Konrad Adenauer's deft handling of the issue enabled him to handily win re-election as Chancellor in September, but this strengthened his hand in negotiations with Conant.

A fierce opponent of both the East German Socialist Unity Party and Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's government, he was one of the founding fathers of post-war German democracy.

and all members of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's cabinet, with the sole exception of Adenauer himself.

Ludwig Erhard, who served as the Minister of the Economy in Adenauer's cabinet from 1949 until 1963 and later became Chancellor, is often associated with the German Wirtschaftswunder.

The Germans were repatriated in autumn of 1955, after West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's visit to Moscow.

He ran as the SPD's candidate for Chancellor of Germany in the 1953-and 1957 German elections, both of which were lost to Konrad Adenauer's CDU.

Chancellor since 2005: Angela Merkel of the Christian Democrats

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.

One of his low points as Chancellor was in 1968 when Nazi-hunter Beate Klarsfeld, who campaigned with her husband Serge Klarsfeld against Nazi criminals, publicly slapped him in the face during the 1968 Christian Democrat convention, while calling him a Nazi.

Though Bisky's candidacy was supported by the Greens and by some Christian Democratic and Social Democratic leaders, including Chancellor Angela Merkel, after two failed votes the party decided to withdraw his nomination.

He was Chancellor of Germany from 1982 to 1998 ( of West Germany between 1982 and 1990 and of the reunited Germany between 1990 and 1998 ) and the chairman of the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ) from 1973 to 1998.

From 1966 to 1967, he also headed the Christian Democratic Union as de facto chairman, despite the fact that he was never a member of that party ( which made his election to the chairmanship irregular and void de jure ), as he never formally filed a membership application despite pressures from Chancellor Adenauer.

When neither Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's Social Democrats and Greens nor a coalition of Christian and Free Democrats, favored by Angela Merkel and Westerwelle, managed to gain a majority of seats, Westerwelle rejected overtures by Chancellor Schröder to save his chancellorship by entering his coalition, preferring to become one of the leaders of the disparate opposition of the subsequently formed " Grand Coalition " of Christian and Social Democrats, with Merkel as Chancellor.

In addition, there is Kolbe Immaculata School ( K-12 ), the Netherlands Reformed Christian School ( PK-12 ) and Chancellor Academy ( 7 – 12 ).

Renner was Chancellor of Austria of the first three coalition cabinets from 1918 until 1920 and at the same time Minister of Foreign Affairs, backed by a grand coalition of Social Democrats and Christian Social Party.

The current Chancellor, Corina Casanova, a member of the Christian Democratic People's Party from Graubünden, was elected on 12 December 2007 to begin her term on 1 January 2008.

In 1955 he joined the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ) under Chancellor Konrad Adenauer.

In 1179, following the family's alliance with Manuel I Comnenos, Conrad led an army against Frederick Barbarossa's forces, then commanded by the imperial Chancellor, Archbishop Christian of Mainz.

Although Schumacher's SPD won the most seats of any single party in the election ( though the CDU and its sister party, the CSU, together won more seats ), the CDU was able to form a coalition government with the Free Democratic Party, the Christian Social Union, and the German Party, and Adenauer was voted Chancellor.

Liberty University President and Chancellor Jerry Falwell, Jr., subsequently stated that the university had not banned Democrats from campus nor had the club been banned from meeting and that neither the university nor its officials said that a person cannot be both a Christian and a Democrat.

On the 58th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz in 2003, Spiegel and Chancellor Gerhard Schröder signed an agreement that granted Germany's Jewish community the same legal status as the country's Christian religions, thereby tripling annual government funding of the Zentralrat der Juden to $ 3. 8 million.

* Christian C. Anieke, pioneer Vice Chancellor, Godfrey Okoye University, Enugu ( 2009-); Professor of English and Catholic Priest

Regent University-Robertson Hall, home to the School of Law and Robertson School of GovernmentPlans for the university ( originally named CBN University ) began in 1978 by Christian Broadcasting Network founder and current Chancellor Pat Robertson.

Ignaz Seipel, Christian Social Austrian Chancellor at the time, reorganized the Heimwehr as an " answer to the Socialist Schutzbund "

In late 1999, it was discovered that the German Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ) political party had accepted illegal donations while under the control of Chancellor Helmut Kohl in the 1990s.

A 1924 right-wing German political cartoon showing Philipp Scheidemann, the Social Democratic Party of Germany | German Social Democratic politician who proclaimed the Weimar Republic and was its second Chancellor, and Matthias Erzberger, an anti-war politician from the Centre Party ( Germany ) | Centre Party, who signed the Armistice with Germany ( Compiègne ) | armistice with the Allies ( World War I ) | Allies, as stabbing the German Army in the back

Except in the periods 1969 – 72 and 1976 – 82, when the Social Democratic party of Chancellor Brandt and Schmidt came in second in the elections, the Chancellor has always been the candidate of the largest party, usually supported by a coalition of two parties with a majority in the parliament.

Willy Brandt ( 1913 – 1992 ) was the leader of the Social Democratic Party in 1964 – 87 and West German Chancellor in 1969 – 1974.

After serving in several party offices, he was appointed Minister of the Interior by Chancellor Willy Brandt, whose Social Democratic Party was in coalition with the FDP, in 1969 ; in 1974, he became foreign minister and Vice Chancellor.

After England, Germany was the first European country to pass labour laws ; Chancellor Bismarck's main goal being to undermine the Social Democratic Party of Germany ( SPD ).

Helmut Heinrich Waldemar Schmidt (; born 23 December 1918 ) is a German Social Democratic politician who served as Chancellor of West Germany from 1974 to 1982.

In 1972 the Chancellor of West Germany Willy Brandt and the Prime Minister of the German Democratic Republic Willy Stoph met in Wilhelmshöhe castle for negotiations between the two German states.

* In Germany, a red-green coalition of the Social Democratic Party and The Greens led by Chancellor Gerhard Schröder governed the country from 1998 to 2005.

After his term as the Chancellor, Brandt retained his seat in the Bundestag, and he remained the Chairman of the Social Democratic Party through 1987.

In the now defunct German Democratic Republic ( GDR, East Germany ), which existed from 7 October 1949 to 3 October 1990 ( when the territory of the former GDR was reunified with the Federal Republic of Germany ), the position of Chancellor did not exist.

Even before his election as Chancellor, Willy Brandt, the Social Democratic mayor of West Berlin, argued for and pursued policies that would ease tensions between the two German states, generally in the interest of cross-border commerce.

In the 2006 election, the People's Party were defeated and after much negotiations agreed to become part of a coalition government with the Social Democratic Party of Austria, with new Party Chairman Wilhelm Molterer as Finance Minister and Vice-Chancellor under SPÖ leader Alfred Gusenbauer, who became Chancellor.

Bismarck was pressed by Social Democratic representative August Bebel in the Reichstag during September 1878 to provide details about his relationship with the by then long-deceased Lassalle, prompting the Chancellor to make an extended statement:

Chancellor of Federal Republic of Germany ( West Germany ) Helmut Schmidt, Chairman of the Council of State of the German Democratic Republic ( East Germany ) Erich Honecker, U. S. president Gerald Ford and Austrian chancellor Bruno Kreisky

Here, he met his close friend, John Smith ( who would later become leader of the Labour Party ), Sir Menzies Campbell ( who would later become leader of the Liberal Democrats ) and Lord Irvine of Lairg ( who would serve as Lord Chancellor in the same cabinet as Dewar ) through the Dialectic Society.

In late May 1932, with the resignation of Karl Buresch's Christian-Social government, Dollfuss, age 39 and with only one year's experience in the Federal government, was offered the office of Chancellor by President Wilhelm Miklas, also a member of the Christian-Social Party.

As part of the deal in which Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, Hermann Göring — future commander of the Luftwaffe and an influential Nazi Party official — was named Interior Minister of Prussia.

Instead, Hitler appointed Goebbels Reich Chancellor ; Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz, who was at Flensburg near the Danish border, Reich President ; and Martin Bormann, Hitler's long-time chief of staff, Party Minister.

Major was Leader of the Conservative Party from 1990 to 1997 and held the posts of Foreign Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Cabinet of Margaret Thatcher.

Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor on 30 January 1933 and sought to gain international respectability and to remove internal opposition by representatives of the Church and the Catholic Centre Party.

In 1859, Lord Palmerston formed a new mixed government with Radicals included, and Gladstone again joined the government as Chancellor of the Exchequer ( with most of the other remaining Peelites ) to become part of the new Liberal Party.

Past chairmen have included Conservative Party leader Michael Howard, Margaret Thatcher's longest-serving Cabinet Minister Geoffrey Howe, Chancellor of the Exchequer Norman Lamont and former British Telecom chairman Christopher Bland.

Notable MPs for the area have included the industrialist Crawshay Bailey from 1852 to 1868 ; Peter Thorneycroft, Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1957 – 58 and Chairman of the Conservative Party 1975 – 81, who was the town's MP from 1945 to 1966 ; and John Stradling Thomas, MP from 1970 to 1991.

( 1981 – 83 ), Secretary of State for Trade and Industry ( 1983 – 85 ), Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster ( 1985 – 87 ) and Chairman of the Conservative Party ( 1985 – 87 ).

Bevan's remark that " I know the right kind of political Leader for the Labour Party is a kind of desiccated calculating machine " was assumed to refer to Gaitskell, although Bevan denied it ( commenting upon Gaitskell's record as Chancellor of the Exchequer as having " proved " this ).

The county was organized January 29, 1841 as Kinderhook County and renamed in 1843 for Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, Chancellor of England, and leader of the Whig Party.

In November 2002, the 2002 legislative election resulted in a landslide victory ( 42. 27 % of the vote ) for the People's Party under the leadership of Federal Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel.