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Bronze medal from the Paris Mint (cornucopia hallmark from 1880).
Minted in 1982.
Beautiful copy.
Engraver : R Pépin.
Dimension : 72mm.
Weight : 170 g.
Metal : bronze.
Hallmark on the edge (mark on the edge) : cornucopia + bronze + 1982.
Quick and neat delivery.
The support is not for sale.
The stand is not for sale
Konrad Hermann Joseph Adenauer [ˈkɔnʁaːt ˈhɛɐman ˈjoːzɛf ˈaːdənaʊɐ]1 Listen, born January 5, 1876 in Cologne and died April 19, 1967 in Rhöndorf, is a German statesman.
Mayor of Cologne, opponent of Nazism after the advent of the Third Reich, member of the Christian Democratic Union, he was the first federal chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, from 1949 to 1963.
At the head of the government, he is the author of its recovery and its Atlanticist and European anchoring. He is therefore often considered the “founder” of contemporary Germany. With General de Gaulle, he is one of the promoters of Franco-German reconciliation. He is also considered one of the founding fathers of European construction. Nicknamed Der Alte ("the old man"), he is the oldest executive leader of a democracy in history, having left the federal chancellery at 87.
Konrad Adenauer was born on January 5, 1876 in Cologne, in the Prussian province of Rhineland, into a family from the Catholic bourgeoisie2. After studying law and economics, he chose a career in administration. He met his future wife, Emma Weyer, during the summer of 1901 at a tennis club; they married on January 26, 1904 and the political network of his in-laws allowed him to evolve within the municipality of Cologne. The couple had three children: Konrad (1906 – 1993), Max (1910 – 2004) and Maria (1912 – 1998).
His wife died on October 6, 1916 from mushroom poisoning, at the age of 363.
He married Augusta “Gussie” Zinsser for the second time on September 26, 1919; Gussie only became known to the general public in 1958 when the German photographer Heinrich Gergerusi, with her permission, published a portrait of the Federal Chancellor's wife. He has five other children with her: Ferdinand (1920 – 1922), Paul (born in 1923), Charlotte (born in 1925), Elisabeth (born in 1928) and Georg (born in 1931).
Augusta died in 1948, either from leukemia or following a suicide attempt in 1944, during her arrest by the Gestapo, who wanted to obtain information on the actions of her husband4.
Engagement between the wars
This section does not sufficiently cite its sources ( Mars 2021).
In 1906, he joined the Center Party (Zentrum) and became a municipal councilor two years later; from 1917 to 1933 he was Mayor of the city of Cologne and from 1919, he took a position in favor of the movement in favor of autonomy for the Rhineland from the State of Prussia.
He was a member and president of the State Council of Prussia from 1920 to 1933 where he played an important role in the attempt to increase the autonomy of the Rhineland after the end of the First World War. However, he did not support Rhineland separatism (aiming for independence from the Rhineland Republic) in the early 1920s.
Under the Weimar Republic from 1931 to 1933, he was vice-president of the German Colonial Society (Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft) for the defense of colonial thought. In 1933, dismissed by Hermann Göring from all his functions because of his displayed hostility to Nazism (he refused, for example, to display the Nazi flag next to the German flag), he was imprisoned briefly after the Night of the Long Knives, in 1934 , then between July and November 1944 after the attack against Hitler on July 20, 1944.
Post-war rise to power
After the Second World War, the American military administration again entrusted him with the post of mayor of Cologne, but the British dismissed him shortly after, not considering him up to the task. He was very active in the newly created Christian Democratic Union of Germany party and quickly became its leader: in 1946, he was elected president of the CDU in the British zone, and from 1950 to 1966 for the Federal Republic German.
Poster of the CDU and Adenauer.
On September 1, 1948, the Parliamentary Council responsible for drafting a constitution chose him as president. With one vote in advance, he was elected chancellor on September 15, 1949, a position he held until 1963. Three times, in 1953, 1957 and 1961 he won the legislative elections with the CDU/CSU, always with a notable lead over the Social Democratic Party. In 1957, he even obtained an absolute majority.
He left his mark on the politics of his time to the point that we speak of an “Adenauer era” (also linked to his longevity in power). Its action essentially concerns the restoration of German sovereignty and the reestablishment of the confidence of the Allies towards their former enemy which involved the integration of the FRG into the Western bloc. This last point leads to a heated fight with the opposition.
If this policy indeed aggravates the gap separating the two Germanys, Adenauer considered it necessary: only a Germany strong in the face of the Soviet Union could ultimately lead to reunification. Western Germany
Mayor of Cologne, opponent of Nazism after the advent of the Third Reich, member of the Christian Democratic Union, he was the first federal chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, from 1949 to 1963.
At the head of the government, he is the author of its recovery and its Atlanticist and European anchoring. He is therefore often considered the “founder” of contemporary Germany. With General de Gaulle, he is one of the promoters of Franco-German reconciliation. He is also considered one of the founding fathers of European construction. Nicknamed Der Alte ("the old man"), he is the oldest executive leader of a democracy in history, having left the federal chancellery at 87.
Konrad Adenauer was born on January 5, 1876 in Cologne, in the Prussian province of Rhineland, into a family from the Catholic bourgeoisie2. After studying law and economics, he chose a career in administration. He met his future wife, Emma Weyer, during the summer of 1901 at a tennis club; they married on January 26, 1904 and the political network of his in-laws allowed him to evolve within the municipality of Cologne. The couple had three children: Konrad (1906 – 1993), Max (1910 – 2004) and Maria (1912 – 1998).
His wife died on October 6, 1916 from mushroom poisoning, at the age of 363.
He married Augusta “Gussie” Zinsser for the second time on September 26, 1919; Gussie only became known to the general public in 1958 when the German photographer Heinrich Gergerusi, with her permission, published a portrait of the Federal Chancellor's wife. He has five other children with her: Ferdinand (1920 – 1922), Paul (born in 1923), Charlotte (born in 1925), Elisabeth (born in 1928) and Georg (born in 1931).
Augusta died in 1948, either from leukemia or following a suicide attempt in 1944, during her arrest by the Gestapo, who wanted to obtain information on the actions of her husband4.
Engagement between the wars
This section does not sufficiently cite its sources ( Mars 2021).
In 1906, he joined the Center Party (Zentrum) and became a municipal councilor two years later; from 1917 to 1933 he was Mayor of the city of Cologne and from 1919, he took a position in favor of the movement in favor of autonomy for the Rhineland from the State of Prussia.
He was a member and president of the State Council of Prussia from 1920 to 1933 where he played an important role in the attempt to increase the autonomy of the Rhineland after the end of the First World War. However, he did not support Rhineland separatism (aiming for independence from the Rhineland Republic) in the early 1920s.
Under the Weimar Republic from 1931 to 1933, he was vice-president of the German Colonial Society (Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft) for the defense of colonial thought. In 1933, dismissed by Hermann Göring from all his functions because of his displayed hostility to Nazism (he refused, for example, to display the Nazi flag next to the German flag), he was imprisoned briefly after the Night of the Long Knives, in 1934 , then between July and November 1944 after the attack against Hitler on July 20, 1944.
Post-war rise to power
After the Second World War, the American military administration again entrusted him with the post of mayor of Cologne, but the British dismissed him shortly after, not considering him up to the task. He was very active in the newly created Christian Democratic Union of Germany party and quickly became its leader: in 1946, he was elected president of the CDU in the British zone, and from 1950 to 1966 for the Federal Republic German.
Poster of the CDU and Adenauer.
On September 1, 1948, the Parliamentary Council responsible for drafting a constitution chose him as president. With one vote in advance, he was elected chancellor on September 15, 1949, a position he held until 1963. Three times, in 1953, 1957 and 1961 he won the legislative elections with the CDU/CSU, always with a notable lead over the Social Democratic Party. In 1957, he even obtained an absolute majority.
He left his mark on the politics of his time to the point that we speak of an “Adenauer era” (also linked to his longevity in power). Its action essentially concerns the restoration of German sovereignty and the reestablishment of the confidence of the Allies towards their former enemy which involved the integration of the FRG into the Western bloc. This last point leads to a heated fight with the opposition.
If this policy indeed aggravates the gap separating the two Germanys, Adenauer considered it necessary: only a Germany strong in the face of the Soviet Union could ultimately lead to reunification. Western Germany
hen it was founded in 1949, the Federal Republic of Germany was a state without an army. The war has barely ended and many politicians and soldiers are reluctant to give the Germans a uniform. This reluctance is perceptible in the Federal Republic of Germany itself, and among the Christian Democratic and Socialist parties.