Adenauer

The Father of the New Germany

By: Charles Williams

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Paperback | 4 September 2003 | Edition Number 1

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After the Second World War Germany lay in ruins. To Konrad Adenauer (1876-1967) belongs much of the credit for raising West Germany to a position of economic prosperity and making it a respected free-world ally. Adenauer was born in 1876, in Cologne, part of a devout Roman Catholic family. He was elected mayor of Cologne in 1917, a post he held for 16 years, then a representative in the Prussian State Council of which he became president in 1928. After the Nazis came to power in 1933, Adenauer was stripped of all his political positions, imprisoned and then sent to a concentration camp. But after the war he organised a new party, the Christian Democratic Union and in 1949 he became West Germany's first chancellor, retiring after four consecutive re-elections in 1963. Charles Williams' magisterial biography of a great twentieth-century statesman - and German - is also a monumental history of modern Germany. The book's four sections: 'The Kaiser's Germany', 'Weimar Germany', 'Nazi Germany' and 'Adenauer's Germany' - bear eloquent testimony to this most singular of nations.

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[ADENAUER] is well-researched and admirably written. It puts the German statesman 's extraordinary career into historical perspective. Above all it reveals Adenauer the man-with all his authority and strength, his persistence and endurance and his streak of ruthlessness and political cunning - INDEPENDENT

The best biography I read this year - Anthony Howard, NEW STATESMAN

This is pertinent stuff. - GUARDIAN

[A] magisterial biography... written with warmth and lucidity, this is as much a book about the making of modern Germany as it is about the 20th century's foremost statesman. - SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

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List of Illustrations
Preface
The Kaiser's Germany
Cologne: 1876
'Gaudeamus Igitur Juvenes Dum Sumus'
The End of Youth
The Ladder of Ambition
A Time of Tragedy
The Management of Defeat
Weimar Germany
The Aftermath of War
Life Has to Go On
The Reparations Crisis. 1923
Cologne Is Free!
The Private and Public Mayor
Dubious Manoeuvres
Confrontation
Hitler's Germany
Decent Into Darkness
They Start to Close In
He No Longer Matters
Keeping Out of Trouble
A Quiet War
'The War Is Over!'
Adenauer's Germany
Sacked by the British
Another Political Birth - Another Personal Death
The Beginnings of the New Germany
The Federal Chancellor
Building Europe - And Facing the Bear
At Home and at Work
Politics Is an Art - Not a Science
Where Does Germany Stand?
Can Anyone Be Trusted?
Enter the General
Khrushchev's Challenge
Threats and Counter-Threats
From Triumph to Dismissal
Finale
Acknowledgements
Select Bibliography
Notes
Index
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