Konrad Adenauer (5 January 1876 – 19 April 1967) was Chancellor of West Germany (FRG). Adenauer’s Germany (in office 1949–1963) chose to anchor its internal democracy in its Catholic regions and in ecumenical Christian values, and its international role in a federation with the West, and in particular, for security reasons, with the United States. This was a drastic change from the typically Prussian tendency to maintain good relations with Russia. Prussia, the main source of German militarism, was abolished as a German province by the Allies in 1947.
