Konrad Adenauer Quotes

We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon

I reserve the right to be smarter today than I was yesterday.

Ich bin wie ich bin. Die einen kennen mich die anderen können mich.

Konrad Adenauer became Chancellor of the new Federal Republic of Germany at the age of seventy-three, an age by which Bismarck’s career was nearing its end.

We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.

Wir leben alle unter dem gleichen Himmel, aber wir haben nicht alle den gleichen Horizont.

Wir leben alle unter dem gleichen Himmel, aber wir haben nicht alle den gleichen Horizont." "We all live under the same sky, but we don't have the same horizon

We all live under the same sky but we don’t all have the same horizon. —KONRAD ADENAUER

Doch das sei abermals betont: angestoßen, politisch zu werden, hat mich nicht Willy Brandt, sondern der allerchristlichste Kanzler. Er, der sich aus Nächstenliebe den Kommentator der Rassengesetze, Hans Globke, als Staatssekretär hielt, er, dem das christliche Abendland nur bis zur Elbe reichte, er verdächtigte den Emigranten Brandt „alias Frahm“ unterschwellig des Landesverrats. Sein Christentum katholischer Machart gab ihm ein, uneheliche Herkunft als Makel anzuprangern. Konrad Adenauer war jedes Mittel recht, weshalb er immer noch als Staatsmann gilt.

Konrad Adenauer, was eager to restore his country to the family of civilized nations. He was a devout Catholic whom the Nazis had driven out of office as the mayor of Cologne. He had escaped further persecution with the help of a Jewish friend.

The Bobby clears his Post at the young hipster.

Ich bin wie ich bin. Die einen kennen mich, die anderen können mich.

Dass die CDU 2005 den Kanzler stellt, hätte Konrad Adenauer vermutlich nicht erstaunt, dass es eine Kanzlerin ist, sicher schon.

Konrad Adenauer: ‘History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.

Today we honor a great statesman who, with foresight and skill, gave our country perspective and stability after the failure of the Weimar Republic and the horrors of National Socialism. We bow to Konrad Adenauer with great gratitude. We also take his merit as an obligation for our tasks in a confusing, difficult world. In view of what Konrad Adenauer and his contemporaries have achieved, we should have the courage to continue this work.[83]

During the war, Buchenwald housed prisoners from dozens of nations, including several future European leaders: one prisoner was Dr. Konrad Adenauer, an anti-Nazi who was mayor of Cologne. After the war, he would become West Germany’s first Chancellor. Prisoner Leon Blum later became Prime Minister of France. The mayor of Prague, Petr Zenkl, was also among the Buchenwald prisoners.

Konrad Adenauer, post-war Germany’s first chancellor and an ardent anti-Nazi, called for ‘an end to this sniffing out of Nazis’ because he believed the new democratic administration needed experienced ministers regardless of their previous misdeeds. For that reason he appointed Hans Globke as his senior state secretary. Globke was the lawyer who had helped draft the infamous Nuremberg Laws, which denied German and Austrian Jews their civil rights. He was so adept at playing both sides that he had the dubious distinction of appearing for both the prosecution and the defence at Nuremberg. The report also disclosed that the German domestic intelligence service (Bfv) knowingly hired former SS and SD men who had worked for the Gestapo as surveillance experts. However, they were employed as freelancers to keep them at a respectable distance, because they were considered ‘tainted’.