German politician, Chancellor of West Germany (1949–1963), Zentrum and CDU
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He took the shattered western half of a divided Germany in 1949 and turned it into an economic powerhouse anchored to the West, betting everything on Europe, NATO, and forgetting the Nazi past fast enough to build a future.
Konrad Adenauer was born in 1876, a devout Catholic who rose through Weimar politics to serve as Mayor of Cologne from 1917 to 1933 and president of the Prussian State Council before the Nazis removed him. After the war, at 73, he founded and led the Christian Democratic Union and became West Germany's first chancellor in 1949, holding the office until 1963. He pivoted from denazification to reconstruction, locking his country into close ties with France, the U.K., and the U.S., and refused to recognize East Germany or its borders. Adenauer rebuilt the Bundeswehr and intelligence services, bro…
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In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that he did not also limit his stupidity.
I see the significance of the Marshall Plan in the fact that probably for the first time in history a victorious country held out its hand so that the vanquished might rise again.
A reformation of relations between the Soviet people and the German people is not possible along the lines pursued by the authorities of the Soviet zone of Germany.
The Federal Government and with it all Germans in the Federal Republic of Germany feel in these days particularly close to the Germans in the Soviet-occupied zone.
Unless we act, events that we Europeans will be unable to influence will overtake us. I believe we Europeans feel far too safe.
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