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Selected Events 2005

Former President Bush Visits Eastern Germany
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June 16/17, 2005.
June 16 an 17 marked the first visit of a former U.S. president George Herbert Walker Bush to eastern Germany since the fall of the Wall, and thus garnered much attention in the region. President Bush made a quick stop at the U.S. Consulate General Leipzig, where he met the staff and a mixed student group from Gera and its American sister city Fort Wayne (Indiana). He then traveled on to Weimar and Erfurt, where he signed Erfurt’s Golden Book and that of the state of Thuringia. The next day, Bush and his former international counterparts, Mikhail Gorbachev and Helmut Kohl, received the Point Alpha Prize at the Thuringia/Hesse border, where U.S. and Soviet troops had faced each other in arms throughout the Cold War. 7,000 spectators, including 150 VIP guests, the minister-presidents of Thuringia and Hesse and Chargé d'Affaires John Cloud, followed the award ceremony, which paid tribute to the three statesmen’s crucial role in bringing about reunification.



George Herbert Walker Bush and Foreign Commercial Service Staff Member Andrea Diewald at the Consulate General
George Herbert Walker Bush and Foreign Commercial Service Staff Member Andrea Diewald at the Consulate General Leipzig		Certificate Signed by George Bush
Certificate Signed by Former President George Herbert Walker Bush to Commemorate His Visit to the Consulate General		Former President Bush and the Students from Gera and Fort Wayne
Former President George Bush and the Students from Gera and Fort Wayne at the Consulate General Leipzig

George Bush Meets the Minister-President of Thuringia, Goethe House in Weimar
Former President George Herbert Walker Bush Meets the Minister-President of Thuringia, Dieter Althaus, and City Officials in the Garden of the Goethe House in Weimar		George Bush, Mikhail Gorbachev and Helmut Kohl Receive the Point Alpha Prize
George Herbert Walker Bush, Mikhail Gorbachev and Helmut Kohl Receive the Point Alpha Prize		George Bush (Left) and Chargé d'Affaires John Cloud
Former President George Bush (Left) and Chargé d'Affaires John Cloud, U.S. Embassy, at the Consulate General Leipzig

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