1. Egon Bahr was born in Treffurt, in the Prussian Province of Saxony, the son of Hedwig and Karl Egon Bahr, a high school teacher.
21 Facts About Egon Bahr
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Egon Bahr later worked at two other West Berliner periodicals, the Allgemeine Zeitung and Der Tagesspiegel.
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From 1984 to 1994, Egon Bahr served as the Director of the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg, from which he received an honorary professorship in 1984.
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Egon Bahr was a member of the SPD from 1956 until his death in 2015.
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From 1960 to 1966 Egon Bahr was the head of the Press and Information Office for the Land of Berlin.
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From 1966 to 1969 Egon Bahr served as an ambassador and as Ministerial Director of the Planning Staff of the German Foreign Office.
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Egon Bahr is considered to have been one of the most important and most influential advisors to Willy Brandt, especially with respect to the latter's policy of Ostpolitik.
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Egon Bahr was in Moscow holding talks with Andrei Gromyko, and materials from these talks found their way, via an unknown leak, to the tabloid newspaper Bild.
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Egon Bahr was reappointed by Brandt's successor, Helmut Schmidt, to the Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development.
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On 14 December 1976, following the federal elections that had taken place two months earlier, Egon Bahr left his position in the Federal Government permanently.
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Egon Bahr served from 1972 until 1990 as a member of the German Bundestag.
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Egon Bahr was directly elected in 1976 and 1980 as the representative of the Schleswig-Flensburg electoral district; in the remaining elections, he was elected from the SPD's party list.
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Egon Bahr served as chairman of the Sub-Committee for Disarmament and Arms Control.
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In 1980, Egon Bahr became a member of the Independent Commission for Disarmament and Security under the chairmanship of Swedish politician Olof Palme.
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Egon Bahr went on to publish various writings about the future of German foreign policy following the end of the Cold War.
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Egon Bahr advocated among other things for Europe and Germany to exercise greater influence in the world as a "Civilian power".
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In 1991, Egon Bahr promoted discussion of the creation of a potential German peace corps.
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In 1973, Egon Bahr was awarded the Bundesverdienstkreuz.
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Egon Bahr was named an honorary citizen of Berlin in 2002.
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In 2007, Egon Bahr was honored with the Willy Brandt Prize by the German-Norwegian Willy-Brandt-Foundation and in 2008 with both the Gottingen Peace Prize and the Marion Donhoff Preis.
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Egon Bahr received an honorary doctorate in 2008 from the Internationales Hochschulinstitut Zittau in recognition of his service to the process of unifying Europe.