Signing of an energy agreement between West Germany and East Germany in Leipzig.
16 September
1979
Spectacular escape by two families from Thuringia in a home-made hot-air balloon over the border to Bavaria.
20 September
1979
The social-liberal West German government draws attention to the fact that any denunciations of human rights violations in the GDR to international authorities could negatively affect the success of concrete humanitarian actions (it is referring to ransoming and family reunifications).more