Strack-Zimmermann during the election period - The politician had a childhood connection with Halle.
This FDP politician hails from Düsseldorf. She attended high school in Meerbusch, also in North Rhine-Westphalia, before heading to Munich for her studies. When it comes to Halle, the city in Saxony-Anhalt that was once so familiar to her thanks to her father's stories, she was unable to visit until after the Berlin Wall fell. Her father, Wolfgang Jahn, had spent most of his childhood and youth there.
"I must've heard all about Halle so much from my dad," the politician reminisces. "I only got to visit once it was no longer behind the Iron Curtain." Both her grandparents and the rest of her family had moved to western Germany, so there was no one left in the east for her to see.
Hans-Dietrich Genscher, one of the great liberals, also had a personal connection to Halle. He spoke fondly of it, having lived there until he relocated to the west in 1952. "We'd often discuss Halle," Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann remembers. "I joined the FDP in 1990 and met him at a conference. We became close since he lived in Düsseldorf when I was the First Mayor from 2008 to 2014."
She describes Genscher as "a very likeable, ridiculously funny, and had great humor." She became intrigued by how he managed foreign affairs. According to Strack-Zimmermann, the esteemed politician not only cared for powerful countries, but also made an effort to engage small ones and build connections.
"Stuff got done between countries because people cared for each other," she says.
Comparing Genscher to a modern-day Foreign Minister? "It's impossible to compare. It was a different era. No social media, just the real world. There was more time to think."
Back to the topic of Halle - during an election campaign event, the liberal university group brought people to the "Tanzbar Palette." While students and staff were expected to attend, Strack-Zimmermann took note of how she was the only candidate with posters for the European elections. "There's no voting options for Scholz, Baerbock, Habeck or Wagenknecht," she explained to her audience.
Looking back on her previous trips to this city, the politician can't help but remember the house where Genscher was born. As it stands now, the German Unity Education and Meeting Center has taken its place.
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Source: symclub.org
