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What (who) is Ostpolitik - definition
![[[Willy Brandt]] (left) and [[Willi Stoph]] in [[Erfurt]] 1970, the first encounter of a Federal Chancellor with his East German counterpart, an early step in the [[de-escalation]] of the [[Cold War]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F031406-0017, Erfurt, Treffen Willy Brandt mit Willi Stoph.jpg?width=200 "[[Willy Brandt]] (left) and [[Willi Stoph]] in [[Erfurt]] 1970, the first encounter of a Federal Chancellor with his East German counterpart, an early step in the [[de-escalation]] of the [[Cold War]]")
![Brandt's successor [[Helmut Schmidt]] with East German party leader [[Erich Honecker]], [[Döllnsee]] 1981](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bundesarchiv Bild 183-Z1212-049, Döllnsee, Erich Honecker und Helmut Schmidt.jpg?width=200 "Brandt's successor [[Helmut Schmidt]] with East German party leader [[Erich Honecker]], [[Döllnsee]] 1981")
Wikipedia
Neue Ostpolitik (German for "new eastern policy"), or Ostpolitik for short, was the normalization of relations between the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG, or West Germany) and Eastern Europe, particularly the German Democratic Republic (GDR, or East Germany) beginning in 1969. Influenced by Egon Bahr, who proposed "change through rapprochement" in a 1963 speech at the Evangelische Akademie Tutzing, the policies were implemented beginning with Willy Brandt, fourth Chancellor of the FRG from 1969 to 1974, and winner of the 1971 Nobel Prize for Peace for his efforts to place this policy at the acme of the FRG.
Ostpolitik was an effort to break with the policies of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), which was the elected government of West Germany from 1949 until 1969. The Christian Democrats under Konrad Adenauer and his successors tried to combat the Communist government of East Germany, while Brandt's Social Democrats tried to achieve a certain degree of cooperation with East Germany.
The term Ostpolitik has since been applied to Pope Paul VI's efforts to engage Eastern European countries during the same period. The term Nordpolitik was also coined to describe similar rapprochement policies between North and South Korea beginning in the 1980s.
