The Soviet party and state leader Leonid I. Brezhnev and SED General Secretary Erich Honecker sign an agreement in Moscow on "friendship, cooperation and mutual assistance" for the duration of 25 years. The agreement contains no references to Germany as a whole.more
7 October
1975
The 26th anniversary of the founding of the GDR is celebrated as a "national" holiday for the first time.
9 October
1975
The foreign ministers of West Germany and Poland sign an agreement in Warsaw under which 125,000 people of German descent are allowed to move to West Germany.
14 October
1975
In an order for the coming training year 1975/1976, the head of the GDR border troops demands: "Targeted education and training of border troop members is to guarantee that firearms are employed decisively and accurately with a high sense of political responsibility according to the regulation on firearm use to prevent border breakthroughs, provocations and diversion tactics of the enemy."
28 October - 2 November
1975
Helmut Schmidt is the first West German chancellor to visit China, where he meets Mao Tse-Tung.
29 October
1975
The medal "Hero of the German Democratic Republic" is introduced for "heroic acts [serving] the general strengthening of the GDR, the enhancement of its international authority and its secure military protection".more
