论施密特政府的德国政策

On the German Policy of Schmidt Government

1974年5月,联邦德国总理勃兰特因纪尧姆事件引咎辞职,同为社民党人的施密特继任联邦总理。在其8年任期里,施密特政府巩固了前任政府在德国政策上开创的新局面,继续贯彻"以接近求转变"的迂回策略。在坚决不以国际法承认民主德国的前提下,施密特政府积极利用各种经济杠杆改善两德关系,扩大两德间的旅行交通和人员往来,维护两德人民的民族认同感。通过一系列措施,施密特政府有效抑制了民主德国的民族分裂主义政策,其德国政策理念和实践也为随后上台的联盟党科尔政府所吸收和借鉴。

In May 1974,Willy Brandt(SPD)was forced to resign as Chancellor after it was discovered that his close political aide,Gunther Guillaume,was a spy of GDR.Helmut Schmidt(SPD)subsequently took over as the Federal Chancellor.During the ensuing eight-year tenure,the Schmidt government consolidated the new situation created by the former government in the German policy,continued to implement the indirect tactics(“change through rapprochement”).Under the premise that GDR is not recognized in international law by FGR,the Schmidt government actively took advantage of a variety of economic leverages to improve the relations between the two Germanys,expand the tourist traffic and personnel exchanges,and maintain a common sense of national identity.The Schmidt government not only effectively inhibited the national separatism of GDR in the 1970s,but also its concept and practice of German policy were absorbed and used by the next Kohl government(CDU/CSU).