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Walther Schreiber In 1953, after Ernst Reuter’s unexpected death and the break-up of the governing coalition, CDU politician Walther Schreiber became Reuter’s successor as Governing Mayor of Berlin. Schreiber’s political career began in the Weimar Republic; from 1919 he sat in the Prussian parliament for the German Democratic Party, and in 1925 he joined Otto […]

A means of transport transforms the city. Berlin and the beginnings of U-Bahn The U-Bahn is a defining feature of Berlin’s transport network and urban landscape. Transporting 572 million passengers each year (2021), it is an essential component of local public transport, without which everyday life in the capital could hardly be imagined. It is […]