Konrad Adenauer: The first German chancellor on Facebook

Their pictures can be found at the walls of party-offices, their names are used in many speeches. Not unusual, even when the politician is dead. But on Facebook or on Twitter?

Most prominent is the profile of “DerFuehrer” , who is followed by about 25.000 people. Some examples of his last tweets: “Jätzt, wo där Papst Komdomä ärlaobt hat, kann ich Eva nächt mehr längär hinhalten. Das wird mir die Kirche bößen!“ or „ Wänn jätzt allä nor noch öbär Fäisbock kommonizierän, solltä ich da wohl zögigäst einmarschierän.“Sometimes they just want to be funny, but most times you can also read a political message between the lines.

But let’s come to an „ordinary“ profile of a dead politician: Konrad Adenauer. He has, believe me, an own Facebook profile. But this time, no one pretends to be the politician (as done at many other fake profiles” but it is always spoken from “Konrad” instead of “I”. I’d call it an ode to Konrad Adenauer. There are posted many famous quotations, but there also questions posted similar to “What would Konrad say about the rescue of Opel?”. At that point, there seems to be a bigger possibility for participation that at the “active” profiles of politicians.

Unfortunately, the good old Konrad Adenauer died a second death, At the end of 2009, the last entry was posted. But his fans haven’t stopped commenting and haven’t stopped posting at his wall. Goodbye, and maybe we will see you on Twitter nex time. Everything's possible.

P.S.: If you are actually not interested in dead politicians, check out this link and you’ll find a list of other dead celebrities on Facebook.

by Ger_watch