Editing Hallstein Doctrine (section)

==Abolition==
In 1969 [[Willy Brandt]] became German Chancellor as head of a social democrat / liberal government. The new government maintained the main political goals such as the German reunification in peace and freedom, but it altered the way to achieve these goals. Brandt's ''new [[Ostpolitik]]'' was a policy of negotiating with the German Democratic Republic government in order to improve the situation of Germans in German Democratic Republic and involved supporting visits from one part of Germany to the other. As part of this, the Federal Republic ''de jure'' recognized the German Democratic Republic as a state organisation of parts of Germany not within the Federal Republic, emphasizing that both German states could not be "foreign" to each other, that their relationships could be only of a special kind.

The [[Four Power Agreement on Berlin]] in 1971 and the signing of the [[Basic Treaty, 1972|Basic Treaty]] in 1972 brought an end to the doctrine, in accordance with the new strategy of Ostpolitik.