancellor in Kurt Georg Kiesinger's cabinet, and became chancellor in 1969.

As chancellor, he maintained West Germany's close alignment with the United States and focused on strengthening European integration in western Europe, while launching the new policy of ''Ostpolitik'' aimed at improving relations with Eastern Europe. Brandt was controversial on both the right wing, for his ''Ostpolitik'', and on the left wing, for his support of American policies, including the Vietnam War, and [[Social:Right-wing dictatorship|right-wing authoritarian]] regimes. The [[Finance:Brandt Report|Brandt Report]] became a recognised measure for describing the general [[Finance:North–South divide in the World|North-South divide]] in world economics and politics between an affluent North and a poor South. Brandt was also known for his fierce anti-communist policies at the domestic level, culminating in the ''Radikalenerlass'' (Anti-Radical Decree) in 1972.
In 1970, while visiting a memorial to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising crushed by the Germans, Brandt unexpectedly knelt and meditated in silence, a moment remembered as the Kniefall von Warschau.

Brandt resigned as chancellor in 1974, after Günter Guillaume, one of his closest aides, was exposed as an agent of the Stasi, the East German secret service.

== Early life and WWII ==
Willy Brandt was born Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm in the Free City of Lübeck ([[Place:German Empire|German Empire]]) on 18 December 1913.<ref>{{cite book|last=Jessup|first=John E.|title=An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Conflict and Conflict Resolution, 1945–1996|year=1998|publisher=Greenwood Press|location=Westport, CT|page=89|url=https://www.questia.com/read/106899354/an-encyclopedic-dictionary-of-conflict-and-conflict|access-date=18 September 2017|archive-date=10 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171010024655/https://www.questia.com/read/106899354/an-encyclopedic-dictionary-of-conflict-and-conflict|url-status=dead}}</ref> His mother was Martha Frahm (1894–1969){{citation needed|date=January 2018}} a single parent, who worked as a cashier for a department store. His father was a teacher from [[Place:Hamburg|Hamburg]] named John Heinrich Möller (1887–1958)<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7tRyJy-An1MC&q=John+Heinrich+Möller+1887&pg=PA381 | title=Politik und Militär in Deutschland: Die Bundespräsidenten und Bundeskanzler und ihre Beziehung zu Soldatentum und Bundeswehr| isbn=9783937885360| last1=Kilian| first1=Dieter E.| year=2011| publisher=BoD – Books on Demand}}</ref> whom Brandt never met. As his mother worked six days a week, he was mainly brought up by his mother's stepfather, Ludwig Frahm (1875–1935). He joined the "Socialist Youth" in 1929 and the Social Democratic Party (SPD) in 1930. He left the SPD to join the more left wing Socialist Workers Party (SAP), which was allied to the POUM in Spain and the [[Social:Independent Labour Party|Independent Labour Party]] in Britain. 

After passing his ''Abitur'' in 1932 at ''Johanneum zu Lübeck'', he became an apprentice at the shipbroker and ship's agent F.H. Bertling. In 1933, using his connections with the port and its ships, he left Germany for Norway to escape [[Social:Nazism|Nazi]] persecution. It was at this time that he adopted the pseudonym '''Willy Brandt''' to avoid detection by Nazi agents. In 1934, he took part in the founding of the [[Organization:International Bureau of Revolutionary Youth Organizations|International Bureau of Revolutionary Youth Organizations]], and was elected to its secretariat.{{citation needed|date=January 2017}}

Brandt was in Germany from September to December 1936, disguised as a Norwegian student named '''Gunnar Gaasland'''. The real Gunnar Gaasland was married to Gertrud Meyer from Lübeck in a [[Social:Marriage of convenience|marriage of convenience]] to protect her from deportation. Meyer had joined Brandt in Norway in July 1933. In 1937, during the Spanish Civil War, Brandt worked in Spain as a journalist. In 1938, the German government revoked his citizenship, so he applied for Norwegian citizenship. In 1940, he was arrested in Norway by occupying German forces, but his real identity was not uncovered as he wore a Norwegian uniform. Upon his release, he escaped to neutral Sweden. In August 1940, he became a Norwegian citizen, receiving his passport from the Norwegian legation in Stockholm, where he lived until the end of the war. He lectured in Sweden on 1 December 1940 at Bommersvik College about problems experienced by the social democrats in [[Place:Nazi Germany|Nazi Germany]] and the occupied countries at the start of the Second World War. In exile in Norway and Sweden, he learned Norwegian and Swedish. He spoke Norwegian fluently, and retained a close relationship with Norway.{{citation needed|date=January 2017}}

In late 1946, Brandt returned to [[Place:Berlin|Berlin]], working for the Norwegian government. In 1948, he re-joined the SPD and became a German citizen again, formally adopting the pseudonym Willy Brandt as his legal name. In 2021, it became known that Brandt served as a paid informant for the US Counterintelligence Corps from 1948 to 1952. He supplied reports on circumstances in the GDR, including the situation of East German authorities and industries, as well as Soviet troops.<ref>{{citation|surname1=Klaus Wiegrefe|periodical=Der Spiegel|title=Informant »O-35-VIII«: Willy Brandt war für den US-Geheimdienst aktiv|issn=2195-1349|date=17 December 2021|language=German|url=https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/willy-brandt-war-bis-1952-informant-des-us-geheimdienstes-cic-a-1d29dd17-55a0-44b9-8f65-7d726772f988|access-date=18 December 2021
}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Willy Brandt war Informant für US-Militärgeheimdienst|periodical=Die Zeit|publisher=|url=https://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2021-12/willy-brandt-us-geheimdienst-cic-informant|url-status=|format=|access-date=|archive-url=|archive-date=|last=|date=18 December 2021|language=|pages=|quote= |last1=Schlitt |first1=Anna-Lena }}</ref>

== Politician ==
Brandt was elected to the West German Bundestag (the federal parliament) in the 1949 West German federal election as a SPD delegate from West Berlin, serving there until 1957. Concurrently, he was elected as an SPD representative to the Abgeordnetenhaus (the state-level parliament) of West Berlin in the 1950 West Berlin state election, and served there through 1971. In the 1969 West German federal election he was again elected to the Bundestag, but as a delegate from North Rhine-Westphalia, and remained in the Bundestag as a delegate from that state until his death in 1992.<ref name="Noack">{{cite book |last1=Noack |first1=Hans-Joachim |title=Willy Brandt: Ein Leben, ein Jahrhundert |date=2013 |publisher=Rowohlt |location=Berlin |isbn=978-3871346453}}</ref>

In 1950, Brandt, while a member of the Bundestag and the editor-in-chief of the ''Berliner Stadtblatt'', received a secret payment of about 170,000 Deutsche Mark from the U.S. government ({{Inflation|DE|170000|1950|fmt=eq|cursign=€}}).<ref name="faz16">{{cite news |url=https://m.faz.net/aktuell/politik/inland/historiker-enthuellt-washington-unterstuetzte-willy-brandt-mit-geheimen-zahlungen-14280080.html |title=Washington unterstützte Willy Brandt mit geheimen Zahlungen |language=de |trans-title=Washington supported Willy Brandt with secret payments |date=10 June 2016 |access-date=21 June 2020 |newspaper=Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung }}</ref> 
[[File:Willy Brandt (1959).jpg|right|thumb|Brandt in 1959 as Governing Mayor of West Berlin]]
From 3 October 1957 to 1966, Willy Brandt served as Governing Mayor of West Berlin, during a period of increasing tension in East-West relations that led to the construction of the Berlin Wall. In his first year as mayor of Berlin, he also served as the president of the Bundesrat in Bonn. He was an outspoken critic of Soviet repression of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising and of Nikita Khrushchev's 1958 proposal that Berlin receive the status of a "[[Earth:City-state|free city]]". He was supported by the influential publisher Axel Springer.{{cn|date=September 2022}}

As mayor of West Berlin, Brandt accomplished much in the way of urban development. New hotels, office-blocks, and flats were constructed, while both Schloss Charlottenburg and the Reichstag building were restored. Sections of the "Stadtring" Bundesautobahn 100 [[Social:Inner city|inner city]] motorway were opened, while a major housing programme was carried out, with roughly 20,000 new dwellings built each year during his time in office.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://spartacus-educational.com/GERbrandtW.htm |title=Willy Brandt : Biography |publisher=Spartacus-Educational.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111009112249/http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/GERbrandtW.htm |archive-date=9 October 2011 |access-date=27 February 2019 }}</ref>
[[File:John F. Kennedy meeting with Willy Brandt, March 13, 1961.jpg|left|thumb|Brandt meeting John F. Kennedy in 1961]]
At the start of 1961, U.S. President [[Biography:John F. Kennedy|John F. Kennedy]] saw Brandt as a figure destined for high office in West Germany and was hoping he would replace Konrad Adenauer as chancellor following elections later that year.<ref>{{harvp|Kempe|2011|p=98}}</ref> Kennedy made this preference clear by inviting Brandt, the West German opposition leader, to an official meeting at the White House a month before meeting with Adenauer, the country's leader. For the president, Brandt stood for Germany's future and for overcoming traditional Cold War thinking.<ref>{{harvp|Daum|2008}}.</ref>

The diplomatic snub strained relations between Kennedy and Adenauer further during an especially tense time for Berlin.<ref>{{harvp|Kempe|2011|p=166}}</ref> However, following the building of the Berlin Wall in August 1961, Brandt was disappointed and angry with Kennedy. Speaking in Berlin three days later, Brandt criticized Kennedy, asserting "Berlin expects more than words. It expects political action." He also wrote Kennedy a highly critical public letter in which he warned that the development was liable "to arouse doubts about the ability of the three [Allied] Powers to react and their determination" and he called the situation "a state of accomplished extortion".<ref>{{harvp|Kempe|2011|pp=375–376}}</ref> Kennedy was furious, but managed to defuse the tension by sending his vice president, Lyndon B. Johnson, to Berlin.<ref>{{harvp|Daum|2008|pages=27–28}}</ref> In June 1963, Brandt figured prominently in the staging of Kennedy's triumphant visit to West Berlin.<ref>{{harvp|Daum|2008|pages=125–62}}.</ref>

Brandt became the chairman of the SPD in 1964, a post that he retained until 1987, longer than any other party chairman since the founding of the SPD by [[Biography:August Bebel|August Bebel]]. Brandt was the SPD candidate for the chancellorship in 1961, but he lost to Konrad Adenauer's conservative Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU). In 1965, Brandt ran again, but lost to the popular Ludwig Erhard. Erhard's government was short-lived, however, and in 1966 a [[Grand coalition|grand coalition]] between the SPD and CDU was formed, with Brandt serving as foreign minister and as the 5th Vice-Chancellor of Germany.

== Chancellor ==
In the 1969 elections, again with Brandt as the leading candidate, the SPD became stronger, and after three weeks of negotiations, the SPD formed a coalition government with the smaller Free Democratic Party of Germany (FDP). Brandt was elected chancellor.

=== Foreign policy ===
[[File:Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F037099-0021, Köln, Staatsempfang für Präsident Pompidou.jpg|thumb|Brandt with French president Georges Pompidou in Cologne, 3 July 1972]]

As chancellor, Brandt developed his ''(Neue) Ostpolitik'' ("new eastern policy") by stages. He was active in creating a degree of rapprochement with [[Place:East Germany|East Germany]], and also in improving relations with the Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and other Eastern Bloc (communist) countries.

Brandt introduced his Ostpolitik gradually starting in 1967 with the establishment of diplomatic relations with Romania and making a trade agreement with Czechoslovakia. In 1968 he restored diplomatic relations with Yugoslavia. However the August 1968, Kremlin-controlled invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Warsaw Pact was a profound disappointment. He condemned the invasion and put Ostpolitik on hold while he negotiated a coalition with the Free Democrats. In late 1969 he indicated his readiness to meet with East German leadership on the basis of equality, without preconditions. He also expressed an eagerness to meet with the USSR and Poland to resolve frontier questions that had remained unsettled since 1945. He met with the East German premier Willi Stoph in 1970.

Brandt made a six-point proposal that would involve two separate German states that respected each other's territorial integrity and settle disputes peacefully. They would cooperate as neighbors and the rights of the Four Powers in Berlin would be respected by both of them, and finally that the situation around Berlin would be improved. No agreements were reached at first but talks continued. In 1970 he signed a treaty with the Soviet Union which normalised relations and recognized existing national boundaries. The treaty with Poland in December 1970 accepted the current boundaries, which had long been in dispute. During a visit to a monument to the German occupation-era Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, he unexpectedly, and apparently spontaneously, knelt (Kniefall von Warschau), honoring the victims. This was met with a strong positive reaction worldwide, but was highly controversial in the German public at the time.
[[File:Willy Brandt Square 02.jpg|thumb|Monument commemorating the Kniefall von Warschau]]
The Berlin question was settled in 1971 to West Germany's satisfaction. The crowning step came with the Basic Treaty with East Germany. The status quo was legitimized, relations were formalized on the basis of equality, and both Germanies joined the United Nations in 1973.<ref>Frank W. Thackeray and John E. Findling, eds. ''Statesmen Who Changed the World: A Bio-Bibliographical Dictionary of Diplomacy'' (Greenwood, 1993) pp 60-63</ref> Brandt became the first German chancellor to address the United Nations General Assembly.

''{{wipe|Time (magazine)}}'' magazine in the U.S. named Brandt as its Man of the Year for 1970, stating, "Willy Brandt is in effect seeking to end World War II by bringing about a fresh relationship between East and West. He is trying to accept the real situation in Europe, which has lasted for 25 years, but he is also trying to bring about a new reality in his bold approach to the Soviet Union and the East Bloc."<ref name="Time 1971">{{cite magazine |title=Man Of The Year: On the Road to a New Reality |url=http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,942376,00.html |access-date=April 16, 2022 |magazine={{wipe|Time (magazine)}} |date=January 4, 1971}}</ref> President Richard Nixon also was pushing détente on behalf of the United States. The Nixon policies amounted to co-opting Brandt's Ostpolitik.<ref>{{harvp|Juneau|2011}}</ref>

In 1971, Brandt received the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in improving relations with East Germany, Poland, and the Soviet Union. Brandt negotiated a peace treaty with Poland, and agreements on the boundaries between the two countries, signifying the official and long-delayed end of [[Social:World War II|World War II]]. Brandt negotiated parallel treaties and agreements with Czechoslovakia.

[[File:Meeting to discuss US-West German relations - NARA - 194507.tif|thumb|Brandt with U.S. president Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, 2 May 1973]]
[[File:Anwar_Sadat_and_Willy_Brandt.jpg|thumb|Brandt with Egyptian President [[Biography:Anwar Sadat|Anwar Sadat]] in Cairo, 1974]]
In West Germany, Brandt's ''Neue Ostpolitik'' was extremely controversial, dividing the populace into two camps. One camp embraced all of the conservative parties, and most notably those West German residents and their families who had been driven west ("die Heimatvertriebenen") by Stalinist [[Social:Ethnic cleansing|ethnic cleansing]] from Historical Eastern Germany, especially the part that was given to Poland as a consequence of the end of the war; western [[Place:Czechoslovakia|Czechoslovakia]] (the [[Place:Sudetenland|Sudetenland]]); and the rest of Eastern Europe, such as in Romania. These groups of displaced Germans and their descendants loudly voiced their opposition to Brandt's policy, calling it "illegal" and "high treason".
A different camp supported and encouraged Brandt's ''Neue Ostpolitik'' as aiming at "change through rapprochement" (''Wandel durch Annäherung''), encouraging change through a policy of engagement with the (communist) Eastern Bloc, rather than trying to isolate these countries diplomatically and commercially. Brandt's supporters claim that the policy did help to break down the Eastern Bloc's "[[Social:Siege mentality|siege mentality]]" and also helped to increase its awareness of the contradictions in its brand of socialism/communism, which – together with other events – eventually led to the downfall of Eastern European communism.

=== Domestic policies ===

==== Brandt's popularity ====
[[File:Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F064862-0019, Dortmund, SPD-Parteitag, Willy Brandt.jpg|thumb|left|Brandt talking at an SPD meeting in Dortmund, 1983]]

Brandt's predecessor as chancellor, Kurt Georg Kiesinger, had been a member of the Nazi party, and was a more old-fashioned conservative-liberal intellectual. Brandt, having fought the Nazis and having faced down communist Eastern Germany during several crises while he was the mayor of Berlin, became a controversial, but credible, figure in several different factions. As the Minister of Foreign Affairs in Kiesinger's [[Grand coalition|grand coalition]] cabinet, Brandt helped to gain further international approval for Western Germany, and he laid the foundation stones for his future ''Neue Ostpolitik''. There was a wide public-opinion gap between Kiesinger and Brandt in the West German polls.

Both men had come to their own terms with the new baby boomer lifestyles. Kiesinger considered them to be "a shameful crowd of long-haired drop-outs who needed a bath and someone to discipline them". On the other hand, Brandt needed a while to get into contact with, and to earn credibility among, the "Ausserparlamentarische Opposition" (APO) ("the extra-parliamentary opposition"). The students questioned West German society in general, seeking social, legal, and political reforms. The unrest led to a renaissance of right-wing parties in some of the Bundeslands' (German states under the Bundesrepublik) Parliaments.

Brandt, however, represented a figure of change, and he followed a course of social, legal, and political reforms. In 1969, Brandt gained a small majority by forming a coalition with the FDP. In his first speech before the Bundestag as the chancellor, Brandt set forth his political course of reforms ending the speech with his famous words, "Wir wollen mehr Demokratie wagen" (literally: "Let's dare more democracy", or more figuratively, "We want to take a chance on more Democracy"). This speech made Brandt, as well as the Social Democratic Party, popular among most of the students and other young West German baby-boomers who dreamed of a country that would be more open and more colorful than the frugal and still somewhat-authoritarian Bundesrepublik that had been built after World War II. However, Brandt's ''Neue Ostpolitik'' lost him a large part of the German refugee voters from East Germany, who had been significantly pro-SPD in the postwar years.
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=== Chancellor of domestic reform ===
Although Brandt is perhaps best known for his achievements in foreign policy, his government oversaw the implementation of a broad range of social reforms, and was known as a "Kanzler der inneren Reformen" ('Chancellor of domestic reform').<ref name="Radice">{{harvp|Radice|Radice|1986}}</ref> According to the historian David Childs, "Brandt was anxious that his government should be a reforming administration and a number of reforms were embarked upon".<ref name="Childs">{{harvp|Childs|1992}}</ref> Within a few years, the education budget rose from 16 billion to 50 billion DM, while one out of every three DM spent by the new government was devoted to welfare purposes. As noted by the journalist and historian Marion Dönhoff,

"People were seized by a completely new feeling about life. A mania for large scale reforms spread like wildfire, affecting schools, universities, the administration, family legislation. In the autumn of 1970 Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski of the SPD declared, 'Every week more than three plans for reform come up for decision in cabinet and in the Assembly.'"<ref name="Dönhoff">{{harvp|Dönhoff|1982}}</ref>

According to Helmut Schmidt, Willy Brandt's domestic reform programme had accomplished more than any previous programme for a comparable period.<ref name="Braunthal">{{harvp|Braunthal|1994}}</ref> Levels of social expenditure were increased,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cicred.org/Eng/Publications/pdf/c-c17.pdf |title=The Population of the Federal Republic of Germany |website=Cicred.org |access-date=17 April 2017}}</ref> with more funds allocated towards housing, transportation, schools, and communication,<ref name="Prittie"/> and substantial federal benefits were provided for farmers.<ref name="Binder">{{harvp|Binder|1975}}</ref> Various measures were introduced to extend health care coverage,<ref>{{cite book | title = Health Care Systems in Transition: Germany | url = http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0010/80776/E68952.pdf | publisher = European Observatory on Health Care Systems, World Health Organization | access-date = 14 December 2012 | archive-date = 13 May 2011 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110513054407/http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0010/80776/E68952.pdf | url-status = dead }}</ref> while federal aid to sports organisations was increased.<ref name="Binder"/> A number of social reforms were instituted<ref name="Sinn">{{harvp|Sinn|2007}}</ref> whilst the welfare state was significantly expanded<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/porthuronstateme0000unse|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/porthuronstateme0000unse/page/187 187]|title=The Port Huron Statement: Sources and Legacies of the New Left's Founding Manifesto|first1=Richard|last1=Flacks|first2=Nelson|last2=Lichtenstein|date=3 February 2015|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press|via=Internet Archive|isbn=9780812246926}}</ref> (with total public spending on social programs nearly doubling between 1969 and 1975),<ref name="socsci">{{cite web|url=http://www.socsci.uci.edu/~rdalton/germany/ch10/chap10.htm |title=Dalton, Politics in Germany – Chapter 10 |publisher=Socsci.uci.edu |access-date=14 November 2012}}</ref> with health, housing, and social welfare legislation bringing about welcome improvements,<ref name="Binder"/> and by the end of the Brandt Chancellorship West Germany had one of the most advanced systems of welfare in the world.<ref name="Radice"/>

Substantial increases were made in [[Social:Social security|social security]] benefits such as injury and sickness benefits,<ref name="Radice"/> pensions,<ref>{{harvp|Callaghan|2000}}</ref> unemployment benefits,<ref name="Radice"/><ref>[https://core.ac.uk/download/files/153/6356755.pdf] {{dead link|date=April 2017}}</ref> housing allowances,<ref name="Flora">{{harvp|Flora|1986}}</ref> basic subsistence aid allowances,<ref name="Walker">{{harvp|Walker|Lawson|Townsend|1984}}</ref> and family allowances and living allowances.<ref name="Wilsford">{{harvp|Wilsford|1995}}</ref> In the government's first budget, sickness benefits were increased by 9.3%, pensions for war widows by 25%, pensions for the war wounded by 16%, and retirement pensions by 5%.<ref name="Prittie">{{harvp|Prittie|1974}}</ref> Numerically, pensions went up by 6.4% (1970), 5.5% (1971), 9.5% (1972), 11.4% (1973), and 11.2% (1974). Adjusted for changes in the annual price index, pensions went up in real terms by 3.1% (1970), 0.3% (1971), 3.9% (1972), 4.4% (1973), and 4.2% (1974).<ref>{{harvp|Potthoff|Miller|2006}}</ref> Between 1972 and 1974, the purchasing power of pensioners went up by 19%.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/docpage.cfm?docpage_id=1655 |title=GHDI – Document – Page |publisher=Germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org |access-date=14 November 2012}}</ref> In 1970, war pensions were increased by 16%.<ref name="Surveyof">{{harvp|Schewe|Nordhorn|Schenke|1972}}</ref> War victim's pensions went up by 5.5% in January 1971, and by 6.3% in January 1972. By 1972, war pensions for orphans and parents had gone up by around 40%, and for widows by around 50%. Between 1970 and 1972, the "Landabgaberente" (land transfer pension) went up by 55%.<ref name="archive.org">{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/WahlprogrammDerSpdMitWillyBrandtFrFriedenSicherheitUndEine|title=Wahlprogramm der SPD : mit Willy Brandt fur Frieden, Sicherheit und eine bessere Qualitat des Lebens|last=Sozialdemokratischen Partei Deutschlands|date=1 January 1972|via=Internet Archive}}</ref> Between 1969 and 1974, the average real standard rate of income support rose (in 1991 prices) from around 300 DM to around 400 DM.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ftp.iza.org/dp124.pdf |title=IZA Discussion Paper No. 124 |website=Ftp.iza.org |access-date=17 April 2017}}</ref> Between 1970 and 1974, unemployment benefits rose from around 300 euros to around 400 euros per month, and unemployment assistance from just under 200 euros per month to just under 400 euros per month.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ifw-members.ifw-kiel.de/publications/zur-entwicklung-des-anspruchslohns-in-deutschland/KWP_1463.pdf|title=Zur Entwicklung des Anspruchslohns in Deutschland|first=Alfred|last=Boss|website=Ifw-mewmbers.ifw-kiel.de|publisher=[[Organization:Kiel Institute for the World Economy|Kiel Institute for the World Economy]]|date=November 2008|access-date=4 June 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161029174159/https://www.ifw-members.ifw-kiel.de/publications/zur-entwicklung-des-anspruchslohns-in-deutschland/KWP_1463.pdf|archive-date=29 October 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2001 prices, the average standard social assistance benefit level rose from around 200 euros per month in 1969 to over 250 euros per month in 1974.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---europe/---ro-geneva/---sro-moscow/documents/publication/wcms_344665.pdf |title=Table of Contents |website=Ilo.org |access-date=17 April 2017}}</ref> During most of Brandt's years as chancellor, the majority of benefits increased as a percentage of average net earnings.{{sfnp|Flora|1986|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=GaWtd5zJfB8C&pg=PA48 48]}}

In 1970, seagoing pilots became retrospectively insurable, and gained full social security as members of the Non-Manual Workers Insurance Institute. That same year, a special regulation came into force for District Master Chimney Sweeps, making them fully insurable under the Craftsman's Insurance Scheme.<ref name="Surveyof" /> An increase was made in tax-free allowances for children, which enabled 1,000,000 families to claim an allowance for the second child, compared to 300,000 families previously.<ref name="Prittie"/> The Second Modification and Supplementation Law (1970) increased the allowance for the third child from DM 50 to DM 60, raised the income-limit for the second child allowance from DM 7,800 to DM 13,200; subsequently increased to DM 15,000 by the third modification law (December 1971), DM 16,800 by the fourth modification law (November 1973), and to DM 18,360 by the fifth modification law (December 1973).<ref name="Flora"/> A flexible retirement age after 62 years was introduced (1972) for invalids and disabled persons,<ref name="aei.pitt">{{cite web|url=http://aei.pitt.edu/9826/1/9826.pdf|title=Report on the Development of the Social Situation in the Community in 1972.|website=Aei.pitt.edu|access-date=17 April 2017}}</ref> and social assistance was extended to those who previously had to be helped by their relatives.<ref name="Sinn"/> From 1971, special subventions were provided to enable young farmers to quit farming "and facilitate their entry into the non-agricultural pension system by means of back payments".<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e4h3iUhlfdkC&pg=PA43|title=Small Town and Village in Bavaria: The Passing of a Way of Life|first=Peter H.|last=Merkl|date=1 January 2012|publisher=Berghahn Books|via=Google Books|isbn=9780857453471}}</ref>

==== Social assistance ====
The Third Modification Law (1974) extended individual entitlements to social assistance by means of higher-income limits compatible with receipt of benefits and lowered age limits for certain special benefits. Rehabilitation measures were also extended, child supplements were expressed as percentages of standard amounts and were thus indexed to their changes, and grandparents of recipients were exempted from potential liability to reimburse expenditure of social assistance carrier.<ref name="Flora"/> The Third Social Welfare Amendment Act (1974) brought considerable improvements for the disabled, those in need of care, and older persons,<ref name="autogenerated7"/> and a new fund of 100 million marks for disabled children was established.<ref name="Prittie"/>

Allowances for retraining and advanced training and for refugees from East Germany were also increased,<ref name="Prittie"/> together with federal grants for sport.<ref name="Prittie"/> In addition, increases were made in the pensions of 2.5 million war victims.<ref name="Dönhoff"/> Following a sudden increase in the price of oil, a law was passed in December 1973 granting recipients of social assistance and housing allowances a single heating-oil allowance (a procedure repeated in the winter of 1979 during the Schmidt Administration).<ref name="TheEvolution">{{harvp|Kohler|Zacher|Partington|1982}}</ref> Improvements and automatic adjustments of maintenance allowances for participants in vocational training measures were also carried out,<ref name="archive.org"/> and increased allowances were provided for training and retraining, together with special allowances for refugees from East Germany.<ref name="ReferenceA">The Velvet Chancellors: A History of Post-war Germany by Terence Prittie</ref>

There was determined, by statutory regulation issued in February 1970, the category of persons most seriously disabled "to whom, with regard to maintenance aid, an increased demand (50% of the appropriate rate) is being conceded, and, within the scope of relief in special living conditions: a higher rate of nursing aid".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HWcWAAAAYAAJ&q=There%20has,%20by%20statutory%20regulation%20issued%20on%2024%20February%201970,%20furthermore%20been%20determined%20the%20category%20of%20persons%20most%20seriously%20disabled%20(e.g.%20people%20suffering%20from%20paiaplegia),%20to%20whom|title=Information Bulletin on Social Policy|date=1 January 1972|publisher=Council of Europe, Documentation Section and Library|via=Google Books}}</ref> In 1971, the retirement age for miners was lowered to 50.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://aei.pitt.edu/41190/ |title=Study of the European Communities re-adaptation aids in the coal and steel industries – Archive of European Integration |website=Aei.pitt.edu |date=26 March 2013 |access-date=17 April 2017}}</ref> An April 1972 law providing for "promotion of social aid services" aimed to remedy, through various beneficial measures (particularly in the field of national insurance and working conditions), the staff-shortage suffered by social establishments in their medico-social, educational and other work. A bill to harmonize re-education benefit and another bill relating to severely disabled persons became law in May and September 1972 respectively.<ref name="aei.pitt" /> In 1972, winter payments for construction workers were introduced.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KEv7CwAAQBAJ&q=germany%20bad%20weather%20payments%201972&pg=PA360|title=The Politics of West German Trade Unions: Strategies of Class and Interest Representation in Growth and Crisis|first=Andrei|last=Markovits|date=14 April 2016|publisher=Routledge|via=Google Books|isbn=9781317230762}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ValbA8Kp3loC&q=germany%20bad%20weather%20payments%201972&pg=PA102|title=Federalism and Labour Market Policy: Comparing Different Governance and Employment Strategies|first1=Alain|last1=No[Ux00eb]l|first2=Queen's University (Kingston, Ont ) Institute of Intergovernmental|last2=Relations|date=1 January 2004|publisher=IIGR, Queen's University|via=Google Books|isbn=9781553390060}}</ref><ref>[http://www.bundesbank.de/Redaktion/EN/Downloads/Publications/Monthly_Report/1979/1979_04_monthly_report.pdf?__blob=publicationFile] {{dead link|date=April 2017}}</ref>

To assist family planning and marriage and family guidance, the government allocated DM 2,232,000 in 1973 for the payment and for the basic and further training of staff. A special effort was also made in 1973 to organize the recreation of [[Social:Disability|disabled persons]], with a holiday guide for the disabled issued with the aid of the Federal Ministry of Family and Youth Affairs and Health in order to help them find suitable holiday accommodation for themselves and their families. From 1972 to 1973, the total amount of individual aids granted by Guarantee Fund for the integration of young immigrants increased from 17 million DM to 26 million DM.<ref name="aei.pitt_b">{{cite web|url=http://aei.pitt.edu/9801/1/9801.pdf |title=Report on the Development of the Social Situation in the Community in 1973 |website=Aei.pitt.edu |access-date=17 April 2017}}</ref> Under a law passed in April 1974, the protection hitherto granted to the victims of war or industrial accidents for the purpose of their occupational and social reintegration was extended to all disabled persons, whatever the cause of their disability, provided that their capacity to work had been reduced by at least 50%.<ref name="aei.pitt_c">{{cite web|url=http://aei.pitt.edu/9842/1/9842.pdf |title=Report on the Development of the Social Situation in the Community in 1974 |website=Aei.pitt.edu |access-date=17 April 2017}}</ref>

==== Health care ====
In the field of health care, various measures were introduced to improve the quality and availability of health care provision. Free hospital care was introduced for 9 million recipients of social relief,<ref name="Dönhoff" /> while a contributory medical service for 23 million panel patients was introduced.<ref name="Dönhoff" /> Pensioners were exempted from paying a 2% health insurance contribution,<ref name="Prittie" /> while improvements in health insurance provision were carried out,<ref name="Radice" /> as characterised by an expanded sickness insurance scheme, with the inclusion of preventative treatment.<ref name="Flora" /> The income limit for compulsory sickness insurance was indexed to changes in the wage level (1970)<ref name="Flora" /> and the right to medical cancer screening for 23.5 million people was introduced.<ref name="spiegel.de">{{cite news|url=http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-42953833.html |title=DER SPIEGEL 16/1972 – Anders als zu Kaisers und zu Katzers Zeiten |work=Der Spiegel |date=9 April 1972 |access-date=14 November 2012}}</ref> In January 1971, the reduction of sickness allowance in case of hospitalisation was discontinued.<ref name="aei.pitt_a">{{cite web|url=http://aei.pitt.edu/9805/1/9805.pdf|title=Report on the Development of the Social Situation in the Community in 1971|website=Aei.pitt.edu|access-date=17 April 2017}}</ref> That same year, compulsory health insurance was extended to the self-employed.<ref>{{harvp|Tomka|2004|p=64}}</ref> In 1970, the government included nonmedical psychotherapists and psychoanalysts in the national health insurance program.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VhS8y2tRf6YC&pg=PA369|title=Psychotherapy in the Third Reich: The GÃ¶ring Institute|first=Geoffrey|last=Cocks|date=1 January 1997|publisher=Transaction Publishers|via=Google Books|isbn=9781412832366}}</ref>

Pupils, students and children in kindergartens were incorporated into the accident insurance scheme,<ref name="Flora"/> which benefited 11 million children.<ref name="Dönhoff"/> Free medical checkups were introduced that same year,<ref name="hdg.de">{{cite web|url=http://www.hdg.de/lemo/html/DasGeteilteDeutschland/KontinuitaetUndWandel/SozialLiberaleKoalition/innereReformen.html |title=Innere Reformen |publisher=Hdg.de |access-date=14 November 2012}}</ref> while the Farmers' Sickness Insurance Law (1972) introduced compulsory sickness insurance for independent farmers, family workers in agriculture, and pensioners under the farmers' pension scheme, medical benefits for all covered groups, and cash benefits for family workers under compulsory coverage for pension insurance.<ref name="Flora"/> Participation in employer's health insurance was extended to four million employees.<ref name="spiegel.de"/> A Development Law of December 1970 made it possible for all employees voluntarily to become members of the statutory sickness insurance. The level of income for compulsory sickness insurance was indexed to 75% of the respective assessment level for pension insurance, while voluntarily insured employees were granted a claim to an allowance towards their sickness insurance from their employer. This law also introduced a new type of sickness insurance benefit, namely facilities for the early diagnosis of disease. Apart from the discretionary service of disease prevention which had existed since 1923, insured persons now had a right in certain circumstances to medical examinations aimed at the early diagnosis of disease. According to one study, this marked a change in the concept of sickness insurance: it now aimed at securing good health.<ref name="TheEvolution" />

The Hospital Financing Law (1972) secured the supply of hospitals and reduced the cost of hospital care, "defined the financing of hospital investment as a public responsibility, single states to issue plans for hospital development, and the federal government to bear the cost of hospital investment covered in the plans, rates for hospital care thus based on running costs alone, hospitals to ensure that public subsidies together with insurance fund payments for patients cover total costs".<ref name="Flora" /> The Benefit Improvement Law (1973) made entitlement to hospital care legally binding (entitlements already enjoyed in practice), abolished time limits for hospital care, introduced entitlement to household assistance under specific conditions, and also introduced entitlement to leave of absence from work and cash benefits in the event of a child's illness.<ref name="Flora"/> In 1971, to encourage the growth of registered family holiday centres, the Federal Government granted subsidies for the building and appointing of 28 of these centres at a total cost of 8 million DM.<ref name="aei.pitt_a" /> Free preliminary investigations were introduced for 2.5 million children up until the age of 4 for the early detection and correction of developmental disorders, and health research was expanded. Federal grants were increased, especially for the Cancer Research Centre in Heidelberg, while a Federal Institute for Sport Science was set up, together with the Institute for Social Medicine and Epidemiology in Berlin. In addition, funding for new rehabilitation facilities was increased.<ref name="archive.org"/>

==== Retirement ====
The Pension Reform Law (1972) guaranteed all retirees a minimum pension regardless of their contributions<ref name="willy-brandt.org">{{cite web |url=http://www.willy-brandt.org/bwbs_biografie/The_first_policy_statement_B403.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724201622/http://www.willy-brandt.org/bwbs_biografie/The_first_policy_statement_B403.html |archive-date=24 July 2011 |title=August 1970: The first policy statement |publisher=Bundeskanzler-Willy-Brandt-Stiftung |date=28 October 1969 |access-date=14 November 2012}}</ref> and institutionalized the norm that the standard pension (of average earners with forty years of contributions) should not fall below 50% of current gross earnings.<ref name="Flora"/> The 1972 pension reforms improved eligibility conditions and benefits for nearly every subgroup of the West German population.<ref name="autogenerated6"/> The income replacement rate for employees who made full contributions was raised to 70% of average earnings. The reform also replaced 65 as the mandatory retirement age with a "retirement window" ranging between 63 and 65 for employees who had worked for at least thirty-five years. Employees who qualified as disabled and had worked for at least thirty-five years were extended a more generous retirement window, which ranged between the ages of 60 and 62. Women who had worked for at least fifteen years (ten of which had to be after the age of age 40) and the long-term unemployed were also granted the same retirement window as the disabled. In addition, there were no benefit reductions for employees who had decided to retire earlier than the age of 65.<ref>{{harvp|Silvia|Stolpe|2007}}</ref> The legislation also changed the way in which pensions were calculated for low-income earners who had been covered for twenty-five or more years. If the pension benefit fell below a specified level, then such workers were allowed to substitute a wage figure of 75% of the average wage during this period, thus creating something like a minimum wage benefit.<ref>{{harvp|Williamson|Pampel|2002}}</ref> According to one study, the 1972 pension reform "enhanced" the reduction of poverty in old age.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lse.ac.uk/europeanInstitute/research/hellenicObservatory/pdf/pensions_conference/Hinrichs.pdf |title=The Politics of Pension Reform in Germany |website=Lse.ac.uk |access-date=17 April 2017 |archive-date=7 April 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170407083756/http://www.lse.ac.uk/europeanInstitute/research/hellenicObservatory/pdf/pensions_conference/Hinrichs.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Voluntary retirement at 63 with no deductions in the level of benefits was introduced,<ref name="autogenerated6">{{harvp|Mares|2006}}</ref> together with the index-linking of war victim's pensions to wage increases.<ref name="Radice"/> Guaranteed minimum pension benefits for all West Germans were introduced,<ref name="socsci" /> along with automatic pension increases for war widows (1970).<ref name="hdg.de"/> Fixed minimum rates for women in receipt of very low pensions were also introduced, together with equal treatment for war widows.<ref name="MyLife">{{harvp|Brandt|1992}}</ref> Improvements in pension provision were made for women and the self-employed,<ref>{{harvp|Blackburn|2003}}</ref> a new minimum pension for workers with at least twenty-five years' insurance was introduced,<ref name="Walker"/> faster pension indexation was implemented, with the annual adjustment of pensions brought forward by six months,<ref name="bpb.de"/> and the Seventh Modification Law (1973) linked the indexation of farmers' pensions to the indexation of the general pension insurance scheme.<ref name="Flora"/>

A new pension for "severely handicapped" persons was introduced in 1972,<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eCDJ8OAKjygC&q=german%20pension%20handicapped%20persons%201972&pg=PA142|title=Reforming Early Retirement in Europe, Japan and the USA|first=Bernhard|last=Ebbinghaus|date=20 July 2006|publisher=OUP Oxford|via=Google Books|isbn=9780199286119}}</ref> along with occupational injury annuities<ref>Unemployment in Theory and Practice edited by Thomas Lange</ref> and a special pension for long-standing insurant from the age of 63 and a pension due to "limited earning capacity" from the age of 62.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rE1BAwAAQBAJ&q=german%20widows%20pension%201972&pg=PA18|title=Sustainability of the German Pension Scheme: Employment at Higher Ages and Incentives for Delayed Retirement|first=Lewicki, Maria|last=Patricia|date=25 March 2014|publisher=KIT Scientific Publishing|via=Google Books|isbn=9783731501718}}</ref> In addition, a special pension benefit was introduced for workers aged 60 and above after unemployment.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QILX3GWEP5kC&q=german%20unemployment%20benefits%20age%2060%201972&pg=PA46|title=Aging and Work|first=Masaharu|last=Kumashiro|date=2 September 2003|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=9780203218556|via=Google Books}}</ref> Under the Severely Handicapped Persons Act of April 1974, a seriously disabled person could retire early on an old age pension at the age of 62 years, provided that he "complied with the other provisions of the legislation on pension insurance".<ref name="aei.pitt_c"/>

==== Education ====
In education, the Brandt Administration sought to widen educational opportunities for all West Germans. The government presided over an increase in the number of teachers,<ref name="Dönhoff"/> generous public stipends were introduced for students to cover their living costs,<ref name="Sinn"/> and West German universities were converted from elite schools into mass institutions.<ref name="Sinn"/> The school leaving age was raised to 16,<ref name="Lane">{{harvp|Lane|1985}}</ref> and spending on research and education was increased by nearly 300% between 1970 and 1974.<ref name="Lane"/> Working through a planning committee set up for the "joint task" of university development, the Federal Government started to make investment costs in 1971.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4W0vBQAAQBAJ&q=federal%20republic%20germany%20law%201971%20investment%20universities&pg=PA240|title=State & Government in the Federal Republic of Germany: The Executive at Work|first=N.|last=Johnson|date=22 October 2013|publisher=Elsevier|isbn=9781483293011|via=Google Books}}</ref> Fees for higher or further education were abolished,<ref name="Radice"/> while a considerable increase in the number of higher education institutions took place.<ref name="Radice"/> A much needed school and college construction program was carried out,<ref name="Radice"/> together with the introduction of postgraduate support for highly qualified graduates, providing them with the opportunity to earn their doctorates or undertake research studies.<ref name="Winkler_Sager">{{harvp|Winkler|2007}}</ref> A law on individual promotion of vocational training came into force in October 1971, which provided for financial grants for attendance at further general or technical teaching establishments from the second year of studies at higher technical schools, academies and higher education establishments, training centres of second degree, or certain courses of television teaching. Grants were also made in certain cases for attendance at training centres located outside the Federal Republic.<ref name="aei.pitt_a" />

The education budget was doubled from 3% to 6%, while an expansion of secondary education took place. The number of university students went up from 100,000 to 650,000, 30,000 more places were created in the schools, and an additional 1,000 million marks was allocated for new school buildings. In addition, the provision of scholarships was expanded, with the 1970 programme providing for, in the words of one observer, "5,000 new scholarships for graduates, and double that number were being awarded three years later".<ref name="ReferenceA"/> Grants were introduced for pupils from lower income groups to stay on at school, together with grants for those going into any kind of higher or further education.<ref name="Winkler_Sager"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gew.de/Binaries/Binary37514/GEW_fzs_UN_Opinion.pdf |title=The Introduction Of Tuition Fees In Germany And The International Covenant On Economic, Social And Cultural Rights |author=GEW – Die Bildungsgewerkschaft |date=10 June 2015 |work=gew.de |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130805140952/http://www.gew.de/Binaries/Binary37514/GEW_fzs_UN_Opinion.pdf |archive-date=5 August 2013 |access-date=March 19, 2023}}</ref> Increases were also made in educational allowances,<ref name="Flora"/> as well as spending on science.<ref name="Wilsford"/> In 1972, the government allocated 2.1 million DM in grants to promote marriage and family education.<ref name="aei.pitt" /> Under the Approbationsordnung (medical education profession act) of 1970, the subject of psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy at German universities became a compulsory subject for medical students,<ref>{{cite journal | last = Köllner | first = V. | title = [Education in Psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy in the German Federal Republic] | journal = Ther Umsch | volume = 52 | issue = 2 | pages = 118–122 | language = de | pmid = 7892672 | date = February 1995 }}</ref> and that same year education of clinical and biomedical engineers was introduced.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EIeQhdrW2VMC&pg=PA67|title=Clinical Engineering Handbook|first=Joseph F.|last=Dyro|date=1 January 2004|publisher=Academic Press|via=Google Books|isbn=9780122265709}}</ref> The Brandt Administration also introduced enabling legislation for the introduction of comprehensives, but left it to the Lander "to introduce them at their discretion". While the more left-wing Lander "rapidly began to do so", other Lander found "all sorts of pretexts for delaying the scheme". By the mid-1980s, Berlin had 25 comprehensives while Bavaria only had 1, and in most Lander comprehensives were still viewed as "merely experimental".<ref>{{harvp|Ardagh|1996}}</ref>

==== Housing and urban development ====
In the field of housing, various measures were carried out to benefit householders, such as in improving the rights of tenants and increasing rental assistance. According to the Rent Subsidies Act (Wohngeldgesetz) of 1970, "low-income tenants and owners of accommodations are supported with rents and burdens subsidies".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aEhDAQAAIAAJ&q=1970|title=Social security, how it works in the Federal Republic of Germany|first=Rolf|last=Neuhaus|date=1 January 1979|publisher=Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung|via=Google Books}}</ref> The determination of the income of families taken into consideration for housing allowances was simplified,<ref name="aei.pitt.edu">{{cite web|url=http://aei.pitt.edu/32294/ |title=Expose sur l'evolution de la situation sociale dans le Communaute en 1970 (joint au Quatrieme rapport general sur l'activite des Communautes) = Report on the development of the social situation in the Community in 1970 (annex to the Fourth general report on the activities of the Community). February 1971 – Archive of European Integration |website=Aei.pitt.edu |year = 1971|access-date=17 April 2017}}</ref> and increased levels of protection and support for low-income tenants and householders were introduced<ref name="Radice"/> which led to a drop in the number of eviction notices. By 1974, three times as much was paid out in rent subsidies as in 1969, and nearly one and a half million households received rental assistance.<ref name="autogenerated7">{{harvp|Schmidt|1982}}</ref> Increases were made in public housing subsidies,<ref>{{harvp|Patton|1999}}</ref> as characterised by a 36% increase in the social housing budget in 1970<ref name="Prittie"/> and by the introduction of a programme for the construction of 200,000 public housing units (1971).<ref>{{harvp|Bezelga|Brandon|1991}}</ref> From 1970 to 1971, an 18.1% increase in building permits for social housing units was made.<ref name="chroniknet.de">{{cite web|url=http://www.chroniknet.de/indx_de.0.html?article=259111&year=1971 |title=1971 – Frischer Wind durch innere Reformen der Bonner Koalition – chroniknet Artikel und private Fotos |publisher=Chroniknet.de |date=29 May 1977 |access-date=14 November 2012}}</ref> Other reforms aimed at improving tenants' rights included protection against conversion of rental housing into condominiums, the prohibition of the misappropriation of living space, new regulation of the apartment broker system, and a fee scale for engineers and architects. In addition, the income limits for eligibility for social housing were raised and adapted in order of general income trends.<ref name="archive.org"/>

A loose form of rent regulation was introduced under the name of ''Vergleichmieten'' (comparable rents),<ref>{{harvp|Power|2002}}</ref> together with the provision of "for family-friendly housing" freight or rent subsidies to owners of apartments or houses whose ceiling had been adapted to increased expenses or incomes (1970).<ref name="digam.net">{{cite web |url=http://www.digam.net/dokument.php?ID=9019&PHPSESSID=23da32f4275c4cbefc5d9395393ba4cf |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130221105943/http://www.digam.net/dokument.php?ID=9019&PHPSESSID=23da32f4275c4cbefc5d9395393ba4cf |url-status=dead |archive-date=21 February 2013 |title=Digitales Archiv Marburg – Das DigAM Projekt |publisher=Digam.net |date=28 October 1969 |access-date=14 November 2012 }}</ref> In addition, a law for the creation of property for workers was passed, under which a married worker would normally keep up to 95% of his pay, and graded tax remission for married wage-earners applied up to a wage of 48,000 marks, which indicated the economic prosperity of West Germany at that time.<ref name="Prittie"/> The Town Planning Act (1971) encouraged the preservation of historical heritage and helped open up the way to the future of many German cities,<ref name="MyLife"/> while the Urban Renewal Act (1971) helped the states to restore their inner cities and to develop new neighbourhoods.<ref>{{harvp|Kommers|1997|p=93}}</ref> In addition, Guidelines of December 1972 on the usage of federal funds in assisting social housing construction laid down that a certain standard needed to be observed when building homes for severely disabled persons.<ref name="ReferenceB">{{cite web|url=http://aei.pitt.edu/36404/1/A2595.pdf |title=Comparative study on the Rehabilitation of Handicapped Persons in the Countries of the Community |website=Aei.pitt.edu |access-date=17 April 2017}}</ref>

The Second Housing Allowance Law of December 1970 simplified the administration of housing allowances and extended entitlements, increased the income limit to 9,600 DM per year plus 2,400 DM for each family member, raised the general deduction on income to determine reckonable income from 15% to 20%, allowance rates listed in tables replacing complicated calculation procedure based on "bearable rent burdens".<ref name="Flora"/> The Housing Construction Modification Law (1971) increased the income-limit for access to low rent apartments under the social housing programme from 9,000 DM to 12,000 DM per annum plus 3,000 DM (instead of 2,400) for each family member. The law also introduced special subsidies to reduce the debt burden for builders not surpassing the regular income-limit by more than 40%. Under a 1973 law, the limits were increased to 1,000 DM plus 9,000 DM and 4,200 DM for additional family members.<ref name="Flora"/> The Rent Improvement Law (1971) strengthened the position of tenants. Under this legislation, notice was to be ruled illegal "where appropriate substitute accommodation not available; landlords obliged to specify reasons for notice",<ref name="Flora"/> whilst the Eviction Protection Law (1971) established tenant protection against rent rises and notice. The notice was only lawful if in the "justified interest of the landlord". Under this law, higher rents were not recognised as "justified interest".<ref name="Flora"/> The Second Eviction Protection Law (1972) made the tenant protection introduced under the Eviction Protection Law of 1971 permanent. Under this new law, the notice was only lawful where the landlord proved justified personal interest in the apartment. In addition, rent increases were only lawful if not above normal comparable rents in the same area.<ref name="Flora"/>

Directives on the housing of foreign workers came into force in April 1971. These directives imposed certain requirements for space, hygiene, safety, and amenities in the accommodation offered by employers. That same year, the Federal Government granted a sum of 17 million DM to the Länder for the improvement and modernization of housing built before 21 June 1948.<ref name="aei.pitt_a" /> In addition, according to a 1971 regulation of the Board of the Federal Labour Office, "construction of workers' hostels qualified for government financial support under certain conditions".<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qdRx7qLF8KIC&pg=PA58|title=Muslims in the West: From Sojourners to Citizens|first=Yvonne Yazbeck|last=Haddad|date=11 April 2002|publisher=Oxford University Press|via=Google Books|isbn=9780198033752}}</ref> The "German Council for town development", which was set up by virtue of Article 89 of a law to foster urban building, was partly aimed at planning a favourable environment for families (such as the provision of playgrounds). In 1971, the Federal Labour Office made available DM 425 million in the form of loans to provide 157 293 beds in 2 494 hostels. A year later, the Federal Government (Bund), the Lander and the Federal Labour Office promoted the construction of dwellings for migrant workers. They set aside 10 million DM for this purpose, which allowed the financing of 1650 family dwellings that year.<ref name="aei.pitt" />

Development measures were begun in 1972 with federal financial aid granted to the Lander for improvement measures relating to towns and villages, and in the 1972 budget, DM 50 million was earmarked, i.e. a third of the total cost of some 300 schemes. A council for urban development was formed in May 1972 with the purpose of promoting future work and measures in the field of urban renovation.<ref name="aei.pitt" /> In 1973, the government provided assistance of DM 28 million for the modernisation of old dwellings.<ref name="aei.pitt_b" /> New rules were introduced regarding improvements in the law relating to rented property, and control of the rise in rents and protection against cancellation of leases also safeguarded the rights of migrant workers in the sphere of housing.<ref name="aei.pitt" /> A law of July 1973 fixed the fundamental and minimum requirements regarding workers' dwellings, mainly concerning space, ventilation and lighting, protection against damp, heat and noise, power and heating facilities and sanitary installations.<ref name="aei.pitt_b" />

==== Civil, family, and animal rights ====
In regards to civil rights, the Brandt Administration introduced a broad range of socially liberal reforms aimed at making West Germany a more open society. Greater legal rights for women were introduced, as exemplified by the standardisation of pensions, divorce laws, regulations governing use of surnames, and the introduction of measures to bring more women into politics.<ref name="MyLife" /> The voting age was lowered from 21 to 18,<ref>{{harvp|Pridham|1977}}</ref> the age of eligibility for political office was lowered to 21,<ref name="Winkler_Sager" /> and the age of majority was lowered to 18 in March 1974.<ref name="Winkler_Sager" /> The Third Law for the Liberalization of the Penal Code (1970) liberalised "the right to political demonstration",<ref name="Braunthal" /><ref name="Winkler_Sager" /> while equal rights were granted to illegitimate children that same year.<ref name="Walker" /> A 1971 amendment to a federal civil service reform bill enabled fathers to apply for part-time civil service work.<ref>{{harvp|Cooke|Gash|2007}}</ref> In 1971, corporal punishment was banned in schools,<ref>{{harvp|Kaplan|2012|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=ocq05ABvJYYC&pg=PA123 123]}}</ref> and that same year a new Highway Code was introduced.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OT1cAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA17|title=Eighteenth Annual Report and Resolutions of the Council of Ministers|first=European Conference of Ministers of|last=Transport|date=1 February 1972|publisher=OECD Publishing|via=Google Books|isbn=9789282106303}}</ref> In 1973, a measure was introduced that facilitated the adoption of young children by reducing the minimum age for adoptive parents from 35 to 25.<ref name="aei.pitt_b" />

A women's policy machinery at the national level was established in 1972<ref>{{harvp|Huber|Stephens|2001}}</ref> while amnesty was guaranteed in minor offences connected with demonstrations.<ref name="Winkler_Sager" /> From 1970 onwards, parents as well as landlords were no longer legally prohibited "to give or rent rooms or flats to unmarried couples or to allow them to stay overnight".<ref>{{cite book|title=Discretionary Time|last1=Goodin|first1=Robert E.|date=21 February 2008|publisher={{wipe|Cambridge University Press}}|isbn=9781139470773|page=174|display-authors=0}} [https://books.google.com/books?id=pKuzRB8PRBwC&pg=PA174 Preview.]</ref> In October 1972, the legal aid system was improved with the compensation paid to private lawyers for legal services to the poor increased.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YFc5AQAAIAAJ&q=west%20germany%201972%20financing%20legal%20aid|title=A reader on resourcing civil justice|last1=Paterson|first1=Alan|last2=Goriely|first2=Tamara|date=1 January 1996|publisher=Oxford University Press|via=Google Books|isbn=9780198764618}}</ref> The Bausparkassen Act of 1972<ref>{{cite book |url=http://www.bausparkassen.de/fileadmin/user_upload/english/Bausparen_in_Deutschland_en_130109.pdf |title=The "Bauspar" System in Germany |publisher=European Office of the Verband der Privaten Bausparkassen e.V. |date=January 2013 |publication-place=Brussels |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150922045007/http://www.bausparkassen.de/fileadmin/user_upload/english/Bausparen_in_Deutschland_en_130109.pdf |archive-date=22 September 2015 |access-date=28 August 2015}}</ref> placed all bausparkassen ([[Finance:Building society|building societies]]) under the supervision of the Federal Banking Supervisory Office from January 1974 onwards, and confined them "to the contract saving business and related activities".<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d-IlR-UVHSgC&pg=PA202|title=National Housing Finance Systems: A Comparative Study|last=Boléat|first=Mark|date=1 January 1985|publisher=Mark Boleat|via=Google Books|isbn=9780709932499}}</ref> The Animal Protection Act, passed in 1972, introduced various safeguards for animals such as not permitting the causing of pain, injury, or suffering to an animal without justification, and limiting experiments to the minimum number of animals necessary.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M_DjBwAAQBAJ&q=federal%20republic%20germany%201972%20animal%20protection&pg=PA103|title=Animal Research and Ethical Conflict: An Analysis of the Scientific Literature: 1966–1986|last1=Phillips|first1=Mary T.|last2=Sechzer|first2=Jeri A.|date=6 December 2012|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|via=Google Books|isbn=9781461236207}}</ref> In 1971, rules were introduced making it possible for former guestworkers "to receive an unlimited residence permit after a five-year stay".<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dFRdBAAAQBAJ&q=federal%20republic%20germany%20language%20law%201973&pg=PA61|title=The Federal Republic of Germany Since 1949: Politics, Society and Economy Before and After Unification|last1=Larres|first1=Klaus|last2=Panayi|first2=Panikos|date=27 August 2014|publisher=Routledge|via=Google Books|isbn=9781317891741}}</ref>

==== Military ====
A number of reforms were also carried out to the armed forces,<ref name="Binder" /> as characterised by a reduction in basic military training from 18 to 15 months, a reorganisation of education and training, and personnel and procurement procedures.<ref name="autogenerated7" /> Education for the troops was improved,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zCNXAAAAYAAJ&q=helmut%20schmidt%20reforms%201969-72%20improved%20education%20for%20the%20troops|title=The Economist|date=1 January 1974|publisher=Economist Newspaper Limited|via=Google Books}}</ref> a personnel reshuffle of top management in the Bundeswehr was carried out,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.whoswho.de/bio/helmut-schmidt.html|title=Helmut Schmidt – Biografie ''Who's Who''|website=Whoswho.de|access-date=17 April 2017}}</ref> academic education was mandated for officers beyond their basic military training, and a new recruiting policy for Bundeswehr personnel was introduced with the intention of building an army that reflected West Germany's pluralistic society. Defense Minister Helmut Schmidt led the development of the first Joint Service Regulation ZDv 10/1 (Assistance for Innere Fuehrung, classified: restricted), which revitalized the concept of Innere Fuehrung while also affirming the value of the "citizen in uniform". According to one study, as a result of this reform, "a strong civil mindset displaced the formerly dominant military mindset", and forced the Bundeswehr's elder generation to accept a new type of soldier envisioned by Schmidt.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/parameters/Articles/2012summer/Koltermann.pdf |title=Citizen in Uniform: Democratic Germany and the Changing Bundeswehr |website=Strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/p |access-date=17 April 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161210080849/http://strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/parameters/Articles/2012summer/Koltermann.pdf |archive-date=10 December 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In addition, the Federal Cost of Moving Act increased the relocation allowance (with effect from 1 November 1973), with the basic allowances raised by DM 50 and DM 100 respectively, while extra allowances for families were raised to a uniform amount of 125 DM.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3s0qAQAAMAAJ&q=federal%20republic%20germany%20DM%2050%20and%20DM%20100%20respectively,%20extra%20allowances%20for%20families%20were%20increased%20to%20a%20uniform|title=White Paper 1973/1974: The Security of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Development of the Federal Armed Forces|date=1 January 1974|publisher=Federal Minister of Defence|via=Google Books}}</ref>

In 1970, the Armed Forces Vocational Schools and the Vocational Advancement Organization extended their services for the first time to conscripts, "so far as military duty permitted".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JMcxAQAAIAAJ&q=In%201970,%20the%20Armed%20Forces%20Vocational%20Schools%20and%20the%20Vocational%20Advancement%20Organization%20extended%20their%20services%20for%20the%20first%20time%20to%20conscripts,%20so%20far%20as%20military%20duty%20permitted|title=White Paper: the Security of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Development of the Federal Armed Forces|first=Germany (West) Bundesministerium der|last=Verteidigung|date=1 January 1971|publisher=Federal Minister of Defence.|via=Google Books}}</ref> New enlistment bonuses were authorized and previous bonus schemes were improved,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_aotAAAAIAAJ&q=new%20enlistment%20bonuses|title=White Paper: the Security of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Development of the Federal Armed Forces|date=1 January 1973|publisher=Federal Minister of Defence.|via=Google Books}}</ref> and new pay regulations were introduced that improved the financial situation of military personnel and civil servants.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_aotAAAAIAAJ&q=bonuses|title=White Paper: the Security of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Development of the Federal Armed Forces|date=1 January 1973|publisher=Federal Minister of Defence.|via=Google Books}}</ref> In July 1973, the 3rd Amendment to the Civilian Service Act came into force; "a prerequisite for the creation of additional civilian service places for recognized conscientious objectors". The amendment provided that men recognized as conscientious objectors while performing military service should immediately be transferred to a civilian service assignment.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3s0qAQAAMAAJ&q=n%20July%201,%201973,%20the%203rd%20Amendment%20to%20the%20Civilian%20Service%20Act%20came%20into%20force.%20This%20amendment%20was%20a%20prerequisite%20for%20the%20creation%20of%20additional%20civilian%20service%20places%20for%20recognized%20conscientious%20objecters|title=White Paper 1973/1974: The Security of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Development of the Federal Armed Forces|date=1 January 1974|publisher=Federal Minister of Defence|via=Google Books}}</ref> The maximum amount for servicemen enlisting for at least 12 years was increased from DM 6,000 to DM 9,000,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3s0qAQAAMAAJ&q=For%20servicemen%20enlisting%20for%20at%20least%20twelve%20years%20the%20maximum%20amount%20has%20been%20raised%20from%20DM%206,000%20to%20DM%209,000|title=White Paper 1973/1974: The Security of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Development of the Federal Armed Forces|date=1 January 1974|publisher=Federal Minister of Defence|via=Google Books}}</ref> and from October 1971 onwards, long-term personnel were paid grants towards the cost 'of attending educational institutes of the "second educational route" or participating in state-recognized general education courses provided by private correspondence schools and the "television college"'.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3s0qAQAAMAAJ&q=Since%20October%201,%201971,%20long-term%20personnel%20have%20been%20paid%20grants%20towards%20the%20cost%20of%20attending%20educational%20institutes%20of|title=White Paper 1973/1974: The Security of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Development of the Federal Armed Forces|date=1 January 1974|publisher=Federal Minister of Defence|via=Google Books}}</ref> In 1972, two Bundeswehr universities were established;<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hsu-hh.de/studbereich/index_JpZ7Fen7NtFT1vcw.html|title=Studierendenbereich :: Beitrag aus dem IntranetBw anläßlich des 40 jährigen Bestehens der Universitäten der Bundeswehr|first=Michael|last=Deichen|website=Hsu-hh.de|access-date=17 April 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XJ3fAAAAMAAJ&q=helmut%20schmidt%20bundeswehr%20universities%201972|title=The Bundeswehr and Western Security|first=Stephen F.|last=Szabo|date=1 January 1990|publisher=Macmillan Publishers Limited|isbn=9780333498804|via=Google Books}}</ref> a reform which, according to one historian, "fought against the closed nature of the military and guaranteed that officers would be better able to successfully interact with the civilian world".<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c48my4z2d8cC&q=helmut%20schmidt%20bundeswehr%20universities%201972&pg=PT82|title=Civil-Military Relations and Shared Responsibility: A Four-Nation Study|first=Dale R.|last=Herspring|date=27 March 2013|publisher=JHU Press|isbn=9781421409290|via=Google Books}}</ref> From April 1973, the general maintenance payments under the Law amending the Maintenance Security Act and the Workplace Protection Act were increased, while increases were also made in the special allowance (Christmas bonus) for conscripts, together with the dismissal allowance. The expense allowance for troops on duty-related absence from place of employment was improved, together with travel subsidies and provisions for military service damaged soldiers and their families.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://dipbt.bundestag.de/doc/btd/07/017/0701748.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=30 October 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161031024211/http://dipbt.bundestag.de/doc/btd/07/017/0701748.pdf |archive-date=31 October 2016 }}</ref> In addition, the position of non-commissioned officers was improved.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11986614/Helmut-Schmidt-West-German-chancellor-obituary.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11986614/Helmut-Schmidt-West-German-chancellor-obituary.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Helmut Schmidt, West German chancellor – obituary|website=Telegraph.co.uk|date=10 November 2015 |access-date=17 April 2017}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

==== Consumers' and workers' rights ====
Legislation aimed at safeguarding consumers was also implemented under the Brandt Administration. The consumer's right of withdrawal in case of hire purchase was strengthened in March 1974,<ref name="sophienschule.de" /> and fixed prices for branded products were abolished by law in January that same year, which meant that manufacturers' recommended prices were not binding for retailers.<ref name="sophienschule.de">{{cite web |url=http://www.sophienschule.de/comenius/timeline/index_files/Ger74economy.htm |title=Germany'74 – Economy |publisher=Sophienschule.de |date=20 December 1974 |access-date=14 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303212819/http://www.sophienschule.de/comenius/timeline/index_files/Ger74economy.htm |archive-date=3 March 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In addition, a progressive anticartel law was passed.<ref name="Binder" /> The Law on Compensation for Measures of Criminal Prosecution and Penalties, passed in March 1971, provided for standardized compensation in certain situations.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/Detention/DraftBasicPrinciples/Germany131007_Quest_Germany_en.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=29 July 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151001053657/http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/Detention/DraftBasicPrinciples/Germany131007_Quest_Germany_en.pdf |archive-date=1 October 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FxOODVZ7TsEC&pg=PA263|title=State Responsibility and the Individual: Reparation in Instances of Grave Violations of Human Rights|first1=Albrecht|last1=Randelzhofer|first2=Christian|last2=Tomuschat|date=11 March 1999|publisher=Martinus Nijhoff Publishers|isbn=9041111476|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uR8C-vcwOEIC&pg=PA50|title=International Encyclopedia of Comparative Law|first=René|last=David|date=1 January 1972|publisher=Brill Archive|isbn=3166446176|via=Google Books}}</ref> In addition, the budget for communications was increased.<ref name="ReferenceA" />

In terms of working conditions, a number of reforms were introduced aimed at strengthening the rights of workers both at home and in the workplace. The Sickness Act of 1970 provided equal treatment of workers and employees in the event of incapacity for work,<ref name="bpb.de">{{cite web|url=http://www.bpb.de/izpb/10109/sozialliberale-koalition-und-innere-reformen?p=3 |title=Sozialliberale Koalition und innere Reformen &#124; bpb |date=5 April 2002 |language=de |publisher=Bpb.de |access-date=14 November 2012}}</ref> while maternity leave was increased.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://digam.net/dokument0625.html?ID=9020|title=Digitales Archiv Marburg – Das DigAM Projekt|work=digam.net|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006121730/http://digam.net/dokument0625.html?ID=9020|archive-date=6 October 2014}}</ref> Legislation was introduced in 1970 which ensured continued payment of wages for workers disabled by illness.<ref name="willy-brandt.org"/> In 1970 all employees unfit for work (with the exception of women in receipt of maternity benefits and temporarily and inconsiderably employed persons) were provided with an unconditional legal claim against their employer to continued payment of their gross wage for a period of 6 weeks, as also in the case of spa treatment approved by an Insurance Fund, the Fund bearing the full cost thereof. Previously, payment of employer's supplement and sick pay were only made from the day on which the doctor certified unfitness for work.<ref name="Surveyof" /> In 1972, an Act on Agency Work was passed which sought to prevent works agencies from providing job placement services and aimed to provide job minimum protection for employees in agency work.<ref>{{harvp|Schiek|2006}}</ref> A law on the hiring out of manpower, passed in October 1972, contained provisions to stipulate prior authorization for the hiring out of manpower, to draw a distinction between the system governing workers hired out and the placing of workers, to regulate and improve the rights of hired out workers pertaining to working conditions and social insurance, and provide for more severe penalties and fines to be imposed on offenders.<ref name="aei.pitt" />

Improvements were also made in income and work conditions for home workers,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=907 |title=GHDI – Document |publisher=Germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org |date=24 September 1973 |access-date=14 November 2012}}</ref> accident insurance was extended to non-working adults,<ref name="socsci" /> and the Border Zone Assistance Act (1971) increased levels of assistance to the declining zonal peripheral area.<ref>{{harvp|Scheffer|2008|pp=[https://books.google.com/books?id=H8bOCZReMTMC&pg=PA555 555–556]}}</ref> The Occupational Safety Act (1973) required employers to provide company doctors and safety experts.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chroniknet.de/daly_de.0.html?year=1973&month=12 |title=Dezember 1973 – Regierung Uruguay Parteien Zeitungen "El Popular" "Cronica" Verband – chroniknet – Schlagzeilen, Ereignisse, Fotos mit Geschichte, Community |publisher=Chroniknet.de |access-date=14 November 2012}}</ref> A directive on protection against noise at the place of work was adopted in November 1970. If measurements showed or there was reason to assume that a noise level guide value of 90&nbsp;dB( A) may be exceeded at the place of work, then the authority had to instruct the employer to arrange check-ups of the employees concerned and these employees had to use personal noise protection devices.<ref name="aei.pitt" /> A matching fund program for 15 million employees was also introduced, which stimulated them to accumulate capital.<ref name="Binder"/>

A ministerial order of January 1970 extended protection in cases of partial unemployment to home workers, while an ordinance of August 1970 fixed the conditions of health necessary for service in the merchant navy. A general provision of October 1970 determined in detail the circumstances in which the competent authority must take action on the basis of the act on the technical means of work. The requirement also stipulated the extent to which the technical standards established by national and international organisations can be regarded as "rules of the art".<ref name="aei.pitt.edu"/> In a directive of 10 November 1970, the Minister of Labour and Social Affairs recommended to the higher authorities for work protection of the "Lander" to bring in the directive published, in agreement with the Ministry of Labour, by the German Engineers' Association on the evaluation of work station noise in relation to loss of hearing, in order to improve safeguards for workers against the noises in question. In September 1971, an ordinance was published concerning dangerous working materials; safeguarding persons using these materials against the dangers involved.

By a decree of the Federal Minister for Labour and Social Order, the Federal Institute for Industrial Protection became the Federal Agency for Industrial Protection and Accident Research. Amongst its designated tasks included the promotion of industrial protection, accident prevention on the journey to and from work and accident prevention in the home and leisure activities, the encouragement of training and advanced training in the area of industrial protection, and to promote and coordinate accident research. A regulation was issued in 1972 which permitted for the first time the employment of women as drivers of trams, omnibuses and lorries, while further regulations laid down new provisions for lifts and work with compressed air.<ref name="aei.pitt" /> The Factory Constitution Law (1971) strengthened the rights of individual employees "to be informed and to be heard on matters concerning their place of work". The Works Council was provided with greater authority while trade unions were given the right of entry into the factory "provided they informed the employer of their intention to do so",<ref name="Childs"/> while a law was passed to encourage wider share ownership by workers and other rank-and-file employees.<ref name="Childs"/> The Industrial Relations Law (1972) and the Personnel Representation Act (1974) broadened the rights of employees in matters which immediately affected their places of work, while also improving the possibilities for codetermination on operations committees, together with access of trade unions to companies.<ref name="willy-brandt.org"/>

The Works Constitution Act of 1972 required in cases of collective dismissal at an establishment normally employing more than twenty employees that management and the works council must negotiate a social plan that stipulates compensation for workers who lose their jobs. In cases where the two parties could not agree on a social plan, the law provided for binding arbitration.<ref>{{harvp|Abraham|Houseman|1994}}</ref> In 1972, the rights of works councils to information from management were not only strengthened, but works councils were also provided with full codetermination rights on issues such as working time arrangements in the plant, the setting of piece rates, plant wage systems, the establishment of vacation times, work breaks, overtime, and short-time work.<ref>{{harvp|Thelen|1991|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=BokmF9j1hx0C&pg=PA100 100]}}</ref> Legislation was passed which acknowledged for the first time the presence of trade unions in the workplace, expanded the means of action of the works councils, and improved their work basics as well as those of the youth councils.<ref name="autogenerated8">{{cite web|url=http://www.bpb.de/publikationen/MXQU1P,0,0,Informationen_zur_politischen |title=IZPB &#124; bpb |language=de |publisher=Bpb.de |access-date=14 November 2012}}</ref>

A law of January 1972 on the organization of labour in enterprises significantly extended the works council's right of cooperation and co-management in the matter of vocational training. That same year, the Safety Institute of the Federal Republic of Germany was transformed into a public Federal Agency (Bundesanstalt) with significantly enlarged powers, in the context of which special emphasis would be placed on its new task of promoting and coordinating research in the area of accident prevention.<ref name="aei.pitt" /> New provisions were introduced for the rehabilitation of severely disabled people ("Schwerbehinderte") and accident victims.<ref name="MyLife" /> The Severely Disabled Persons Act of April 1974 obliged all employers with more than fifteen employees to ensure that 6% of their workforce consisted of people officially recognised as being severely disabled. Employers who failed to do so were assessed 100 DM per month for every job falling before the required quota. These compensatory payments were used to "subsidise the adaptation of workplaces to the requirements of those who were severely handicapped".<ref name="Walker"/>

A law passed in January 1974, designed to protect members of the supervisory boards of companies who are undergoing training, was aimed at ensuring that the representatives of young workers and youthful members of works councils still undergoing training could perform their duties with greater independence and without fear of disadvantageous consequences for their future careers. On request, workers' representatives on completion of their training courses had to have an employment relationship of unlimited duration.<ref name="aei.pitt_c" /> In the field of transport, the Municipal Transportation Finance Law of 1971 established federal guidelines for subsidies to municipal governments,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jrtr.net/jrtr38/f10_uts.html|title=When will Japan Choose Light Rail Transit?|work=jrtr.net|access-date=13 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304052336/http://www.jrtr.net/jrtr38/f10_uts.html|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> while the Federal Transport Plan of 1973 provided a framework for all transport, including public transport.<ref>{{harvp|Banister|2002}}</ref> In addition, the Severely Handicapped Persons Act of April 1974 extended the welfare and promotional obligations of the employer, and provided a right to extra holiday consisting of six working days.<ref name="ReferenceB"/>

==== Environment ====
A federal environmental programme was established in 1971,<ref>{{harvp|Schäfers|1998}}</ref> and in 1972 laws were passed to regulate garbage elimination and air pollution via emission.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pyWtQkfScAEC&pg=PA230|page=230|title=Recent Social Trends in West Germany, 1960–1990|first1=Wolfgang|last1=Glatzer|first2=International Research Group on the Comparative Charting of Social Change in Advanced Industrial|last2=Societies|date=21 August 1992|publisher=McGill-Queen's Press – MQUP|isbn=9780773509092|via=Google Books}}</ref> Matching grants covering 90% of infrastructure development were allocated to local communities, which led to a dramatic increase in the number of public swimming pools and other facilities of consumptive infrastructure throughout West Germany.<ref name="Sinn" /> The federal crime-fighting apparatus was also modernised,<ref name="Binder" /> while a Foreign Tax Act was passed which limited the possibility of tax evasion.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=908 |title=GHDI – Document |publisher=Germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org |date=17 May 1974 |access-date=14 November 2012}}</ref> In addition, efforts were made to improve the railways and motorways.<ref name="Binder" /> In 1971, a law was passed setting the maximum lead content at 0.4 grams per liter of gasoline,<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q83kxhOsgxYC&pg=PA140|title=Industry and Politics in West Germany: Toward the Third Republic|first=Peter J.|last=Katzenstein|date=1 January 1989|publisher=Cornell University Press|isbn=0801495954|via=Google Books}}</ref> and in 1972 DDT was banned.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2UksBuLkuKsC&pg=PA131|title=Nature Of The Miracle Years: Conservation in West Germany, 1945–1975|first=Sandra|last=Chaney|date=15 July 2013|publisher=Berghahn Books|isbn=9780857458414|via=Google Books}}</ref> The Federal Emissions Control Law, passed in March 1974, provided protection from noxious gases, noise, and air-borne particulate matter.<ref>Federal Republic of Germany: Spatial Development and Problems by Peter Schöller, Willi Walter Puls, and Hanns Jürgen Buchholz</ref>

In August 1971, a law came into force directed at reducing atmospheric pollution from lead compounds in four-stroke engine fuels. As a safeguard against radiation, a decree on the system of authorisations for medicaments treated with ionizing radiation or containing radioactive substances, in its version of 8 August 1967, was remodelled by a new Decree of 10 May 1971 which added some radionuclides to the list of medicaments which doctors in private practice were authorized to use.

Taking into account the enormous high peaks of air traffic noise and its concentration at a limited number of airports, the Law for Protection against Aircraft Noise of 1971 sought to balance two conflicting demands, the first being the legitimate demand by industry, business and the public for an efficient air traffic system, and secondly, the understandable and by no means less legitimate claims of the affected people for protection and compensation. The legislation regulated the establishment of so-called "Lärmschutzzonen" (protection areas against aircraft noise) for all 11 international airports and for those 34 military airports used for jet aircraft, and the law also authorised the Federal Department of the Interior to decree protection areas for each of those mentioned airports with approval by the "Bundesrat", the representation of the German Federal States.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://mapcontext.com/autocarto/proceedings/auto-carto-4-vol-1/pdf/automated-cartography-as-an-aid-to-define-protection-areas-against-air-traffic-noise.pdf|title=Automated cartography as an aid to decree protection areas against air traffic noise|author=Theodor M. Johannsen|pages=138–145|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140527220245/http://mapcontext.com/autocarto/proceedings/auto-carto-4-vol-1/pdf/automated-cartography-as-an-aid-to-define-protection-areas-against-air-traffic-noise.pdf|archive-date=27 May 2014|access-date=15 June 2013}}</ref>

==== Economy ====
Under the Brandt Administration, West Germany attained a lower rate of inflation than in other industrialised countries at that time,<ref name="Prittie"/> while a rise in the standard of living took place, helped by the floating and revaluation of the mark.<ref name="Prittie"/> This was characterised by the real incomes of employees increasing more sharply than incomes from entrepreneurial work, with the proportion of employees' incomes in the overall national income rising from 65% to 70% between 1969 and 1973, while the proportion of income from entrepreneurial work and property fell over that same period from just under 35% to 30%.<ref name="autogenerated7"/> In addition, the percentage of West Germans living in poverty (based on various definitions) fell between 1969 and 1973.{{sfnp|Flora|1986|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=GaWtd5zJfB8C&pg=PA54 54]}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chartbookofeconomicinequality.com/inequality-by-country/germany/|title=Germany – Chartbook of Economic Inequality|website=Chartbookofeconomicinequality.com\accessdate=2017-04-17}}</ref> According to one estimate, the percentage of West Germans living in poverty fell from 9.7% to 8.9% between 1969 and 1973, and from 20.2% to 14.0% according to another estimate.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lvKFDAAAQBAJ&q=poverty%20germany%201969-1973&pg=PA95|title=Cities in Transition: New Challenges, New Responsibilities|first1=B.|last1=Blanke|first2=R.|last2=Smith|date=18 August 1999|publisher=Springer |isbn=9780333982273 |via=Google Books}}</ref> According to another estimate, the percentage of West Germans living in poverty during this period fell from 2.7% to 1.4%.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pyWtQkfScAEC&q=poverty%20germany%201969-1973&pg=PA209|page=209|title=Recent Social Trends in West Germany, 1960–1990|first1=Wolfgang|last1=Glatzer|first2=International Research Group on the Comparative Charting of Social Change in Advanced Industrial|last2=Societies|date=21 August 1992|publisher=McGill-Queen's Press – MQUP|isbn=9780773509092|via=Google Books}}</ref>

=== 1972 crisis ===
Brandt's ''Ostpolitik'' led to a meltdown of the narrow majority Brandt's coalition enjoyed in the ''Bundestag''. In October 1970, FDP deputies Erich Mende, Heinz Starke, and Siegfried Zoglmann crossed the floor to join the CDU. On 23 February 1972, SPD deputy Herbert Hupka, who was also leader of the ''Bund der Vertriebenen'', joined the CDU in disagreement with Brandt's reconciliatory efforts towards the east. On 23 April 1972, Wilhelm Helms (FDP) left the coalition. The FDP politicians Knud von Kühlmann-Stumm and Gerhard Kienbaum also declared that they would vote against Brandt, completing the loss of Brandt's majority. On 24 April 1972 a constructive vote of no confidence was proposed, to be voted on three days later. In the event this motion passed, CDU leader Rainer Barzel would have replaced Brandt as chancellor.

On paper, the opposition now had 250 votes; just one over the 249 needed to oust Brandt. Even Brandt himself believed he was finished, and a number of unions went on strike in anticipation of Brandt's expected defeat on the floor of the Bundestag. To everyone's surprise, the motion failed: Barzel got only 247 votes out of 260 votes cast, two short of what he needed to become Chancellor. There were also 10 votes against the motion and three invalid ballots. Most SPD and FDP deputies abstained, which had the same effect as voting for Brandt.

=== New elections ===
{{seealso|1972 West German federal election}}
Though Brandt remained chancellor, he had lost his majority. Subsequent initiatives in parliament, most notably on the budget, failed. Because of this stalemate, the Bundestag was dissolved and new elections were called. During the 1972 campaign, many popular West German artists, intellectuals, writers, actors and professors supported Brandt and the SPD. Among them were Günter Grass, Walter Jens, and even the soccer player Paul Breitner. Brandt's ''{{Lang|de|Ostpolitik}}'' as well as his reformist domestic policies were popular with parts of the young generation and he led the SPD to its best-ever federal election result in late 1972.

However, the ''{{Lang|de|Willy-Wahl}}'', Brandt's landslide win, was the beginning of the end; and Brandt's role in government started to decline. Many of his reforms met with resistance from state governments, dominated by CDU/CSU. The spirit of reformist optimism was cut short by the [[Finance:1973 oil crisis|1973 oil crisis]] and the major public services strike 1974, which gave Germany's trade unions, led by Heinz Kluncker, a big wage increase but reduced Brandt's financial leeway for further reforms. Brandt was said to be more a dreamer than a manager and was personally haunted by depression. To counter any notions about being sympathetic to Communism or soft on [[Social:Left-wing politics|left-wing]] extremists, Brandt implemented tough legislation that barred "radicals" from public service (''{{Lang|de|Radikalenerlass}}'').

=== Guillaume affair ===
[[File:Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F042453-0011, Niedersachsen, Brandt im Wahlkampf.jpg|right|thumb|Brandt, photographed in 1974, with Günter Guillaume. This image was taken a month before Brandt's resignation as chancellor.]]
Around 1973, West German security organizations received information that one of Brandt's personal assistants, Günter Guillaume, was a spy for the East German intelligence services. Brandt was asked to continue working as usual, and he agreed to do so, even taking a private vacation with Guillaume. Guillaume was arrested on 24 April 1974, and many{{who|date=August 2015}} blamed Brandt for having a communist spy in his inner circle.{{Citation needed|date=August 2015}}

Brandt resigned from his position as chancellor on 6 May 1974, but he remained a member of the Bundestag and chairman of the Social Democrats until 1987.
This [[Social:Espionage|espionage]] affair is widely considered to have been just the trigger for Brandt's resignation, not the fundamental cause. As Brandt himself later said, "I was exhausted, for reasons which had nothing to do with the affair [the Guillaume espionage scandal] going on at the time."<ref>quoted in: Gregor Schöllgen. [http://www.zeit.de/2003/40/P-Schreiber?page=all ''Der Kanzler und sein Spion'']. In: ''Die Zeit'' 2003, Vol. 40, 25 September 2003</ref>
Brandt was dogged by scandals about serial adultery, and reportedly also struggled with alcohol and depression.<ref>{{harvp|Schöllgen|2001}}</ref> There was also the economic fallout on West Germany of the [[Finance:1973 oil crisis|1973 oil crisis]], which may seem to have given enough stress to finish off Brandt as the Chancellor.{{Citation needed|date=August 2015}}

Guillaume had been an espionage agent for [[Place:East Germany|East Germany]], who was supervised by Markus Wolf, the head of the
Main Directorate for Reconnaissance (''Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung'' or HVA—the foreign intelligence service) of the East German Ministry for State Security. Wolf stated after the reunification that the resignation of Brandt had never been intended, and that the planting and handling of Guillaume had been one of the biggest mistakes of the East German secret services.

[[File:Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F062773-0037, München, SPD-Parteitag, Brandt, Schmidt.jpg|left|thumb|Brandt, photographed at an SPD conference in Munich, with his successor Helmut Schmidt, 1982]]
Brandt was succeeded as the Chancellor of the Bundesrepublik by his fellow Social Democrat, Helmut Schmidt. For the rest of his life, Brandt remained suspicious that his fellow Social Democrat (and longtime rival) Herbert Wehner had been scheming for Brandt's downfall.{{Citation needed|date=August 2015}} However, there is scant evidence to corroborate this suspicion.

== Ex-Chancellor ==
[[File:Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F079282-0022, Münster, SPD-Parteitag, Willy Brandt.jpg|thumb|upright|Brandt in 1988 at the Münster party rally]]
After his term as the Chancellor, Brandt retained his seat in the Bundestag, and he remained the Chairman of the Social Democratic Party through 1987. Beginning in 1987, Brandt stepped down to become the Honorary Chairman of the party. Brandt was also a member of the European Parliament from 1979 to 1983.

=== Socialist International ===
[[File:WillyBrandtBerntCarlssonPenttiVäänänen.jpg|thumb|left|Socialist International Congress 1983. Brandt with outgoing general secretary Bernt Carlsson (left) and new general secretary Pentti Väänänen (right).]]
For sixteen years (1976–92), Brandt was the [[Organization:Socialist International#Presidents|president of the Socialist International]]. During that period, the number of Socialist International's mainly European member parties grew until there were more than a hundred socialist, social democratic, and labour political parties around the world. For the first seven years, this growth in SI membership had been prompted by the efforts of the Socialist International's Secretary-General, the Swede Bernt Carlsson. However, in early 1983, a dispute arose about what Carlsson perceived as the SI president's authoritarian approach. Carlsson then rebuked Brandt saying: "this is a Socialist International – not a German International".

Next, against some vocal opposition, Brandt decided to move the next Socialist International Congress from Sydney, Australia to Portugal. Following this SI Congress in April 1983, Brandt retaliated against Carlsson by forcing him to step down from his position. However, the Austrian Prime Minister, Bruno Kreisky, argued on behalf of Brandt: "It is a question of whether it is better to be pure or to have greater numbers".<ref>{{cite magazine
 | title = Never at a Loss for Words
 | magazine = {{wipe|Time (magazine)}}
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| access-date = 9 July 2008}}</ref>
Carlsson was succeeded by the Finn Pentti Väänänen as Secretary General of the [[Organization:Socialist International|Socialist International]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.socialistinternational.org/viewArticle.cfm?ArticleID=8 |title=Progressive Politics For A Fairer World |publisher=Socialist International |access-date=14 November 2012}}</ref>

During Brandt's presidency, the SI developed activities and dialogue on a number of International issues. This concerned the East-West conflict and [[Engineering:Arms race|arms race]], on which the SI held high-level consultations with the leaderships of the United States and the Soviet Union, and on [[Religion:Soviet–Afghan War|Afghanistan after 1979]].<ref>[https://bukovsky-archive.com/2016/07/08/1-february-1980-pb-1822/ Bukovsky Archives, CPSU Politburo "Information for Brandt and Sorsa about disarmament and Afghanistan", 1 February 1980* (Pb 182/2)].</ref> The SI met with President [[Biography:Jimmy Carter|Jimmy Carter]] and Vice-Presidents Walter Mondale and George Bush, and with the CPSU Secretary Generals Leonid Brezhnev and [[Biography:Mikhail Gorbachev|Mikhail Gorbachev]] and Soviet Head of State Andrei Gromyko. The SI also developed active contacts to promote dialogue concerning regional conflicts. Those included the Middle East, where they helped to build contacts between Israel and the PLO, and also in [[Place:Southern Africa|Southern Africa]] and Central America.<ref>{{harvp|Väänänen|2012|pp=258–259}}</ref>

=== Brandt Report ===
In 1977, Brandt was appointed as the chairman of the Independent Commission for International Developmental Issues. This produced a report in 1980, which called for drastic changes in the global attitude towards development in the Third World. This became known as the [[Finance:Brandt Report|Brandt Report]].

=== Reunification ===
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1990-0316-035, Wismar, SPD-Wahlkundgebung, Willy Brandt.jpg|thumb|left|Brandt giving a speech in Wismar, campaigning for the only free parliamentary election in East Germany (March 1990)]]
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1990-0928-036, Dessau, SPD-Wahlkundgebung, Willy Brandt.jpg|thumb|left|Brandt giving a speech on 28 September 1990, two years before his death]]
In October 1979, Brandt met with the East German dissident, Rudolf Bahro, who had written ''The Alternative''. Bahro and his supporters were attacked by the East German state security organization Stasi, headed by Erich Mielke, for his writings, which had laid the theoretical foundation of a left-wing opposition to the ruling SED party and its dependent allies, and which promoted new and changed parties. All of this is now described as "change from within". Brandt had asked for Bahro's release, and Brandt welcomed Bahro's theories, which advanced the debate within his own Social Democratic Party.

On 11 September 1988, Brandt described the hope for German reunification as a delusion.<ref>{{cite web|title=Schlaglichter der deutschen Einheit. Eine kommentierte Chronik(1987-1990)|url=https://www.kas.de/c/document_library/get_file?uuid=b766e451-ebe2-cbd4-72f0-a1824f960320&groupId=252038|website=kas.de|publisher=Konrad Adenauer Foundation|author=Michael Borchard|page=11|date=1 October 2008|language=de}}</ref> In late 1989, Brandt became one of the first leftwing leaders in West Germany to publicly favor a quick reunification of Germany, instead of some sort of two-state federation or other kind of interim arrangement. Brandt's public statement "Now grows together what belongs together", was widely quoted in those days.

=== Hostages in Iraq ===
One of Brandt's last public appearances was in flying to [[Place:Baghdad|Baghdad]], Iraq, to free Western hostages held by Saddam Hussein, following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990. Brandt secured the release of a large number of them, and on 9 November 1990, his airplane landed with 174 freed hostages on board at the Frankfurt Airport.<ref>"Mideast Tensions", [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE7DB1238F933A25752C1A966958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=MIDEAST TENSIONS; Buildup in Gulf Seen as a Signal On Use of Force], ''{{wipe|The New York Times}}'', 9 November 1990. Retrieved 3 January 2008</ref>

== Death and legacy ==
[[File:Willy Brandt monument in Warsaw 05.JPG|thumb|Willy Brandt memorial in Warsaw, 2000. Brandt's memorial is within sight of the Warsaw Ghetto Memorial.]]
[[File:Willy Brandt Memorial-Nuremberg.jpg|thumb|Willy Brandt memorial in Nuremberg by artist Josef Tabachnyk, 2009]]

Brandt died of [[Medicine:Colorectal cancer|colon cancer]] at his home in Unkel, a town on the River Rhine, on 8 October 1992, at the age of 78.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/09/world/willy-brandt-dead-at-78-forged-west-germany-s-reconciliation-with-the-east.html|title=Willy Brandt Dead at 78; Forged West Germany's Reconciliation With the East|last=Binder|first=David|date=9 October 1992|work=The New York Times|access-date=17 April 2017|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> He was given a state funeral and was buried at the cemetery at Zehlendorf in Berlin.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://articles.latimes.com/1992-10-18/news/mn-1142_1_west-berlin|title=Germans Lay Beloved Statesman Brandt to Rest : Funeral: 'He shaped an era,' the country's president says of the former West Berlin mayor, foreign minister and chancellor.|last=MARSHALL|first=TYLER|date=18 October 1992|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=17 April 2017|language=en-US|issn=0458-3035}}</ref>

The Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt Foundation was established in 1994. It serves to honor the memory of Brandt's political accomplishments and his commitment to peace, freedom and democracy. The foundation runs two permanent exhibitions: one in Berlin, and the other in Lübeck, where Brandt was born. Other works of the foundation include oversight of Brandt's papers, speeches and letters (the Berlin Edition), historical research as well as organizing lectures and international conferences.<ref>{{cite web|title = Bundeskanzler Willy Brandt Stiftung: The foundation|url = http://www.willy-brandt.de/en/foundation.html|website = www.willy-brandt.de|access-date = 15 September 2015|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150505062201/http://www.willy-brandt.de/en/foundation.html|archive-date = 5 May 2015|url-status=dead|df = dmy-all}}</ref>

In 1997, a park in Stockholm was named in Brandt's honor. It is close to where he lived during his exile in Sweden 1941–1945.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.dn.se/arkiv/stockholm/park-far-namn-efter-willy-brandt/ |title=Park får namn efter Willy Brandt |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=18 March 1997 |website=Dagens Nyheter. |publisher=Dagens Nyheter |access-date=19 February 2022 |quote=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://stockholmskallan.stockholm.se/post/28155 |title=Skylt på Willy Brandts hus i Hammarbyhöjden |author=<!--Not stated--> |date= 2 December 2021|website=Stockholmskällan |publisher=Stockholm Municipality |access-date=19 February 2022 |quote=}}</ref>

When the SPD moved its headquarters from Bonn back to Berlin in the mid-1990s, the new headquarters was named the "Willy Brandt Haus". One of the buildings of the European Parliament in Brussels was named after him in 2008.

On 6 December 2000, a memorial to Brandt and ''Warschauer Kniefall'' was unveiled in [[Place:Warsaw|Warsaw]], Poland.

German artist Johannes Heisig painted several portraits of Brandt of which one was unveiled as part of an honoring event at German Historical Institute Washington, DC on 18 March 2003. Spokesmen amongst others were former German Federal Minister Egon Bahr and former U.S. Secretary of state Henry Kissinger.<ref name=GHI>{{cite web|title=Honoring Willy Brandt|url=http://www.ghi-dc.org/publications/ghipubs/bu/033/90.pdf|publisher=GHI Bulletin No. 33 (Fall 2003)|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927024000/http://www.ghi-dc.org/publications/ghipubs/bu/033/90.pdf|archive-date=27 September 2011}}</ref>

In 2009, the Willy-Brandt-Memorial was opened up in Nuremberg at the Willy-Brandt Square.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nuernberg.de/imperia/md/baureferat/dokumente/wettbewerbe/pm_enthuellung_willybrandt.pdf |title=Enthüllung der Skulptur "Willy Brandt" |website=Nuernberg.de |access-date=17 April 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150103052510/http://www.nuernberg.de/imperia/md/baureferat/dokumente/wettbewerbe/pm_enthuellung_willybrandt.pdf |archive-date=3 January 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref> It was created by the artist Josef Tabachnyk.

In 2009, the [[Organization:University of Erfurt|University of Erfurt]] renamed its graduate school of public administration as the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy. A private German-language [[Social:Secondary school|secondary school]] in [[Place:Warsaw|Warsaw]], Poland, is also named after Brandt.

The main boulevard at the north entrance of the Montenegrin capital [[Place:Podgorica|Podgorica]] was named Willy Brandt Boulevard in 2011.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dan.co.me/?nivo=3&rubrika=Podgoricom&clanak=283467&datum=2011-06-10|title=Dan online – Podgoricom: – 2011-06-10|work=dan.co.me}}</ref>

Brandt also has an unusual memorial in Hammersmith in [[Place:London|London]], United Kingdom. In 1963, when he was mayor of West Berlin, Brandt travelled to Hammersmith with a [[Engineering:Street light|street lamp]] from West Berlin, and presented it to the mayor of Hammersmith to mark its twinning with Neukölln. The lamp now stands on the wall of Westcott Lodge, facing Furnival Gardens, with a commemorative plaque below it.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.londonremembers.com/memorials/west-berlin-street-lamp|title=West Berlin Street Lamp|publisher=londonremembers.com|access-date=1 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160316040021/http://www.londonremembers.com/memorials/west-berlin-street-lamp|archive-date=16 March 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Although Brandt had only served five years in office as Chancellor of Germany, he remains as one of the most popular politicians in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Berlin Brandenburg Airport, which opened in late 2020, is also named in his honor.

== Brandt's family ==
[[File:Ludwig Binder Haus der Geschichte Studentenrevolte 1968 2001 03 0275.4212 (17086177105).jpg|thumb|Peter Brandt (right) during the protests of 1968]]
From 1941 until 1948, Brandt was married to Anna Carlotta Thorkildsen (the daughter of a Norwegian father and a German-American mother). They had a daughter, Ninja Brandt (born in 1940).<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-willy-brandt-1556598.html|title=Obituary: Willy Brandt|date=10 October 1992|work=The Independent|access-date=17 April 2017|language=en-GB}}</ref> After Brandt and Thorkildsen were divorced in 1948, Brandt married the Norwegian-born German writer Rut Hansen in the same year. Hansen and Brandt had three sons: {{Interlanguage link multi|Peter Brandt (historian)|de|3=Peter Brandt (Historiker)|lt=Peter Brandt}} (born in 1948), {{ill|Lars Brandt (author)|de|Lars Brandt|lt=Lars Brandt}} (born in 1951) and Matthias Brandt (born in 1961). After 32 years of marriage, Willy Brandt and Rut Hansen Brandt divorced in 1980, and from the day that they were divorced they never saw each other again.<ref name=":0" /> On 9 December 1983, Brandt married {{Interlanguage link multi|Brigitte Seebacher|de}} (born in 1946).<ref name=":0" />

== Notes ==
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==Honour==
===Foreign honour===
* {{flagu|Malaysia}} : Honorary Grand Commander of the Order of Loyalty to the Crown of Malaysia (S.S.M.) (1969)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.istiadat.gov.my/index.php/component/semakanlantikanskp/|title=Semakan Penerima Darjah Kebesaran, Bintang dan Pingat|access-date=24 August 2018|archive-date=19 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190719195551/http://www.istiadat.gov.my/index.php/component/semakanlantikanskp|url-status=dead}}</ref>

== Selected works ==
* 1960 ''Mein Weg nach Berlin'' (''My Path to Berlin''), autobiography written with Leo Lania
* 1966 ''Draußen. Schriften während der Emigration''. (''Outside: Writings during the Emigration'') {{ISBN|3-8012-1094-4}}
* 1968 ''Friedenspolitik in Europa'' (''The Politics of Peace in Europe'')
* 1976 ''Begegnungen und Einsichten 1960–1975'' (''Encounters and Insights 1960–1975'') {{ISBN|3-455-08979-8}}
* 1982 ''Links und frei. Mein Weg 1930–1950'' (''Left and Free: My Path 1930–1950'')
* 1986 ''Der organisierte Wahnsinn'' (''Organized Lunacy'')
* 1989 ''Erinnerungen'' (''Memories'') {{ISBN|3-549-07353-4}}
* 2002 Berliner Ausgabe, Werkauswahl, ed. for Bundeskanzler Willy Brandt Stiftung by Helga Grebing, Gregor Schöllgen and Heinrich August Winkler, 10 volumes, Dietz Verlag, Bonn 2002f, Collected Writings, {{ISBN|3-8012-0305-0}}

== Biographies ==
* Helga Grebing, ''Willy Brandt. Der andere Deutsche''. ({{ISBN|978-3-7705-4710-4}}) {{in lang|de}}
* {{Cite journal | last = Mandel | first = Ernest |  title = Willy Brandt and Petra Kelly | journal = New Left Review | volume = I | issue = 196 | publisher = New Left Review | date = November–December 1992 | url = http://newleftreview.org/I/196/ernest-mandel-petra-kelly-and-willy-brandt }}
* Barbara Marshall, ''Willy Brandt, A Political Biography'' ({{ISBN|0-312-16438-6}})
* Nestore di Meola, ''Willy Brandt raccontato da Klaus Lindenberg'' ({{ISBN|88-7284-712-5}}) {{in lang|it}}
* Hans-Joachim Noack, ''Willy Brandt, Ein Leben, Ein Jahrhundert'' ({{ISBN|978-3-87134-645-3}}) {{in lang|de}}
The following titles are in German:
* Egon Bahr: {{Lang|de|"Das musst du erzählen". Erinnerungen an Willy Brandt}}. Propyläen, Berlin 2013, {{ISBN|978-3-549-07422-0}}.
* Lars Brandt: {{Lang|de|Andenken}}. Carl-Hanser-Verlag, München 2006, {{ISBN|3-446-20710-4}}.
* Brigitte Seebacher-Brandt: ''Willy Brandt''. Piper-Verlag, München 2013, {{ISBN|978-3-492-30430-6}}.
* Helga Grebing: {{Lang|de|Willy Brandt. Der andere Deutsche}}. Wilhelm-Fink-Verlag, Paderborn 2008, {{ISBN|978-3-7705-4710-4}}.
* Peter Hoeres: {{Lang|de|Außenpolitik und Öffentlichkeit. Massenmedien, Meinungsforschung und Arkanpolitik in den deutsch-amerikanischen Beziehungen von Erhard bis Brandt}}. (Reihe: "Studien zur Internationalen Geschichte Bd. 32"), De Gruyter Oldenbourg, München 2013.
* Gunter Hofmann: {{Lang|de|Willy Brandt und Helmut Schmidt. Geschichte einer schwierigen Freundschaft}}. Verlag C.H. Beck, München 2012, {{ISBN|978-3-406-63977-7}}.
* Torsten Körner: {{Lang|de|Die Familie Willy Brandt}}. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2013, {{ISBN|978-3-10-040407-7}}.
* Gertrud Lenz: {{Lang|de|Gertrud Meyer 1914–2002. Ein politisches Leben im Schatten Willy Brandts}}. Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2013, {{ISBN|978-3-506-77569-6}}.
* Einhart Lorenz: {{Lang|de|Willy Brandt. Deutscher – Europäer – Weltbürger}}. Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart 2012, {{ISBN|978-3-17-021245-9}}.
* Peter Merseburger: {{Lang|de|Willy Brandt, 1913–1992. Visionär und Realist}}. DVA, Stuttgart 2002, {{ISBN|3-423-34097-5}}.(also on 6 CDs, 2004, {{ISBN|3-8291-1398-6}}.)
* Judith Michel: {{Lang|de|Willy Brandts Amerikabild und -politik 1933–1993}}. Bonn University Press im Verlag Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2010.
* Horst Möller, Maurice Vaïsse (Hrsg.): {{Lang|de|Willy Brandt und Frankreich}}. Oldenbourg-Verlag, München 2005, {{ISBN|3-486-57649-6}} (Schriftenreihe der Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, Sondernummer).
* Albrecht Müller: {{Lang|de|Brandt aktuell – Treibjagd auf einen Hoffnungsträger}}. Westend Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2013, {{ISBN|978-3-86489-064-2}}.
* Hans-Joachim Noack: {{Lang|de|Willy Brandt. Ein Leben, ein Jahrhundert}}. Rowohlt Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2013, {{ISBN|978-3-87134-645-3}}.
* Steffen Raßloff (Hrsg.): {{Lang|de|"Willy Brandt ans Fenster!" Das Erfurter Gipfeltreffen 1970 und die Geschichte des "Erfurter Hofes"}}. Glaux-Verlag, Jena 2007, {{ISBN|978-3-940265-05-0}}.
* Bernd Rother (Hrsg.): {{Lang|de|Willy Brandts Außenpolitik}}. Springer VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2014, {{ISBN|978-3-658-02918-0}}.
* Kai Schlüter: {{Lang|de|Günter Grass auf Tour für Willy Brandt. Die legendäre Wahlkampftour 1969}}. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2011, {{ISBN|978-3-86153-647-5}}.
* Jan Schönfelder; Rainer Erices: {{Lang|de|Willy Brandt in Erfurt. Das erste deutsch-deutsche Gipfeltreffen 1970}}. Christoph-Links-Verlag, Berlin 2010, {{ISBN|978-3-86153-568-3}}.

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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20150505062201/http://www.willy-brandt.de/en/foundation.html The Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt Foundation]
* [http://www.willy-brandt-forum.com Willy-Brandt-Forum in Unkel]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120322233043/http://www.bwbs.de/bwbs_biografie/index_en.html Official Biography of Willy Brandt] by Chancellor Willy Brandt Foundation
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060721023939/http://www.globalautonomy.ca/global1/glossary_entry.jsp?id=EV.0025 Adam Sneyd, "Brandt Commission"] in Globalization and Autonomy Online Compendium, edited by William D. Coleman and Nancy Johnson
* [http://www.brandt21forum.info/Bio_Brandt.htm Biography of Willy Brandt]
* [http://www.cvce.eu/recherche/unit-content/-/unit/f28057ae-f00f-4677-8327-d97d19023b80 Willy Brandt and the unification of Europe] from Center for European Studies collection
* [http://www.depauw.edu/news/index.asp?id=17907 Ubben Lecture] at DePauw University
* {{C-SPAN|19664}}
* {{Nobelprize}}

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{{s-ttl|title=Mayor of West Berlin|years=1957–1966}}
{{s-aft|after=Heinrich Albertz}}
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{{s-bef|before=Gerhard Schröder}}
{{s-ttl|title=Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs|years=1966–1969}}
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{{s-bef|before=Hans-Christoph Seebohm}}
{{s-ttl|title=Vice-Chancellor of Germany|years=1966–1969}}
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{{s-ttl|title=Chancellor of Germany|years=1969–1974}}
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{{s-aft|after=Pierre Mauroy}}
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