biography
pronunciation:
[adenower]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1876–1967)
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| biography:
| German statesman, born in Cologne, W Germany. He studied at Freiburg, Munich, and Bonn, before practising law in Cologne, where he became lord mayor in 1917. A member of the Centre Party under the Weimar Republic, he became a member of the Provincial Diet and of the Prussian State Council (president 1920–33). In 1933, he was dismissed from all his offices by the Nazis, and imprisoned in 1934 and again in 1944. In 1945, under Allied occupation, he was again Mayor of Cologne, and founded the Christian Democratic Union. As chancellor from 1949 (re-elected 1953 and 1957), his policy was to rebuild West Germany on a basis of partnership with other European nations through NATO and the European Economic Community, with the ultimate aim of bargaining from strength for the reunification of Germany. He retired in 1963. |
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