His last years in politics were marked by increasing strife with his eventual successor Ludwig Erhard.
His last years in politics were marked by increasing strife with his eventual successor Ludwig Erhard. He got started in politics as lord mayor of Cologne and speaker of the Staatsrat. He helped found the Christian Democratic Union and served for 17 years as its chairman, during which time he became known for his hard-line stance against communism and for engineering his country's entry into NATO. FTP, who was this man who in 1949 became the first chancellor of West Germany?
His last years in politics were marked by increasing strife with his eventual successor Ludwig Erhard.
Konrad Adenauer