Ulbricht Doctrine

The Ulbricht Doctrine goes back to the Council of State of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) Walter Ulbricht and was adopted by the Warsaw Pact in 1967. She said that members of the Warsaw Pact their relations with the Federal Republic could not normalize as long as the Federal Republic did not turn " the existing borders and the existence of two German states " recognized.

Prior to the grand coalition had increasingly sought to normalize relations with the countries of the Warsaw Pact under Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger what first expressed at the beginning of the year 1967 in the establishment of diplomatic relations with Romania. The Ulbricht Doctrine was a response to these efforts of the Federal Republic of Germany to operate despite maintaining their claim to sole representation an active Ostpolitik, in East Berlin and the Soviet Union feared the destabilization of the Eastern bloc as well as isolation of the GDR. Then tightened the GDR and urged its policy of demarcation in February 1967, the Foreign Ministers of the fraternal socialist countries to adopt the doctrine. The Ulbricht Doctrine, thus representing also the counterpart to the Hallstein Doctrine of the Federal Republic from the year 1955.

After the election of Willy Brandt as chancellor of a social- liberal coalition, the Federal Republic was on the Hallstein Doctrine and was based on the principles of the new Ostpolitik. In 1972, the Master Agreement was signed by the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic, which included that the territorial integrity and sovereignty be respected mutually. The agreement enabled the creation of permanent missions instead of messages. The GDR has not been expressly recognized by the Federal Government repeats as an independent subject of international law. Both German states were accepted as full members of the United Nations.