What Remains of Konrad Adenauer?
In the run-up to Adenauer’s 150th birthday, historians Holger Löttel, Friedrich Kießling, and Norbert Frei have published new biographies of the first Federal Chancellor.
On Wednesday, May 6, at 7 p.m., they will present their books and discuss: How does one write about Adenauer today? What new perspectives and surprising insights have emerged? And what does the Adenauer era mean for our present? The authors examine the founding chancellor from various angles. In conversation, they will discuss how research on Adenauer’s life and work has evolved and which questions are particularly relevant today.
Norbert Frei is Professor Emeritus of Modern and Contemporary History at Friedrich Schiller University in Jena and author of the standard works *Vergangenheitspolitik. Die Anfänge der Bundesrepublik und die NS-Vergangenheit* (2012) and *Der Führerstaat. Nationalsozialistische Herrschaft 1933 bis 1945* (2013).
Friedrich Kießling is a professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Bonn. His research focuses on the history of international relations in the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as on the modern history of ideas and intellectuals. In addition, he examines the consequences and aftereffects of Nazi rule in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Holger Löttel is the head of the Department of Publications and Research at the Federal Chancellor Adenauer House Foundation in Bad Honnef-Rhöndorf. As part of the “Rhöndorf Edition,” he has edited extensive source collections on coalition politics, economic policy, and Ostpolitik during the Adenauer era. He lives in Bad Honnef.
Venue: Haus Rheinfrieden, Frankenweg 70, 53604 Bad Honnef