Berlin: Internal Political Scene in West Berlin

A file containing documents relating to the internal political situation in West Berlin. Subjects covered in the file include the election of the West Berlin politician Richard von Weizsäcker as vice-president of the West German Bundestag; the involvement of the governing mayor, Dietrich Stobbe, in federal politics; and the sixty-fourth congress of the Berlin Christian Democratic Union (C.D.U.). Other subjects discussed in the file include new identity cards for West Berlin residents; the election of Heinrich Lummer as the new president of the Berlin house of representatives; the appointment of a new senator, Günter Gaus; newspaper reports of many problems and scandals affecting the Berlin city government; and a shortage of affordable housing, which led to riots involving squatter groups. Documents in the file include speeches by two West Berlin politicians, Peter Lorenz and Richard von Weizsäcker, at the C.D.U. congress.