Sublime

Au 2, Marienstrasse, l’étudiant travaillait d’ailleurs avec un acharnement digne en tous points de sa « philomathie » (son amour excessif de tout savoir), entrecoupant des heures studieuses en s’accordant quelques pauses dans les auberges au bord du fleuve ;

In the Prussian Upper House, to which he belonged ex officio as lord mayor of Cologne, he voted against the Enabling Act. He refused an invitation to welcome Hitler at Cologne airport during the election campaign. And in the week before the election he ordered the removal of Nazi flags from bridges and other public monuments. Adenauer was dismissed