A letter of appreciation to Adenauer for the nomination of Alfred Wiener for the Bundesverdienstkreuz, the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany).
Correspondence with Adenauer, Konrad
This material is held atThe Wiener Holocaust Library
- Reference
- GB 1556 3000/9/1/38
- Dates of Creation
- 05/04/1955 - 05/04/1955
- Language of Material
- German
- Physical Description
- 1 letter
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Administrative / Biographical History
Konrad Hermann Joseph Adenauer (1876–1967) served as first chancellor of West Germany from 1949-63, and parallel as its foreign minister from 1951-55. He was one of the founding fathers of the country’s conservative party and served as its chairman from 1950-66. He campaigned for a tie with the Western Bloc, the European Integration, an active role of Germany in the NATO and a social market economy. See Biermann, W., Konrad Adenauer: Ein Jahrhundertleben, Berlin, Rowohlt, 2017.
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