List of national founders
Founding Fathers are persons who are involved in the establishment of a political organization or at the birth of the idea of a new facility. Founding Fathers are often held later in the institution in high esteem.
Examples
Europe
- As founders of the European Union are referred to: Konrad Adenauer, Joseph Bech, Léon Blum, Winston Churchill, René Courtin, Alcide De Gasperi, Alexandre Marc, Jean Monnet, Joseph Retinger, Duncan Sandys, Robert Schuman, Paul -Henri Spaak and Spinelli.
Germany
- For Germany as a nation state, especially Chancellor Otto von Bismarck is known as the founding father, who reconciled the individual German states were united and 1871 in the German Empire.
- The Federal Republic of Germany, which was in ruins after the Second World War, has many founding fathers and mothers. An example to be representative for the political, Ludwig Erhard for the economic, and Fritz Walter for social Germany often Konrad Adenauer, Theodor Heuss and Kurt Schumacher.
- Through the peaceful revolution in 1989 and the following reunification process is the utterance of We are the people ( and we are one people ) become symbolic, which makes the Germans in their entirety to the "founding fathers " of modern Germany.
Italy
- Giuseppe Garibaldi, Victor Emmanuel II, Camillo Benso Count of Cavour and Giuseppe Mazzini were referred to as the founding fathers of the Risorgimento.
Turkey
- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk is regarded as the founder of modern Turkey.
Tunisia
- Habib Bourguiba is referred to as the founding father of Tunisia.
USA
- Founding Fathers of the United States called the creators and early developers of the USA, such as the signatories of the Declaration of Independence and the designer of the U.S. Constitution.
Canada
- Canada has its Fathers of Confederation.
Countries of South America
- As founders of the northern countries of South America from Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Panama, Ecuador and Bolivia were: Simon Bolivar, José Antonio Páez, Rafael Urdaneta and Francisco de Paula Santander referred.
Australia
- The leader of the Australian Föderalistenbewegung in the 1890s can also be referred to as the founding fathers.
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