History of Germany and coal and distributed the new currency in West Berlin as well. The city thereby became economically integrated into West Germany. Konrad Adenauer (1876–1967) was the dominant leader in West Germany. He was the first chancellor (top official) of the FRG, 1949–63, and until his death was the founder and leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), a coalition of conservatives, ordoliberals, and adherents of Protestant and Catholic social teaching that dominated West Germany politics for most of its history. During his chancellorship, the West Germany economy grew quickly, and West Germany established friendly relations with France, participated in the
The Guess Who Carter in 1991. A new Guess Who studio album on Aquarius, "Liberty" (also issued as "Lonely One" on the US Intersound label), with Terry Hatty singing, was released in July 1995. As with "Guess Who 87", virtually no attention was paid to it in the mainstream press and the few reviews of the album were almost all overwhelmingly negative. In May 1997, with their hometown of Winnipeg facing a potentially disastrous flood, Bachman and Cummings reunited in Winnipeg for the first time in ten years in an emotional fund raiser for disaster relief organized by Tom Jackson. In 1997, former