Biography of Konrad Adenauer

Konrad Adenauer was born in Cologne on 5 January 1876, and died on 19 April 1967.

Adenauer was first Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany 1949-63. Adenauer was president of the Prussian State Council from 1920 to 1933, when he was dismissed from office by the Nazis. He was twice imprisoned (1933 and 1944) by the Nazis. Co-founder of the Christian Democratic Union (1945), Konrad Adenauer was made Lord Mayor under the Allied Occupation.

He became the first Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany and played a crucial role in the political and economic transformation of Germany.