Adenauer

[ad-nou^uhr, -nou-er, ad-n-ou^uhr, -ou-er, ahd-n-ou-uhr]

noun

1. Konrad 1876–1967, chancellor of the West German Federal Republic 1949–63.

Adenauer

/ ˈaːdənauər /

noun

1. Konrad (ˈkɔnraːt). 1876–1967, German statesman; chancellor of West Germany (l949–63)

Example Sentences

"All the arrests at once send a good signal to the nations that spy on us," said Felix Neumann of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.

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“It looks the putschists have won and will stay … The putschists are holding all the cards and have cemented their rule,” said Ulf Laessing, head of the Sahel program at the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.

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"If this coup stays, then the entire Western military cooperation will probably be off," said Ulf Laessing, head of the Sahel programme at the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, a German think thank.

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Bazoum had vowed to reintegrate militants like Moussa if they renounced violence and had begun making good on that promise, the Konrad Adenauer Foundation said in a report.

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Only two former chancellors of Germany have received the honour previously - Konrad Adenauer, the first leader of post-war Germany, and Helmut Kohl, lauded as a key architect of German reunification.

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