The Governing Mayor of Berlin Klaus Wowereit, has been honored by President Christian Wulff with the Federal Cross of Merit with Star and Sash. This order - even large cross 2 Class "- is the third highest award given to the Federal Republic of Germany.
In his address to Wowereit during the ceremony in Schloss Bellevue, the German Federal President of the nearly ten years of work Wowereit praised as Mayor of Berlin, which was given the difficult budgetary situation of the city and the consequences of decades of separation is no easy task. However, Berlin was "grown into his role as federal capital" in the reign of Wowereit. The capital city contract ended in November 2007 would constitute a milestone and was the merging of East and West would be progress in Berlin for all to see. "Healing the wounds of the division of Germany, almost 40 years of wall and barbed wire that plague most of Berlin, had slowly, but they heal, " said Wulff.
In the Federal Republic of Germany by the way last year were awarded a total of 2173 orders, only 30.5 percent of them women.
Source: Gaywien.at
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