Guido Knopp

When Helmut Kohl came to power in 1982, there was no shortage of mockers who saw him as the “transitional chancellor”. Declared ...

“Dare more democracy” was the slogan of Willy Brandt, the visionary chancellor who was modeled on John F. Kennedy. Weakened by ...

In the chancellorship of Konrad Adenauer, the course was set for democracy. None of his successors had such difficult decisions to make, and none ...