West Berlin

West Berlin is the current denomination for the part of Berlin which in 1945, after the Second world war, was controlled by the three victorious western powers, the the United States, the the United Kingdom and the France. East Berlin, on the other hand, was under Soviet control .

General information

The writing “West Berlin” east that which one took the practice; to be rigorous politically from the Western point of view, it should be replaced by Berlin (Western) . In GDR, on the other hand, he was written in a desired restrictive direction West-Berliner autonomous political Unité , or, in summary, as allows it the German language, West Berlin in only one word ( Westberlin ), while “Berlin”, including the district of the Center, meant “capital GDR”. At the time of the Cold war, it was possible to detect the origin or the political orientation of a text by this orthographical criterion. The nomenclature of GDR was supposed first of all to give the impression of a geographically autonomous territory. It was on the one hand to underline an important autonomy of West Berlin (compared to the FRG), and on the other hand to prevent that the oriental party of the city, indicated by capital of GDR , seems only half of the city, cementing by there the concept of a final division of the city.

Under the terms of the quadripartite statute of Berlin, West Berlin was not with whole share in FRG. Only were recognized by the Allies the special conditions . Nevertheless, of the official demonstrations of FRG, were regularly organized in West Berlin, which led regularly to protests on behalf of the Soviets. The federal Bundestag did not have the law to vote laws applying to West Berlin. The federal laws were voted by the Berliner House of Commons (Sénat), and became applicable then. Moreover, the deputies West-Berliner at the Bundestag served in only a one advisory capacity: they were not elected with the Direct suffrage of the population, but were not indirectly indicated by the House of Commons. By opposition, the representatives of Berlin to the Bundesversammlung (federal Parliament, in charge of the election of the federal president) had deliberative voice: the Allies had opposed no objection there.

The residents of West Berlin were exempted Conscription. In certain fields, such as for example the West German airports, the mayor of Berlin did not have direct authority on the services of the Berliner administration, because these fields with the first chief were supervised by the Allies. In the legal works and jurisprudence, he was discussed until in the years 1980 if West Berlin were to be regarded as occupied territory and incompetent of the German State .

West Berlin, this half-portion of ex-capital, was rained to show in the world a insolente fury of living, its secret rites, its morbid charms…

Districts of West Berlin

West Berlin was divided into three sectors, placed each one under the authority of the one of the allies, and composed of whole districts:
  • Sector américain : Kreuzberg, Neukölln, Tempelhof, Schöneberg, Steglitz, Zehlendorf.

Isolated territories

Until the end of the Years 1980, West Berlin had several territories isolated on the territory from GDR. These Enclave S was little by little incorporated in the territory of West Berlin, or was yielded to GDR (for example the triangle of Lenné in Berlin-Center). The most known example was Steinstücken, which was the only inhabited enclave in a permanent way. Until the construction of a road of connection towards West Berlin, the population was supplied there partly by helicopters of the American army. These procedures of exchange caught end in 1988, with the agreement of the two parts in the act that there was no more territory to exchange.

See too

Internal bonds

External bonds

  • Exclaves of Berlin
  • Exclaves and enclaves of Berlin

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