Konrad Adenauer
| Konrad Adenauer link (Politician) | |
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| Born | Konrad Hermann Joseph Adenauer 5 January 1876 Cologne, German Empire |
| Died | 19 April 1967 Bad Honnef, West Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Alma mater | University of Freiburg, University of Munich, University of Bonn |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
| Children | 8 |
| Spouse | Emma Weyer |
| Party | Centre Party (Germany), Christian Democratic Union |
German (deep?) politician, CDU leader | |
Konrad Adenauer was a German politician, and probably also deep politician.
Rhineland separatism
One reason just Adenauer was selected to be Chancellor of West Germany of West Germany after World War 2 may lie in him possibly becoming a British asset after World War 1.
Adenauer was Mayor of Cologne during the occupation of the Rheinland after World War 1. While most of the region was allocated to the French, the most important city in the region, Cologne, was allocated to the British. Adenauer was part of the movement that instigated the move to independence for the region, a movement heavily supported by the French.[1] The British were hostile to this separatism. Adenauer hedged his allegiance, and did not support the vote to declare the region independent.[2] In October 1923, Adenauer opened talks with the French High Commissioner Paul Tirard for a Rhenish republic in a sort of economic union with France.[3]
Family
Adenauer married Auguste Zinsser, of the US-German chemical industrialist family.[4]
John J. McCloy, who became the proconsul over occupied Germany after 1945, was the husband of the former Ellen Zinsser, of the same family. So it happened that the two men who collaborated most closely on the creation of the new Germany were Zinsser relatives.[4][5]
After World War 2
A US military document date 8 May 1945 identifies him as being "number one on the White List for Germany".[6]
The American intelligence officer Lawrence de Neufville stated that he had already helped "with the preparation for the Adenauer government" already in 1948.[7]
Connections
Adenauer was the oldest known visitor to Le Cercle, and may have been an important person in its early years.
References
- ↑ https://www.preussenchronik.de/ereignis_jsp/key=chronologie_009900.html
- ↑ https://lefroggydotcom.wordpress.com/2015/05/11/frances-policies-against-germany-after-the-first-world-war/
- ↑ Epstein, Klaus (October 1967). "Adenauer and Rhenish Separatism". The Review of Politics. 29 (4): p542.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 https://theamericanscholar.org/a-cousin-from-cologne/
- ↑ https://mises.org/mises-daily/rockefeller-morgan-and-war
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20220624192148/https://adenauerhaus.de/downloads/Exponat_des_Monats/ExpMai13.pdf
- ↑ https://www.telepolis.de/features/Der-lange-Schatten-der-Alliierten-Deutschlands-Souveraenitaet-im-Wandel-9782513.html
