The enthusiasm was boundless, as the hope of the Democrats held in July 2008, his first major speech in Berlin. Because it was so bad that Barack Obama could not talk as he had actually desired, at the Brandenburg gate. With his charisma he brought to the victory column lights up. Around 200,000 people had gathered in the Tiergarten to hear the 25-minute speech. Hinting at Ernst Reuters speech, he called: “the peoples of the world, look at Berlin!” Of the air bridge to the fall of the wall, he interpreted the post-war history of the city as evidence of the enforcement power of freedom. He is well-known to climate protection, for the purpose of joint rescue of the planet, to nuclear disarmament and to greater involvement in Afghanistan. A long time ago.

As an elected President, he was allowed to keep 2013 then finally, a big speech in front of the Brandenburg gate, however, security measures of hitherto unimagined proportions. The then President of the Academy of arts, Klaus Staeck, would not have been able to follow the spectacle of a good from his office at the Paris court, he was allowed to but, just for the sake of safety. So he went, as the other hand picked 4000 listeners also, through the security gate on the Frederick road, and had to even give up the croissants, the Almond, which he had plugged in as food.

Similar to the well-filled bottle of Designer perfume, a Society lady. No matter, despite the roaring heat, the mood was relaxed and good. Among the guests were students of the John-F-Kennedy were in school, had stuck Buttons with the likeness of Kennedy and saying, “I am a Berliner”.

there were Also raisins bomber Pilot Gail Halvorsen, the former mayor, Klaus Wowereit, and Obama’s half sister Auma, who studied in Berlin at the German Film and television Academy and the city so well knew. Its rather intellectual speech was praised by many pages.

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try it Now for free! In the year 2016 was for the Berlin visit of Barack Obama to the highest level of security.Photo: Maurizio Gambarini/dpa

a Lot of warmth during the visit to Berlin 2017

Peter Altmaier welcomed the commitment of the US President to a global climate-protection package, Klaus Wowereit stressed then, it had become clear that the German-American friendship can survive through the generations the way, and then-foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle praised Obama’s disarmament initiative.

The President took off because it was so hot, even casual jacket. In the evening, that was not possible, unfortunately. Since Angela Merkel had loaded once, together with Professor Joachim Sauer, the President and his wife, Michelle, to Dinner, to the castle of Charlottenburg.

to was Whether this evening will be an anecdote? The small boxes, the anfauchten as tired against the scorching heat, must have occurred in well-functioning air-conditioning systems used to Americans, quite exotic. The daughters were, meanwhile, is shopping in the better-cooled arcades at Potsdamer Platz. In spite of the then raging disappointment over the NSA spying affair, the mood on this visit was good, if not quite so extravagantly as the first Time. No one could have guessed what would come in the German-American relationship.

Obama’s words during his farewell visit in Berlin, you would have had to under these circumstances probably still much more to enjoy. As he spoke of the EU as “one of the greatest achievements of the world” and praised Merkel as an “outstanding partner” for the United States. If he were German, he said at the time, he would support them in the General election.

That he was not allowed to speak during his visit as a candidate in front of the Brandenburg gate, has damaged the relationship between the two obviously never. How warm it was able to convince the visitors at the Church day in may two years ago. As he spoke on stage at the Brandenburg gate with the Chancellor about the field of tension between democracy, Power and religiosity.

A bath in the crowd after his speech at the victory column in 2018 – at the time, as the presidential candidate of the Democrats.Photo: Wolfgang Kumm/dpa

Townhall Meeting with young people planned

at the Time, could 80 000 visitors listen and see how well Barack Obama and Angela Merkel understood. A bit of election help was there, of course. Then, there was then a well-air-conditioned Two-star food at “Lorenz Adlon esszimmer”. The security was a lot more relaxing, because he was already in office. On Friday evening, Obama of Cologne is arriving coming to Berlin at the invitation of Angela Merkel, who wants to meet him for an interview. This, however, was confidential. Well possible, that he lives again in the Adlon. But what is already confirmed for security reasons never. About the Townhall Meeting that he wants to discuss with selected young people who were able to pre-submit questions, has so far been little known. Also probably has to do with security. The U.S. Embassy, and nothing was know of the visit, except that the former President would be granted all the courtesies and services are provided in such a case. The first Townhall Meeting of a U.S. President in Berlin was carried out in 1978 by the way.