Founding fathers
Founding fathers are people who are involved in the establishment of a political institution or in the birth of the idea of a new institution. Founding fathers are often held in high esteem at the facility later on.
Examples
European Union
- The founding fathers of the European Union are: Konrad Adenauer , Joseph Bech , Léon Blum , Winston Churchill , René Courtin , Alcide De Gasperi , Alexandre Marc , Jean Monnet , Józef Retinger , Duncan Sandys , Robert Schuman , Paul-Henri Spaak and Altiero Spinelli .
Germany
- For Germany as a nation-state, Chancellor Otto von Bismarck is mentioned as the founding father, who reconciled the individual German states and united them in the German Empire in 1871 .
- Konrad Adenauer , Theodor Heuss , Kurt Schumacher and the Parliamentary Council are named as the founding fathers of the Federal Republic of Germany .
- Through the peaceful revolution in 1989 and the subsequent reunification process , the saying We are the people (or we are one people ) has become symbolic, which makes the Germans as a whole the "founding fathers" of modern Germany.
Italy
- Giuseppe Garibaldi , Victor Emanuel II , Count Camillo Benso von Cavour and Giuseppe Mazzini were named the founding fathers of the Risorgimento .
Turkey
- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk is considered to be the founder of modern Turkey .
Tunisia
- Habib Bourguiba is referred to as the founding father of Tunisia .
United States
- The founding fathers of the United States are known as the creators and early developers of the United States of America ; B. The signatories of the United States Declaration of Independence and the creators of the US Constitution .
Canada
- Canada has its fathers of the Confederation .
States of South America
- The founding fathers of the northern states of South America, Venezuela , Colombia , Peru , Panama , Ecuador and Bolivia : Simón Bolívar , José Antonio Páez , Rafael Urdaneta and Francisco de Paula Santander .