In 1989,
after 28 years of divinding Germany, all of a sudden the Berlin Wall came down.
But it's a little known fact that before reunification, East and West held
detailed preliminary talks about open borders.
Deutsche Welle, 8 Nov 2014
October 29,
1989. It's Sunday. Walter Momper, governing mayor of West Berlin, is in the
eastern part of the city. Not entirely incognito, but not officially, either:
Manfred Stolpe, a leading figure of the East Germany's Evangelical Church, has
invited him for lunch, surprise guests included.
Stolpe, a
Social Democrat who became state premier in Brandenburg after reunification, is
just acting as go-between. He has two top-level GDR representatives in tow:
Günter Schabowski, East Berlin SED (Socialist Unity Party) leader and Erhard
Krack, mayor of the East German (GDR) capital.
Serving as
venue for this conspiratorial East-West-exchange is the Rose Parlor of the
Palasthotel. Among other things, the two East Germans want to discuss the GDR's
new travel law about which, four days earlier, the SED party newspaper Neues
Deutschland had written for all to read: Further details to follow. The law was
scheduled to come into force before Christmas. This was a sensation - a feeling
shared by Momper.
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| The day after the fall of the Berlin Wall: Willy Brandt (left) joined Walter Momper |
Basic work
in East Berlin
Momper is
downright electrified, according to contemporary historian Hans-Hermann Hertle.
As early as the following day he set up a task force under the leadership of
the senator for economic affairs.
Schabowski's
account surpasses his expectations. Within just a few weeks, hundreds of
thousands of East Germans will be allowed to visit West Berlin. The GDR intends
to issue passports in order to contain a mass escape movement. Momper knows
that his city is not prepared for this kind of rush.
Additional
border checkpoints will have to be set up. To Momper's surprise, Schabowski
shares this view. Accommodation for East Germans is an open question as well:
No-one knows how many of them will just visit and how many will stay. And there
are further issues: Will they arrive in their Trabi and Wartburg cars? And
they'll definitely be needing maps of West Berlin.
Time is of
the essence. Schabowski gives Momper a date: From December 1 at the earliest,
the people of West Berlin will have to expect considerable numbers of visitors
from the East. Trying to respond adequately, the task force decides in its
first meeting on November 1 to schedule follow-up sessions for November 8 and
November 15 respectively - unaware that just a short time later events will
spiral out of East Germany's control.
Disgruntled
Allies
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| Historian Hans-Hermann Hertle |
November 3:
The Rose Parlor meeting does not remain secret for long. Western Allies are
miffed: They take a dim view of unauthorized talks with East Berlin behind
their backs. American envoy Harry Gilmore urges Momper to report to the three
Western Allies.
For Egon
Bahr, former SPD party leader and Chancellor Willy Brandt's most important
foreign policy adviser, it's a mystery to this day that Momper could establish
contact with East Berlin at all, without the Americans, the British and the
French knowing about it and giving their blessings.
He told DW
that he harbors great doubts with respect to the nature and development of the
Momper-Schabowski talks. The lack of consultation with the Allies, in
particular, to him is intangible.
Even Horst
Teltschik, Helmut Kohl's most important adviser in the chancellor's office,
claims ignorance as to the Momper-Schabowski talks. "I don't remember any
concrete decisions or considerations regarding the opening of the border prior
to the fall of the Beriln Wall," he told DW. Conclusion: West Berlin was
out on its own at the time.
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| With his press conference, Günter Schabowski made history |
A
controversial letter
On November
6 Walter Momper writes a letter to Chancellor Helmut Kohl. West Berlin, being
financially dependent on Bonn, will be unable to cope with the challenge
without help from the German Federal Government.
Among other
things, Momper proposes that the government send its "welcoming
money" to the GDR's state bank, which could then proceed to hand it over
to those intending to visit West Germany. Kohl would never have accepted this,
says historian Hans-Hermann Hertle, because such a step would have provided
legitimization to the GDR leadership.
It is
evident that Momper wants to set up a meeting with Kohl. But his letter remains
unanswered, Momper tells Hertle many years later. The three-page document was
intercepted by the GDR's Stasi secret police. Although the GDR was imploding as
a state, its spy network was still functioning perfectly.
Party
leader out of his depth
Come
November, Berlin is getting ready for the rush and appears to be on the safe
side even without support from Bonn. After all, the accords agreed on October
29 had included Schabowski's assurance to send out an early warning two weeks
prior to the announced opening of the border.
The central
idea of the new GDR travel regulations is handing out passports, issued on
request. Dealing with these requests would take a processing period of about
six weeks. It was a plan with built-in checks, spread out over weeks. However,
events took an unexpected turn. The early warning call never came.
Bureaucracy,
for all intents and purposes an area of competence of the SED dictatorship,
turns out to be a maze in which the protagonists lose their bearings. Marathon
sessions and lack of sleep having taken their toll, and Schabowski fails to
stay on top of things in a crucial press conference on November 9.
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| November 10, 1989: Helmut Kohl (center) and Walter Momper (left) met on the balcony of Schöneberg's city hall |
There is a
blocking period for the travel law, but Schabowski is unaware of this. The
original plan was to broadcast the new travel regulations on the radio at 4
a.m. the following morning so that border guards would be informed and
prepared. Organized exits would have been possible. But briefly before 7 p.m.
Schabowski utters the key phrase: "…according to my knowledge this is
right now, immediately."
Years later
Schabowski revealed all the other thoughts that crossed his mind during that
historic press conference. Responding to a journalist's question whether the
new travel regulation applied to West Berlin as well, "it suddenly hit me
that we had not discussed this with the Soviets." It is amazing to see how
independently the Germans arranged their destiny as early as autumn of 1989.
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