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| | Bundestag (Germany) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | It was established with Germany's constitution of 1949 (the Grundgesetz), and is the successor of the earlier Reichstag. | | | With the new constitution of 1949, the Bundestag was established as the new (West) German parliament. | | | The Bundestag members are the only federal officials directly elected by the public; the Bundestag in turn elects the Chancellor and, in addition, exercises oversight of the executive branch on issues of both substantive policy and routine administration. |
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| | Germany - encyclopedia article about Germany. |
| | Germany and Berlin were occupied and partitioned by the Allies, with West Germany and West Berlin being controlled by the Western allies and East Germany and East Berlin by the Soviet Union. | | | It borders Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. | | | The territory of Germany stretches from the high mountains of the Alps (highest point: the Zugspitze at 2,962 m) in the south to the shores of the North Sea in the north-west and the Baltic Sea in the north-east. |
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| | Kreder |
| | He married CHRISTIANE WILHELMINE KNAPPLE May 25, 1845 in Stuttgart, Cannstatt, West, Germany, daughter of JACOB KNAPPLE and FRIEDERIKA WIEDMAIER. | | | He married ANNA MARIA HECK April 28, 1767 in Stuttgart, West, Germany, daughter of JOHANN BERNHARD4 HECK and ANNA MARIA SEYTZ. | | | He married CATHARINE AGATHA BRAHLE November 12, 1843 in Stuttgart, Cannstatt, West, Germany. |
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| | GERMANY |
| | Germany was defeated in 1945 and was divided into zones that, in 1949, became West Germany and East Germany. | | | The Bundestag elects a member of the strongest political party in that house to be federal chancellor, the head of the government. | | | Half of the judges are appointed by the Bundestag and half by the Bundesrat. |
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| | Encyclopedia4U - West Berlin - Encyclopedia Article |
| | Although West Berlin was de facto part of West Germany, it was not considered to be a Bundesland, nor part of one, and the Grundgesetz had no application there. | | | On October 3, 1990 West Germany and East Germany were united, thus formally ending the existence of West Berlin. | | | It was still possible to travel from West Berlin to West Germany Only on November 9, 1989 the wall was opened. |
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| | A Brief History of Prussia |
| | Prussia's power grew and in 1772, under King Friedrich II (Frederick the Great), consisted of the provinces of Brandenburg, Pomerania, Danzig, West Prussia and East Prussia (modern day East Germany, northern Poland, and a small portion of the Soviet Union). | | | After Germany's defeat in World War II, West Prussia and East Prussia were divided by Poland and the Soviet Union. | | | This caused the province of East Prussia to be separated from the rest of Germany. |
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| | Prussia - Simple English Wikipedia |
| | The states of south Germany (especially Austria and Bavaria) were Catholic, so they did not want Prussia to have the power. | | | The war ended in 1763; Prussia was now the most powerful state in eastern Germany. | | | Under Frederick 1 (“the Great”), Prussia took Silesia from Austria and kept it in the Seven Years War. |
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| | Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Germany and Berlin were occupied and partitioned by the Allies into four military occupation zones – French in the south-west, British in the north-west, American in the south, and Soviet in the east. | | | The territory of Germany stretches from the high mountains of the Alps (highest point: the Zugspitze at 2,962 m) in the south to the shores of the North Sea in the north-west and the Baltic Sea in the north-east. | | | Germany is a democratic federal parliamentary nation, made up of 16 federal states (Länder or, more commonly, Bundesländer), which in certain spheres act independently of the Federation. |
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| | Germany - encyclopedia article about Germany. |
| | Germany and Berlin were occupied and partitioned by the Allies into four military occupation zones – French in the southwest, British in the northwest, United States in the south, and Soviet in the east. | | | The territory of Germany stretches from the high mountains of the Alps (highest point: the Zugspitze at 2,962 m) in the south to the shores of the North Sea in the north-west and the Baltic Sea in the north-east. | | | Germany is a democratic federal parliamentary nation, made up of 16 federal states (Länder or, more commonly, Bundesländer), which in certain spheres act independently of the Federation. |
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| | Germany - Atlapedia Online |
| | In October 1993 the Bundesbank's president Helmut Schlesinger was succeeded by Hans Tietmeyer and Germany became the last of the 12 EU members to complete the ratification of the Maastricht Treaty after the constitutional court had rejected several objections. | | | On June 26, 1992 the Bundestag voted to extend the former East Germany's liberal abortion rules, allowing for on demand abortion within the first 3 months of pregnancy, to the whole of Germany. | | | It is bound by Poland and the Czech Republic to the east, the Baltic Sea to the northeast, Denmark to the north, the North Sea to the northwest, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and France to the west, Switzerland to the south and Austria to the south and southeast. |
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| | ipedia.com: Prussia Article |
| | Bismarck was determined to defeat both the liberals and the conservatives, by creating a strong united Germany, but under the domination of the Prussian ruling class and bureaucracy, not the western German liberals. | | | Under Frederick William, known as "the Great Elector," Prussia steadily acquired territories, including Magdeburg and enclaves west of the Rhine. | | | Under Frederick II ( Frederick the Great), Prussia seized the province of Silesia from Austria, and defended it through the Seven Years War which ended in 1763 with Prussia as the dominant state of eastern Germany. |
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| | Prussia. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | Finally, in the Franco-Prussian War (1870–71), the North German Confederation overwhelmed France, and in 1871 William I of Prussia was proclaimed emperor of Germany. | | | In 1618 the duchy of Prussia passed through inheritance to the elector of Brandenburg, and in 1660, by the treaty of Oliva, full independence from Polish suzerainty was confirmed to Frederick William, the Great Elector. | | | However, under his rule and that of his successor, Frederick William III (1797–1840), Prussia underwent a period of eclipse as a result of the French Revolutionary Wars and the wars of Napoleon I. |
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| | History of Germany since 1945 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Representatives of the city participated as non-voting members in the West German Parliament; appropriate West German agencies, such as the supreme administrative court, had their permanent seats in the city; and the governing mayor of West Berlin took his turn as President of the Bundesrat. | | | Following Germany's defeat in World War II and the beginning of the Cold War, Germany was split for about 40 years, representing the focus of the two global blocs in the east and west. | | | West Germany was to be permitted to rearm, and have full sovereign control of its military; the WEU would however regulate the size of the armed forces permitted to each of its member states. |
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| | Bonn: Definition and Much More From Answers.com |
| | The Constitution for West Germany was drafted in Bonn after World War II. | | | Bonn is a city in Germany (Population (2004 est): 313,605 ; the 19th largest city in Germany), in the Bundesland of North Rhine-Westphalia, located about 20 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine. | | | It was the capital of West Germany from 1949 to 1990. |
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| | Just War and the Construct of the West |
| | West Germany was surrounded by a military union (NATO) cum emerging Western economic supranational structure (the EU). | | | Some members of the political West share certain common values - liberal democracy, separation of church and state, respect for human rights and private property, for instance. | | | Western civilization is millennia old - though it had become self-aware and exclusionary only during the Middle Ages or, at the latest, the Reformation. |
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| | Germany. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | The chief theater of the war, Germany was reduced to misery and starvation, lost a large part of its population, and became, as a result of the Peace of Westphalia (1648; see Westphalia, Peace of), a loose confederation of petty principalities under the nominal suzerainty of the emperor. | | | Although German reunification was seen as a principal goal in West Germany’s relations with East Germany, it seemed a remote likelihood until the dramatic political upheavals that took place in East Germany in late 1989 and 1990. | | | In 1955, West Germany was recognized as an independent country by numerous nations, including the USSR, and it became a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, thus solidifying its ties with the West. |
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| | Germany |
| | Germany and Berlin were occupied and partitioned by the Allies, with West Germany and West Berlin being controlled by the Western allies and East Germany and East Berlin by the Soviet Union. | | | The territory of Germany stretches from the high mountains of the Alps (highest point: the Zugspitze at 2,962 m) in the south to the shores of the North Sea in the north-west and the Baltic Sea in the north-east. | | | Germany is a democratic federal parliamentary state, made up of 16 federal states (Länder), which in certain spheres act independently of the Federation. |
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| | Germany: Map, History and Much More From Answers.com |
| | In the late 1960s, diplomatic contacts with West Germany were initiated; these culminated in 1973 with the signing of a treaty between the two states. | | | The CDU-CSU held firmly to the position that Germany should be reunited on the basis of democratic elections; it followed the “Hallstein doctrine” (named for Walter Hallstein, an official in the ministry of foreign affairs), under which West Germany refused to have diplomatic relations with any nation (except the USSR) that recognized East Germany. | | | In 1955, West Germany was recognized as an independent country by numerous nations, including the USSR, and it became a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, thus solidifying its ties with the West. |
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| | History of Baden, Wuerttemberg, Baden-Wuerttemberg |
| | The constitution of 1919 resulted in annual election of a member of the regional parliament to the state presidency, at the head of the regime (of Baden). | | | Thus, on December 6, 1951, under Federal law, a referendum was held in four voting districts (North Baden, South Baden, North Württemberg and Sourth Württemberg-Hohenzollern) resulting in 69.7% in favor of the South-West-State (but in South Baden, 62.2% in favour of the old setup). | | | As a result of the referendum of December 6, 1951, Baden was absorbed into the new state of Baden-Württemberg on April 25, 1952. |
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| | Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The territory of Germany stretches from the high mountains of the Alps (highest point: the Zugspitze at 2,962 m) in the south to the shores of the North Sea in the north-west and the Baltic Sea in the north-east. | | | West Germany was allied with the United States, the UK and France. | | | Germany is a democratic federal parliamentary nation, made up of 16 federal states (Länder or, more commonly, Bundesländer), which in certain spheres act independently of the Federation. |
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| | Germany: The Original Mixed Member Proportional System |
| | The system was created by the Basic Law of the Federal Republic of Germany - the West German Constitution. | | | In the all-German elections of 1990, the East German Alliance '90/Greens and the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) cleared the five percent threshold which was applied, separately in the territory of former East Germany and former West Germany, for that one election. | | | Besides the Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU), Social Democratic Party (SPD) and Free Democratic Party (FDP), which have been in the Bundestag since 1949, a new Green Party (GR NE) gained seats in 1983 and 1987. |
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| | Germany: Map, History and Much More From Answers.com |
| | In the late 1960s, diplomatic contacts with West Germany were initiated; these culminated in 1973 with the signing of a treaty between the two states. | | | The president is elected for a five-year term by a federal convention, which meets only for this purpose and consists of the Bundestag and an equal number of members elected by the state parliaments. | | | However, the revolutionists were soon defeated, and the Frankfurt Parliament, having failed to obtain the unification of Germany under Frederick William IV, disbanded. |
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| | Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The territory of Germany stretches from the high mountains of the Alps (highest point: the Zugspitze at 2,962 m) in the south to the shores of the North Sea in the north-west and the Baltic Sea in the north-east. | | | Germany and Berlin were occupied and partitioned by the Allies, with West Germany ( Federal Republic of Germany - FRG) and West Berlin being controlled by the Western allies and East Germany ( German Democratic Republic - GDR) and East Berlin by the Soviet Union. | | | Germany is a democratic federal parliamentary state, made up of 16 federal states ( Länder or, more commonly, Bundesländer), which in certain spheres act independently of the Federation. |
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| | Larkey: Political Economy of Memory in East Germany |
| | The reconfiguration of Germany resulting from unification has arrested the development of the German Democratic Republic as a separate nation and fundamentally altered the evolution of the West German state after the eastern New German States were joined to the West in 1991. | | | Lutz Kerschowski confided that he was not willing to sacrifice his family to his career, which he concedes is counterproductive under the conditions of unified Germany: | | | 1992 Nationalism and German politics after 1945 in The State of Germany. |
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| | Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The territory of Germany stretches from the high mountains of the Alps (highest point: the Zugspitze at 2,962 m) in the south to the shores of the North Sea in the north-west and the Baltic Sea in the north-east. | | | Germany and Berlin were occupied and partitioned by the Allies into four military occupation zones – French in the south-west, British in the north-west, United States in the south, and Soviet in the east. | | | The Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht), also located in Karlsruhe, is the German Supreme Court responsible for constitutional matters, with power of judicial review. |
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| | Oswald Spengler: An Introduction to his Life and Ideas - Stormfront White Nationalist Community |
| | Oswald Spengler was born in Blankenburg (Harz) in central Germany in 1880, the eldest of four children, and the only boy. | | | Keith Stimely was born on April 9, 1957, in Connecticut, but grew up and was educated on the West coast. | | | Oswald Spengler: An Introduction to his Life and Ideas - Stormfront White Nationalist Community |
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| | Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The territory of Germany stretches from the high mountains of the Alps (highest point: the Zugspitze at 2,962 m) in the south to the shores of the North Sea in the north-west and the Baltic Sea in the north-east. | | | Germany and Berlin were occupied and partitioned by the Allies, with West Germany ( Federal Republic of Germany - FRG) and West Berlin being controlled by the Western allies and East Germany ( German Democratic Republic - GDR) and East Berlin by the Soviet Union. | | | Germany is a democratic federal parliamentary state, made up of 16 federal states ( Länder or, more commonly, Bundesländer), which in certain spheres act independently of the Federation. |
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| | MSN Encarta - West Germany |
| | The United States, France, and Britain supported the free market democracy in the west (West Germany). | | | From 1949 to 1963 the government of West Germany was dominated by the Christian Democratic Union. | | | Germany, West, common name of a former republic of central Europe, bordered on the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; on the east by the former East Germany and the Czech Republic; on the south by Austria and Switzerland; and on the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands. |
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| | Foreign relations of the Federal Republic of Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Representatives of the city participated as non-voting members in the FRG Parliament; appropriate west German agencies, such as the supreme administrative court, had their permanent seats in the city; and the governing mayor of Berlin took his turn as President of the Bundesrat. | | | Germany's initiative for a permanent seat in the Security Council of the United Nations | | | Germany also is a strong supporter of the United Nations and of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), which seeks to reduce tensions and improve relations among the European nations, the U.S., and Canada. |
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| | BIGpedia - Germany - Encyclopedia and Dictionary Online |
| | In the north-west Germany borders on the North Sea and in the north-east on the Baltic. | | | The territory of Germany stretches from the high mountains of the Alps (highest point: the Zugspitze at 2,962 m) in the south to the shores of the North Sea in the north-west and the Baltic in the north-east. | | | As of 2004, Germany was also the world's largest exporter for the second year in a row, despite the skyrocketing strength of the euro. |
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