Trips 1957–1966
© Landesarchiv Berlin/Horst Siegmann
Due to holding the office of Governing Mayor of Berlin, which he assumes on 3 October 1957, Willy Brandt becomes a leading German politician. Even outside of Germany the social democrat is in high demand as a partner in discussions as attested by the increasing number of his trips abroad. This is even more the case when Brandt moves into the focal point of international politics during the Berlin Crisis of 1958-1963.
During this time, the Governing Mayor often travels to the USA as well as to Great Britain and France, who guarantee as protective powers the freedom of West Berlin. For the first time he also visits countries in Asia and in Africa. At the same time in the 1960s, as its Chancellor candidate and party chairman, Willy Brandt travels a lot for the SPD. However, his innumerable campaign events in the Federal Republic and frequent trips between Berlin and Bonn are not listed here.
1957
| April 1957 | Black Forest (Germany) Treatment at a health resort |
| Summer 1957 | Allgäu (Germany) Holiday |
1958
| 6–19 February 1958 | USA i. a. talks with President Eisenhower, Vice President Nixon and Secretary of State Dulles in Washington D.C., and numerous appearances in New York, Philadelphia and Boston |
| 9–15 March 1958 | Great Britain i. a. meeting with Prime Minister Macmillan and opposition leader Gaitskell as well as lecture at Chatham House in London |
| 14/15 December 1958 | Paris (France) i. a. statement of the Governing Mayor at the meeting of NATO Foreign Ministers on the Berlin Crisis as well as discussions with the Foreign Ministers, Couve de Murville (France), Brentano (Federal Republic of Germany) and Lange (Norway) |
1959
| 19 January 1959 | Strasbourg (France) Speech in the European Parliament |
| 6 February– 6 March 1959 |
Political world tour for Berlin Stopovers: Ottawa (Canada), Washington D.C., New York, Springfield, Los Angeles, Hawaii (USA), Tokyo (Japan), Hong Kong, Singapore, Rangun (Burma), Bangkok (Thailand), Colombo (Ceylon), Karachi (Pakistan), Calcutta and New Delhi (India) i. a. meetings with US President Eisenhower, UN Secretary General Hammarskjöld, Japan’s Emperor Hirohito and India’s Prime Minister Nehru |
| 13–15 April 1959 | Netherlands i. a. reception by Queen Juliana and talks with the Dutch government in The Hague as well as visits in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Utrecht |
| 17–20 April 1959 | Stockholm (Schweden) Party convention of the Social Democratic Worker’s Party of Sweden on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of its founding and discussions with the Prime Ministers of Sweden, Norway and Denmark |
| 20–22 April 1959 | London (Great Britain) i. a. conversations with Prime Minister Macmillan and Foreign Minister Selwyn Lloyd about the Berlin Crisis |
| 9–11 June 1959 | Paris (France) i. a. discussion with President de Gaulle |
| 12 June 1959 | Geneva (Switzerland) Talks with the Foreign Ministers of the USA, Great Britain, France and the Federal Republic of Germany on the sidelines of the Four-Powers Conference on Germany and Berlin |
| 10 July–15 August 1959 | Fischbachau (Germany) Holiday in Upper Bavaria |
| in between: 31 July 1959 | Geneva (Switzerland) i. a. conversation with US Secretary of State Herter on the sidelines of the Four-Powers Conference on Germany and Berlin |
| 18-20 October 1959 | Zurich (Switzerland) Rally of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland |
| 28–31 October 1959 | Brussels (Belgium) / Luxembourg (Luxembourg) i. a. discussions with the President of the EEC Commission, Hallstein, as well as with the Prime Ministers of Belgium and Luxembourg, Eyskens and Werner |
| 18–21 November 1959 | Oslo (Norway) i. a. reception by King Olav V as well as talks with Prime Minister Gerhardsen and Foreign Minister Lange |
1960
| 6 May 1960 | London (Great Britain) i. a. meeting with the Indian Prime Minister Nehru |
| 13–15 October 1960 | Vienna (Austria) Opening of an exhibit on the occasion of the promotional week “Berlin greets Vienna” as well as discussions with Federal President Schärf, Federal Chancellor Raab, Vice Chancellor Pittermann and Foreign Minister Kreisky |
| 11–14 November 1960 | Greece i. a. meeting with King Paul I and discussion with Prime Minister Karamanlis in Athens |
| 14–17 November 1960 | Israel Participation at an international congress of municipalities in Tel Aviv and, i. a. discussions with Prime Minister Ben Gurion and Foreign Minister Meir |
| 17–19 November 1960 | Italy i. a. conversations with President Gronchi and Prime Minister Fanfani in Rome as well as a private audience with Pope John XXIII at the Vatican |
1961
| 9–11 March 1961 | Copenhagen (Denmark) i. a. discussions with Prime Minister Kampmann and Foreign Minister Krag |
| 11–19 March 1961 | USA i. a. talks with President Kennedy and Secretary of State Rusk in Washington D.C., as well as speeches at Columbia University, in the Goethe House and the Theodor Herzl Institute in New York |
| 5–7 October 1961 | New York (USA) Acceptance of the “Freedom Award” by Freedom House |
| 10/11 November 1961 | Brussels (Belgium) Visit with Belgian social democrats |
| 12–14 December 1961 | Paris (France) i. a. talks with the Foreign Ministers of the USA, Great Britain and France, Rusk, Lord Home and Couve de Murville |
1962
| 10 January– 1 February 1962 |
Tunisia Holiday on the island of Djerba and tour in the interior of the country; subsequent meeting with President Bourguiba in Tunis |
| 28 March–2 April 1962 | Great Britain i. a. meeting with the heads of the Labour Party and talks with Foreign Minister Lord Home in London as well as visits to Newcastle, Birmingham and Glasgow |
| 12 July– 12 August 1962 |
Norway Holiday |
| 21 September 1962 | Cadenabbia (Italy) Talks with Federal Chancellor Adenauer in his vacation house |
| 28 September– 6 October 1962 |
USA i. a. discussions with President Kennedy and Secretary of State Rusk in Washington D.C. and two speeches at Harvard University on the subject of “Co-existence” |
| 31 October– 3 November 1962 |
London (Great Britain) i. a. conversations with Foreign Minister Lord Home |
1963
| 24–27 April 1963 | France Visit to the “Berlin Days of Culture“ and lecture on “Berlin et la liberté de l’Europe” at the Mouvement Européen in Paris along with discussions with President de Gaulle in Saint-Dizier |
| 9–16 June 1963 | USA i. a. talks with UN ambassador Stevenson in New York and Secretary of State Rusk in Cambridge as well as a speech in St. Louis |
| 12–15 July 1963 | Harpsund (Sweden) Meeting with Scandinavian and British social democrats/socialists and with politicians and trade unionists from the USA at the invitation of Prime Minister Erlander |
| 16 July–12 August 1963 | Alpbachtal (Austria) Holiday |
| 17–19 October 1963 | Brussels (Belgium) Acceptance of the Paul Henri Spaak Prize |
| 4–22 November 1963 | Egypt, Uganda, Kenya, Tanganyika, Zanzibar, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast and Algeria i. a. talks with the Presidents Nasser, Obote, Kenyatta, Nyerere, Houphouët-Boigny and Ben Bella and also with Emperor Haile Selassie |
| 24–27 November 1963 | Washington D.C. (USA) Funeral of the murdered President Kennedy |
1964
| 10–12 March 1964 | Paris (France) i. a. speech on the subject “Die Völker wollen Europa” (“The People Want Europe”) at the congress of the International Federation of Free Trade Unions |
| 23–31 March 1964 | Norderney (Germany) Holiday on the North Sea island |
| 11–13 April 1964 | London (Great Britain) Party leaders’ conference of the Socialist International (SI) |
| 2–5 May 1964 | Vienna (Austria) i. a. participation in the festival rally for the 75-year existence of Austrian Social Democracy as well as at a meeting of the Viennese Institute for Development Issues and a reception by Federal President Schärf |
| 13–20 May 1964 | USA i. a. talks with President Johnson and Secretary of State Rusk in Washington D.C. and speech at the “Foreign Policy Association” in New York |
| 6–8 June 1964 | Stockholm (Sweden) Participation at a party congress of the Swedish Social Democrats |
| 29/30 July 1964 | Denmark Visit to Vejle |
| 30/31 July 1964 | Norway Visits to Larvik and to a youth camp near Arendal |
| 31 July–3 August 1964 | Harpsund (Sweden) Meeting with Scandinavian and British social democrats/socialists as well as with politicians and trade unionists from the USA |
| 3–6 August 1964 | Sweden Private stay on Öland and in Trelleborg |
| 2–5 September 1964 | Brussels (Belgium) IXth congress of the Socialist International (SI) |
| 9.–11. November 1964 | London (Great Britain) i. a. talks with Prime Minister Wilson and Foreign Minister Walker and also a speech at the Anglo-German Association |
1965
| 30 January– 24 February 1965 |
Wildbad Kreuth (Germany) Treatment at a health resort |
| 5 March 1965 | Vienna (Austria) Attendance at the memorial for Austria’s late Federal President Schärf and discussion with Foreign Minister Kreisky |
| 12–22 April 1965 | USA i. a. talks with President Johnson, Secretary of State Rusk and Secretary of Defence McNamara in Washington D.C., acceptance of an honorary doctorate by the “New School of Social Research” in New York and visit to Cape Kennedy Air Force Station in Florida |
| 22–25 April 1965 | Great Britain Party leaders’ meeting of the Socialist International (SI) in Chequers and visit to Coventry |
| 1–3 June 1965 | Paris (France) i. a. conversations with President de Gaulle, Prime Minister Pompidou and Foreign Minister Couve de Murville |
| 27–29 June 1965 | Rome (Italy) i. a. talks with leading politicians of the country as well as a speech on the subject of “No Resignation for Europe” |
| 30 July–2. August 1965 | Harpsund (Sweden) Meeting with Scandinavian and British social democrats/socialists as well as with politicians and trade unionists from the USA |
| 5–9 August 1965 | Norway Private stay in a vacation house in Vangsåsen near Hamar and speech at a rally with Prime Minister Gerhardsen in Sandefjord |
| 30 September– 10 October 1965 |
Sainte-Maxime-sur-Mer (France) Holiday on the Cote d’Azur |
1966
| 7–11 January 1966 | Italy i. a. participation in a congress of the Partito Socialista Democratico Italiano (PSDI) in Naples and private audience with Pope Paul VI in Rome |
| 21–24 February 1966 | New York (USA) Participation at the granting of the “Freedom Award“ of Freedom House and, i. a. discussion with the laureate, US President Johnson |
| 30 March–12 April 1966 | France Holiday |
| 4–7 May 1966 | Stockholm (Sweden) Xth congress of the Socialist International (SI) |
| 24 July–20 August 1966 | Vangsåsen (Norway) Holiday in vacation house near Hamar |
| 4/5 October 1966 | Odense (Denmark) Participation at the Nordic Day |
| 13–15 December 1966 | Paris (France) i. a. meetings of the NATO Ministerial Council and the assembly of the West European Union (WEU) |
| 27 December 1966– 3 January 1967 |
Sicily (Italy) Holiday |