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Konrad Adenauer

Konrad Adenauer

1876 CE1967 CE · Bonn, Germany

Konrad Adenauer was a German statesman who served as the first Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) from 1949 to 1963. A Catholic politician who had been mayor of Cologne before being removed by the Nazi regime, he co-founded the Christian Democratic Union after the war. As chancellor he guided West Germany's postwar reconstruction, its integration into Western Europe and the NATO alliance, and the establishment of relations with the state of Israel, including a reparations agreement for Nazi crimes. He remained in office until 1963 and died in 1967.

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