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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 who served as the first chancellor of the Federal Republic of 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Konrad Adenauer has received more than 3,692,077 page views. His biography is available in 111 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 106 in 2019). Konrad Adenauer is the 265th most popular politician (down from 233rd in 2019), the 65th most popular biography from Germany and the 14th 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

Among politicians, Konrad Adenauer ranks 265 out of 19,576. Before him are Jawaharlal Nehru, Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor, Safiye Sultan, Ashurbanipal, Philip V of Spain, and Henry II of France. After him are Philip IV of Spain, Georges Danton, Georgy Zhukov, Philippe Pétain, Wu Zetian, and Victor Emmanuel II of Italy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1876, Konrad Adenauer ranks 3. Before him are Pope Pius XII, and Jack London. After him are Mata Hari, Erich Raeder, Zewditu, Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, Wilhelm Pieck, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Constantin Brâncuși, Pablo Casals, and Alexander I of Serbia. Among people deceased in 1967, Konrad Adenauer ranks 4. Before him are Che Guevara, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and René Magritte. After him are Vivien Leigh, Puyi, Casimir Funk, Vladimir Komarov, Mohammad Mosaddegh, Clement Attlee, Ilse Koch, and Spencer Tracy.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Konrad Adenauer ranks 65 out of 7,253. Before him are Erich Maria Remarque (1898), Reinhard Heydrich (1904), Eva Braun (1912), Gerd Müller (1945), Ambrose (340), and Jacques Offenbach (1819). After him are Erich Fromm (1900), Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762), Ludwig Feuerbach (1804), Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714), Albertus Magnus (1206), and Clara Schumann (1819).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Konrad Adenauer ranks 14. Before him are Hermann Göring (1893), Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (912), William I, German Emperor (1797), Klemens von Metternich (1773), Joseph Goebbels (1897), and Reinhard Heydrich (1904). After him are Charles the Bald (823), Martin Bormann (1900), Peter III of Russia (1728), Helmut Kohl (1930), Joachim von Ribbentrop (1893), and Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1050).

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