Inevitably, Adenauer and Mende would be drawn together again. Sure enough, the Socialists, after ... West Germany’s idol, and Adenauer’s belittled foe—would very likely be the next Chancellor.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will meet French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris next Wednesday, two days after the inauguration of Donald Trump as US president, Berlin said.

The entrance of the Federal Republic into the circle of Western democracies, the European integration project and the German-French reconciliation are inextricably bound to Adenauer's name.

Adenauer survived the years of Nazi tyranny and war with his family in the Rhöndorf Haus on Zennigsweg, which he built after his financial ... to become a charismatic founding Chancellor of the ...