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Adenauer was Mayor of [[Cologne]] during the occupation of the Rheinland after [[World War 1]]. While most of the region was allocated to the French, the most important city in the region, Cologne, was allocated to the British. Adenauer was part of the movement that instigated the move to independence for the region, a movement heavily supported by the French.<ref>https://www.preussenchronik.de/ereignis_jsp/key=chronologie_009900.html</ref> The British were hostile to this separatism. Adenauer hedged his allegiance, and did not support the vote to declare the region independent.<ref>https://lefroggydotcom.wordpress.com/2015/05/11/frances-policies-against-germany-after-the-first-world-war/</ref> In October 1923, Adenauer opened talks with the French High Commissioner [[Paul Tirard]] for a Rhenish republic in a sort of economic union with France.<ref>Epstein, Klaus (October 1967). [https://doi.org/10.1017%2Fs0034670500040614 "Adenauer and Rhenish Separatism"]. The Review of Politics. 29 (4): p542.</ref>
 
Adenauer was Mayor of [[Cologne]] during the occupation of the Rheinland after [[World War 1]]. While most of the region was allocated to the French, the most important city in the region, Cologne, was allocated to the British. Adenauer was part of the movement that instigated the move to independence for the region, a movement heavily supported by the French.<ref>https://www.preussenchronik.de/ereignis_jsp/key=chronologie_009900.html</ref> The British were hostile to this separatism. Adenauer hedged his allegiance, and did not support the vote to declare the region independent.<ref>https://lefroggydotcom.wordpress.com/2015/05/11/frances-policies-against-germany-after-the-first-world-war/</ref> In October 1923, Adenauer opened talks with the French High Commissioner [[Paul Tirard]] for a Rhenish republic in a sort of economic union with France.<ref>Epstein, Klaus (October 1967). [https://doi.org/10.1017%2Fs0034670500040614 "Adenauer and Rhenish Separatism"]. The Review of Politics. 29 (4): p542.</ref>
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==Family==
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Adenauer married [[Auguste Zinsser]], of the US-German chemical industrialist family.<ref name=letter>https://theamericanscholar.org/a-cousin-from-cologne/</ref>
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[[John J. McCloy]], who became the proconsul over occupied Germany after 1945, was the husband of the former Ellen Zinsser, of the same family. So it happened that the two men who collaborated most closely on the creation of the new Germany were Zinsser relatives.<ref name=letter/><ref>https://mises.org/mises-daily/rockefeller-morgan-and-war</ref>
  
 
==After World War 2==
 
==After World War 2==

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Person.png Konrad Adenauer  Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(politician)
Konrad Adenauer.jpg
BornKonrad Hermann Joseph Adenauer
1876-01-05
Cologne, German Empire
Died1967-04-19 (Age 91)
Bad Honnef, West Germany
NationalityGerman
Alma materUniversity of Freiburg, University of Munich, University of Bonn
ReligionRoman Catholicism
Children8
SpouseEmma Weyer
Member ofKnights of Malta, Le Cercle
PartyCentre Party (Germany), Christian Democratic Union
German (deep?) politician, CDU leader

Employment.png Chancellor of West Germany

In office
15 September 1949 - 16 October 1963

Employment.png West Germany/Minister of Foreign Affairs

In office
15 March 1951 - 6 June 1956

Employment.png Leader of the Christian Democratic Union

In office
21 October 1950 - 23 March 1966

Employment.png Mayor of Cologne

In office
4 May 1945 - 6 October 1945

Employment.png Mayor of Cologne

In office
13 October 1917 - 13 March 1933

Konrad Adenauer was a German politician, and probably also deep politician.

Rhineland separatism

One reason just Adenauer was selected to be Chancellor of West Germany of West Germany after World War 2 may lie in him possibly becoming a British asset after World War 1.

Adenauer was Mayor of Cologne during the occupation of the Rheinland after World War 1. While most of the region was allocated to the French, the most important city in the region, Cologne, was allocated to the British. Adenauer was part of the movement that instigated the move to independence for the region, a movement heavily supported by the French.[1] The British were hostile to this separatism. Adenauer hedged his allegiance, and did not support the vote to declare the region independent.[2] In October 1923, Adenauer opened talks with the French High Commissioner Paul Tirard for a Rhenish republic in a sort of economic union with France.[3]

Family

Adenauer married Auguste Zinsser, of the US-German chemical industrialist family.[4]

John J. McCloy, who became the proconsul over occupied Germany after 1945, was the husband of the former Ellen Zinsser, of the same family. So it happened that the two men who collaborated most closely on the creation of the new Germany were Zinsser relatives.[4][5]

After World War 2

A US military document date 8 May 1945 identifies him as being "number one on the White List for Germany".[6]

The American intelligence officer Lawrence de Neufville stated that he had already helped "with the preparation for the Adenauer government" already in 1948.[7]

Connections

Konrad Adenauer meets with Antoine Pinay and Jean Violet at the earliest known meeting of Le Cercle, on 18th August 1958

Adenauer was the oldest known visitor to Le Cercle, and may have been an important person in its early years.

 

Events Participated in

EventStartEndLocation(s)Description
1948 Hague Congress7 May 194811 May 1948Netherlands
The Hague
Landmark conference which had a profound influence on the shape of the European Movement. Many of the groups organizing the conference received covert funding from the CIA.
Le Cercle/195818 August 195818 August 1958EuropeExact dates uncertain
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