peace

state

trust

nationality

German

occupation / innovator as

member of the German Bundestag

lawyer

member of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia

religion

Lutheranism

politician

president of Germany

theologian

university professor

CDU/CSU Bundestag fraction

SPD Bundestag fraction

Federal Minister of Justice

Federal Minister of the Interior

Mayor of Essen

is the emergency in which we all have to prove ourselves, not war.

War is not the quintessential emergency in which man has to prove himself, as my generation learned at its school desks in the days of the Kaiser... rather, peace is the emergency in which we all have to prove ourselves. Gustav Heinemann

is earned only by one who is himself prepared to grant it.

Trust cannot be commanded... and yet it is also correct that the only one who earns trust is the one who is prepared to grant trust. Gustav Heinemann

is such that, rather than war, peace is in fact the emergency in which we all have to prove ourselves.

Gustav HeinemannThinkers

Gustav Heinemann