Case No. 674 Berliner (Berliner against the Secretary General of the United Nations)

He is a happy Berliner and a proud new German.

As president of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy stood before the Berlin Wall and pronounced that famous phrase, quot Ich bin ein Berliner quot ( quot I am a Berliner quot ).

Frederick died in Berlin in 1713 and is entombed in the Berliner Dom.

In 1906, he moved to Switzerland, but, during World War I, he worked as a foreign correspondent for the Berliner Tageblatt in Vienna and Istanbul.

And for people everywhere in the world who listened to him on that historic occasion, the word quot Berliner quot was understood to mean quot a defender of freedom quot .

Less than five months before his violent death, Kennedy roused a huge gathering of Germans in the center of Berlin, the frontier of the Cold War, to almost hysterical enthusiasm with his famous words, Ich bin ein Berliner.