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Adenauer’s critics, especially on the nationalist side, denounced him for having missed an opportunity for early German reunification. However, both Hitler and Speer felt that Adenauer’s political views and principles made it impossible for him to play any role within the Nazi movement or be helpful to the Nazi party.^[1]

After the failed assassination attempt on Hitler July 20, 1944, he was imprisoned for a second time as an opponent of the regime.

The German government kept all proof under seal. Bruno Heck (CDU) succeeds Wuermeling as Minister of Family and Youth Affairs. London, UK: Institute of Germanic Studies, University of London. Siegfried Balke (CSU) succeeds Strauss as Minister of Atomic Affairs.

Third ministry

• Konrad Adenauer (CDU) - Chancellor
• Ludwig Erhard (CDU) - Vice Chancellor and Minister of Economics
• Heinrich von Brentano (CDU) - Minister of Foreign Affairs
• Franz Josef Strauss (CSU) - Minister of Defense
• Gerhard Schröder (CDU) - Minister of the Interior
• Franz Etzel (CDU) - Minister of Finance
• Fritz Schäffer (CSU) - Minister of Justice
• Theodor Blank (CDU) - Minister of Labor and Social Affairs
• Heinrich Lübke (CDU) - Minister of Food, Agriculture, and Forestry
• Hans-Christoph Seebohm (DP) - Minister of Transport
• Paul Lücke (CDU) - Minister of Construction
• Franz-Josef Wuermeling (CDU) - Minister of Family and Youth Affairs
• Richard Stücklen (CSU) - Minister of Posts and Communications
• Theodor Oberländer (CDU) - Minister of Displaced Persons, Refugees, and War Victims
• Ernst Lemmer (CDU) - Minister of All-German Affairs
• Hans-Joachim von Merkatz (DP) - Minister of Bundesrat and State Affairs
• Siegfried Balke (CSU) - Minister of Nuclear Energy and Water
• Hermann Lindrath (CDU) - Minister of Federal Economic Possessions

Changes

• September 13, 1959 - Werner Schwarz (CDU) succeeds Lübke as Minister of Food, Agriculture, and Forestry.
• April 5, 1960 - Oberländer resigns as Minister of Displaced Persons, Refugees, and War Victims.
• May 4, 1960 - Hans Wilhelmi (CDU) succeeds Lindrath (d.

  Adenauer was particularly keen to encourage closer ties with the USA and France. As a recipient of a U.S. government scholarship, he spent one academic year at Illinois State University. However, he instead chose a candidate (Heinrich Lübke) whom he believed weak enough not to disturb his affairs as Chancellor.

For all of his efforts as West Germany’s leader, Adenauer was named TIMEmagazine’s Man of the Year in 1953.^[4] In 1954, he received the Karlspreis (English: Charlemagne Award), an Award by the German city of Aachen to people who contributed to the European idea and European peace.

1978. 2002. Rainer Barzel (CDU) succeeds Lemmer as Minister of All-German Affairs.

There is a Konrad Adenauer Foundation with headquarters in Berlin. He believed that Christian social ethics were the basis of a healthy society.^[13] He was a strong defender of the family as the basic unit in society, the school where values are learned.

Shortly after the war ended the Americans installed him again as Mayor of Cologne, but the British Director of Military Government in Germany, Gerald Templer, dismissed him for what he said was his alleged incompetence. Founded in 1956 it was renamed in his honor in 1964.

Achievements

Adenauer’s achievements include the establishment of a stable democracy in defeated Germany, a lasting reconciliation with France, a general political reorientation towards the West, recovering limited but far-reaching sovereignty for West Germany by firmly integrating it with the emerging Euro-Atlantic community (NATO and the Organization for European Economic Cooperation).

ISBN 9780582068247.