Beginning with the replacement of the Reichsmark with the Deutsche Mark as legal tender, a lasting period of low inflation and rapid industrial growth was overseen by the government led by German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and his minister of economics, Ludwig Erhard, raising West Germany from total wartime devastation to one of the most developed nations in modern Europe.

He reconsidered, among other reasons, because he was afraid that Ludwig Erhard, whom Adenauer thought little of, would become the new chancellor.

Konrad Adenauer with minister of economics Ludwig Erhard, 1956.

Adenauer acted more leniently towards the trade unions and employers ' associations than Erhard.

Adenauer was not on good terms with his economics minister Ludwig Erhard and tried to block him from the chancellorship.

Adenauer failed, and in October 1963 he turned the office over to Erhard.

Ludwig Erhard with Konrad Adenauer in 1956

After the resignation of Adenauer in 1963, Erhard was elected Chancellor with 279 against 180 votes in the Bundestag on 16 October.

As a member of the Texas House of Representatives, Samuel Ealy Johnson, Jr., Johnson's father, been sensitive to his German-American constituency and had opposed the Creel Committee's attempt to disparage German culture and isolate German-Americans during World War I. Adenauer and Erhard had also stayed at Johnson's ranch in Gillespie County.

Konrad Adenauer remained the party ’ s leader until 1963, at which point former minister of economics Ludwig Erhard replaced him.

While Adenauer and Erhard co-operated with non-Nazi parties to their right, since the 1990s CDU has worked to marginalize its right-wing opposition through the courts.

He held federal office as Minister of the Interior ( 1953 – 1961 ) and as Minister of Foreign Affairs ( 1961 – 1966 ) in the cabinets of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and of Ludwig Erhard.

Instead, he strongly supported measures to expedite Germany's economic recovery along liberal free-market and democratic lines followed by Konrad Adenauer and Ludwig Erhard.

Furthermore, Röpke personally advised the Chancellor of ( post-World War II ) West Germany, Konrad Adenauer, and his Minister of Economics, Ludwig Erhard up until the late 1950s, and therefore is credited with contributing the intellectual backbone of the now infamous German Economic " Miracle ".

Although the West German economic growth was more directly enhanced by the social market economy policies of Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard, most non-socialistically inclined West German voters gave Adenauer the credit for it.

Beginning with the replacement of the Reichsmark with the Deutsche Mark as legal tender ( the Schilling was similarly established in Austria ), a lasting period of low inflation and rapid industrial growth was overseen by the government led by German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and his Minister of Economics, Ludwig Erhard, who went down in history as the " father of the German economic miracle.

He remained in the Bundestag until 1969, serving several times as a minister under Chancellors Konrad Adenauer and Ludwig Erhard.

Adenauer by then understood that " all opportunity for initiative had passed out of his hands ," and the matter was put to rest by the Allies.

" Social Market Economy " and Its Impact on German European Policy in the Adenauer Era, 1949 – 1963 ," German Politics and Society Volume: 25 # 2 2007. pp 68 +.

The New York Times referred to Gerovital's " jet-set aura ," noting that Aslan had been covered in " society columns where such public figures as Nikita S. Khrushchev, Konrad Adenauer, and Ibn Saud have been listed among the multitudes said to have taken the drug.

Historically, Vergangenheitsbewältigung often is seen as the logical " next step ," after a denazification driven at first under Allied Occupation and then by the Christian Democratic Union government of Konrad Adenauer.

The Christian Democratic ( CDU ) leader, 73-year-old Konrad Adenauer, former mayor of Cologne and party chairman in the British Zone since March 1946, believed in moderate, non-denominational and humanist Christian democracy ( see, for example, Dennis L. Bark and David R. Gress, A History of West Germany, volume 1: 1945-1963: From Shadow to Substance, London, UK: Basil Blackwell, 1989 ; Erling Bjöl, Grimberg's History of the Nations, volume 23: The Rich West, " The Giant Dwarf: West Germany ," Helsinki: WSOY, 1985 ), social market economy and integration with the West.

These two CDU-friendly foundations are not the Adenauer Foundation's only collaborators: For instance, the Adenauer Foundation co-published a study with the Bertelsmann Foundation, the Market Economy Foundation, and the Friedrich-Naumann-Foundation titled " Educational Policy in a Federal System and International Influences ," in which it injected itself into the dialogue on educational policy and examined various influences.

That this and the closing of the East Berlin-West Berlin border have not been accepted by the Western governments appears in notes which Britain, France, and the United States sent to Moscow after the latter's gratuitous protest over a visit of Chancellor Adenauer and other West German officials to West Berlin.

Before the speech, US delegations met with Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, and French President Charles de Gaulle to brief them on the US intelligence and their proposed response.

Behind the long table set up on the steps of the Rathaus Schöneberg were US and German dignitaries, including Dean Rusk ( Kennedy's Secretary of State ), Lucius D. Clay ( the US administrator of Germany ), Konrad Adenauer ( the German chancellor ), Willy Brandt, and Otto Bach ( President of the German House of Representatives ).

Konrad Hermann Joseph Adenauer (; 5 January 1876 – 19 April 1967 ) was a German statesman.

Riding a wave of popularity from the return of the last POWs from Soviet labor camps, as well as an extensive pension reform, Adenauer led the CDU / CSU to the first — and as of 2011, only — outright majority in a free German election.

and Adenauer linked this rearmament concept to West German sovereignty and entry into NATO.

The German student movement of the late 1960s was essentially a left-wing protest against the conservatism that Adenauer — by then out of office — had personified.

During the early years of his chancellorship and with a broad consensus within the West German establishment in favor of amnesty and integration, Adenauer pressed for the ending of denazification efforts.

Adenauer ensured a truly free and democratic society, which had been almost unknown to the German people before — notwithstanding the attempt between 1919 and 1933 ( the Weimar Republic ) — and which is today not just normal but also deeply integrated into modern German society.

Adenauer with the mother of a German POW brought home in 1955 from the Soviet Union, due to Adenauer's visit to Moscow

When, in 1967, after his death at the age of 91, Germans were asked what they admired most about Adenauer, the majority responded that he had brought home the last German prisoners of war from the USSR, which had become known as the " Return of the 10, 000 ".

Konrad Adenauer: A German Politician and Statesman in a Period of War, Revolution and Reconstruction.

vol 2: Konrad Adenauer a German politician and statesman in a period of war, revolution and reconstruction ( 1995 ) 759 pp. excerpt and text search vol 2 ; also full text online

Even while the Marshall Plan was being implemented, the dismantling of German industry continued, and in 1949 Konrad Adenauer wrote to the Allies requesting that it end, citing the inherent contradiction between encouraging industrial growth and removing factories and also the unpopularity of the policy.

Especially in Germany, these celebrations had a distinctly political note to them and often stressed Boniface as a kind of founder of Europe, such as when Konrad Adenauer, the ( Catholic ) German chancellor, addressed a crowd of 60, 000 in Fulda, celebrating the feast day of the saint in a European context: " Das, was wir in Europa gemeinsam haben, gemeinsamen Ursprungs " (" What we have in common in Europe comes from the same source ").

** Konrad Adenauer is re-elected as German chancellor.

* On April 6, 2010, with a lifespan of 33 342 days he surpassed Konrad Adenauer in terms of longevity and is now the oldest former chancellor in German history.

He is notable for his leading role in German postwar economic reform and economic recovery (" Wirtschaftswunder ", German for " economic miracle "), particularly in his role as Minister of Economics under Chancellor Konrad Adenauer in 1949 to his own ascension to the Chancellorship in 1963.

In 1961, while vice president, Johnson had hosted Konrad Adenauer some two years before the German statesman vacated the chancellorship of the German Federal Republic.