Adenauer celebrates 87th birthday

Vice chancellor Ludwig Erhard (m) hands over two silver candlesticks from the 18th century on behalf of the cabinet to German chancellor Konrad Adenauer (right of Erhard) on the 5th of January in 1963 in Palais Schaumburg in Bonn. Adenauer gave a reception on the occasion of his 87th birthday, to which his whole family and representatives of politics, army and economy were invited.