Berlin: Visit by Richard Von Weizsacker, Governing Mayor of Berlin, to the UK, April 1982

A file containing documents concerning a visit to the United Kingdom by the governing mayor of Berlin, Richard von Weizsäcker, in April 1982. Subjects covered in the file include practical arrangements for the visit; von Weizsäcker's plans to attend the Anglo-German Königswinter conference on international relations taking place in Cambridge at the same time as the visit; and his unveiling of a painting of the Berlin airlift at the Royal Air Force Club in London. Other subjects discussed in the file include von Weizsäcker's planned meetings with the prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, the Foreign Secretary, Lord Carrington, and the Lord Privy Seal, Humphrey Atkins; the need to reaffirm the British commitment to Berlin; a gift for von Weizsäcker in the form of a seventeenth-century map of Brandenburg; and the last-minute changes to the programme necessitated by the Falkland Islands crisis.