collapse of the GDR
1988
17.1. On the edge of the traditional demonstration on the anniversary of the murder of Rosa Luxembourg and Karl Liebknecht were arrested in the GDR's State Security Service about 120 people. Of these, 54 are forced to emigrate to West Germany.
11.2. The mayor of West Berlin, Eberhard Diepgen (born 1941) (CDU), will meet heads of state and Party chief of East Germany, Erich Honecker, for talks in East Berlin. It announces improvements in domestic travel and visitor traffic.
1.3. Residents of West Berlin can continue to stay at day trips to East Berlin there once.
3.3. For the first time after ten years there will be a summit meeting of representatives of government and the Protestant Church in the GDR.
19.6. The pop superstar Michael Jackson (born 1958) is in front of the Reichstag building in West Berlin, a concert. In the eastern part of the city gather some young people in the vicinity of the wall of acoustically participate in the spectacle. This leads to confrontations with the People's Police.
15.8. The GDR is diplomatic relations with the European Community (EC) on.
27.-29.9. The Heads of State and leader of the GDR, Erich Honecker said, after talks with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in Moscow the "Support for the course of the renewal of Soviet society."
1989
11.1. In East Berlin exit 20 East Germans wishing to leave the Permanent Representation in Bonn of the GDR. Impunity and the check them before their departure motions had been promised.
19.1. Erich Honecker insured, the wall would "remain in 50 and in 100 years still exist when the existing reasons for this are not removed."
2.5. Hungary begins with the removal of border fortifications with Austria.
7.5. In the local elections in the GDR, according to official figures fall 98.85% of the vote on the candidate lists of the unit. Of people being found in many places and electoral fraud made public.
7.6. In East Berlin, a demonstration against the falsification of local election results of 7 May dissolved by the State Security Service.
8.6. The East German People's Chamber assessed in a statement the massacre in Tiananmen Square in Beijing on 4 June as a "crackdown a counter-revolution ".. and shows understanding for the use of the military
12.-15.6 The Soviet state and party leader Gorbachev received during his state visit to Bonn by the people with great joy the end of his visit, he said." The wall can disappear, if omitted the conditions which gave rise to them. "
27.6. cut in a symbolic act of the Hungarian Foreign Minister Gyula Horn (born 1932) and his Austrian counterpart Alois Mock (b. 1934) at the barbed wire fence at Sopron common border. eliminate only the border barriers, border controls remain. In the GDR, this triggers an increased flow of refugees and tourists- to Hungary.
7.7. The Soviet state and party leader Gorbachev admits on the first Eastern bloc summit in Bucharest every socialist country to its own development. Thus losing the so-called Brezhnev doctrine to apply.
8.8. The Permanent Mission of the Federal Republic in East Berlin will be closed due to overcrowding. More than 130 East Germans hold on to the Embassy to force their departure.
13.8. The Bonn Embassy in Budapest to be closed due to overcrowding. From there, want to leave some 180 East Germans.
members of the "Initiative for cancellation of practice and principle of exclusion and other groups are meeting in the East Berlin community commitment. Here is the first time publicly spoken of the formation of an "opposition coalition movement for democratic renewal of the GDR."
19.8. In Sopron, Hungary, it is the largest mass exodus of East Germans since the Berlin Wall. About 900 people use the escape on the "green" Hungarian-Austrian border.
22.8. The Embassy of the Federal Republic in Prague was closed due to overcrowding. About 140 East German citizens want from there to the West to move.
24.8. In Budapest, received 108 East Germans who were in the German Embassy, the Hungarian government as a unique humanitarian action, permission to leave the West.
August / September GDR citizens occupying embassies in Prague, Budapest and Warsaw as well as the Permanent Mission of the Federal Republic of Germany in East Berlin.
4.9. In Leipzig, the first Monday demonstration will take place at the traditional prayer for peace in the Nikolai Church. It calls for more freedom of movement and the abolition of the Ministry for State Security (Stasi). From now on, will be held weekly Monday demonstrations.
7.9. On the East Berlin Alexanderplatz against the alleged vote-rigging the local elections of 7 May protested. East German security forces to stop the action and take about 80 persons have been temporary.
10./11.9. Hungary can, without prior consultation with the East German government all were present were fleeing Volunteer emigrate from the GDR to the West. By the end of September, about 30,000 settlers to come over this way in the Federal Republic.
12./13.9. The East German protest against the opening of the Hungarian border for East German citizens in a "night and fog action" and refers to this as "organized human trafficking".
19.9. With the new forum first applied officially in the GDR opposition group leave to the Association. On 20 September, initially rejected the application because the group "subversive" was.
The West German Embassy in Warsaw has to adjust because of overcrowding with people willing to leave the crowds of East Germans temporarily.
25.9. About 5,000 people protested in Leipzig Reforms and against the ban of the "New Forum".
26.9. East German citizens left the German Embassy in Prague and return to the GDR, because they will exit to the West promised within six months. Many refugees remain in the embassy because they want to directly travel to the West.
30.9. Federal Foreign Minister Hans Dietrich Genscher announced in the evening on the balcony of the German Embassy in Prague, that all East German refugees who are in the German embassies in Prague and Warsaw to leave, allowed. Officially they are for humanitarian reasons "deported" as the humanitarian and medical conditions in the West German embassies have become untenable be.
1.10. The first special train from Warsaw and Prague with about 6800 East German refugees to cross the GDR. Wishing to leave the East Germans trying to jump on the trains.
1.-3.10. Before the embassy in Prague again gather 7,600 people, although the Czechoslovak police attempts to prevent this. On 3 October granted the East German government to leave them too.
2.10. 20,000 people demonstrate in Leipzig for reform in the GDR. The largest demonstration for democracy is broken up by East German security forces violently.
3.10.-11.11. The East German government sets the visa-free travel to Czechoslovakia temporarily.
4.10. Special features of the East German train carrying about 7,600 East German refugees who had sought in the West German Embassy in Prague and Warsaw refuge on the territory of the GDR into the Federal Republic. Railway stations and tracks along the transportation route will be blocked to prevent more people jump on the trains.
7.10. The 40th Anniversary of the GDR's founding is celebrated with military parades and marches. In East Berlin is the Soviet state and party leader Gorbachev part in the festivities. He stressed to the press the necessity of reforms and expressed the famous words: "Those who are late are punished by life". Simultaneously take place in several cities of the East German demonstrations in which tens of thousands of Freedom of expression and reforms occur. The security forces are brutal before. Over a thousand people are arrested.
9.10. For the first time in Leipzig than 70,000 people demonstrated for democratic renewal of the GDR, to intervene without the security forces. The cry "We are the people - no violence prevails.
16.10. In the largest demonstration in the GDR since the uprising by the 17th June attract more than 120,000 people through Leipzig. Again, retain the security forces.
18.10. At the 9th Meeting of the Central Committee (CC) of the SED Erich Honecker, "at his own request" released from all offices. At the same time, inter alia, also loses his lunch Günter Offices Politburo and the Secretariat of the Central Committee. Egon Krenz will be the new Secretary General of the SED. In a speech relayed by the media admits Krenz, the SED failed to recognize that in recent months, the real situation. But now the "turn initiated" is, but the "socialism on German soil 'is not negotiable.
23.10. On the eve of the election of Egon Krenz, the Council of State estimates that approximately 300,000 people demonstrate against a "new concentration of power".
24.10. The People's Parliament elects Egon Krenz Council of State and Chairman of the National Defense Council. This, in turn, the highest offices in the GDR are combined in one person.
27.10. The GDR State Council promulgated a far-reaching amnesty for refugees and detained participants of unauthorized demonstrations.
3.11. The East German government decided that East German citizens to leave the country without formalities on the territory of Czechoslovakia. Then it comes in the following days to a renewed wave of emigration of GDR citizens.
4.11. At the rally on Alexanderplatz in East Berlin demonstrated between 500,000 and one million people for democratic reform and against the power monopoly of the SED in the GDR. The TV transmits the final events on the Alexanderplatz directly and without notice. Spoke including Stefan Heym, Christoph Hein (geb.1944) and Christa Wolf. With reservations encounter speakers such as Markus Wolf, and above all Gunter Schabowski, who was booed several times.
7.11. Prime Minister Willi Stoph meets back with the whole East German government.
8.11. At the 10th Meeting of the Central Committee of the SED, the Politburo resigns. Then, a scaled-elected Politburo and Egon Krenz confirmed as Secretary General.
The New Forum is approved as an association.
9.11. In a televised directly transmitted, international press conference, the Politburo member Guenter Schabowski read out at 18.57 clock to a request to the new exit rule in passing a decision of the Office of Ministers' private trips abroad may be submitted without proof of eligibility (travel or proving familial relationships). Permits are issued at short notice. "On a demand explains Schabowski, Decision kick to his knowledge" immediately, without delay "in force.
10.11. Due to the opening of the inner-German border, millions of East Germans to cross the nearby West German cities and West Berlin . There is exuberant scenes of joy, strangers hug, sing, dance and cheer. Chancellor Helmut Kohl broke off his Poland visit to discuss the evening in front of the Schöneberg City Hall West Berlin at a rally. The SPD honorary chairman Willy Brandt impressed there the sentence: "Now grows together what belongs together."
11.11. Chancellor Kohl and SED Secretary-General Egon Krenz negotiate in a telephone conversation on strengthening cooperation and agree on an early meeting in person.
11./12.11. Over the weekend, visit some three million East Germans, the Federal Republic of Germany and West Berlin. The traffic in the border areas to collapse. Delays, it is particularly welcome in the payment of money.
12.11. In several cities of the East will be held rallies and meetings of the SED, which calls on the basis of a "renewal of the party from below."
13.11. After the dismissal of the Ministers elects the incumbent People's Parliament the "reform communists" Hans Modrow, the new prime minister. The GDR
removes the restricted zones along the Berlin wall, the inner-German border and in coastal waters.
16.11. Chancellor Kohl to secure the GDR economic aid as soon as a fundamental change in the political and economic system is implemented.
17.11. Prime Minister Hans Modrow presents the 28 ministers of his cabinet reduced. In his inaugural speech, he announced major reforms of the political system, economy, education and administration. The goal of a "new socialist society". The Federal Government proposes Modrow to develop its relationship to a "treaty community" before. Speculation about a reunion Modrow issued a clear rejection.
18.11. In place of the dissolved Ministry of State Security (Stasi) enters the Directorate of National Security.
Günter lunch will be excluded from the SED. He is considered responsible for the economic misery in the GDR.
26.11. Well-known intellectuals and reformers connect with the call "for our country" for this one, to preserve the independence of the GDR and thereby create a "socialist alternative to the Federal Republic."
28.11. Chancellor Kohl specifies a "ten-point program to overcome the division of Germany and Europe ", which should lead to the reunification of Germany. After initial approval back FDP and the SPD of the plan, as neither the Allies were informed in advance, nor Poland's western border is guaranteed. On 1 December the plan in parliament without the .. voices of the SPD and the Greens endorsed
11.29 The SED Secretary-General and the GDR State Council President Krenz and the East German Prime Minister Hans Modrow close the call "for our country - to preserve the independence of the GDR." to
1.12 GDR. People's Parliament passes the leadership of the SED from the constitution.
2.12. A report of the Committee of the East German People's Chamber defines corruption in the SED leadership open. Then it comes to tumultuous scenes in parliament.
3.12. At the 12th Meeting of the Central Committee of the SED by the termination of the Politburo and Central Committee with Egon Krenz at the top. Erich Honecker, Willi Stoph, Erich Mielke, Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski and other top officials will be expelled from the SED.
The former Politburo member Günter Mittag and Harry Tisch (1927-1995) are arrested for serious damage to national property and the economy.
4.12. The East German CDU and the Liberal Democratic Party declared its withdrawal from the Democratic bloc of parties and mass organizations. In Leipzig citizens
penetrate into the building one of the state security service, to the destruction of files to prevent.
In West Berlin faces the East German foreign buyer and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski, the police. In the GDR, against him the charge of "embezzlement of public property" subject.
5.12. In the GDR, the abolition of the minimum exchange and visa requirements for entry of federal citizens on 1 Announced in January 1990.
6.12. Egon Krenz resigned as State President. His successor is the Chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party, Manfred Gerlach (b. 1928).
7.12. For the first time meet in East Berlin representatives of the five former block parties and seven opposition groups at the round table. It was decided to disband the Office of National Security and proposed on 6 May 1990 to hold its first free elections.
8./9.12. The extraordinary SED Party Congress in East Berlin, the party resolution was rejected. The new party leader Gregor Gysi is chosen. His deputy, Hans Modrow, the Dresden Mayor Wolfgang Berghofer (born 1943) are.
on the EC summit in Strasbourg recognize the leaders in a policy statement for change in Central and Eastern Europe in principle the right of Germans to unit.
11.12. For the first time, the now traditional Monday demonstrations in East Germany after reunification, the call clearly.
In Berlin holds its first four-power conference in 18 years.
14.12. The civil rights movement "Democracy Now" presents a three-stage plan for German reunification.
19./20.12. Chancellor Kohl meets for talks with Prime Minister Hans Modrow in Dresden. The two leaders agree to negotiations on a German-German treaty community. Kohl is feted in his address to the ruins of the Church of Our Lady of the population.
22.12. In Berlin, the Brandenburg Gate is opened again, for now only for pedestrians.
24.12. For the first time Germans and West Berliners to travel without a visa and forced conversion in the GDR.
1990
9.1. The former heads of state and party leader Egon Krenz, his mandate as a Member of the Public Chamber are so low and to his last political post.
11.1. The People's Parliament passed the new travel law, which gives the East German citizens freedom of travel and regulates the acquisition of foreign exchange.
13.1. The Social Democratic Party in the GDR (SDP) at its first national conference in East Berlin, the name change to SPD.
15.1. More than two thousand demonstrators storm the headquarters of the former State Security in East Berlin and laid waste to it in part.
Prime Minister Hans Modrow proposed the round table before taking part in the government's work. In Erfurt
appears the first independent daily newspaper in the GDR, the "Thüringer Allgemeine". This ends the SED media monopoly.
20.1. Founding of the German Social Union (DSU) through twelve Christian-liberal-conservative groups in Leipzig. The party advocates a rapid German reunification and is supported by the Bavarian CSU.
21.1. The majority of SED-PDS party executive decides against a resolution of the party but for the deletion of the name of the SED and the recent party badge: two interlocking hands, as a symbol of the unification of the SPD and KPD in 1946.
the same time, excluded the majority of the former SED leaders from the party.
25.1. The East German government adopts the full freedom of trade for trade, trade and service enterprises and adopted a regulation on the establishment of enterprises with foreign participation.
More than 200 economic experts from both the German government advice in Hanover on 1 German-German business days about possible cooperation.
29.1. The former heads of state and Party chief of East Germany, Erich Honecker, is released from the Berlin Charité hospital and immediately arrested. A day later, he is due to "adhesive failure" was released.
1.2. Prime Minister Hans Modrow presented his concept for the way to a unified Germany. " The phased approach provides the following steps: state compact, confederation and transfer of sovereign rights to the Confederacy.
5.2. The People's Parliament elects eight politicians from opposition parties and groups as a minister without portfolio in the Council of Ministers. In addition, the full expression, information and media freedom will be decided in the GDR. Radio, television and news agency are no longer under the government.
In West Berlin, some of the East German CDU, the German Social Union (DSU) and the Democratic Awakening (DA) on the coalition "Alliance for Germany" for the People's Parliament elections on 18 March. Chancellor Kohl announced the support of his party for the coalition.
constituted under the chairmanship of Chancellor Kohl, a Cabinet Committee on German Unity. Kohl suggests that the GDR for immediate negotiations on a monetary union and economic reform. The occasion is the unending stream of settlers over the GDR.
8.2. The East German Prime Minister's Modrow declared the GDR for the first time the responsibility of the entire German people for the crimes of the Nazi regime against the Jewish people and expresses the willingness of the Jewish victims of Nazi persecution, compensation paid.
10.2. At a meeting between Chancellor Kohl and the Soviet state and party leader Mikhail Gorbachev in Moscow the assurances given that the USSR is not a unification of Germany in the way of that.
22.-25.2. At the first congress of the East German SPD Ibrahim Böhme is elected chairman. After loudly against him because of an activity for the state security service, he steps on 2.4. back from his offices.
In the election manifesto of the SPD declared the intention to unite Germany in three stages and seal the unit with an all-German constitution on the basis of Article 146 of the Basic Law.
24./25.2. The 1 Congress of the PDS in East Berlin in favor of gradual unification of the two German states under the condition that the equality of the GDR is ensured and their social standing remains.
1.3. The GDR's Council of Ministers shall adopt the Combines and conversion of all state-owned enterprises into limited companies and the establishment of an institute for fiduciary management of public property.
In Bonn, the published election manifesto of the "Alliance for Germany" which states that the regime is to join the Federal Republic under Article 23 of the Basic Law.
5.3. West German and West Berlin media appear from now on in the GDR: 7.3. The People's Parliament adopted a social charter in which the right to work and housing and the equal rights of men and women should be established. Furthermore, adopted an economic law that allows the creation of private enterprises.
The SPD explains the Federal Republic, it's for accession of the GDR to the Federal Republic under Article 23 of the Basic Law open, but prefer a referendum and a new constitution.
8.3. The Bundestag passed by a large majority, a guarantee for Poland's western border.
9.3. The CDU / CSU parliamentary group calls for a realization of reunification in the way of Basic Law Article 23.
12.3. At its last meeting rejected the round table the adoption of the Constitution of the Federal Republic for FDI from East Germany under Article 23 of the Basic Law.
in Leipzig will be held the last Monday demonstration, participate in the 30,000 to 50,000 persons.
In Bonn meeting, the representatives of both German states and the four victorious powers the Second World War to the "two plus four" - talks about the German unity.
17.3. The foreign ministers of the Warsaw Pact agreed in Prague in agreement that is the union of the GDR and the Federal Republic the right of the German people, as long as it is embedded in the European unification process.
18.3. In the first and only free elections reached the conservative People's Parliament "Alliance for Germany" of CDU, DSU and DA with 48.15 percent of the vote, overwhelming victory. The SPD receives 21.84 percent, 16.33 percent of the PDS and the Confederation of Free Democrats / Liberals 5.28 percent of the vote. The Alliance 90, in which the main initiators of the peaceful revolution together, have achieved only 2.91 percent of the vote. The turnout was 93.38 percent.
20.3. To stop the mass emigration from East Germany, the federal government responded on 1 abolish July 1990 the emergency room procedures for immigrants from the GDR.
5.4. In East Berlin's "Palace of the Republic" is constituted by the newly elected People's Chamber and selects Sabine Bergmann-Pohl (CDU) for the parliamentary speaker. The CDU leader Lothar de Maizière is (b. 1940) was commissioned to form a government.
The new parliament approves a constitutional amendment after the Council of State is abolished.
A committee of inquiry, we used the Member to any Participation in the former Ministry for State Security checks.
The state-owned enterprise (VEB) Electrical Engineering Dresden is converted first combine in a company.
27.4. In East Berlin begins the first official round of negotiations on the German-German treaty on monetary, economic and social union.
Defense Minister Gerhard Stoltenberg (CDU) (born 1928) and the DDR-Disarmament and Defence Minister Rainer Eppelmann (CDU) agreed in Bonn cooperation and close contacts between the armed forces and National People's Army.
28.4. The Heads of State and Government of Member States agree unconditionally to the unification of Germany in Dublin.
30.4. With the meeting of the East German People's Chamber President Sabine Bergmann-Pohl and the Bundestag President Rita Süssmuth (CDU) will accept the Bundestag and the People's Parliament for the first time in official relations.
2.5. The two German governments agree on the exchange rate for the currency union. After that, the wages, salaries, rents, grants and pensions are converted at a ratio of 1:1. Savings and cash are exchanged graded: Children under 14 may 2000 Mark, 15 - Changing in 4000 to 59-year-old Mark and 60-year-old 6,000 marks in the ratio 1:1. Any surplus will be exchanged in a 2:1 ratio.
6.5. In the GDR, find the first free local elections. The CDU won 34.37 percent, 21.27 percent, the SPD and the PDS 14.59 percent of the vote.
8.5. Signing of a Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the EC and the German Democratic Republic in Brussels.
10.5. Nationwide demonstrations in East Germany, where collective bargaining on higher incomes, the preservation of jobs and protect the internal market are required.
The Standing Conference of the Federal Republic decides on the recognition of the GDR's degrees that qualify for a university degree.
16.5. In Bonn, some federal and state governments on the establishment of a German Unity Fund "for the financial support of the GDR. He should, with 115 billion DM equipped to finance the monetary, economic and social union.
18.5. Federal Finance Minister Theo and the East German Finance Minister Walter Romberg (born 1928) (SPD) signed the treaty on monetary, economic and social union.
30.5. The East German government decided that the introduction of the D-Mark on July 1, the calculated free prices and subsidies are largely done.
31.5.-3.6. The U.S. President George Bush (b. 1924) and Soviet President Gorbachev declared at their summit meeting (June 3) that the question must be decided by the Alliance membership of a united Germany by the Germans themselves.
7.6. In Moscow sign the Member States of the Warsaw Pact, a declaration with the aim to transform the alliance into a political treaty community.
9 to 13.6. Prime Minister de Mazière attended the first East German head of government the United States.
13.6. In Berlin wird mit dem endgültigen Abriss der 47 km langen Mauer begonnen. In four places remain preserved wall remains as a memorial.
15.6. The two German governments issue a joint statement on the Settlement of Open Property Issues. After that expropriations are under occupation law-based sovereign or 1945-1949 to make irreversible. Otherwise expropriated real property in the GDR in principle to the former owners return.
21.6. The German Bundestag in Bonn and the GDR People's Chamber in East Berlin to adopt the treaty on monetary, economic and social union between the Federal Republic and the GDR and a final resolution on the recognition of Poland's western border.
The PDS, Alliance 90 and the Greens reject the treaty, as it the system of the Federal Republic to the GDR applying to grant their citizens without the possibility of equal participation.
22.6. The Federal Council approves the treaty on monetary, economic and social union and the Resolution on the recognition of Poland's western border. The SPD conducted Lower Saxony and Saarland reject the treaty because they think he is inadequate.
In East Berlin begins the second round of the "Two Plus Four" talks.
1.7. Entry into force of monetary, economic and social union. This transfers the DDR control of both fiscal and monetary policy to the Federal Republic and the D-Mark is the only currency in the GDR.
6.7. In East Berlin, the negotiations begin for contract agreement, the second treaty between the FRG and the GDR.
14.-16.7. Chancellor Kohl meets in the Soviet Union with President Gorbachev for talks. Gorbachev Endorses a united Germany's full sovereignty and the free choice of alliance membership.
16.7. Establishment of the East German Treuhand, for the settlement of the 8,000 state-owned enterprises (VEB) is responsible.
17.7. Beginning of the third round of the "two-plus-Four" negotiations in Paris. The foreign ministers of the two German states and the four victorious powers of World War II confirm the presence of the Polish foreign minister, the Oder-Neisse line as Poland's western border.
20.7. The recruits of the National People's Army swear a new oath of allegiance, by committing not to defend socialism.
22.7. The East German People's Parliament adopted with effect from 10.14.1990 the Länder Act and the Act on Choice of diets. It converts since July 1952 to DDR centralized in a federal state with five new countries.
3.8. In East Berlin in the all-German election contract is signed. That the scope of federal election law is extended to the GDR.
8.8. The People's Parliament asked the Bundestag, the all-German elections and the accession of the GDR to allow for 10/24/1990.
denied the opposition in the Bundestag on the following day to approve a constitutional amendment that would allow early elections.
23.8. With the required two-thirds majority decides the people's chamber "the accession of the GDR to the scope of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany under Article 23 of the Basic Law with effect from 3.10.1990.
30.8. Guaranteed at the conference for negotiations on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) in Vienna, Foreign Minister Genscher and Prime Minister de Maizière, the armed forces in a united Germany within four years to 370,000 to reduce.
31.8. Approval of the agreement contract by the Federal Cabinet in Bonn and the Council of Ministers in East Berlin. The agreement is of Federal Minister Wolfgang Schäuble and the Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister Guenther Krause (born 1953) signed.
On 20 September the contract with the required two-thirds majority of the people chamber and the Bundestag adopted. The next day also agrees with the Federal Council.
6.9. The People's Parliament approved a Rehabilitation Act, which provides for compensation of victims of the SED regime.
12.9. After completion of the "two-plus-Four talks," the foreign ministers of the four former Allies in Moscow to sign the "Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany. The Federal Republic of Germany becomes fully sovereign and in fact a peace treaty.
The Allied territorial rights with effect from 3rd Suspended in October 1990.
24.9. In East Berlin between the GDR and the Soviet Union signed an agreement under which the East German membership in the Warsaw Pact on 3 Expires in October.
28.9. After several mutinies in East German prisons adopt the People's Parliament is a partial amnesty for East German prisoners who have to serve only two-thirds of their sentence.
3.10. The GDR occurs in the scope of the Basic Law. The Federal Republic has from now on full sovereignty.
Federal President Richard von Weizsacker, acting on a proposal by the Chancellor's five former East German politicians as ministers without portfolio.
4.10. The first all-German Bundestag is constituted in the Berlin Reichstag building.
1988
17.1. On the edge of the traditional demonstration on the anniversary of the murder of Rosa Luxembourg and Karl Liebknecht were arrested in the GDR's State Security Service about 120 people. Of these, 54 are forced to emigrate to West Germany.
11.2. The mayor of West Berlin, Eberhard Diepgen (born 1941) (CDU), will meet heads of state and Party chief of East Germany, Erich Honecker, for talks in East Berlin. It announces improvements in domestic travel and visitor traffic.
1.3. Residents of West Berlin can continue to stay at day trips to East Berlin there once.
3.3. For the first time after ten years there will be a summit meeting of representatives of government and the Protestant Church in the GDR.
19.6. The pop superstar Michael Jackson (born 1958) is in front of the Reichstag building in West Berlin, a concert. In the eastern part of the city gather some young people in the vicinity of the wall of acoustically participate in the spectacle. This leads to confrontations with the People's Police.
15.8. The GDR is diplomatic relations with the European Community (EC) on.
27.-29.9. The Heads of State and leader of the GDR, Erich Honecker said, after talks with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in Moscow the "Support for the course of the renewal of Soviet society."
1989
11.1. In East Berlin exit 20 East Germans wishing to leave the Permanent Representation in Bonn of the GDR. Impunity and the check them before their departure motions had been promised.
19.1. Erich Honecker insured, the wall would "remain in 50 and in 100 years still exist when the existing reasons for this are not removed."
2.5. Hungary begins with the removal of border fortifications with Austria.
7.5. In the local elections in the GDR, according to official figures fall 98.85% of the vote on the candidate lists of the unit. Of people being found in many places and electoral fraud made public.
7.6. In East Berlin, a demonstration against the falsification of local election results of 7 May dissolved by the State Security Service.
8.6. The East German People's Chamber assessed in a statement the massacre in Tiananmen Square in Beijing on 4 June as a "crackdown a counter-revolution ".. and shows understanding for the use of the military
12.-15.6 The Soviet state and party leader Gorbachev received during his state visit to Bonn by the people with great joy the end of his visit, he said." The wall can disappear, if omitted the conditions which gave rise to them. "
27.6. cut in a symbolic act of the Hungarian Foreign Minister Gyula Horn (born 1932) and his Austrian counterpart Alois Mock (b. 1934) at the barbed wire fence at Sopron common border. eliminate only the border barriers, border controls remain. In the GDR, this triggers an increased flow of refugees and tourists- to Hungary.
7.7. The Soviet state and party leader Gorbachev admits on the first Eastern bloc summit in Bucharest every socialist country to its own development. Thus losing the so-called Brezhnev doctrine to apply.
8.8. The Permanent Mission of the Federal Republic in East Berlin will be closed due to overcrowding. More than 130 East Germans hold on to the Embassy to force their departure.
13.8. The Bonn Embassy in Budapest to be closed due to overcrowding. From there, want to leave some 180 East Germans.
members of the "Initiative for cancellation of practice and principle of exclusion and other groups are meeting in the East Berlin community commitment. Here is the first time publicly spoken of the formation of an "opposition coalition movement for democratic renewal of the GDR."
19.8. In Sopron, Hungary, it is the largest mass exodus of East Germans since the Berlin Wall. About 900 people use the escape on the "green" Hungarian-Austrian border.
22.8. The Embassy of the Federal Republic in Prague was closed due to overcrowding. About 140 East German citizens want from there to the West to move.
24.8. In Budapest, received 108 East Germans who were in the German Embassy, the Hungarian government as a unique humanitarian action, permission to leave the West.
August / September GDR citizens occupying embassies in Prague, Budapest and Warsaw as well as the Permanent Mission of the Federal Republic of Germany in East Berlin.
4.9. In Leipzig, the first Monday demonstration will take place at the traditional prayer for peace in the Nikolai Church. It calls for more freedom of movement and the abolition of the Ministry for State Security (Stasi). From now on, will be held weekly Monday demonstrations.
7.9. On the East Berlin Alexanderplatz against the alleged vote-rigging the local elections of 7 May protested. East German security forces to stop the action and take about 80 persons have been temporary.
10./11.9. Hungary can, without prior consultation with the East German government all were present were fleeing Volunteer emigrate from the GDR to the West. By the end of September, about 30,000 settlers to come over this way in the Federal Republic.
12./13.9. The East German protest against the opening of the Hungarian border for East German citizens in a "night and fog action" and refers to this as "organized human trafficking".
19.9. With the new forum first applied officially in the GDR opposition group leave to the Association. On 20 September, initially rejected the application because the group "subversive" was.
The West German Embassy in Warsaw has to adjust because of overcrowding with people willing to leave the crowds of East Germans temporarily.
25.9. About 5,000 people protested in Leipzig Reforms and against the ban of the "New Forum".
26.9. East German citizens left the German Embassy in Prague and return to the GDR, because they will exit to the West promised within six months. Many refugees remain in the embassy because they want to directly travel to the West.
30.9. Federal Foreign Minister Hans Dietrich Genscher announced in the evening on the balcony of the German Embassy in Prague, that all East German refugees who are in the German embassies in Prague and Warsaw to leave, allowed. Officially they are for humanitarian reasons "deported" as the humanitarian and medical conditions in the West German embassies have become untenable be.
1.10. The first special train from Warsaw and Prague with about 6800 East German refugees to cross the GDR. Wishing to leave the East Germans trying to jump on the trains.
1.-3.10. Before the embassy in Prague again gather 7,600 people, although the Czechoslovak police attempts to prevent this. On 3 October granted the East German government to leave them too.
2.10. 20,000 people demonstrate in Leipzig for reform in the GDR. The largest demonstration for democracy is broken up by East German security forces violently.
3.10.-11.11. The East German government sets the visa-free travel to Czechoslovakia temporarily.
4.10. Special features of the East German train carrying about 7,600 East German refugees who had sought in the West German Embassy in Prague and Warsaw refuge on the territory of the GDR into the Federal Republic. Railway stations and tracks along the transportation route will be blocked to prevent more people jump on the trains.
7.10. The 40th Anniversary of the GDR's founding is celebrated with military parades and marches. In East Berlin is the Soviet state and party leader Gorbachev part in the festivities. He stressed to the press the necessity of reforms and expressed the famous words: "Those who are late are punished by life". Simultaneously take place in several cities of the East German demonstrations in which tens of thousands of Freedom of expression and reforms occur. The security forces are brutal before. Over a thousand people are arrested.
9.10. For the first time in Leipzig than 70,000 people demonstrated for democratic renewal of the GDR, to intervene without the security forces. The cry "We are the people - no violence prevails.
16.10. In the largest demonstration in the GDR since the uprising by the 17th June attract more than 120,000 people through Leipzig. Again, retain the security forces.
18.10. At the 9th Meeting of the Central Committee (CC) of the SED Erich Honecker, "at his own request" released from all offices. At the same time, inter alia, also loses his lunch Günter Offices Politburo and the Secretariat of the Central Committee. Egon Krenz will be the new Secretary General of the SED. In a speech relayed by the media admits Krenz, the SED failed to recognize that in recent months, the real situation. But now the "turn initiated" is, but the "socialism on German soil 'is not negotiable.
23.10. On the eve of the election of Egon Krenz, the Council of State estimates that approximately 300,000 people demonstrate against a "new concentration of power".
24.10. The People's Parliament elects Egon Krenz Council of State and Chairman of the National Defense Council. This, in turn, the highest offices in the GDR are combined in one person.
27.10. The GDR State Council promulgated a far-reaching amnesty for refugees and detained participants of unauthorized demonstrations.
3.11. The East German government decided that East German citizens to leave the country without formalities on the territory of Czechoslovakia. Then it comes in the following days to a renewed wave of emigration of GDR citizens.
4.11. At the rally on Alexanderplatz in East Berlin demonstrated between 500,000 and one million people for democratic reform and against the power monopoly of the SED in the GDR. The TV transmits the final events on the Alexanderplatz directly and without notice. Spoke including Stefan Heym, Christoph Hein (geb.1944) and Christa Wolf. With reservations encounter speakers such as Markus Wolf, and above all Gunter Schabowski, who was booed several times.
7.11. Prime Minister Willi Stoph meets back with the whole East German government.
8.11. At the 10th Meeting of the Central Committee of the SED, the Politburo resigns. Then, a scaled-elected Politburo and Egon Krenz confirmed as Secretary General.
The New Forum is approved as an association.
9.11. In a televised directly transmitted, international press conference, the Politburo member Guenter Schabowski read out at 18.57 clock to a request to the new exit rule in passing a decision of the Office of Ministers' private trips abroad may be submitted without proof of eligibility (travel or proving familial relationships). Permits are issued at short notice. "On a demand explains Schabowski, Decision kick to his knowledge" immediately, without delay "in force.
10.11. Due to the opening of the inner-German border, millions of East Germans to cross the nearby West German cities and West Berlin . There is exuberant scenes of joy, strangers hug, sing, dance and cheer. Chancellor Helmut Kohl broke off his Poland visit to discuss the evening in front of the Schöneberg City Hall West Berlin at a rally. The SPD honorary chairman Willy Brandt impressed there the sentence: "Now grows together what belongs together."
11.11. Chancellor Kohl and SED Secretary-General Egon Krenz negotiate in a telephone conversation on strengthening cooperation and agree on an early meeting in person.
11./12.11. Over the weekend, visit some three million East Germans, the Federal Republic of Germany and West Berlin. The traffic in the border areas to collapse. Delays, it is particularly welcome in the payment of money.
12.11. In several cities of the East will be held rallies and meetings of the SED, which calls on the basis of a "renewal of the party from below."
13.11. After the dismissal of the Ministers elects the incumbent People's Parliament the "reform communists" Hans Modrow, the new prime minister. The GDR
removes the restricted zones along the Berlin wall, the inner-German border and in coastal waters.
16.11. Chancellor Kohl to secure the GDR economic aid as soon as a fundamental change in the political and economic system is implemented.
17.11. Prime Minister Hans Modrow presents the 28 ministers of his cabinet reduced. In his inaugural speech, he announced major reforms of the political system, economy, education and administration. The goal of a "new socialist society". The Federal Government proposes Modrow to develop its relationship to a "treaty community" before. Speculation about a reunion Modrow issued a clear rejection.
18.11. In place of the dissolved Ministry of State Security (Stasi) enters the Directorate of National Security.
Günter lunch will be excluded from the SED. He is considered responsible for the economic misery in the GDR.
26.11. Well-known intellectuals and reformers connect with the call "for our country" for this one, to preserve the independence of the GDR and thereby create a "socialist alternative to the Federal Republic."
28.11. Chancellor Kohl specifies a "ten-point program to overcome the division of Germany and Europe ", which should lead to the reunification of Germany. After initial approval back FDP and the SPD of the plan, as neither the Allies were informed in advance, nor Poland's western border is guaranteed. On 1 December the plan in parliament without the .. voices of the SPD and the Greens endorsed
11.29 The SED Secretary-General and the GDR State Council President Krenz and the East German Prime Minister Hans Modrow close the call "for our country - to preserve the independence of the GDR." to
1.12 GDR. People's Parliament passes the leadership of the SED from the constitution.
2.12. A report of the Committee of the East German People's Chamber defines corruption in the SED leadership open. Then it comes to tumultuous scenes in parliament.
3.12. At the 12th Meeting of the Central Committee of the SED by the termination of the Politburo and Central Committee with Egon Krenz at the top. Erich Honecker, Willi Stoph, Erich Mielke, Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski and other top officials will be expelled from the SED.
The former Politburo member Günter Mittag and Harry Tisch (1927-1995) are arrested for serious damage to national property and the economy.
4.12. The East German CDU and the Liberal Democratic Party declared its withdrawal from the Democratic bloc of parties and mass organizations. In Leipzig citizens
penetrate into the building one of the state security service, to the destruction of files to prevent.
In West Berlin faces the East German foreign buyer and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski, the police. In the GDR, against him the charge of "embezzlement of public property" subject.
5.12. In the GDR, the abolition of the minimum exchange and visa requirements for entry of federal citizens on 1 Announced in January 1990.
6.12. Egon Krenz resigned as State President. His successor is the Chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party, Manfred Gerlach (b. 1928).
7.12. For the first time meet in East Berlin representatives of the five former block parties and seven opposition groups at the round table. It was decided to disband the Office of National Security and proposed on 6 May 1990 to hold its first free elections.
8./9.12. The extraordinary SED Party Congress in East Berlin, the party resolution was rejected. The new party leader Gregor Gysi is chosen. His deputy, Hans Modrow, the Dresden Mayor Wolfgang Berghofer (born 1943) are.
on the EC summit in Strasbourg recognize the leaders in a policy statement for change in Central and Eastern Europe in principle the right of Germans to unit.
11.12. For the first time, the now traditional Monday demonstrations in East Germany after reunification, the call clearly.
In Berlin holds its first four-power conference in 18 years.
14.12. The civil rights movement "Democracy Now" presents a three-stage plan for German reunification.
19./20.12. Chancellor Kohl meets for talks with Prime Minister Hans Modrow in Dresden. The two leaders agree to negotiations on a German-German treaty community. Kohl is feted in his address to the ruins of the Church of Our Lady of the population.
22.12. In Berlin, the Brandenburg Gate is opened again, for now only for pedestrians.
24.12. For the first time Germans and West Berliners to travel without a visa and forced conversion in the GDR.
1990
9.1. The former heads of state and party leader Egon Krenz, his mandate as a Member of the Public Chamber are so low and to his last political post.
11.1. The People's Parliament passed the new travel law, which gives the East German citizens freedom of travel and regulates the acquisition of foreign exchange.
13.1. The Social Democratic Party in the GDR (SDP) at its first national conference in East Berlin, the name change to SPD.
15.1. More than two thousand demonstrators storm the headquarters of the former State Security in East Berlin and laid waste to it in part.
Prime Minister Hans Modrow proposed the round table before taking part in the government's work. In Erfurt
appears the first independent daily newspaper in the GDR, the "Thüringer Allgemeine". This ends the SED media monopoly.
20.1. Founding of the German Social Union (DSU) through twelve Christian-liberal-conservative groups in Leipzig. The party advocates a rapid German reunification and is supported by the Bavarian CSU.
21.1. The majority of SED-PDS party executive decides against a resolution of the party but for the deletion of the name of the SED and the recent party badge: two interlocking hands, as a symbol of the unification of the SPD and KPD in 1946.
the same time, excluded the majority of the former SED leaders from the party.
25.1. The East German government adopts the full freedom of trade for trade, trade and service enterprises and adopted a regulation on the establishment of enterprises with foreign participation.
More than 200 economic experts from both the German government advice in Hanover on 1 German-German business days about possible cooperation.
29.1. The former heads of state and Party chief of East Germany, Erich Honecker, is released from the Berlin Charité hospital and immediately arrested. A day later, he is due to "adhesive failure" was released.
1.2. Prime Minister Hans Modrow presented his concept for the way to a unified Germany. " The phased approach provides the following steps: state compact, confederation and transfer of sovereign rights to the Confederacy.
5.2. The People's Parliament elects eight politicians from opposition parties and groups as a minister without portfolio in the Council of Ministers. In addition, the full expression, information and media freedom will be decided in the GDR. Radio, television and news agency are no longer under the government.
In West Berlin, some of the East German CDU, the German Social Union (DSU) and the Democratic Awakening (DA) on the coalition "Alliance for Germany" for the People's Parliament elections on 18 March. Chancellor Kohl announced the support of his party for the coalition.
constituted under the chairmanship of Chancellor Kohl, a Cabinet Committee on German Unity. Kohl suggests that the GDR for immediate negotiations on a monetary union and economic reform. The occasion is the unending stream of settlers over the GDR.
8.2. The East German Prime Minister's Modrow declared the GDR for the first time the responsibility of the entire German people for the crimes of the Nazi regime against the Jewish people and expresses the willingness of the Jewish victims of Nazi persecution, compensation paid.
10.2. At a meeting between Chancellor Kohl and the Soviet state and party leader Mikhail Gorbachev in Moscow the assurances given that the USSR is not a unification of Germany in the way of that.
22.-25.2. At the first congress of the East German SPD Ibrahim Böhme is elected chairman. After loudly against him because of an activity for the state security service, he steps on 2.4. back from his offices.
In the election manifesto of the SPD declared the intention to unite Germany in three stages and seal the unit with an all-German constitution on the basis of Article 146 of the Basic Law.
24./25.2. The 1 Congress of the PDS in East Berlin in favor of gradual unification of the two German states under the condition that the equality of the GDR is ensured and their social standing remains.
1.3. The GDR's Council of Ministers shall adopt the Combines and conversion of all state-owned enterprises into limited companies and the establishment of an institute for fiduciary management of public property.
In Bonn, the published election manifesto of the "Alliance for Germany" which states that the regime is to join the Federal Republic under Article 23 of the Basic Law.
5.3. West German and West Berlin media appear from now on in the GDR: 7.3. The People's Parliament adopted a social charter in which the right to work and housing and the equal rights of men and women should be established. Furthermore, adopted an economic law that allows the creation of private enterprises.
The SPD explains the Federal Republic, it's for accession of the GDR to the Federal Republic under Article 23 of the Basic Law open, but prefer a referendum and a new constitution.
8.3. The Bundestag passed by a large majority, a guarantee for Poland's western border.
9.3. The CDU / CSU parliamentary group calls for a realization of reunification in the way of Basic Law Article 23.
12.3. At its last meeting rejected the round table the adoption of the Constitution of the Federal Republic for FDI from East Germany under Article 23 of the Basic Law.
in Leipzig will be held the last Monday demonstration, participate in the 30,000 to 50,000 persons.
In Bonn meeting, the representatives of both German states and the four victorious powers the Second World War to the "two plus four" - talks about the German unity.
17.3. The foreign ministers of the Warsaw Pact agreed in Prague in agreement that is the union of the GDR and the Federal Republic the right of the German people, as long as it is embedded in the European unification process.
18.3. In the first and only free elections reached the conservative People's Parliament "Alliance for Germany" of CDU, DSU and DA with 48.15 percent of the vote, overwhelming victory. The SPD receives 21.84 percent, 16.33 percent of the PDS and the Confederation of Free Democrats / Liberals 5.28 percent of the vote. The Alliance 90, in which the main initiators of the peaceful revolution together, have achieved only 2.91 percent of the vote. The turnout was 93.38 percent.
20.3. To stop the mass emigration from East Germany, the federal government responded on 1 abolish July 1990 the emergency room procedures for immigrants from the GDR.
5.4. In East Berlin's "Palace of the Republic" is constituted by the newly elected People's Chamber and selects Sabine Bergmann-Pohl (CDU) for the parliamentary speaker. The CDU leader Lothar de Maizière is (b. 1940) was commissioned to form a government.
The new parliament approves a constitutional amendment after the Council of State is abolished.
A committee of inquiry, we used the Member to any Participation in the former Ministry for State Security checks.
The state-owned enterprise (VEB) Electrical Engineering Dresden is converted first combine in a company.
27.4. In East Berlin begins the first official round of negotiations on the German-German treaty on monetary, economic and social union.
Defense Minister Gerhard Stoltenberg (CDU) (born 1928) and the DDR-Disarmament and Defence Minister Rainer Eppelmann (CDU) agreed in Bonn cooperation and close contacts between the armed forces and National People's Army.
28.4. The Heads of State and Government of Member States agree unconditionally to the unification of Germany in Dublin.
30.4. With the meeting of the East German People's Chamber President Sabine Bergmann-Pohl and the Bundestag President Rita Süssmuth (CDU) will accept the Bundestag and the People's Parliament for the first time in official relations.
2.5. The two German governments agree on the exchange rate for the currency union. After that, the wages, salaries, rents, grants and pensions are converted at a ratio of 1:1. Savings and cash are exchanged graded: Children under 14 may 2000 Mark, 15 - Changing in 4000 to 59-year-old Mark and 60-year-old 6,000 marks in the ratio 1:1. Any surplus will be exchanged in a 2:1 ratio.
6.5. In the GDR, find the first free local elections. The CDU won 34.37 percent, 21.27 percent, the SPD and the PDS 14.59 percent of the vote.
8.5. Signing of a Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the EC and the German Democratic Republic in Brussels.
10.5. Nationwide demonstrations in East Germany, where collective bargaining on higher incomes, the preservation of jobs and protect the internal market are required.
The Standing Conference of the Federal Republic decides on the recognition of the GDR's degrees that qualify for a university degree.
16.5. In Bonn, some federal and state governments on the establishment of a German Unity Fund "for the financial support of the GDR. He should, with 115 billion DM equipped to finance the monetary, economic and social union.
18.5. Federal Finance Minister Theo and the East German Finance Minister Walter Romberg (born 1928) (SPD) signed the treaty on monetary, economic and social union.
30.5. The East German government decided that the introduction of the D-Mark on July 1, the calculated free prices and subsidies are largely done.
31.5.-3.6. The U.S. President George Bush (b. 1924) and Soviet President Gorbachev declared at their summit meeting (June 3) that the question must be decided by the Alliance membership of a united Germany by the Germans themselves.
7.6. In Moscow sign the Member States of the Warsaw Pact, a declaration with the aim to transform the alliance into a political treaty community.
9 to 13.6. Prime Minister de Mazière attended the first East German head of government the United States.
13.6. In Berlin wird mit dem endgültigen Abriss der 47 km langen Mauer begonnen. In four places remain preserved wall remains as a memorial.
15.6. The two German governments issue a joint statement on the Settlement of Open Property Issues. After that expropriations are under occupation law-based sovereign or 1945-1949 to make irreversible. Otherwise expropriated real property in the GDR in principle to the former owners return.
21.6. The German Bundestag in Bonn and the GDR People's Chamber in East Berlin to adopt the treaty on monetary, economic and social union between the Federal Republic and the GDR and a final resolution on the recognition of Poland's western border.
The PDS, Alliance 90 and the Greens reject the treaty, as it the system of the Federal Republic to the GDR applying to grant their citizens without the possibility of equal participation.
22.6. The Federal Council approves the treaty on monetary, economic and social union and the Resolution on the recognition of Poland's western border. The SPD conducted Lower Saxony and Saarland reject the treaty because they think he is inadequate.
In East Berlin begins the second round of the "Two Plus Four" talks.
1.7. Entry into force of monetary, economic and social union. This transfers the DDR control of both fiscal and monetary policy to the Federal Republic and the D-Mark is the only currency in the GDR.
6.7. In East Berlin, the negotiations begin for contract agreement, the second treaty between the FRG and the GDR.
14.-16.7. Chancellor Kohl meets in the Soviet Union with President Gorbachev for talks. Gorbachev Endorses a united Germany's full sovereignty and the free choice of alliance membership.
16.7. Establishment of the East German Treuhand, for the settlement of the 8,000 state-owned enterprises (VEB) is responsible.
17.7. Beginning of the third round of the "two-plus-Four" negotiations in Paris. The foreign ministers of the two German states and the four victorious powers of World War II confirm the presence of the Polish foreign minister, the Oder-Neisse line as Poland's western border.
20.7. The recruits of the National People's Army swear a new oath of allegiance, by committing not to defend socialism.
22.7. The East German People's Parliament adopted with effect from 10.14.1990 the Länder Act and the Act on Choice of diets. It converts since July 1952 to DDR centralized in a federal state with five new countries.
3.8. In East Berlin in the all-German election contract is signed. That the scope of federal election law is extended to the GDR.
8.8. The People's Parliament asked the Bundestag, the all-German elections and the accession of the GDR to allow for 10/24/1990.
denied the opposition in the Bundestag on the following day to approve a constitutional amendment that would allow early elections.
23.8. With the required two-thirds majority decides the people's chamber "the accession of the GDR to the scope of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany under Article 23 of the Basic Law with effect from 3.10.1990.
30.8. Guaranteed at the conference for negotiations on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) in Vienna, Foreign Minister Genscher and Prime Minister de Maizière, the armed forces in a united Germany within four years to 370,000 to reduce.
31.8. Approval of the agreement contract by the Federal Cabinet in Bonn and the Council of Ministers in East Berlin. The agreement is of Federal Minister Wolfgang Schäuble and the Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister Guenther Krause (born 1953) signed.
On 20 September the contract with the required two-thirds majority of the people chamber and the Bundestag adopted. The next day also agrees with the Federal Council.
6.9. The People's Parliament approved a Rehabilitation Act, which provides for compensation of victims of the SED regime.
12.9. After completion of the "two-plus-Four talks," the foreign ministers of the four former Allies in Moscow to sign the "Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany. The Federal Republic of Germany becomes fully sovereign and in fact a peace treaty.
The Allied territorial rights with effect from 3rd Suspended in October 1990.
24.9. In East Berlin between the GDR and the Soviet Union signed an agreement under which the East German membership in the Warsaw Pact on 3 Expires in October.
28.9. After several mutinies in East German prisons adopt the People's Parliament is a partial amnesty for East German prisoners who have to serve only two-thirds of their sentence.
3.10. The GDR occurs in the scope of the Basic Law. The Federal Republic has from now on full sovereignty.
Federal President Richard von Weizsacker, acting on a proposal by the Chancellor's five former East German politicians as ministers without portfolio.
4.10. The first all-German Bundestag is constituted in the Berlin Reichstag building.
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