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    Konrad Adenauer, the post-war Chancellor of Germany who served from 1949 to 1963, was voted the greatest German of all time in a poll conducted by ZDF television. Over 3 million votes were cast by phone, text, and online for historical German figures. Adenauer received the most votes, followed by Martin Luther and Karl Marx. Adenauer is credited with helping re-establish German democracy after World War 2 and overseeing the beginning of Germany's post-war "economic miracle".

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    Konrad Adenauer, the post-war Chancellor of Germany who served from 1949 to 1963, was voted the greatest German of all time in a poll conducted by ZDF television. Over 3 million votes were cast by phone, text, and online for historical German figures. Adenauer received the most votes, followed by Martin Luther and Karl Marx. Adenauer is credited with helping re-establish German democracy after World War 2 and overseeing the beginning of Germany's post-war "economic miracle".

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    Konrad Adenauer, the post-war Chancellor of Germany who served from 1949 to 1963, was voted the greatest German of all time in a poll conducted by ZDF television. Over 3 million votes were cast by phone, text, and online for historical German figures. Adenauer received the most votes, followed by Martin Luther and Karl Marx. Adenauer is credited with helping re-establish German democracy after World War 2 and overseeing the beginning of Germany's post-war "economic miracle".

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    Adenauer voted Germany's greatest


    By Alix Kroeger
    BBC correspondent in Berlin

    German television viewers have


    voted post-war Chancellor Konrad
    Adenauer as the greatest German of
    all time.
    More than three million votes
    were registered by phone, text
    message and over the internet
    in a contest run on ZDF
    television.
    Adenauer served as chancellor for 14
    years

    Reformation Monk Martin Luther came second, with


    communist philosopher Karl Marx third.
    Adolf Hitler and other Nazis were excluded from the poll.
    The final of the Greatest German series was fought between

    SPORT
    WEATHER 10 figures, including physicist Albert Einstein and the
    ON THIS DAY inventor of the printing press, Johannes Gutenberg.
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    Economic miracle

    LANGUAGES

    Composer Johann Sebastian Bach and writer Johannes


    Wolfgang von Goethe were also in the running.
    Famous names from Germany and abroad were shown
    making the case for their favourite.
    Bill Gates championed
    Gutenberg, while the leader
    of Germany's Communist
    Party after the fall of the
    Berlin Wall argued in favour
    of Karl Marx, to applause
    from a small but raucous
    section of the studio audience.

    Other Greatest German finalists

    Otto von Bismarck, the Iron


    Chancellor who united Germany
    Willy Brandt, former West German
    chancellor 1969-1974
    Hans and Sophie Scholl, siblings
    beheaded by the Nazis in 1943

    Winner Konrad Adenauer served from 1949 to 1963 and


    helped re-establish German democracy after the Nazi era.
    He also oversaw the first years of the German economic
    miracle - a cause for some nostalgia today as the country's
    economy lags in the doldrums.

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