01 elections in the GDR and the formation of Government guard against the old guard in East Berlin. Soldiers of the people's army in the parade step. Polling station Berlin Mitte. Ballot boxes will be sealed. Voters. Interviews with voters and voters. Election posters. Counting of votes. International observers, including a delegation from the Council of Europe to monitor the correct sequence of the choice. Victory of the conservative Alliance. Lothar de Maiziere, Chairman of the East German CDU actuality: "people want to have thing answers and there I which connect me, that this economic, monetary, social Union is important so that so the people in the country stay and not leave us".
Ibrahim Böhme, SPD actuality: "it was the vote of the electorate. I reiterate, it was the first free, democratic, secret elections, we are democratic losers as Social Democrats and will begin work tomorrow."
Helmut Kohl interview: "We want together to that of Germany, by a reunified Germany, peace goes out, i.e., that we take this path as European Germans and as German Europeans in the 1990s, in peace and compromise with our neighbors."
People's Chamber of the GDR formed a grand coalition. The Prime Minister is elected Lothar de Maiziere, Hans Modrow congratulates de Maizière. Swearing in actuality by the Chairman of the Volkskammer Bergmann-Pohl. The Minister Peter Michael Distel, DSU, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior, Markus Meckel, SPD, Minister of Foreign Affairs, will be sworn in.
(116 m) 02 Leipzig spring fair - joint venture company cityscape Leipzig. Old trade and town houses, restored and receive, in addition to ruined neighborhoods. Exhibition and trade fair visitors. Agricultural machinery, tractors. Trading partners are taught in East and West on computer Exchange. Head o-ton: "the Leipzig fair is this time something quite extraordinary. At all cannot be compared with previous fairs, there is a spirit of optimism, the entrepreneur in PES, who want to start businesses or find partners not only in Germany, but also unites - assail us. Information in any form is required first and foremost."
Modern technologies are presented. Business Center United States quote: "we are for the first time at the Leipzig fair. So far we have focused in 1992 on the European internal market. But since last November, the focus of Europe has shifted to the East. Europe has become greater." French entrepreneur interview: "East Germans are looking even direct contacts with the French. The changes in the GDR have opened great opportunities the French and probably all Western countries."
(75 m) 03. On the way up - education scientific astronauts (D2) Heike Waldpot, a doctor and a high performance swimmer, great on swivel chair. Metereologin Renate Brümmer in the Simulator. Trampoline jumps. Running with the gas mask on treadmill. Mrs Haese interviewed Heike Waldpot. "What has awarded you, to have become candidate for D2?"
"I think., that I've covered a number of requests that were made." For example, in the mental health field certain skills or properties have certainly also to the part of my athletic past come here."
Working in the spacelab in the vacuum.
(60 m) 04. CSCE Economic Conference participants from East and West. All are committed to a market economy. Helmut Kohl at the lectern quote: "we want to build the United Germany and in Europe and definitely not against Europe." Both development of economic relations between East and West, we are only at the beginning. Our historic mission is now to take that stage of the CSCE process in attack, in which Europe should find its unity."
Participants of the Conference at the Rhine.
Manfred Hausmann actuality: "target is the vision of a pan-European economic space of over 500 million people – this is about the rules of future cooperation - and from a German perspective, it is of course important that the German economic unit is embedded in this wider pan-European context."
Richard von Weizsäcker actuality: "with the help of human creativity, social disposition and with mutual respect for nature will succeed, to present the objectives of the Helsinki Final Act - namely security and cooperation, human rights and peace."
(68 m) 05 paragliding in the Bavarian Alps - hang glider 2 start on the mountain and flight under large sails. Control 2 control cables. Flight through mountain gorges. Hang gliders in the sky. Landing.
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01 choice in the GDR changing of the guard from the old guard in East Berlin. Yet, the old order is presented in this ceremony. On 18 March 1990, the first free elections in the GDR took place and replaced a system that for 40 years has denied people the right to frele Selbstbestlmmung. The Communist regime had always only apparent options to perform and was not shied away even from offenkundlgem electoral fraud. Against this incapacitation, the people in East Germany have demonstrated since last autumn. With success, because now they can determine at the polls about your own future. The word elections has get a sense. Female voter: "Frele choice - I must say, I didn't realize the others, because I myself have refused as a citizen but before that to be immature, and this time I took it out, I took my family - my daughter is still keine_18 - and she should look, how's first time free, selected Yes; that one at least is going out with a satisfied mood - they said just to me."
Voters: "we very pleased that it is finally time, that we finally can conduct free and secret elections in the GDR after 40 years SED regime, that we went in November of last year on the road, to finally achieve our right to self-determination."
A topic had dominated the previous campaign all parties across: the unification of Germany. A demand that hundreds of thousands of interested East Germans had raised increasingly vocal. In a very short time, a vote had to be organized in the GDR, which complies with all democratic rules. The media from around the world thronged in East Berlin to cover the historic event. International observers, including a delegation from the Council of Europe monitored the correct sequence of the choice.
Already after the first projections of the victory of the conservative Alliance for Germany emerged. The result is a clear mandate for a quickly as possible Germany's unification. The election winner, Lothar de Maizière, Chairman of the East German CDU, kündlgte still on election night corresponding steps of a Government led by him: "people want to have thing answers and there I the close to me, that this economic, monetary, social Union is important so that so the people in the country stay and not leave us."
The Social Democrats as the strongest group to work with. Badawi: "it's been the vote of the electorate. I reiterate, it was the first free, democratic, secret elections, we are democratic losers as Social Democrats and will begin work tomorrow."
German Chancellor Helmut Kohl spoke of a destiny choice for all Germans: "we want together to that peace goes out of Germany, of a reunified Germany. I.e., that we take this path as European Germans and as German Europeans in the 1990s, in peace and compromise with our neighbors."
In the first freely elected people's Chamber of the GDR formed a grand coalition. The parties of the conservative Alliance for Germany, the Social Democrats and the Liberals teamed up to the heavy tasks to resolve together. Lothar de Maizière was elected the Prime Minister.
The new Prime Minister will immediately with the Federal Government on an economic, currency and advise social Union of the two parts of Germany. After the necessary coordination at the international level, an all-German elections can take place then.
De Maizière: "... so God help me."
Together with the Federal Government, the Government led by Lothar de Maizière can now overcome the sharpest for the German result of the cold war, the German boom, peacefully.
02. Leipziger Messe Leipzig - traditional trading city in the industrial area of Saxony. The ornate facades of old trade and houses bear witness the past prosperity of the trade fair city of Leipzig. But the city is also clear traces of a 40-year mismanagement. As in many places of the GDR, entire neighborhoods are addicted - symbol of a misguided policy.
We are hoping for the Leipzig, like all citizens, also an economic boom after the peaceful revolution of November 1989. In this time of upheaval, the Leipzig spring fair was a sign of hope for the start of the DDR in the market economy. It was a mass of records.
The growing together of the two German States opens up new dimensions for international economic cooperation. Especially popular in East Germany: cooperation with Western companies which were conveyed on a computer stock. To their head: "the Leipzig fair is this time something quite extraordinary. At all cannot be compared with previous fairs. There is a spirit of optimism, that search entrepreneurs in PES, who want to start businesses or partners - not only in Germany, but also unites - assail us. Information in any form is needed first and foremost.
There is special need in the GDR on modern technologies, external own production facilities are usually hopelessly out of date. A market, where companies from many countries see a future. For example, from the United States. "We are for the first time at the Leipzig fair, says an American entrepreneur. So far we have focused in 1992 on the European internal market. But since last November, the focus of Europe has shifted to the East. Europe has become greater."
Companies of East Germany, to lead talks with exhibitors from the verschledensten countries use their newly won independence.
"East German", so a French entrepreneur, "find themselves direct contacts with the French. The changes in the GDR have opened great opportunities the French and probably all Western countries."
That showed this fair, positive impulses for the entire global economy are emanating from the political upheaval in Eastern Europe.
03. on the way upwards a woman at the at the time almost everything space revolves around. Heike Waldpot, a doctor and a high performance swimmer, is on its way to higher spheres. For two years, the 30-year cooperation with the meteorologist Renate Brümmer and three male colleagues is trained in the Federal Republic of Germany to the scientific astronaut.
1992 two from the team to research about 300 km above the Earth for 9 days. Constant physical training and medical examinations will accompany the scientific training program for the planned second German space mission.
"What has distinguished her candidate for D2 to have become?"
"I think that I've covered a number of requirements that were provided. "For example: degree, promotion, but also specifically to have certain skills or properties that come certainly also to tell of my athletic past in the mental health area."
On Board of the European "Spacelab", the scientists will act as "an extended arm" their colleagues on Earth. About 90 experiments will perform on the road: inter alia in the fields of material science, biology and medicine. This includes Heike Waldpot: "if not so run as to which previously has made that, experiments can Yes not in consequence of all the experiments to end think, then it will be certainly difficult; and for this we make also a relatively long and aufwendlge education."
Two astronauts can take part in the German mission. A third gets to experiment I 1992 the opportunity aboard the Russian space station. A beginning for a new era of cooperation.
04. all participating States and the Eastern Europe, well known to the market economy - CSCE Conference on the biggest East-West economic meeting in Bonn a success for economic cooperation for East and West. The initiative for this CSCE Conference came from German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. He spoke of a milestone on the road to a pan-European economic space, which will include also a United Germany: "we want to build the United Germany and in Europe and definitely not against Europe." In the development of economic relations between East and West, we are only at the beginning. Our historic mission is now to take that stage of the CSCE process in attack, in which Europe should find its unity."
The federal capital on the Rhine 600 delegates presented itself at its hospitable - even outside the meeting. Among the participants were not only politicians, but also business leaders and economic experts from East and West. In the final document, all States spoke in favour of a free market economy and the recognition of private property. These "Bonn principles" could contribute that Europe grows together, the stressed economics Haussmann: "target is the vision of a pan-European economic space of over 500 million people - this is about the rules of the küinftigen cooperation - and from a German perspective is important, of course, that the German economic unit is embedded in this wider pan-European context."
After this economic Conference of the CSCE the political changes in Eastern Europe can have an economic base. Also German President Richard von Weizsäcker expressed this hope: "with the help of human creativity, social disposition and with mutual respect for nature will succeed, to advance the goals of the Schiußakte Helsinki - namely security and cooperation, human rights and peace."
05. Paragliging in the Alps of the dream of flying - for the Gieitsegler he has lost none of its original fascination. Long, flying in the age of the jet aircraft for many people has become commonplace. But the experience has only the sliding sailors.
The sail is a further development of the aircraft with which the aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal made true the old human dream of flying 100 years ago. Modern materials allow an even simpler construction than to Lilienthal times - today and thereby increase flight safety.
Jam compressed air, which carries the pilots by the air accumulates in the adjacent Chambers of the curved plastic screen. Two control cables, it determines its direction of flight.
Preferred flight area of alone in Germany over 7,000 active pilots: the Bavarian Alps. Not only because of the superb natural scenery, but also because good thermals, which carries the air sailors particularly far. Many hours of training are required to cope with this flight art. Then also weitentiegene destination points can be precisely controlled.
If the sliding swift has once again solid ground under your feet, he dreams of the next top flight again.
