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Guido Westerwelle, here at an election campaign event in 2009, died of leukemia in 2016
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It will soon be the fifth anniversary of Guido Westerwelle's death.
On March 18, 2016, the politician died of complications from cancer.
Now the city of Munich has decided to name a street after him.
According to consistent media reports, the municipal committee unanimously agreed on a
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Guido-Westerwelle-Platz
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in the Freimann district.
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I associate liberalism with Guido Westerwelle more than almost any other minister in recent German history,
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said Jörg Hoffmann, the chairman of the FDP city council group.
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Live and let live can count as the great tale in the life of this politician.
A Guido-Westerwelle-Platz fits perfectly into our cosmopolitan city.
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Secretary General, Party Chairman, Foreign Minister
Westerwelle died of leukemia in March 2016.
The blood cancer became known in June 2014, after which he largely withdrew and underwent chemotherapy.
He also received a bone marrow transplant.
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We fought.
We had the goal in mind.
We are grateful for an incredibly great time together.
Love remains.
Guido Westerwelle and Michael Mronz, Cologne, March 18, 2016
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, wrote the Westerwelle Foundation on its homepage (read here a SPIEGEL interview with Guido Westerwelle shortly before his death).
Westerwelle was a founding member of the Young Liberals and then rose to General Secretary and party chairman of the FDP.
After many years in the opposition, he was Federal Foreign Minister between 2009 and 2013.
In the first two years of the black-yellow coalition, until his resignation from the position of FDP chief, he was also Vice Chancellor.
But not only Westerwelle is honored in Munich: According to the
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Bayerischer Rundfunk
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, a place in the Olympic Park is named after Hans-Jochen Vogel.
The former Lord Mayor of the Bavarian state capital died in July 2020 (read an obituary here).
The SPD politician was Federal Minister for Spatial Planning, Building and Urban Development under Willy Brandt and Federal Minister of Justice under Helmut Schmidt.
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