October 31, 2020
A newly completed international airport in Germany’s state of Brandenburg was opened for commercial operations. This airport, which is just south of the country’s capital of Berlin, was named after Willy Brandt (1913-1992).
Brandt, who had been a staunch opponent of the Nazi regime, served as governing mayor of West Berlin from 1957 to 1966. (West Berlin was a political enclave within the city that was surrounded by the communist state of East Germany but formally controlled by the Western Allies.) Brandt went on to serve as chancellor of West Germany between 1969 and 1974. A couple of years before his death, the western and eastern portions of Germany were reunified to form the present-day version of what is officially known as the Federal Republic of Germany.
Construction on Berlin Brandenburg Airport Willy Brandt began on September 5, 2006. This facility has become the sole commercial airport serving Berlin and all of Brandenburg. Berlin Brandenburg Airport Willy Brandt has the additional distinctions of being the third busiest airport in Germany and the 15th busiest in Europe.
Photo Credit: Arne Müseler (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Arne_M%C3%BCseler) / www.arne-mueseler.com – licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Germany license at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/de/deed.en
For more information on Berlin Brandenburg Airport Willy Brandt, please check out https://ber.berlin-airport.de/en.html
Additional information on airports in Germany is available at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airports_in_Germany
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