Gespräch: Konrad Adenauer – Kanzler der ersten Stunde

In the organizer's words:

More than almost any other person, Konrad Adenauer stands for the new political beginning of the Federal Republic of Germany after the catastrophe of National Socialism. But the path he showed the young West German state - resolutely towards democracy, Europe and the West - was not a flawless one.

The renowned contemporary historian Norbert Frei takes the 150th anniversary of the birth of the first Federal Chancellor as an opportunity to present a biography that is both clear-sighted and unsparing (Verlag C.H.Beck). With a sharp eye on both Adenauer's political successes and his blind spots, Frei creates a portrait of a conservative man of power who had a decisive influence on German post-war history. An evening about power, morality and the contradictions of a political figure of the century.

Norbert Frei is a historian and journalist as well as Senior Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Friedrich Schiller University Jena. He is the author of many standard works on the history of National Socialism, such as Vergangenheitspolitik. Die Anfänge der Bundesrepublik und die NS-Vergangenheit (2012), Der Führerstaat. National Socialist Rule 1933 to 1945 (2013) and in 2022, together with Saul Friedländer, Sybille Steinbacher and Dan Diner, Ein Verbrechen ohne Namen. Notes on the new debate about the Holocaust.

Price information:

16,00 € / reduced 10,00 €