She said that a political climate must not be permitted to develop in which every opinion that differed from the prevailing one was dismissed as 'small-minded'. Kohl nonetheless also honoured the past SPD Chancellors Willy Brandt and Helmut Schmidt, saying that they had positively influenced citizens' movements in the East. Former Federal President Richard von Weizsaecker and former Foreign Affairs Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher called upon the CDU to end the dispute over credit for German Reunification. The CDU had organized this ceremony in order to give Kohl an opportunity to speak at a public event on the tenth anniversary of Reunification. He was excluded from speaking at the official government event.
Home ownership is old-age security Stuttgart.
Teufel said it was completely incomprehensible that home ownership should simply be automatically excluded from the list of officially sanctioned and supported kinds of private investment towards individuals' old-age financial security. He called upon the federal government to extend state support also to this form of saving for retirement. Schabowski and Kleiber free again Berlin. Former East German Politburo members Guenter Schabowski and Guenther Kleiber are free again. A spokesman for the Berlin Justice Ministry confirmed today that the two men were released from custody yesterday.