Konrad Adenauer was born on January 5, 1876, in Cologne. His father was a clerical civil servant, and his mother, Helene Scharfenberg, had also been brought up in a civil servant's family. Together ...

BERLIN — The first chancellor of West Germany used the state intelligence agency to spy on the leading opposition party just eight years after World War II, according to a new bombshell study. Konrad ...

Konrad Adenauer governed a Germany that had lost credibility, power, and trust. The country’s past had made isolation impossible. Adenauer believed Germany’s recovery depended on binding itself to ...

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Monday paid tribute to the achievements of Konrad Adenauer, the first chancellor ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and ex-US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger have honored one of the founding fathers of modern German democracy. Konrad Adenauer, who died 50 years ago, remains a ...

The Friends of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation brings together around 1,600 politically interested people who are close to the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and support it in further developing and ...

It was one of the major corruption scandals of 1950s West Germany. Now, a never-completed luxury villa meant for Chancellor Konrad Adenauer has a new owner — who paid less than the cost of buying a ...

It was the fiercest, longest, and almost certainly the last big battle the old man would ever fight. Its cost may be reckoned for years to come. But after seven weeks of haggling, browbeating, ...

The roots of modern German politics don’t lie in the sandy soil of Berlin but in a white house on a hill in Rhöndorf, a pretty village across the Rhine from Bonn. Every airy room in the 1930s villa is ...

If this were a Reddit post, it’d start with the acronym “TIL,” meaning “Today I Learned,” because today I learned that one of the world’s first plant-based sausages was created by German statesman ...

Henry Kissinger’s latest Book, Leadership — Six Studies in World Strategy, is a work that can easily be described as an academic and diplomatic power house from which many pertinent lessons can be ...

THE “Adenauer story" has a romance of its own. It is the story — incredible as it may sound to many who have seen the Chancellor in his suave moods in the Bundestag — of a hick-town boy who has made ...