03573nam 2200661 a 450 991081151400332120230801232003.01-280-12855-097866135324351-61249-207-X(CKB)3170000000046101(EBL)3119188(SSID)ssj0000582014(PQKBManifestationID)12201440(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000582014(PQKBWorkID)10540037(PQKB)10013160(MiAaPQ)EBC3119188(MiAaPQ)EBC4742676(Au-PeEL)EBL3119188(CaPaEBR)ebr10546079(CaONFJC)MIL353243(OCoLC)922968806(EXLCZ)99317000000004610120111121d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBridge builder an insider's account of over 60 years in post-war reconstruction, international diplomacy, and German-American relations /Walther Leisler KiepWest Lafayette, Ind. Purdue University Press20121 online resource (xv, 235 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates) illustrationsTranslation of: Brücken meines Lebens.Includes indexes.1-55753-620-1 ""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""List of Abbreviations""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Chapter 1: A Long Road to Politics""; ""Chapter 2: In Politics""; ""Chapter 3: In the Opposition""; ""Chapter 4: Ostpolitik""; ""Chapter 5: Special Missions""; ""Chapter 6: Business, Politics, and Personalities""; ""Chapter 7: My Bridge across the Atlantic""; ""Epilogue: America In Me""; ""Name Index""; ""Subject Index""Walther Leisler Kiep is one of the most independent and influential German post-war politicians. He is also a successful entrepreneur and longtime chairman of Atlantik-Bru?cke, the influential German-American friendship organization, which he now serves as honorary chairman. In his autobiography, Kiep speaks frankly about a life at the center of power: as an independent politician and treasurer of the governing CDU party from 1970 to 1991, who did not shrink from conflict with party leaders Helmut Kohl and Franz Josef Strauss; as Minister of Finance in Lower Saxony; as a longtime member of the Volkswagen Supervisory board for 21 years; and as an ambassador for German-American relations, and confidant of several US presidents. As well as presenting an inside history of the relationship between Germany and the United States, the book sheds particular light on the struggle for German unification and that country?s complex relationship with the Middle East.StatesmenGermanyBiographyPoliticiansGermanyBiographyGermany (West)Politics and governmentGermanyPolitics and government1990-Germany (West)Foreign relationsUnited StatesUnited StatesForeign relationsGermany (West)GermanyForeign relationsUnited StatesUnited StatesForeign relationsGermanyStatesmenPoliticians327.43073092BKiep Walther Leisler1926-1717402MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910811514003321Bridge builder4113629UNINA