From Adenauer to Scholz
The Chancellor of Germany – and their nasty nicknames
The first Chancellor in Germany was “the old”. The father of the social market economy, a former Nazi, “Mutti” and the “Scholzomat” followed him. An overview.
After breaking the traffic light coalition under the leadership of the SPD, the CDU could soon put the Chancellor again: Friedrich Merz has good chances of emerging as the winner in the Bundestag election on February 23. Merz would be in a long tradition that ranges from Konrad Adenauer to Helmut Kohl to Angela Merkel.
After the Second World War and during the reconstruction of Germany, Konrad Adenauer was elected as the first Chancellor of the newly founded Federal Republic on September 15, 1949. It was a country that only had to come back to the international community after the crimes of the Third Reich.
The first Chancellor was in office for a good 14 years
By the way, Adenauer’s nickname was “the old” – he was already 73 years old in his election as head of government. And he ruled for a long time – until 1963.
Nicknights also had other chancellors and Germany’s only chancellor: “Mutti” was called Angela Merkel because she had to take care of everything like a mother and lived behind her male colleague – like a caring mom. Merkel himself told that. The nickname is said to have been “not lovingly”.
The nickname that the newly baked Chancellor Helmut Kohl had in the early days of his reign was quite nasty. Kohl was “pear”-because of its head shape and its somewhat tapid, hard-haired manner. Whole editorial offices of satire programs lived in the early eighties of Kohl-Gags. The ARD show “Hurray Germany” was legendary. Today nobody laughs at the Chancellor of German Unity and the co -founder of the agreement of Europe.
The most legendary Chancellor in Germany is probably Willy Brandt. The charismatic SPD politician stands for the reconciliation of Germany with the former war opponents and the rapprochement between east and west.
Our photo gallery shows all Chancellor in Germany, from Adenauer to Scholz.
Source: Stern
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