While Willy Brandt was in Paris attending to his new duties as West German Foreign Minister, West Berlin's parliament elected a man to fill out Brandt's four-year unexpired term as mayor of Germany's largest (2,200,000) city. The choice fell on Heinrich Albertz, 51, a Lutheran minister turned socialist politician.
A native of Prussia, Albertz was imprisoned for six months by the Nazis during World War II for mentioning political prisoners in a sermon to his congregation. After Germany's surrender, he entered politics in the state of Lower Saxony as minister for refugee affairs, went to Berlin in 1957 at Brandt's behest,...
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