Photo: Willy Brandt als Redner beim SPD-Parteitag in Dortmund, 1972 Bundesregierung/Engelbert Reineke

Speeches

Willy Brandt delivered countless speeches. Following are some of his most significant speeches. Via the links, you can access the corresponding speech on the Willy Brandt Online-Biography including an explanatory text and the full text of the speech.

 

  • Speech to Berlin’s SPD on the putsch in Czechoslovakia, 12 March 1948 More »
  • Speech to the Steuben-Schurz Society in Berlin, 17 January 1958 More »
  • Speech in front of Schöneberg Town Hall against construction of the Wall in Berlin, 16 August 1961 More »
  • Speech at the Conference of non-nuclear nations in Geneva, 3 September 1968 More »
  • Government policy declaration to the German Bundestag in Bonn, 28 October 1969 More »
  • Televised address from Moscow on the German-Soviet treaty, 12 August 1970 More »
  • Televised address from Warsaw on the German-Polish Treaty, 7 December 1970 More »
  • Speech on the occasion of receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, 11 December 1971 More »
  • Statement about the Treaty on the Basis of Relations with the GDR, 7 November 1972 More »
  • Statement on the outcome of the Bundestag elections, 19 November 1972 More »
  • Speech in the European Parliament in Strasbourg, 13 November 1973 More »
  • Farewell address as SPD chairman at the extra-ordinary party convention in Bonn, 14 June 1987 More »
  • Speech in front of Schöneberg Town Hall on the fall of the Berlin Wall, 10 November 1989 More »
  • Speech to the congress of the Socialist International in Geneva, 26 November 1976 More »
  • Speech to the United Nations Association in New York, 26 October 1978 More »
  • Greeting for the Congress of the Socialist International in Berlin, 15 September 1992 More »