Konrad Adenauer was born on 5 January 1876 in Cologne. His father, Konrad, was a civil servant in the middle grade of the civil service. His mother, Helene Scharfenberg, also hailed from a civil ...

In 1906, Konrad Adenauer was elected an alderman of the City of Cologne, and in 1909 became First Alderman. His wife died in 1916 and he suffered serious injuries in a car accident in 1917. In the ...