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Konrad Adenauer

1876 - 1967

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Konrad Hermann Joseph Adenauer (5 January 1876 – 19 April 1967) was a German statesman and politician who served as the first chancellor of West Germany from 1949 to 1963. From 1946 to 1966, he was the first leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), a newly founded Christian democratic party, which became the dominant force in the country under his leadership. As a devout Catholic, Adenauer was a leading politician of the Catholic Centre Party in the Weimar Republic, serving as Mayor of Cologne (1917–1933) and as president of the Prussian State Council. In the early years of the Federal Republic, he switched focus from denazification to recovery, and led his country to close relations with France, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Konrad Adenauer is the 268th most popular politician (down from 265th in 2019), the 67th most popular biography from Germany (down from 65th in 2019) and the 15th most popular German Politician.

Konrad Adenauer was the first chancellor of West Germany, from 1949 to 1963. He was also a founding father of the European Union.

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Among politicians, Konrad Adenauer ranks 268 out of 19,576. Before him are Saparmurat Niyazov, Golda Meir, Æthelwulf, King of Wessex, Muhammad Ali of Egypt, Mehmed IV, and Enver Hoxha. After him are Frederick IX of Denmark, Paul von Hindenburg, Mehmed I, Elagabalus, Olav V of Norway, and Edward the Martyr.

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Among people born in 1876, Konrad Adenauer ranks 4. Before him are Pope Pius XII, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, and Mata Hari. After him are Jack London, Adolf Windaus, John Macleod, Róbert Bárány, Erich Raeder, Zewditu, Otto Diels, and Wilhelm Pieck. Among people deceased in 1967, Konrad Adenauer ranks 4. Before him are Che Guevara, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and Puyi. After him are René Magritte, Vivien Leigh, John Nance Garner, Albert Lutuli, Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, Ed White, Spencer Tracy, and Mohammad Mosaddegh.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Konrad Adenauer ranks 67 out of 7,253. Before him are Heinrich Hertz (1857), Hannah Arendt (1906), Eva Braun (1912), Æthelwulf, King of Wessex (795), Heinrich Heine (1797), and Erich Maria Remarque (1898). After him are Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886), Reinhard Heydrich (1904), Alexandra Feodorovna (1872), Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762), Erich Fromm (1900), and Ambrose (340).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Konrad Adenauer ranks 15. Before him are Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (912), Heinrich Himmler (1900), Hermann Göring (1893), Christian IX of Denmark (1818), William I, German Emperor (1797), and Æthelwulf, King of Wessex (795). After him are Reinhard Heydrich (1904), Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia (1361), Helmut Kohl (1930), Martin Bormann (1900), Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1050), and Clara Zetkin (1857).

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