What is Konrad Adenauer?
{{Infobox officeholder |name = Konrad Adenauer |image = Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F078072-0004, Konrad Adenauer.jpg |office1 = [[Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany|Chancellor of Germany]] |president1 = [[Theodor Heuss]]<br>[[Heinrich Lübke]] |deputy1 = [[Franz Blücher]]<br>[[Ludwig Erhard]] |term_start1 = 15 September 1949 |term_end1 = 16 October 1963 |predecessor1 = [[Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk|Lutz von Krosigk]]<br><small>(Leading Minister)</small> |successor1 = [[Ludwig Erhard]] |birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1876|1|5}} |birth_place = [[Cologne]], [[German Empire]] |death_date = {{death date and age |df=yes|1967|4|19|1876|1|5}} |death_place = [[Bad Honnef]], [[West Germany]] |spouse = [[Emma Weyer]]<br><small>(1904-1916)<br></small>[[Auguste Zinsser]]<br><small>(1919-1948)</small> |children = 8 |party = [[Centre Party (Germany)|Centre Party]]<br><small>(1906-1933)</small><br>[[Christian Democratic Union (Germany)|Christian Democratic Union]]<br><small>(1945-1967)</small> |alma_mater = [[University of Freiburg]]<br>[[University of Munich]]<br>[[University of Bonn]] }} '''Konrad Hermann Josef Adenauer''' (born 5 January 1876 in [[Cologne]]; died 19 April 1967 in [[Rhöndorf]] (part of [[Bad Honnef]])). From 1949 to 1963 he was the first [[Bundeskanzler]] (chancellor) of the [[Federal Republic of Germany]] and from 1951 to 1955 was foreign secretary the same time. Adenauer was the third of five children of a court secretary in Cologne. His family was [[Catholic]]. Konrad Adenauer started his political career in 1906 in the city assembly of Cologne. From 1917 to 1933 and again in 1945 he was mayor of Cologne. Adenauer was a member of the Catholic [[Zentrum Party]]. When the [[Nazi]] Party took power he lost his job. At first he worked with the Nazis, but after the [[conspiracy]] to kill Hitler failed in 1944 he hid for his own safety. After the war he became mayor of Cologne again, but lost the job after a few months. In the [[Pa