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Social Democrat, who was chancellor between 1974-1982, Richard von Weizsäcker, a Christian Democrat who was president of the Federal Republic from 1984-1994, Egon Bahr, a minister in Social Democratic governments who was an architect of the policy of "ostpolitik" and Hans-Dietrich Genscher, of the Free Democrats (Liberals), who was foreign minister fro
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West Germany's ostpolitik of engaging East Germany, Eastern Europe, and the Soviet Union only became a viable policy when it ceased being a project of Social Democrats and became the property of all West German political parties.
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