Charles de Gaulle held office until he was 78, Konrad Adenauer until he was 87.
Adenauer's ascension was only possible after the total destruction of the Nazi power apparatus.
She is certainly not a towering chancellor in the mould of Konrad Adenauer or Helmut Kohl.
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So some Christian Democrats now want to reclaim the pro-Europe heritage of Konrad Adenauer and Helmut Kohl.
Does that mean the bilateral relationship, cherished since the days of Adenauer and de Gaulle, is no longer special?
On 22 January 1963 General de Gaulle of France and Germany's Konrad Adenauer signed the Elysee Treaty in Paris.
Both the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS) in St Petersburg and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES) in Moscow were investigated earlier.
The other groups targeted by the raids include Freedom House, the International Center for Journalists and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.
Hitler's suicide in his bunker in Berlin in May 1945 was not what enabled Konrad Adenauer to lead a democratic West Germany.
Adenauer could not have led, and certainly would never have been a democrat, if all he did was replace Hitler in May 1945.
"Madam chancellor, not since Konrad Adenauer has a German chancellor been so humiliated in Europe, " he said, referring to West Germany's first post-war chancellor.
At least two German NGOs - the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS) in St Petersburg and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES) in Moscow - were among those searched.
But there is no sign of a major political leader of the stature of Adenauer, or even Helmut Kohl, to give the Germans a sense of purpose.
Deutschkron remembered West Germany's first postwar chancellor, Konrad Adenauer, saying that most Germans opposed the Nazis' crimes against Jews and that many had helped Jews to escape.
Next year parliament and government will move east from Bonn, where the Francophile Adenauer insisted they must be, to Berlin more or less at the geographical heart of a widened European Union.
Founded in 1947, even before the Federal Republic of Germany's official birth, Der Spiegel made its name by tormenting the Adenauer government, promoting dialogue with the communist east and dredging up scandals.
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The Dubai office of U.S.-based National Democratic Institute was shut down March 28, followed by the closure of the Abu Dhabi office of Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, an organization based in Germany, the next day.
The story goes that on the evening of November 6th, when Mollet got the call from Eden that he was aborting the invasion, he happened to be with the German chancellor, Konrad Adenauer.
And I want to do so with the words that Angela spoke two years ago when she became the first German leader to address our Congress since Chancellor Adenauer all those decades ago.
Fey was publicly honored by Adenauer, granted an additional 150, 000 marks in restoration money, and nominated for a prestigious university professorship in Bonn, while Malskat was left to drink bottled beer with the masons.
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The CDU's tax-cut proposal is not a pledge of immediate relief but a signal that the party is on the side of the economy's producers, says Viola Neu, a political scientist at the CDU-linked Konrad Adenauer Foundation.
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Before Adenauer was brought in to lead West Germany, aside from Hitler passing from the scene, the Nazi regime he created was militarily defeated and Nazi leaders -- both political and military -- were brought before war crimes tribunals.
When Anthony Eden, the British prime minister, called Guy Mollet, his French counterpart, to tell him that Britain had agreed to an immediate ceasefire in Egypt, Mollet was in the middle of a meeting with Konrad Adenauer, the German chancellor.
Keen to smooth tensions over the euro zone crisis when Hollande and Merkel met this month to mark 50 years of Franco-German reconciliation, French chefs chose to reproduce the famous meal of filet of beef and raspberry macaroons prepared in 1962 for post-war leaders Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer when they signed their friendship treaty.
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