Konrad Adenauer in election campaign, Germany 1957. Here, the Chancellor Adenauer leaves his special train in which he has spent the night in a siding and climbs his famous Mercedes 300. Keywords: Germany; German; chancellor; first chancellor; Federal Republic of; West Germany; 1950s; politics; politician; Bundestag; parliament; Bonn; train; travel; railway; election campaign; election battle; hustings; Mercedes Benz Photographer: Rolf Gillhausen (May 31, 1922 in Cologne, died February 22, 2004 in Hamburg) was a German reportage photographer and journalist. He started with photography as autodidact (self-taught). Important stations and companies of his life were the German Rhein-Neckar Press, German Stern and Associated Press. Although he was the founder of the very famous Science Magazine GEO. Dimensions: 29,1 cm x 19,6 cm (in) 30,4 cm x 24 cm (out).