Konrad Adenauer

Under Konrad Adenauer, first chancellor of West Germany from 1949 to 1963, the country began economic reconstruction and joined north Atlantic treaty organization and the European Economic Community, an organization, established in 1957 to reduce tariff barriers and to promote trade among the countries of Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, France, Italy, and West Germany, the original members of the later European Community.

Konrad Hermann Josef Adenauer served as chairman of the Christian Democratic Union from 1950 to 1966. He, the oldest ever, began his first ministry at the age of 73 years and left at 87 years of age.

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