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Adenauer, Konrad

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(kôn'rät ä'dӘnou´´Әr), 1876–1967, West German chancellor. A lawyer and a member of the Catholic Center party, he was lord mayor of Cologne and a member of the provincial diet of Rhine prov. from 1917 until 1933, when he was dismissed by the National Socialist (Nazi) regime. He was twice imprisoned (1933 and 1944) by the Nazis. Cofounder of the Christian Democratic Union (1945) and its president from 1946 to 1966, he was elected chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) in 1949 and was reelected in 1953, 1957, and 1961. He also served (1951–55) as his own foreign minister, negotiating the West German peace treaty (1952) with the Western Allies and obtaining recognition of West Germany's full sovereignty through the Paris Pacts and through an agreement with the USSR in 1955. Adenauer's strong will and political acumen helped to give Der Alte [the old man], as he was known, great authority in West German public life. The political architect of the astounding West German…
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From Chambers Dictionary of World History
German politician. He studied at Freiburg, Munich and Bonn , before practising law in Cologne, where he became Lord Mayor (1917). He was President of the Prussian State Council (1920–33). In 1933 the Nazis dismissed him from all his offices, and imprisoned him in 1934, and again in 1944. In 1945, …
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A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. [Attr.] There’s nothing which cannot be made a mess of again by officials. ADENAUER, Konrad Der Spiegel , 1975. A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing…
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Full text Article Konrad Adenauer (1876–1967)

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Arising out of the political turmoil of late 19th-century Europe, Christian democratic parties were at first closely associated with the Catholic Church. They were given broad support by the papal encyclicals Rerum Novarum (May 15, 1891) by Leo XIII and Quadragesimo Anno (May 15, 1931) by Pius XI. …
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