Konrad Adenauer was born on January 5, 1876, in Cologne. His father was a clerical civil servant, and his mother, Helene Scharfenberg, had also been brought up in a civil servant's family. Together ...

The roots of modern German politics don’t lie in the sandy soil of Berlin but in a white house on a hill in Rhöndorf, a pretty village across the Rhine from Bonn. Every airy room in the 1930s villa is ...

He became the first post-war chancellor of Germany at the age of 73 - and led the country for the following 14 years. Fifty years after his death on April 19, several aspects of Adenauer's life remain ...

BERLIN — The first chancellor of West Germany used the state intelligence agency to spy on the leading opposition party just eight years after World War II, according to a new bombshell study. Konrad ...

Historical analogies are a tricky thing, apt to give one an unwarranted confidence in one's ability to foretell the future. I'm not the only commentator to have wondered, for example, whether Sen.

Henry Kissinger’s latest Book, Leadership — Six Studies in World Strategy, is a work that can easily be described as an academic and diplomatic power house from which many pertinent lessons can be ...

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THE “Adenauer story" has a romance of its own. It is the story — incredible as it may sound to many who have seen the Chancellor in his suave moods in the Bundestag — of a hick-town boy who has made ...

Konrad Adenauer was born on January 5, 1876, in Cologne. His father, Konrad sr., was a clerical civil servant, and his mother, née Helene Scharfenberg, had also been brought up in a civil servant's ...