Brandt ya dauki sunan Willy Brandt a matsayin sunan da ya dace don kauce wa ganowa ta hanyar jami'an Nazi, sa'an nan kuma ya karbi sunan a cikin 1948. Brandt an dauke shi daya daga cikin shugabannin dama na SPD, kuma ya sami shahararren farko a matsayin Gwamna Mayor na West Berlin. Ya yi aiki a matsayin Ministan Harkokin Waje kuma a matsayin Mataimakin Chancellor a cikin majalisar Kurt Georg Kiesinger, kuma ya zama chancellor a shekarar 1969. A matsayin chancellor, ya ci gaba da haɗin Jamus ta Yamma tare da Amurka kuma ya mayar da hankali kan karfafa haɗin Turai a yammacin Turai, yayin da ya kaddamar da sabuwar manufofin Ostpolitik na Gabas da nufin inganta dangantaka da Turai.
Shekara ta 1969