“Adenauer predicted the collapse of the USSR in the mid-1950s”
Konrad Adenauer, whose 60th anniversary of his election as Federal Chancellor is being celebrated in Germany these days, is also invisibly present in the current election campaign of the German Christian Democratic Union (CDU). The first Bundeschancellor formed his government on September 20, 1949. And on September 27, 2009, the political fate of his “spiritual granddaughter” - the chairman of the CDU and Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, 55-year-old Angela Merkel - will be decided.