When Dr. Adenauer was approached by a world citizen delegation to find out his disposition of my case, he gave them his personal approval of my entry, saying that all men advocating peace should be welcomed into Germany.

The choice of Bonn was made mainly due to the advocacy of West Germany's first chancellor, Konrad Adenauer, a former Cologne Mayor and a native of that area.

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.

The government was formed under Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and his conservative CDU / CSU coalition.

Konrad Adenauer ( 1876 – 1967 ) was the dominant leader in West Germany.

He was followed by Konrad Adenauer, who spoke briefly and introduced the president.

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

A shrewd politician, Adenauer was deeply committed to a Western-oriented foreign policy and restoring the position of West Germany on the world stage.

Konrad Adenauer was born as the third of five children of Johann Konrad Adenauer ( 1833 – 1906 ) and his wife Helene ( née Scharfenberg ; 1849 – 1919 ) in Cologne, Rhenish Prussia.

Avoiding the extreme political movements that attracted so many of his generation, Adenauer was committed to bourgeois common-sense, diligence, order, Christian morals and values, and was dedicated to rooting out disorder, inefficiency, irrationality and political immorality.

Adenauer was imprisoned for two days after the Night of the Long Knives on the 30th June 1934, but already on the 10th of August 1934, maneuvering for his pension, he wrote a 10-page letter to Hermann Göring ( the Prussian interior minister ) stating among other things that as a mayor he had even violated Prussian laws in order to allow NSDAP events in public buildings and Nazi flags to be flown from city flagpoles, and added that in 1932 he had declared publicly that the Nazis should join the Reich government in a leading role.

And on 29th June 1933, i. e., several months after Hitler was made Chancellor and the Nazis were given full police power over Germany, and while the Nazis were still busy terrorizing and murdering Communists, Social Democrats, and Labor Union officials, Adenauer wrote in a letter: " In my opinion the only salvation is a monarch, a Hohenzoller [...], even Hitler in my opinion, a lifetime Reichpresident [...]“.

Adenauer was subsequently rearrested ( and so was his wife ), but in the absence of any evidence against him was released from prison at Brauweiler in November 1944.

After the transfer of the city into the British zone of occupation the Director of its Military Government, General Gerald Templer, dismissed Adenauer for what he said was his alleged incompetence.

In January 1946, Adenauer initiated a political meeting of the future CDU in the British zone in his role as doyen ( the oldest man in attendance, Alterspräsident ) and was informally confirmed as its leader.

His was an ideology at odds with many in the CDU, who wished to unite socialism and Christianity ; Adenauer preferred to stress the dignity of the individual, and he considered both communism and Nazism materialist world views that violated human dignity.

Theodor Heuss was elected the first President of the Republic, and Adenauer was elected Chancellor ( head of government ) on 16 September 1949 with the support of his own CDU, the Christian Social Union and the liberal Free Democratic Party.

When a rebellion in East Germany was harshly suppressed by the Red Army in June 1953, Adenauer took full advantage of the situation and was handily re-elected to a second term as Chancellor.

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

Those treaties were cited as a main reason for the assassination attempt by the radical Jewish groups against Adenauer.

Adenauer headed Cologne during the First World War, working closely with the army to maximize the city's role as a rear base of supply and transportation for the Western Front.

According to Albert Speer in his book Spandau: The Secret Diaries, Hitler expressed admiration for Adenauer, noting his civic projects, the building of a road circling the city as a bypass, and a " green belt " of parks.

Indeed at the end of 1932, Adenauer had demanded a joint government by his Zentrum party and the Nazis for Prussia.

During the next two years, Adenauer changed residences often for fear of reprisals against him, while living on the benevolence of friends.

Election poster, 1949: " With Adenauer for peace, freedom and unity of Germany, therefore CDU "

In the controversial selection for a " provisional capital " of the Federal Republic of Germany Adenauer championed Bonn over Frankfurt am Main.

For his part, Kennedy thought that Adenauer was a relic of the past, stating " The real trouble is that he is too old and I am too young for us to understand each other.

Adenauer had tarnished his image when he announced he would run for the office of federal president in 1959, only to pull out when he discovered that under the Basic Law, the president had far less power than he did in the Weimar Republic.

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.

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.

Israel was divided in accepting the money. The agreement was condemned by some Israelis as simply an expedient whereby Germany would buy off Jewish survivors to regain credibility on the international stage, and Adenauer was criticised for being too lenient towards politically compromised individuals whose past treatment of Jews was at best questionable.

Adenauer was prepared to tolerate ex-Nazis in his administration provided their membership in the party had been inactive, or necessary for them to keep their job.

It was a policy that attracted criticism ; however, Adenauer started his administration from absolute zero, and " it would have been folly to deprive the fledgling republic of the services of civil servants and professionals for that reason alone.

Adenauer firmly integrated the country with the emerging Euro-Atlantic community ( NATO and the Organisation for European Economic Cooperation ).

Adenauer is closely linked to the implementation of an enhanced pension system, which ensured unparalleled prosperity for retired people.

In his last years in office, Adenauer used to take a nap after lunch and, when he was traveling abroad and had a public function to attend, he sometimes asked for a bed in a room close to where he was supposed to be speaking, so that he could rest briefly before he appeared.

Adenauer managed to remain in office for almost another year, but the scandal increased the pressure already on him to fulfill his promise to resign before the end of the term.

Funeral service for Adenauer in Cologne Cathedral

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.

Adenauer, dubbed " Der Alte " (" the old one "), belied his age as the oldest elected leader in world history by his intense work habits and his uncanny political instinct.

Despite these claims he nominated people active under Nazi Germany to top ministerial positions, including Hans Globke, Director of the Federal Chancellory of West Germany between 1953 and 1963 and one of the closest aides to Chancellor Konrad Adenauer.

On 27 March 1952, a package addressed to Chancellor Adenauer exploded in the Munich Police Headquarters, killing one Bavarian police officer.

Adenauer delivering a speech at the March 1966 CDU party rally, one year before his death

Grewe himself writes that he devised the broad outlines of the policy, but mainly as one of a number of options, the decisions being made by the foreign minister, Brentano, and the chancellor, Adenauer ; in any case, the name Hallstein doctrine may be something of a misnomer.

Otto has been described as one of the " architects of the European idea and of European integration " together with Robert Schuman, Konrad Adenauer, and Alcide De Gasperi.

He was Director of the Federal Chancellory of West Germany between 1953 and 1963 and as such was one of the closest aides to Chancellor Konrad Adenauer.

Just one year after the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany and its increasing links with the West under the policy-making of Konrad Adenauer, the Consultative Assembly of Europe began to consider the formation of a European Defence Community with German participation on 11 August 1950.

But on return to West Germany, having served one third of their sentence as required by Belgian law, on 30 July they were pardoned by Chancellor Konrad Adenauer ( 1876 – 1967 ).

A conservative Catholic, he was one of the Founding fathers of the European Union, along with the Frenchman Robert Schuman and the West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer.

Wulff has been one of the four deputy chairmen of the CDU party at the federal level since 1998, and has been a board member of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation since 2003.

Several parcel bombs were sent to Adenauer and others targets, one of which killed a sapper who handled it.

In 1957 he was one of the Göttinger 18, who protested against the Adenauer government's plans to equip the Bundeswehr, Western Germany's army, with tactical nuclear weapons.

It flared up again briefly in 2000 when one of its leading figures, Ernst Nolte, was awarded the Konrad Adenauer Prize for science.

De Gasapri was also one of the Founding fathers of the European Union, along with the Frenchman Robert Schuman and the German Konrad Adenauer.