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class="vector-toc-numb">2.2</span>East Francia and the Holy Roman Empire</div> </a> <ul id="toc-East_Francia_and_the_Holy_Roman_Empire-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-German_Confederation_and_Empire" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#German_Confederation_and_Empire"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.3</span>German Confederation and Empire</div> </a> <ul id="toc-German_Confederation_and_Empire-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Weimar_Republic_and_Nazi_Germany" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Weimar_Republic_and_Nazi_Germany"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.4</span>Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany</div> </a> <ul id="toc-Weimar_Republic_and_Nazi_Germany-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-East_and_West_Germany" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#East_and_West_Germany"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.5</span>East and West Germany</div> </a> <ul id="toc-East_and_West_Germany-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Reunified_Germany_and_the_European_Union" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Reunified_Germany_and_the_European_Union"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.6</span>Reunified Germany and the European Union</div> </a> <ul id="toc-Reunified_Germany_and_the_European_Union-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Geography" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Geography"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3</span>Geography</div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Geography-sublist" class="mw-ui-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand mw-ui-icon-small vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Geography subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Geography-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Climate" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Climate"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.1</span>Climate</div> </a> <ul id="toc-Climate-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Biodiversity" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Biodiversity"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.2</span>Biodiversity</div> </a> <ul id="toc-Biodiversity-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Politics" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Politics"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span>Politics</div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Politics-sublist" class="mw-ui-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand mw-ui-icon-small vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Politics subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Politics-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Constituent_states" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Constituent_states"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.1</span>Constituent states</div> </a> <ul id="toc-Constituent_states-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Law" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Law"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.2</span>Law</div> </a> <ul id="toc-Law-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Foreign_relations" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Foreign_relations"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.3</span>Foreign relations</div> </a> <ul id="toc-Foreign_relations-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Military" 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Available in 294 languages"/> <label id="p-lang-btn-label" for="p-lang-btn-checkbox" class="vector-menu-heading mw-ui-button mw-ui-quiet mw-ui-progressive mw-portlet-lang-heading-294" aria-hidden="true"> <span class="mw-ui-icon mw-ui-icon-language-progressive mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-language-progressive"></span> <span class="vector-menu-heading-label">294 languages</span> </label> <div class="vector-menu-content vector-dropdown-content"> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ace mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://ace.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeureuman" title="Jeureuman – Achinese" lang="ace" hreflang="ace" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Acèh</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kbd mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://kbd.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D1%8D%D1%80%D0%BC%D1%8D%D0%BD" title="Джэрмэн – Kabardian" lang="kbd" hreflang="kbd" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Адыгэбзэ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ady mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://ady.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5" title="Германие – Adyghe" lang="ady" hreflang="ady" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Адыгабзэ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-af badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duitsland" title="Duitsland – Afrikaans" lang="af" hreflang="af" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Afrikaans</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-als mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutschland" title="Deutschland – Swiss German" lang="gsw" hreflang="gsw" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Alemannisch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-am mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://am.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%8C%80%E1%88%AD%E1%88%98%E1%8A%95" title="ጀርመን – Amharic" lang="am" hreflang="am" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>አማርኛ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-smn mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://smn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saksa" title="Saksa – Inari Sami" lang="smn" hreflang="smn" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Anarâškielâ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-anp mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://anp.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%80" title="जर्मनी – Angika" lang="anp" hreflang="anp" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>अंगिका</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ang mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://ang.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Eeodscland" title="Þeodscland – Old English" lang="ang" hreflang="ang" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ænglisc</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ab mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://ab.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B0" title="Германиа – Abkhazian" lang="ab" hreflang="ab" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Аԥсшәа</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A7" title="ألمانيا – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-an mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://an.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alemanya" title="Alemanya – Aragonese" lang="an" hreflang="an" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Aragonés</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arc mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://arc.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DC%93%DC%AA%DC%A1%DC%A2" title="ܓܪܡܢ – Aramaic" lang="arc" hreflang="arc" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ܐܪܡܝܐ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hyw mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://hyw.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B3%D5%A5%D6%80%D5%B4%D5%A1%D5%B6%D5%AB%D5%A1" title="Գերմանիա – Western Armenian" lang="hyw" hreflang="hyw" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Արեւմտահայերէն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-roa-rup mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://roa-rup.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghirm%C3%A3nie" title="Ghirmãnie – Aromanian" lang="rup" hreflang="rup" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Armãneashti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-frp mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://frp.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alemagnes" title="Alemagnes – Arpitan" lang="frp" hreflang="frp" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Arpetan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-as mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%BE%E0%A7%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%80" title="জাৰ্মানী – Assamese" lang="as" hreflang="as" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>অসমীয়া</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alema%C3%B1a" title="Alemaña – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-awa mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://awa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%80" title="जर्मनी – Awadhi" lang="awa" hreflang="awa" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>अवधी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gn mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://gn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alem%C3%A1%C3%B1a" title="Alemáña – Guarani" lang="gn" hreflang="gn" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Avañe'ẽ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-av mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://av.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F" title="Германия – Avaric" lang="av" hreflang="av" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Авар</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ay mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://ay.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alima%C3%B1a" title="Alimaña – Aymara" lang="ay" hreflang="ay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Aymar aru</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almaniya" title="Almaniya – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86" title="آلمان – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ban mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://ban.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerman" title="Jerman – Balinese" lang="ban" hreflang="ban" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Basa Bali</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bm mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://bm.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alima%C9%B2i" title="Alimaɲi – Bambara" lang="bm" hreflang="bm" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bamanankan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%BF" title="জার্মানি – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tek-kok" title="Tek-kok – Min Nan Chinese" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-map-bms mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://map-bms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerman" title="Jerman – Basa Banyumasan" lang="jv-x-bms" hreflang="jv-x-bms" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Basa Banyumasan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ba mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://ba.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F" title="Германия – Bashkir" lang="ba" hreflang="ba" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Башҡортса</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%96%D1%8F" title="Германія – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D1%8F%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%87%D1%87%D1%8B%D0%BD%D0%B0" title="Нямеччына – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bh mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://bh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%80" title="जर्मनी – Bhojpuri" lang="bh" hreflang="bh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>भोजपुरी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bcl mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alemanya" title="Alemanya – Central Bikol" lang="bcl" hreflang="bcl" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bikol Central</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bi mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://bi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jemani" title="Jemani – Bislama" lang="bi" hreflang="bi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bislama</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F" title="Германия – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bar mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://bar.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deitschland" title="Deitschland – Bavarian" lang="bar" hreflang="bar" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Boarisch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bo mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://bo.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%BD%A0%E0%BD%87%E0%BD%A2%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%98%E0%BD%93%E0%BC%8D" title="འཇར་མན། – Tibetan" lang="bo" hreflang="bo" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>བོད་ཡིག</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Njema%C4%8Dka" title="Njemačka – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alamagn" title="Alamagn – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bxr mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://bxr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8" title="Германи – Russia Buriat" lang="bxr" hreflang="bxr" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Буряад</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alemanya" title="Alemanya – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cv mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://cv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8" title="Германи – Chuvash" lang="cv" hreflang="cv" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Чӑвашла</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ceb mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alemanya" title="Alemanya – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cebuano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C4%9Bmecko" title="Německo – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ch mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://ch.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alema%C3%B1a" title="Alemaña – Chamorro" lang="ch" hreflang="ch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Chamoru</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cbk-zam mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://cbk-zam.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alemania" title="Alemania – Chavacano" lang="cbk" hreflang="cbk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Chavacano de Zamboanga</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ny mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://ny.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany" title="Germany – Nyanja" lang="ny" hreflang="ny" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Chi-Chewa</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sn mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://sn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerumani" title="Jerumani – Shona" lang="sn" hreflang="sn" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ChiShona</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tum mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://tum.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany" title="Germany – Tumbuka" lang="tum" hreflang="tum" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ChiTumbuka</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-co mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://co.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germania" title="Germania – Corsican" lang="co" hreflang="co" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Corsu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yr_Almaen" title="Yr Almaen – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da badge-Q17437798 badge-goodarticle mw-list-item" title="good article badge"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyskland" title="Tyskland – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ary mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://ary.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A7" title="ألمانيا – Moroccan Arabic" lang="ary" hreflang="ary" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>الدارجة</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-se mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://se.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duiska" title="Duiska – Northern Sami" lang="se" hreflang="se" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Davvisámegiella</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pdc mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://pdc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deitschland" title="Deitschland – Pennsylvania German" lang="pdc" hreflang="pdc" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deitsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutschland" title="Deutschland – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-dv mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://dv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DE%96%DE%A6%DE%83%DE%AA%DE%89%DE%A6%DE%82%DE%AA%DE%88%DE%A8%DE%8D%DE%A7%DE%8C%DE%B0" title="ޖަރުމަނުވިލާތް – Divehi" lang="dv" hreflang="dv" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ދިވެހިބަސް</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nv mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://nv.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9%C3%A9sh_Bich%CA%BCahii_Bik%C3%A9yah" title="Béésh Bichʼahii Bikéyah – Navajo" lang="nv" hreflang="nv" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Diné bizaad</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-dsb mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://dsb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimska" title="Nimska – Lower Sorbian" lang="dsb" hreflang="dsb" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dolnoserbski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-dty mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://dty.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%80" title="जर्मनी – Doteli" lang="dty" hreflang="dty" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>डोटेली</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-dz mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://dz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%BD%87%E0%BD%B1%E0%BD%A2%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%98%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%93%E0%BD%B2" title="ཇཱར་མ་ནི – Dzongkha" lang="dz" hreflang="dz" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ཇོང་ཁ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saksamaa" title="Saksamaa – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%93%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%BC%CE%B1%CE%BD%CE%AF%CE%B1" title="Γερμανία – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eml mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://eml.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germ%C3%A2gna" title="Germâgna – Emiliano-Romagnolo" lang="egl" hreflang="egl" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Emiliàn e rumagnòl</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-myv mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://myv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80" title="Германия Мастор – Erzya" lang="myv" hreflang="myv" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Эрзянь</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es badge-Q17437798 badge-goodarticle mw-list-item" title="good article badge"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alemania" title="Alemania – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanio" title="Germanio – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ext mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://ext.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alema%C3%B1a" title="Alemaña – Extremaduran" lang="ext" hreflang="ext" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Estremeñu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alemania" title="Alemania – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ee mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://ee.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzamanya" title="Dzamanya – Ewe" lang="ee" hreflang="ee" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eʋegbe</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86" title="آلمان – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hif mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://hif.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany" title="Germany – Fiji Hindi" lang="hif" hreflang="hif" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Fiji Hindi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fo badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://fo.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%BDskland" title="Týskland – Faroese" lang="fo" hreflang="fo" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Føroyskt</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allemagne" title="Allemagne – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%BAtsl%C3%A2n" title="Dútslân – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Frysk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ff mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://ff.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almaanya" title="Almaanya – Fula" lang="ff" hreflang="ff" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Fulfulde</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fur mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://fur.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gjermanie" title="Gjermanie – Friulian" lang="fur" hreflang="fur" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Furlan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Ghearm%C3%A1in" title="An Ghearmáin – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gv badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://gv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yn_Ghermaan" title="Yn Ghermaan – Manx" lang="gv" hreflang="gv" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaelg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gag mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://gag.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germaniya" title="Germaniya – Gagauz" lang="gag" hreflang="gag" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gagauz</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gd mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://gd.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%27_Ghearmailt" title="A' Ghearmailt – Scottish Gaelic" lang="gd" hreflang="gd" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gàidhlig</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alema%C3%B1a" title="Alemaña – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-inh mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://inh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B5%D0%BC%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%85%D0%BA" title="Немций мохк – Ingush" lang="inh" hreflang="inh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ГӀалгӀай</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gan mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://gan.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BE%B7%E5%9C%8B" title="德國 – Gan Chinese" lang="gan" hreflang="gan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>贛語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ki mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://ki.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nj%C4%A9r%C4%A9mani" title="Njĩrĩmani – Kikuyu" lang="ki" hreflang="ki" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gĩkũyũ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-glk mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://glk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86" title="آلمان – Gilaki" lang="glk" hreflang="glk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>گیلکی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gu mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://gu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AA%9C%E0%AA%B0%E0%AB%8D%E0%AA%AE%E0%AA%A8%E0%AB%80" title="જર્મની – Gujarati" lang="gu" hreflang="gu" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ગુજરાતી</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-got mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://got.wikipedia.org/wiki/%F0%90%8C%B8%F0%90%8C%B9%F0%90%8C%BF%F0%90%8C%B3%F0%90%8C%B9%F0%90%8D%83%F0%90%8C%BA%F0%90%8C%B0%F0%90%8C%BB%F0%90%8C%B0%F0%90%8C%BD%F0%90%8C%B3" title="𐌸𐌹𐌿𐌳𐌹𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌳 – Gothic" lang="got" hreflang="got" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>𐌲𐌿𐍄𐌹𐍃𐌺</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gom mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://gom.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%80" title="जर्मनी – Goan Konkani" lang="gom" hreflang="gom" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>गोंयची कोंकणी / Gõychi Konknni</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hak badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://hak.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tet-koet" title="Tet-koet – Hakka Chinese" lang="hak" hreflang="hak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>客家語/Hak-kâ-ngî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-xal mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://xal.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%B8%D1%86%D3%99%D1%82%D3%99_%D0%9D%D0%B5%D0%BC%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%BD_%D0%9E%D1%80%D0%BD" title="Ниицәтә Немшин Орн – Kalmyk" lang="xal" hreflang="xal" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Хальмг</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%8F%85%EC%9D%BC" title="독일 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ha mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamus" title="Jamus – Hausa" lang="ha" hreflang="ha" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hausa</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-haw mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://haw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelem%C4%81nia" title="Kelemānia – Hawaiian" lang="haw" hreflang="haw" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hawaiʻi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B3%D5%A5%D6%80%D5%B4%D5%A1%D5%B6%D5%AB%D5%A1" title="Գերմանիա – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%80" title="जर्मनी – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hsb mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://hsb.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C4%9Bmska" title="Němska – Upper Sorbian" lang="hsb" hreflang="hsb" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hornjoserbsce</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Njema%C4%8Dka" title="Njemačka – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germania" title="Germania – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ig mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A9man%E1%BB%8B" title="Jémanị – Igbo" lang="ig" hreflang="ig" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Igbo</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ilo mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://ilo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alemania" title="Alemania – Iloko" lang="ilo" hreflang="ilo" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ilokano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bpy mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://bpy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%BF" title="জার্মানি – Bishnupriya" lang="bpy" hreflang="bpy" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বিষ্ণুপ্রিয়া মণিপুরী</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerman" title="Jerman – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ia mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://ia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germania" title="Germania – Interlingua" lang="ia" hreflang="ia" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Interlingua</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ie mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://ie.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germania" title="Germania – Interlingue" lang="ie" hreflang="ie" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Interlingue</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-iu mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://iu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%94%AE%E1%92%AA%E1%93%82" title="ᔮᒪᓂ – Inuktitut" lang="iu" hreflang="iu" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ / inuktitut</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ik mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://ik.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuitchilan" title="Tuitchilan – Inupiaq" lang="ik" hreflang="ik" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Iñupiatun</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-os mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://os.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD" title="Герман – Ossetic" lang="os" hreflang="os" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ирон</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-xh mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://xh.wikipedia.org/wiki/IJamani" title="IJamani – Xhosa" lang="xh" hreflang="xh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>IsiXhosa</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zu mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://zu.wikipedia.org/wiki/IJalimani" title="IJalimani – Zulu" lang="zu" hreflang="zu" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>IsiZulu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9E%C3%BDskaland" title="Þýskaland – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germania" title="Germania – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%92%D7%A8%D7%9E%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%94" title="גרמניה – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-jv mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://jv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerman" title="Jerman – Javanese" lang="jv" hreflang="jv" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Jawa</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kbp mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://kbp.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caama" title="Caama – Kabiye" lang="kbp" hreflang="kbp" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kabɩyɛ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kn mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%9C%E0%B2%B0%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AE%E0%B2%A8%E0%B2%BF" title="ಜರ್ಮನಿ – Kannada" lang="kn" hreflang="kn" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ಕನ್ನಡ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pam mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://pam.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alemanya" title="Alemanya – Pampanga" lang="pam" hreflang="pam" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kapampangan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-krc mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://krc.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F" title="Германия – Karachay-Balkar" lang="krc" hreflang="krc" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Къарачай-малкъар</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%92%E1%83%94%E1%83%A0%E1%83%9B%E1%83%90%E1%83%9C%E1%83%98%E1%83%90" title="გერმანია – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-csb mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://csb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niemieck%C3%B4" title="Niemieckô – Kashubian" lang="csb" hreflang="csb" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kaszëbsczi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F" title="Германия – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kw mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://kw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almayn" title="Almayn – Cornish" lang="kw" hreflang="kw" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kernowek</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-rw mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://rw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubudage" title="Ubudage – Kinyarwanda" lang="rw" hreflang="rw" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ikinyarwanda</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-rn mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://rn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubudagi" title="Ubudagi – Rundi" lang="rn" hreflang="rn" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ikirundi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ujerumani" title="Ujerumani – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kiswahili</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kv mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://kv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F" title="Германия – Komi" lang="kv" hreflang="kv" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Коми</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kg mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://kg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alemanyi" title="Alemanyi – Kongo" lang="kg" hreflang="kg" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kongo</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-avk mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://avk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germana" title="Germana – Kotava" lang="avk" hreflang="avk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kotava</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ht mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almay" title="Almay – Haitian Creole" lang="ht" hreflang="ht" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kreyòl ayisyen</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gcr mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://gcr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanlmangn" title="Lanlmangn – Guianan Creole" lang="gcr" hreflang="gcr" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kriyòl gwiyannen</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almanya" title="Almanya – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kurdî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ky mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://ky.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F" title="Германия – Kyrgyz" lang="ky" hreflang="ky" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Кыргызча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lld mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://lld.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germania" title="Germania – Ladin" lang="lld" hreflang="lld" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ladin</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lad mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://lad.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almania" title="Almania – Ladino" lang="lad" hreflang="lad" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ladino</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lo mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://lo.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%BA%9B%E0%BA%B0%E0%BB%80%E0%BA%97%E0%BA%94%E0%BB%80%E0%BA%A2%E0%BA%8D%E0%BA%A5%E0%BA%B0%E0%BA%A1%E0%BA%B1%E0%BA%99" title="ປະເທດເຢຍລະມັນ – Lao" lang="lo" hreflang="lo" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ລາວ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ltg mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://ltg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vuoceja" title="Vuoceja – Latgalian" lang="ltg" hreflang="ltg" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latgaļu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germania" title="Germania – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C4%81cija" title="Vācija – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lb mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A4itschland" title="Däitschland – Luxembourgish" lang="lb" hreflang="lb" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lëtzebuergesch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lez mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://lez.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F" title="Германия – Lezghian" lang="lez" hreflang="lez" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Лезги</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt badge-Q17437798 badge-goodarticle mw-list-item" title="good article badge"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vokietija" title="Vokietija – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lij mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://lij.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germania" title="Germania – Ligurian" lang="lij" hreflang="lij" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ligure</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-li mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://li.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duitsland" title="Duitsland – Limburgish" lang="li" hreflang="li" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Limburgs</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ln mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://ln.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al%C3%A9mani" title="Alémani – Lingala" lang="ln" hreflang="ln" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lingála</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lfn mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://lfn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutxland" title="Deutxland – Lingua Franca Nova" lang="lfn" hreflang="lfn" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lingua Franca Nova</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-olo mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://olo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germuanii" title="Germuanii – Livvi-Karelian" lang="olo" hreflang="olo" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Livvinkarjala</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-jbo mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://jbo.wikipedia.org/wiki/dotygu%27e" title="dotygu'e – Lojban" lang="jbo" hreflang="jbo" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>La .lojban.</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lg mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://lg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girimane" title="Girimane – Ganda" lang="lg" hreflang="lg" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Luganda</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lmo mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://lmo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germania" title="Germania – Lombard" lang="lmo" hreflang="lmo" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lombard</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%A9metorsz%C3%A1g" title="Németország – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mad mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://mad.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerman" title="Jerman – Madurese" lang="mad" hreflang="mad" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Madhurâ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mai mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://mai.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%80" title="जर्मनी – Maithili" lang="mai" hreflang="mai" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मैथिली</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B0" title="Германија – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mg mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alemaina" title="Alemaina – Malagasy" lang="mg" hreflang="mg" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Malagasy</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%9C%E0%B5%BC%E0%B4%AE%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%AE%E0%B4%A8%E0%B4%BF" title="ജർമ്മനി – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>മലയാളം</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mt mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://mt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%A0ermanja" title="Ġermanja – Maltese" lang="mt" hreflang="mt" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Malti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mi mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://mi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiamana" title="Tiamana – Māori" lang="mi" hreflang="mi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Māori</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%80" title="जर्मनी – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मराठी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-xmf mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://xmf.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%92%E1%83%94%E1%83%A0%E1%83%9B%E1%83%90%E1%83%9C%E1%83%98%E1%83%90" title="გერმანია – Mingrelian" lang="xmf" hreflang="xmf" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>მარგალური</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A7" title="المانيا – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mzn mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://mzn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86" title="آلمان – Mazanderani" lang="mzn" hreflang="mzn" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مازِرونی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerman" title="Jerman – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mni mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://mni.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%AF%96%EA%AF%94%EA%AF%83%EA%AF%85%EA%AF%A4" title="ꯖꯔꯃꯅꯤ – Manipuri" lang="mni" hreflang="mni" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ꯃꯤꯇꯩ ꯂꯣꯟ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-min mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://min.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerman" title="Jerman – Minangkabau" lang="min" hreflang="min" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Minangkabau</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cdo mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://cdo.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A1ik-gu%C3%B3k" title="Dáik-guók – Min Dong Chinese" lang="cdo" hreflang="cdo" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩東語 / Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mwl mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://mwl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almanha" title="Almanha – Mirandese" lang="mwl" hreflang="mwl" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Mirandés</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mdf mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://mdf.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%BE%D0%B9%D1%87%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80" title="Дойчмастор – Moksha" lang="mdf" hreflang="mdf" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Мокшень</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mn mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://mn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD" title="Герман – Mongolian" lang="mn" hreflang="mn" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Монгол</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-my mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://my.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%80%82%E1%80%BB%E1%80%AC%E1%80%99%E1%80%94%E1%80%AE%E1%80%94%E1%80%AD%E1%80%AF%E1%80%84%E1%80%BA%E1%80%84%E1%80%B6" title="ဂျာမနီနိုင်ငံ – Burmese" lang="my" hreflang="my" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>မြန်မာဘာသာ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fj mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://fj.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamani" title="Jamani – Fijian" lang="fj" hreflang="fj" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Na Vosa Vakaviti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duitsland" title="Duitsland – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nds-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://nds-nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duutslaand" title="Duutslaand – Low Saxon" lang="nds-NL" hreflang="nds-NL" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nedersaksies</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ne mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%80" title="जर्मनी – Nepali" lang="ne" hreflang="ne" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>नेपाली</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-new mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://new.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%80" title="जर्मनी – Newari" lang="new" hreflang="new" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>नेपाल भाषा</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%89%E3%82%A4%E3%83%84" title="ドイツ – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nap mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://nap.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germania" title="Germania – Neapolitan" lang="nap" hreflang="nap" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Napulitano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nqo mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://nqo.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DF%8A%DF%9F%DF%8F%DF%A1%DF%8A%DF%B2%DF%98%DF%8E%DF%AF" title="ߊߟߏߡߊ߲ߘߎ߯ – N’Ko" lang="nqo" hreflang="nqo" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ߒߞߏ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ce mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://ce.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8" title="Германи – Chechen" lang="ce" hreflang="ce" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Нохчийн</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-frr mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://frr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tj%C3%BCschl%C3%B6nj" title="Tjüschlönj – Northern Frisian" lang="frr" hreflang="frr" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nordfriisk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pih mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://pih.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doichland" title="Doichland – Norfuk / Pitkern" lang="pih" hreflang="pih" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norfuk / Pitkern</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyskland" title="Tyskland – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyskland" title="Tyskland – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nrm mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://nrm.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allemangne" title="Allemangne – Norman" lang="nrf" hreflang="nrf" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nouormand</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nov mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://nov.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germania" title="Germania – Novial" lang="nov" hreflang="nov" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Novial</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alemanha" title="Alemanha – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Occitan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mhr mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://mhr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B5%D0%BC%D1%8B%D1%87_%D0%AD%D0%BB" title="Немыч Эл – Eastern Mari" lang="mhr" hreflang="mhr" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Олык марий</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-or mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%9C%E0%AC%B0%E0%AD%8D%E0%AC%AE%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%A8%E0%AD%80" title="ଜର୍ମାନୀ – Odia" lang="or" hreflang="or" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ଓଡ଼ିଆ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-om mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://om.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarmanii" title="Jarmanii – Oromo" lang="om" hreflang="om" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oromoo</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germaniya" title="Germaniya – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pa mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%9C%E0%A8%B0%E0%A8%AE%E0%A8%A8%E0%A9%80" title="ਜਰਮਨੀ – Punjabi" lang="pa" hreflang="pa" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ਪੰਜਾਬੀ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pi mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://pi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%80" title="जर्मनी – Pali" lang="pi" hreflang="pi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>पालि</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pfl mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://pfl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutschland" title="Deutschland – Palatine German" lang="pfl" hreflang="pfl" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Pälzisch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pag mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://pag.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alemanya" title="Alemanya – Pangasinan" lang="pag" hreflang="pag" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Pangasinan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ami mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://ami.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany" title="Germany – Amis" lang="ami" hreflang="ami" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Pangcah</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%B1%D9%85%D9%86%DB%8C" title="جرمنی – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پنجابی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pap mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://pap.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alemania" title="Alemania – Papiamento" lang="pap" hreflang="pap" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Papiamentu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ps mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://ps.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86" title="المان – Pashto" lang="ps" hreflang="ps" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پښتو</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-jam mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://jam.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joermani" title="Joermani – Jamaican Creole English" lang="jam" hreflang="jam" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Patois</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-koi mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://koi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%87%D0%BC%D1%83" title="Немечму – Komi-Permyak" lang="koi" hreflang="koi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Перем коми</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-km mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://km.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%9E%A2%E1%9E%B6%E1%9E%9B%E1%9F%92%E1%9E%9B%E1%9E%BA%E1%9E%98%E1%9F%89%E1%9E%84%E1%9F%8B" title="អាល្លឺម៉ង់ – Khmer" lang="km" hreflang="km" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ភាសាខ្មែរ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pcd mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://pcd.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alemanne" title="Alemanne – Picard" lang="pcd" hreflang="pcd" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Picard</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pms mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://pms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almagna" title="Almagna – Piedmontese" lang="pms" hreflang="pms" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Piemontèis</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tpi mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://tpi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siamani" title="Siamani – Tok Pisin" lang="tpi" hreflang="tpi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tok Pisin</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nds mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://nds.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%BC%C3%BCtschland" title="Düütschland – Low German" lang="nds" hreflang="nds" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Plattdüütsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niemcy" title="Niemcy – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnt mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://pnt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%93%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%BC%CE%B1%CE%BD%CE%AF%CE%B1" title="Γερμανία – Pontic" lang="pnt" hreflang="pnt" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ποντιακά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alemanha" title="Alemanha – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kaa mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://kaa.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germaniya" title="Germaniya – Kara-Kalpak" lang="kaa" hreflang="kaa" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Qaraqalpaqsha</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-crh mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://crh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almaniya" title="Almaniya – Crimean Tatar" lang="crh" hreflang="crh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Qırımtatarca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ty mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://ty.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heremani" title="Heremani – Tahitian" lang="ty" hreflang="ty" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Reo tahiti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ksh mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://ksh.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%BCtschland" title="Dütschland – Colognian" lang="ksh" hreflang="ksh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ripoarisch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germania" title="Germania – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-rmy mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://rmy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jermaniya" title="Jermaniya – Vlax Romani" lang="rmy" hreflang="rmy" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Romani čhib</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-rm mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://rm.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germania" title="Germania – Romansh" lang="rm" hreflang="rm" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Rumantsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-qu mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://qu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alimanya" title="Alimanya – Quechua" lang="qu" hreflang="qu" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Runa Simi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-rue mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://rue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D1%97%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%86%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%BE" title="Нїмецько – Rusyn" lang="rue" hreflang="rue" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русиньскый</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F" title="Германия – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sah mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://sah.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F" title="Германия – Yakut" lang="sah" hreflang="sah" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Саха тыла</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-szy mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://szy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany" title="Germany – Sakizaya" lang="szy" hreflang="szy" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sakizaya</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sm mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://sm.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siamani" title="Siamani – Samoan" lang="sm" hreflang="sm" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gagana Samoa</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sa mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://sa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%A3%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%83" title="शर्मण्यदेशः – Sanskrit" lang="sa" hreflang="sa" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>संस्कृतम्</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sat mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://sat.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%B1%A1%E1%B1%9F%E1%B1%A8%E1%B1%A2%E1%B1%9F%E1%B1%B1%E1%B1%A4" title="ᱡᱟᱨᱢᱟᱱᱤ – Santali" lang="sat" hreflang="sat" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sc mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://sc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germania" title="Germania – Sardinian" lang="sc" hreflang="sc" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sardu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sco mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany" title="Germany – Scots" lang="sco" hreflang="sco" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Scots</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-trv mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://trv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany" title="Germany – Taroko" lang="trv" hreflang="trv" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Seediq</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-stq mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://stq.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%BC%C3%BCtsklound" title="Düütsklound – Saterland Frisian" lang="stq" hreflang="stq" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Seeltersk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-st mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://st.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremane" title="Jeremane – Southern Sotho" lang="st" hreflang="st" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sesotho</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nso mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://nso.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremane" title="Jeremane – Northern Sotho" lang="nso" hreflang="nso" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sesotho sa Leboa</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sq badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gjermania" title="Gjermania – Albanian" lang="sq" hreflang="sq" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Shqip</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-scn mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://scn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girmania" title="Girmania – Sicilian" lang="scn" hreflang="scn" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sicilianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-si mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://si.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B6%A2%E0%B6%BB%E0%B7%8A%E0%B6%B8%E0%B6%B1%E0%B7%92%E0%B6%BA" title="ජර්මනිය – Sinhala" lang="si" hreflang="si" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>සිංහල</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany" title="Germany – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sd mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://sd.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%B1%D9%85%D9%86%D9%8A" title="جرمني – Sindhi" lang="sd" hreflang="sd" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>سنڌي</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ss mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://ss.wikipedia.org/wiki/IJalimane" title="IJalimane – Swati" lang="ss" hreflang="ss" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>SiSwati</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemecko" title="Nemecko – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nem%C4%8Dija" title="Nemčija – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenščina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cu mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://cu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D1%A3%D0%BC%D1%8C%D1%86%D0%B8" title="Нѣмьци – Church Slavic" lang="cu" hreflang="cu" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Словѣньскъ / ⰔⰎⰑⰂⰡⰐⰠⰔⰍⰟ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-szl mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://szl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mjymcy" title="Mjymcy – Silesian" lang="szl" hreflang="szl" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ślůnski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-so mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://so.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarmalka" title="Jarmalka – Somali" lang="so" hreflang="so" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Soomaaliga</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ckb badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A6%DB%95%DA%B5%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%A7" title="ئەڵمانیا – Central Kurdish" lang="ckb" hreflang="ckb" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>کوردی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-srn mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://srn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doysrikondre" title="Doysrikondre – Sranan Tongo" lang="srn" hreflang="srn" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sranantongo</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%8A%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%87%D0%BA%D0%B0" title="Њемачка – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Njema%C4%8Dka" title="Njemačka – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-su mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://su.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A9rman" title="Jérman – Sundanese" lang="su" hreflang="su" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sunda</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi badge-Q17559452 badge-recommendedarticle mw-list-item" title="recommended article"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saksa" title="Saksa – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyskland" title="Tyskland – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tl mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://tl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alemanya" title="Alemanya – Tagalog" lang="tl" hreflang="tl" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tagalog</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ta mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%9C%E0%AF%86%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%AE%E0%AE%A9%E0%AE%BF" title="ஜெர்மனி – Tamil" lang="ta" hreflang="ta" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>தமிழ்</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-shi mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://shi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lalman" title="Lalman – Tachelhit" lang="shi" hreflang="shi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Taclḥit</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kab mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://kab.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lalman" title="Lalman – Kabyle" lang="kab" hreflang="kab" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Taqbaylit</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-roa-tara mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://roa-tara.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanie" title="Germanie – Tarantino" lang="nap-x-tara" hreflang="nap-x-tara" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tarandíne</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tt badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F" title="Германия – Tatar" lang="tt" hreflang="tt" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Татарча / tatarça</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-shn mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://shn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%80%99%E1%80%AD%E1%80%B0%E1%80%84%E1%80%BA%E1%80%B8%E1%81%B5%E1%80%BB%E1%82%83%E1%82%87%E1%80%99%E1%81%BC%E1%80%AE%E1%82%87" title="မိူင်းၵျႃႇမၼီႇ – Shan" lang="shn" hreflang="shn" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ၽႃႇသႃႇတႆး </span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tay mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://tay.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany" title="Germany – Tayal" lang="tay" hreflang="tay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tayal</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-te mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%9C%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%AE%E0%B0%A8%E0%B1%80" title="జర్మనీ – Telugu" lang="te" hreflang="te" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>తెలుగు</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tet mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://tet.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alema%C3%B1a" title="Alemaña – Tetum" lang="tet" hreflang="tet" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tetun</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-th mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%9B%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B0%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%97%E0%B8%A8%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%A2%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%A1%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%B5" title="ประเทศเยอรมนี – Thai" lang="th" hreflang="th" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ไทย</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ti mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://ti.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%8C%80%E1%88%AD%E1%88%98%E1%8A%95" title="ጀርመን – Tigrinya" lang="ti" hreflang="ti" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ትግርኛ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tg mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://tg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D0%BB%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%BD" title="Олмон – Tajik" lang="tg" hreflang="tg" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Тоҷикӣ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-to mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://to.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siamane" title="Siamane – Tongan" lang="to" hreflang="to" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lea faka-Tonga</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-chr mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://chr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%8E%A0%E1%8F%9B%E1%8F%A5" title="ᎠᏛᏥ – Cherokee" lang="chr" hreflang="chr" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ᏣᎳᎩ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-chy mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://chy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma%27ev%C3%A9%27ho%27%C3%A9no" title="Ma'evé'ho'éno – Cheyenne" lang="chy" hreflang="chy" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tsetsêhestâhese</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tcy mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://tcy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%9C%E0%B2%B0%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AE%E0%B2%A8%E0%B2%BF" title="ಜರ್ಮನಿ – Tulu" lang="tcy" hreflang="tcy" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ತುಳು</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almanya" title="Almanya – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Türkçe</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tk mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://tk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germani%C3%BDa" title="Germaniýa – Turkmen" lang="tk" hreflang="tk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Türkmençe</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tw mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://tw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany" title="Germany – Twi" lang="tw" hreflang="tw" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Twi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kcg mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://kcg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jami%CC%B1ni" title="Jami̱ni – Tyap" lang="kcg" hreflang="kcg" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tyap</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tyv mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://tyv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F" title="Германия – Tuvinian" lang="tyv" hreflang="tyv" 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href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro" title="Euro">Euro</a> (<a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_sign" title="Euro sign">€</a>) (<a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_4217" title="ISO 4217">EUR</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Time zone</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="nowrap"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time" title="Coordinated Universal Time">UTC</a>+1</span> (<a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_European_Time" title="Central European Time">CET</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedbottomrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div class="ib-country-fake-li">•&#160;Summer&#160;(<a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time" title="Daylight saving time">DST</a>)</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="nowrap"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time" title="Coordinated Universal Time">UTC</a>+2</span> (<a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_European_Summer_Time" title="Central European Summer Time">CEST</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-_and_right-hand_traffic" title="Left- and right-hand traffic">Driving side</a></th><td class="infobox-data">right</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_numbers_in_Germany" title="Telephone numbers in Germany">Calling code</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_numbers_in_Germany" title="Telephone numbers in Germany">+49</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166" title="ISO 3166">ISO 3166 code</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2:DE" title="ISO 3166-2:DE">DE</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_code_top-level_domain" title="Country code top-level domain">Internet TLD</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.de" title=".de">.de</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Germany</b>,<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15">&#91;e&#93;</a></sup> officially the <b>Federal Republic of Germany</b>,<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17">&#91;f&#93;</a></sup> is a country in <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Europe" title="Central Europe">Central Europe</a>. It is the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_countries_by_population" title="List of European countries by population">second-most populous country</a> in Europe after <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a>, and the most populous <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_state_of_the_European_Union" title="Member state of the European Union">member state of the European Union</a>. Germany is situated between the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_Sea" title="Baltic Sea">Baltic</a> and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sea" title="North Sea">North</a> seas to the north, and the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alps" title="Alps">Alps</a> to the south. Its 16 <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States_of_Germany" title="States of Germany">constituent states</a> are bordered by <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denmark" title="Denmark">Denmark</a> to the north, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poland" title="Poland">Poland</a> and the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_Republic" title="Czech Republic">Czech Republic</a> to the east, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria" title="Austria">Austria</a> and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland" title="Switzerland">Switzerland</a> to the south, and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France" title="France">France</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxembourg" title="Luxembourg">Luxembourg</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgium" title="Belgium">Belgium</a>, and the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands" title="Netherlands">Netherlands</a> to the west. The <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_of_Germany" title="Capital of Germany">nation's capital</a> and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Germany_by_population" title="List of cities in Germany by population">most populous city</a> is <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin" title="Berlin">Berlin</a> and its main financial centre is <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt" title="Frankfurt">Frankfurt</a>; the largest urban area is the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruhr" title="Ruhr">Ruhr</a>. </p><p>Various <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_peoples" title="Germanic peoples">Germanic</a> <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_early_Germanic_peoples" title="List of early Germanic peoples">tribes</a> have inhabited the northern parts of modern Germany since <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_antiquity" title="Classical antiquity">classical antiquity</a>. A region named <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germania" title="Germania">Germania</a> was documented before AD 100. In 962, the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Germany" title="Kingdom of Germany">Kingdom of Germany</a> formed the bulk of the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Roman_Empire" title="Holy Roman Empire">Holy Roman Empire</a>. During the 16th century, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Germany" title="Northern Germany">northern German regions</a> became the centre of the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reformation" title="Reformation">Protestant Reformation</a>. Following the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleonic_Wars" title="Napoleonic Wars">Napoleonic Wars</a> and the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806, the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Confederation" title="German Confederation">German Confederation</a> was formed in 1815. </p><p>Formal <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unification_of_Germany" title="Unification of Germany">unification of Germany</a> into the modern nation-state was commenced on 18 August 1866 with the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_German_Confederation_Treaty" title="North German Confederation Treaty">North German Confederation Treaty</a> establishing the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Prussia" title="Kingdom of Prussia">Prussia</a>-led <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_German_Confederation" title="North German Confederation">North German Confederation</a> later transformed in 1871 into the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Empire" title="German Empire">German Empire</a>. After <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a> and the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Revolution_of_1918%E2%80%931919" title="German Revolution of 1918–1919">German Revolution of 1918–1919</a>, the Empire was in turn transformed into the semi-presidential <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weimar_Republic" title="Weimar Republic">Weimar Republic</a>. The <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler%27s_rise_to_power" title="Adolf Hitler's rise to power">Nazi seizure of power</a> in 1933 led to the establishment of <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Germany" title="Nazi Germany">a totalitarian dictatorship</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust" title="The Holocaust">the Holocaust</a>. After the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_of_World_War_II_in_Europe" title="End of World War II in Europe">end of World War II in Europe</a> and a period of <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied-occupied_Germany" title="Allied-occupied Germany">Allied occupation</a>, in 1949, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_German_relations" title="Inner German relations">Germany as a whole</a> was organized into two separate polities with limited sovereignty: the Federal Republic of Germany, generally known as <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Germany" title="West Germany">West Germany</a>, and the German Democratic Republic, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Germany" title="East Germany">East Germany</a>, while Berlin <i><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_jure" title="De jure">de jure</a></i> continued its <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Power_Agreement_on_Berlin" title="Four Power Agreement on Berlin">Four Power status</a>. The Federal Republic of Germany was a founding member of the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Economic_Community" title="European Economic Community">European Economic Community</a> and the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union">European Union</a>, while the German Democratic Republic was a communist <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Bloc" title="Eastern Bloc">Eastern Bloc</a> state and member of the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Pact" title="Warsaw Pact">Warsaw Pact</a>. After the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peaceful_Revolution" title="Peaceful Revolution">fall</a> of <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Unity_Party_of_Germany" title="Socialist Unity Party of Germany">communist</a> led-government in East Germany, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_reunification" title="German reunification">German reunification</a> saw the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_states_of_Germany" title="New states of Germany">former East German states</a> join the Federal Republic of Germany on <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Unity_Day" title="German Unity Day">3 October 1990</a>—becoming a <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_parliamentary_republic" title="Federal parliamentary republic">federal parliamentary republic</a>. </p><p>Germany has been described as a <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_power" title="Great power">great power</a> with <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Germany" title="Economy of Germany">a strong economy</a>; it has the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_in_Europe_by_GDP_(nominal)" title="List of sovereign states in Europe by GDP (nominal)">largest economy in Europe</a>, the world's <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)" title="List of countries by GDP (nominal)">fourth-largest economy by nominal GDP</a> and the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)" title="List of countries by GDP (PPP)">fifth-largest by PPP</a>. As a global power in industrial, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_and_technology_in_Germany" title="Science and technology in Germany">scientific and technological</a> sectors, it is both the world's <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_exports" title="List of countries by exports">third-largest exporter</a> and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_imports" title="List of countries by imports">importer</a>. As a <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developed_country" title="Developed country">developed country</a> it <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_security_in_Germany" title="Social security in Germany">offers social security</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Germany" title="Healthcare in Germany">a universal health care system</a> and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_Germany#Tertiary_education" title="Education in Germany">a tuition-free university education</a>. Germany is a member of the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">United Nations</a>, the European Union, the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO" title="NATO">NATO</a>, the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Europe" title="Council of Europe">Council of Europe</a>, the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G7" title="G7">G7</a>, the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G20" title="G20">G20</a> and the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OECD" title="OECD">OECD</a>. It has the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_Heritage_Sites_in_Germany" title="List of World Heritage Sites in Germany">third-greatest number</a> of UNESCO <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Heritage_Site" title="World Heritage Site">World Heritage Sites</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc"/> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Etymology">Etymology</span></h2> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1033289096"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_Germany" title="Names of Germany">Names of Germany</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germani" class="mw-redirect" title="Germani">Germani</a>, and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germania" title="Germania">Germania</a></div> <p>The English word <i>Germany</i> derives from the Latin <span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germania" title="Germania">Germania</a></i></span>, which came into use after <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar" title="Julius Caesar">Julius Caesar</a> adopted it for the peoples east of the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhine" title="Rhine">Rhine</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18">&#91;12&#93;</a></sup> The <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_language" title="German language">German</a> term <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">Deutschland</i></span>, originally <span title="Middle High German (ca. 1050-1500)-language text"><i lang="gmh">diutisciu land</i></span> ('the German lands') is derived from <i lang="de"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/deutsch#German" class="extiw" title="wikt:deutsch">deutsch</a></i> (<a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cf." title="Cf.">cf.</a> <i><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Dutch#English" class="extiw" title="wikt:Dutch">Dutch</a></i>), descended from <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_High_German" title="Old High German">Old High German</a> <span title="Old High German (ca. 750-1050)-language text"><i lang="goh">diutisc</i></span> 'of the people' (from <span title="Old High German (ca. 750-1050)-language text"><i lang="goh">diot</i></span> or <span title="Old High German (ca. 750-1050)-language text"><i lang="goh">diota</i></span> 'people'), originally used to distinguish the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernacular" title="Vernacular">language of the common people</a> from <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin" title="Latin">Latin</a> and its <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_languages" title="Romance languages">Romance descendants</a>. This in turn descends from <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Germanic_language" title="Proto-Germanic language">Proto-Germanic</a> <span title="Proto-Germanic-language text">&#42;<i lang="gem"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/%C3%BEiudiskaz" class="extiw" title="wikt:Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/þiudiskaz">þiudiskaz</a></i></span> 'of the people' (see also the Latinised form <span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodiscus" title="Theodiscus">Theodiscus</a></i></span>), derived from <span title="Proto-Germanic-language text">&#42;<i lang="gem"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/%C3%BEeud%C5%8D" class="extiw" title="wikt:Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/þeudō">þeudō</a></i></span>, descended from <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_language" title="Proto-Indo-European language">Proto-Indo-European</a> *<i><span title="Proto-Indo-European language" class="Unicode" style="white-space:nowrap;"><span lang="ine"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/tewt%C3%A9h%E2%82%82" class="extiw" title="wikt:Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/tewtéh₂">tewtéh₂-</a></span></span></i> 'people', from which the word <i><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teutons" title="Teutons">Teutons</a></i> also originates.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19">&#91;13&#93;</a></sup> </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="History">History</span></h2> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1033289096"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Germany" title="History of Germany">History of Germany</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1033289096"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For a chronological guide, see <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_German_history" title="Timeline of German history">Timeline of German history</a>.</div> <p>Pre-human ancestors, the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danuvius_guggenmosi" title="Danuvius guggenmosi">Danuvius guggenmosi</a>, who were present in Germany over 11 million years ago, are theorized to be among the earliest ones to walk on two legs.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20">&#91;14&#93;</a></sup> Ancient humans were present in Germany at least 600,000 years ago.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21">&#91;15&#93;</a></sup> The first non-modern human fossil (the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal" title="Neanderthal">Neanderthal</a>) was discovered in the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neandertal_(valley)" title="Neandertal (valley)">Neander Valley</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22">&#91;16&#93;</a></sup> Similarly dated evidence of modern humans has been found in the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caves_and_Ice_Age_Art_in_the_Swabian_Jura" title="Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura">Swabian Jura</a>, including 42,000-year-old flutes which are the oldest musical instruments ever found,<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23">&#91;17&#93;</a></sup> the 40,000-year-old <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-man" title="Lion-man">Lion Man</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24">&#91;18&#93;</a></sup> and the 35,000-year-old <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_of_Hohle_Fels" title="Venus of Hohle Fels">Venus of Hohle Fels</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25">&#91;19&#93;</a></sup> The <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebra_sky_disk" class="mw-redirect" title="Nebra sky disk">Nebra sky disk</a>, created during the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Bronze_Age" class="mw-redirect" title="European Bronze Age">European Bronze Age</a>, has been attributed to a German site.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26">&#91;20&#93;</a></sup> </p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Germanic_tribes_and_the_Frankish_Empire">Germanic tribes and the Frankish Empire</span></h3> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1033289096"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jastorf_culture" title="Jastorf culture">Jastorf culture</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_peoples" title="Germanic peoples">Germanic peoples</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germania" title="Germania">Germania</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migration_Period" title="Migration Period">Migration Period</a>, and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankish_Realm" class="mw-redirect" title="Frankish Realm">Frankish Realm</a></div> <p>The <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_peoples" title="Germanic peoples">Germanic peoples</a> are <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnogenesis" title="Ethnogenesis">thought to date from</a> the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_Bronze_Age" title="Nordic Bronze Age">Nordic Bronze Age</a>, early <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Roman_Iron_Age" class="mw-redirect" title="Pre-Roman Iron Age">Iron Age</a>, or the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jastorf_culture" title="Jastorf culture">Jastorf culture</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Heather_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Heather-27">&#91;21&#93;</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28">&#91;22&#93;</a></sup> From southern <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavia" title="Scandinavia">Scandinavia</a> and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Germany" title="Northern Germany">northern Germany</a>, they expanded south, east, and west, coming into contact with the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celts" title="Celts">Celtic</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_peoples" title="Iranian peoples">Iranian</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balts" title="Balts">Baltic</a>, and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Slavs" title="Early Slavs">Slavic</a> tribes.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29">&#91;23&#93;</a></sup> </p> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:222px;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Roman_Trier_model_1.jpg" class="image"><img src="//web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Roman_Trier_model_1.jpg/220px-Roman_Trier_model_1.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="thumbimage" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Roman_Trier_model_1.jpg/330px-Roman_Trier_model_1.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Roman_Trier_model_1.jpg/440px-Roman_Trier_model_1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4757" data-file-height="3154"/></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Roman_Trier_model_1.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>Model of <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Trier" title="History of Trier">Augusta Treverorum</a> (<a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trier" title="Trier">Trier</a>) in the 4th century</div></div></div> <p>Under <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus" title="Augustus">Augustus</a>, the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Empire" title="Roman Empire">Roman Empire</a> began to invade lands inhabited by the Germanic tribes, creating a short-lived Roman province of <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germania_Antiqua" title="Germania Antiqua">Germania</a> between the Rhine and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbe" title="Elbe">Elbe</a> rivers. In 9&#160;AD, three <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_legion" title="Roman legion">Roman legions</a> were <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Teutoburg_Forest" title="Battle of the Teutoburg Forest">defeated</a> by <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arminius" title="Arminius">Arminius</a> in the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Teutoburg_Forest" title="Battle of the Teutoburg Forest">Battle of the Teutoburg Forest</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30">&#91;24&#93;</a></sup> The outcome of this battle dissuaded the Romans from their ambition of conquering <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germania" title="Germania">Germania</a>, and is thus considered one of the most important events in <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_history" class="mw-redirect" title="European history">European history</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMurdoch200457_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMurdoch200457-31">&#91;25&#93;</a></sup> By 100&#160;AD, when <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacitus" title="Tacitus">Tacitus</a> wrote <i><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germania_(book)" title="Germania (book)">Germania</a></i>, Germanic tribes had settled along the Rhine and the Danube (the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limes_Germanicus" title="Limes Germanicus">Limes Germanicus</a>), occupying most of modern Germany. However, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baden_W%C3%BCrttemberg" class="mw-redirect" title="Baden Württemberg">Baden-Württemberg</a>, southern <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bavaria" title="Bavaria">Bavaria</a>, southern <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesse" title="Hesse">Hesse</a> and the western <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhineland" title="Rhineland">Rhineland</a> had been <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_Wars" class="mw-redirect" title="Germanic Wars">incorporated</a> into <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_province" title="Roman province">Roman provinces</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFulbrook19919–13_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFulbrook19919–13-32">&#91;26&#93;</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33">&#91;27&#93;</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34">&#91;28&#93;</a></sup> </p><p>Around 260, Germanic peoples broke into Roman-controlled lands.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35">&#91;29&#93;</a></sup> After the invasion of the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huns" title="Huns">Huns</a> in 375, and with the decline of Rome from 395, Germanic tribes moved farther southwest: the Franks established the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankish_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="Frankish Kingdom">Frankish Kingdom</a> and pushed east to subjugate <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchy_of_Saxony" title="Duchy of Saxony">Saxony</a> and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchy_of_Bavaria" title="Duchy of Bavaria">Bavaria</a>, and areas of what is today eastern Germany were inhabited by <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Slavs" title="West Slavs">Western Slavic</a> tribes.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFulbrook19919–13_32-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFulbrook19919–13-32">&#91;26&#93;</a></sup> </p> <div style="clear:left;"></div> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="East_Francia_and_the_Holy_Roman_Empire">East Francia and the Holy Roman Empire</span></h3> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1033289096"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Francia" title="East Francia">East Francia</a> and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Roman_Empire" title="Holy Roman Empire">Holy Roman Empire</a></div> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:232px;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:East_Francia_843.svg" class="image"><img src="//web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/East_Francia_843.svg/230px-East_Francia_843.svg.png" decoding="async" width="230" height="175" class="thumbimage" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/East_Francia_843.svg/345px-East_Francia_843.svg.png 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/East_Francia_843.svg/460px-East_Francia_843.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="380"/></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:East_Francia_843.svg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>The kingdom of <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Francia" title="East Francia">East Francia</a> in 843</div></div></div> <p><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlemagne" title="Charlemagne">Charlemagne</a> founded the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolingian_Empire" title="Carolingian Empire">Carolingian Empire</a> in 800; it was <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Verdun" title="Treaty of Verdun">divided in 843</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFulbrook199111_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFulbrook199111-36">&#91;30&#93;</a></sup> The eastern successor kingdom of <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Francia" title="East Francia">East Francia</a> stretched from the Rhine in the west to the Elbe river in the east and from the North Sea to the Alps.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFulbrook199111_36-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFulbrook199111-36">&#91;30&#93;</a></sup> Subsequently, the Holy Roman Empire emerged from it. The <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottonian" class="mw-redirect" title="Ottonian">Ottonian</a> rulers (919–1024) consolidated several major <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stem_duchy" title="Stem duchy">duchies</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37">&#91;31&#93;</a></sup> In 996, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Gregory_V" title="Pope Gregory V">Gregory V</a> became the first German Pope, appointed by his cousin <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_III" class="mw-redirect" title="Otto III">Otto III</a>, whom he shortly after crowned Holy Roman Emperor. The Holy Roman Empire absorbed northern Italy and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgundy_(historical_region)" class="mw-redirect" title="Burgundy (historical region)">Burgundy</a> under the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salian" class="mw-redirect" title="Salian">Salian</a> emperors (1024–1125), although the emperors lost power through the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investiture_Controversy" title="Investiture Controversy">Investiture Controversy</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38">&#91;32&#93;</a></sup> </p><p>Under the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Hohenstaufen" class="mw-redirect" title="House of Hohenstaufen">Hohenstaufen</a> emperors (1138–1254), German princes encouraged German settlement to the south and east (<span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostsiedlung" title="Ostsiedlung">Ostsiedlung</a></i></span>).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFulbrook199119–20_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFulbrook199119–20-39">&#91;33&#93;</a></sup> Members of the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanseatic_League" title="Hanseatic League">Hanseatic League</a>, mostly north German towns, prospered in the expansion of trade.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFulbrook199113–24_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFulbrook199113–24-40">&#91;34&#93;</a></sup> The population declined starting with the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_of_1315%E2%80%931317" title="Great Famine of 1315–1317">Great Famine</a> in 1315, followed by the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death" title="Black Death">Black Death</a> of 1348–50.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41">&#91;35&#93;</a></sup> The <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Bull_of_1356" title="Golden Bull of 1356">Golden Bull</a> issued in 1356 provided the constitutional structure of the Empire and codified the election of the emperor by seven <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince-elector" title="Prince-elector">prince-electors</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFulbrook199127_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFulbrook199127-42">&#91;36&#93;</a></sup> </p> <div class="thumb tleft"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:172px;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lucas_Cranach_d.%C3%84._-_Martin_Luther,_1528_(Veste_Coburg).jpg" class="image"><img src="//web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Lucas_Cranach_d.%C3%84._-_Martin_Luther%2C_1528_%28Veste_Coburg%29.jpg/170px-Lucas_Cranach_d.%C3%84._-_Martin_Luther%2C_1528_%28Veste_Coburg%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="269" class="thumbimage" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Lucas_Cranach_d.%C3%84._-_Martin_Luther%2C_1528_%28Veste_Coburg%29.jpg/255px-Lucas_Cranach_d.%C3%84._-_Martin_Luther%2C_1528_%28Veste_Coburg%29.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Lucas_Cranach_d.%C3%84._-_Martin_Luther%2C_1528_%28Veste_Coburg%29.jpg/340px-Lucas_Cranach_d.%C3%84._-_Martin_Luther%2C_1528_%28Veste_Coburg%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2148" data-file-height="3400"/></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lucas_Cranach_d.%C3%84._-_Martin_Luther,_1528_(Veste_Coburg).jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther" title="Martin Luther">Martin Luther</a> (1483–1546), <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestantism" title="Protestantism">Protestant</a> <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reformation" title="Reformation">Reformer</a></div></div></div> <p><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Gutenberg" title="Johannes Gutenberg">Johannes Gutenberg</a> introduced moveable-type <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing" title="Printing">printing</a> to Europe, laying the basis for the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratization_of_knowledge" title="Democratization of knowledge">democratization of knowledge</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43">&#91;37&#93;</a></sup> In 1517, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther" title="Martin Luther">Martin Luther</a> incited the Protestant Reformation and his <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luther_Bible" title="Luther Bible">translation of the Bible</a> began the standardization of the language; the 1555 <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_of_Augsburg" title="Peace of Augsburg">Peace of Augsburg</a> tolerated the "Evangelical" faith (<a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutheranism" title="Lutheranism">Lutheranism</a>), but also decreed that the faith of the prince was to be the faith of his subjects (<span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuius_regio,_eius_religio" title="Cuius regio, eius religio">cuius regio, eius religio</a></i></span>).<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44">&#91;38&#93;</a></sup> From the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cologne_War" title="Cologne War">Cologne War</a> through the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Years%27_War" title="Thirty Years' War">Thirty Years' Wars</a> (1618–1648), religious conflict devastated German lands and significantly reduced the population.<sup id="cite_ref-Philpott_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Philpott-45">&#91;39&#93;</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46">&#91;40&#93;</a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_of_Westphalia" title="Peace of Westphalia">Peace of Westphalia</a> ended religious warfare among the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Estate" title="Imperial Estate">Imperial Estates</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-Philpott_45-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Philpott-45">&#91;39&#93;</a></sup> their mostly German-speaking rulers were able to choose <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholicism" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholicism">Roman Catholicism</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutheranism" title="Lutheranism">Lutheranism</a>, or the Reformed faith as their official religion.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47">&#91;41&#93;</a></sup> The legal system initiated by a series of <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Reform" title="Imperial Reform">Imperial Reforms</a> (approximately 1495–1555) provided for considerable local autonomy and a stronger <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Diet_(Holy_Roman_Empire)" title="Imperial Diet (Holy Roman Empire)">Imperial Diet</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48">&#91;42&#93;</a></sup> The <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Habsburg" title="House of Habsburg">House of Habsburg</a> held the imperial crown from 1438 until the death of <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_VI,_Holy_Roman_Emperor" title="Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor">Charles VI</a> in 1740. Following the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Austrian_Succession" title="War of the Austrian Succession">War of the Austrian Succession</a> and the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Aix-la-Chapelle_(1748)" title="Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1748)">Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle</a>, Charles VI's daughter <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Theresa" title="Maria Theresa">Maria Theresa</a> ruled as <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_consort" title="Queen consort">empress consort</a> when her husband, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_I,_Holy_Roman_Emperor" title="Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor">Francis I</a>, became emperor.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49">&#91;43&#93;</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50">&#91;44&#93;</a></sup> </p><p>From 1740, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_dualism" class="mw-redirect" title="German dualism">dualism</a> between the Austrian <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habsburg_monarchy" title="Habsburg monarchy">Habsburg monarchy</a> and the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Prussia" title="Kingdom of Prussia">Kingdom of Prussia</a> dominated German history. In 1772, 1793, and 1795, Prussia and Austria, along with the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Empire" title="Russian Empire">Russian Empire</a>, agreed to the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partitions_of_Poland" title="Partitions of Poland">Partitions of Poland</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51">&#91;45&#93;</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52">&#91;46&#93;</a></sup> During the period of the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolutionary_Wars" title="French Revolutionary Wars">French Revolutionary Wars</a>, the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleonic_era" title="Napoleonic era">Napoleonic era</a> and the subsequent <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Recess_of_the_Reichsdeputation" class="mw-redirect" title="Final Recess of the Reichsdeputation">final meeting of the Imperial Diet</a>, most of the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Imperial_Cities" class="mw-redirect" title="Free Imperial Cities">Free Imperial Cities</a> were annexed by dynastic territories; the ecclesiastical territories were secularised and annexed. In 1806 the <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">Imperium</i></span> was dissolved; France, Russia, Prussia and the Habsburgs (Austria) competed for hegemony in the German states during the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleonic_Wars" title="Napoleonic Wars">Napoleonic Wars</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFulbrook199197_53-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFulbrook199197-53">&#91;47&#93;</a></sup> </p> <div style="clear:left;"></div> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="German_Confederation_and_Empire">German Confederation and Empire</span></h3> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1033289096"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_question" title="German question">German question</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Confederation" title="German Confederation">German Confederation</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unification_of_Germany" title="Unification of Germany">Unification of Germany</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Empire" title="German Empire">German Empire</a>, and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_colonial_empire" title="German colonial empire">German colonial empire</a></div> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:222px;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:German_Confederation_(1815).svg" class="image"><img src="//web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/German_Confederation_%281815%29.svg/220px-German_Confederation_%281815%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="223" class="thumbimage" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/German_Confederation_%281815%29.svg/330px-German_Confederation_%281815%29.svg.png 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/German_Confederation_%281815%29.svg/440px-German_Confederation_%281815%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="450" data-file-height="456"/></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:German_Confederation_(1815).svg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>The <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Confederation" title="German Confederation">German Confederation</a> in 1815</div></div></div> <p>Following the fall of <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon" title="Napoleon">Napoleon</a>, the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_Vienna" title="Congress of Vienna">Congress of Vienna</a> founded the German Confederation, a loose league of <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States_of_the_German_Confederation" title="States of the German Confederation">39 sovereign states</a>. The appointment of the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_of_Austria" title="Emperor of Austria">emperor of Austria</a> as the permanent president reflected the Congress's rejection of <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussia" title="Prussia">Prussia</a>'s rising influence. Disagreement within <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concert_of_Europe" title="Concert of Europe">restoration</a> politics partly led to the rise of <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism_in_Germany" title="Liberalism in Germany">liberal</a> movements, followed by new measures of repression by Austrian statesman <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klemens_von_Metternich" title="Klemens von Metternich">Klemens von Metternich</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54">&#91;48&#93;</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55">&#91;49&#93;</a></sup> The <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zollverein" title="Zollverein">Zollverein</a></i></span>, a tariff union, furthered economic unity.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56">&#91;50&#93;</a></sup> In light of <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutions_of_1848" title="Revolutions of 1848">revolutionary movements in Europe</a>, intellectuals and commoners started the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_revolutions_of_1848%E2%80%931849" title="German revolutions of 1848–1849">revolutions of 1848 in the German states</a>, raising the German question. King <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_William_IV_of_Prussia" title="Frederick William IV of Prussia">Frederick William IV of Prussia</a> was offered the title of emperor, but with a loss of power; he rejected the crown and the proposed constitution, a temporary setback for the movement.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57">&#91;51&#93;</a></sup> </p><p>King <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_I,_German_Emperor" title="William I, German Emperor">William I</a> appointed <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_von_Bismarck" title="Otto von Bismarck">Otto von Bismarck</a> as the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minister_President_of_Prussia" title="Minister President of Prussia">minister president of Prussia</a> in 1862. Bismarck successfully concluded the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Schleswig_War" title="Second Schleswig War">war with Denmark in 1864</a>; the subsequent decisive Prussian victory in the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austro-Prussian_War" title="Austro-Prussian War">Austro-Prussian War</a> of 1866 enabled him to create the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_German_Confederation" title="North German Confederation">North German Confederation</a> which excluded <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_Empire" title="Austrian Empire">Austria</a>. After the defeat of France in the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco-Prussian_War" title="Franco-Prussian War">Franco-Prussian War</a>, the German princes proclaimed the founding of the German Empire in 1871. Prussia was the dominant constituent state of the new empire; the King of Prussia ruled as its Kaiser, and Berlin became its capital.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58">&#91;52&#93;</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-bismarck_59-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bismarck-59">&#91;53&#93;</a></sup> </p><p>In the <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr%C3%BCnderzeit" title="Gründerzeit">Gründerzeit</a></i></span> period following the unification of Germany, Bismarck's foreign policy as <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chancellor_of_Germany" title="Chancellor of Germany">chancellor of Germany</a> secured Germany's position as a great nation by forging alliances and avoiding war.<sup id="cite_ref-bismarck_59-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bismarck-59">&#91;53&#93;</a></sup> However, under <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_II,_German_Emperor" title="Wilhelm II, German Emperor">Wilhelm II</a>, Germany took an <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Imperialism" title="New Imperialism">imperialistic</a> course, leading to friction with neighbouring countries.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60">&#91;54&#93;</a></sup> A <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_Alliance_(1879)" title="Dual Alliance (1879)">dual alliance</a> was created with the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multinational_state" title="Multinational state">multinational realm</a> of <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria-Hungary" title="Austria-Hungary">Austria-Hungary</a>; the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_Alliance_(1882)" title="Triple Alliance (1882)">Triple Alliance of 1882</a> included Italy. Britain, France and Russia also concluded alliances to protect against Habsburg interference with Russian interests in the Balkans or German interference against France.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFulbrook1991135,_149_61-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFulbrook1991135,_149-61">&#91;55&#93;</a></sup> At the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Conference" title="Berlin Conference">Berlin Conference</a> in 1884, Germany claimed several <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_former_German_colonies" title="List of former German colonies">colonies</a> including <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_East_Africa" title="German East Africa">German East Africa</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_South_West_Africa" title="German South West Africa">German South West Africa</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Togoland" title="Togoland">Togoland</a>, and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamerun" title="Kamerun">Kamerun</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62">&#91;56&#93;</a></sup> Later, Germany further expanded its colonial empire to include holdings in the Pacific and China.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63">&#91;57&#93;</a></sup> The colonial government in South West Africa (present-day <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namibia" title="Namibia">Namibia</a>), from 1904 to 1907, carried out the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herero_and_Namaqua_genocide" title="Herero and Namaqua genocide">annihilation of the local Herero and Namaqua peoples</a> as punishment for an uprising;<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64">&#91;58&#93;</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Bazyler_65-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bazyler-65">&#91;59&#93;</a></sup> this was the 20th century's first <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide" title="Genocide">genocide</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Bazyler_65-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bazyler-65">&#91;59&#93;</a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Archduke_Franz_Ferdinand_of_Austria" class="mw-redirect" title="Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria">assassination</a> of <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archduke_Franz_Ferdinand_of_Austria" title="Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria">Austria's crown prince</a> on 28 June 1914 provided the pretext for Austria-Hungary to attack Serbia and trigger <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a>. After four years of warfare, in which approximately two million German soldiers were killed,<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66">&#91;60&#93;</a></sup> a <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armistice_with_Germany" class="mw-redirect" title="Armistice with Germany">general armistice</a> ended the fighting. In the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Revolution_of_1918%E2%80%931919" title="German Revolution of 1918–1919">German Revolution</a> (November 1918), Emperor Wilhelm II and the ruling princes <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdication" title="Abdication">abdicated</a> their positions, and Germany was declared a <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_republic" title="Federal republic">federal republic</a>. Germany's new leadership signed the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Versailles" title="Treaty of Versailles">Treaty of Versailles</a> in 1919, accepting defeat by the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allies_of_World_War_I" title="Allies of World War I">Allies</a>. Germans perceived the treaty as humiliating, which was seen by historians as influential in the rise of <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" title="Adolf Hitler">Adolf Hitler</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67">&#91;61&#93;</a></sup> Germany lost around 13% of its European territory and ceded all of its colonial possessions in Africa and the Pacific.<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68">&#91;62&#93;</a></sup> </p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Weimar_Republic_and_Nazi_Germany">Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany</span></h3> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1033289096"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weimar_Republic" title="Weimar Republic">Weimar Republic</a> and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Germany" title="Nazi Germany">Nazi Germany</a></div> <p>On 11 August 1919, President <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Ebert" title="Friedrich Ebert">Friedrich Ebert</a> signed the democratic <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weimar_Constitution" title="Weimar Constitution">Weimar Constitution</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFulbrook1991156–160_69-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFulbrook1991156–160-69">&#91;63&#93;</a></sup> In the subsequent struggle for power, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bavarian_Soviet_Republic" title="Bavarian Soviet Republic">communists seized power in Bavaria</a>, but conservative elements elsewhere attempted to overthrow the Republic in the <span title="German-language text"><span lang="de" style="font-style: normal;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapp_Putsch" title="Kapp Putsch">Kapp Putsch</a></span></span>. Street fighting in the major industrial centres, the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_the_Ruhr" title="Occupation of the Ruhr">occupation of the Ruhr</a> by Belgian and French troops, and a period of <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_the_Weimar_Republic" title="Hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic">hyperinflation</a> followed. A <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawes_Plan" title="Dawes Plan">debt restructuring plan</a> and the creation of a <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Rentenmark" class="mw-redirect" title="German Rentenmark">new currency</a> in 1924 ushered in the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Twenties" title="Golden Twenties">Golden Twenties</a>, an era of artistic innovation and liberal cultural life.<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70">&#91;64&#93;</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71">&#91;65&#93;</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72">&#91;66&#93;</a></sup> </p> <div class="thumb tleft"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:172px;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hitler_portrait_crop.jpg" class="image"><img src="//web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Hitler_portrait_crop.jpg/170px-Hitler_portrait_crop.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="227" class="thumbimage" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Hitler_portrait_crop.jpg/255px-Hitler_portrait_crop.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Hitler_portrait_crop.jpg/340px-Hitler_portrait_crop.jpg 2x" data-file-width="426" data-file-height="568"/></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hitler_portrait_crop.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" title="Adolf Hitler">Adolf Hitler</a>, dictator of Nazi Germany (1933–1945)</div></div></div> <p>The worldwide <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression" title="Great Depression">Great Depression</a> hit Germany in 1929. Chancellor <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Br%C3%BCning" title="Heinrich Brüning">Heinrich Brüning</a>'s government pursued a <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_the_Great_Depression#Leave-it-alone_liquidationism_(1929–1933)" title="Causes of the Great Depression">policy of fiscal austerity</a> and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weimar_Republic#Brüning's_policy_of_deflation_(1930–1932)" title="Weimar Republic">deflation</a> which caused unemployment of nearly 30% by 1932.<sup id="cite_ref-chronicle_73-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-chronicle-73">&#91;67&#93;</a></sup> The <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Party" title="Nazi Party">Nazi Party</a> led by <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" title="Adolf Hitler">Adolf Hitler</a> became the largest party in the Reichstag after <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_1932_German_federal_election" title="July 1932 German federal election">a special election in 1932</a> and Hindenburg appointed Hitler as chancellor of Germany on 30 January 1933.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFulbrook1991155–158,_172–177_74-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFulbrook1991155–158,_172–177-74">&#91;68&#93;</a></sup> After the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_fire" title="Reichstag fire">Reichstag fire</a>, a <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_Fire_Decree" title="Reichstag Fire Decree">decree</a> abrogated basic <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_rights" class="mw-redirect" title="Civil rights">civil rights</a> and the first <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_concentration_camps" title="Nazi concentration camps">Nazi concentration camp</a> opened.<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75">&#91;69&#93;</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-MNN_76-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MNN-76">&#91;70&#93;</a></sup> On 23 March 1933, the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enabling_Act_of_1933" title="Enabling Act of 1933">Enabling Act</a> gave Hitler unrestricted legislative power, overriding the constitution,<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77">&#91;71&#93;</a></sup> and marked the beginning of Nazi Germany. His government established a centralised <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totalitarianism" title="Totalitarianism">totalitarian state</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1933_German_referendum" title="1933 German referendum">withdrew from the League of Nations</a>, and dramatically increased the country's <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_re-armament" class="mw-redirect" title="German re-armament">rearmament</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78">&#91;72&#93;</a></sup> A government-sponsored programme for economic renewal focused on public works, the most famous of which was the <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichsautobahn" title="Reichsautobahn">Autobahn</a></i></span>.<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79">&#91;73&#93;</a></sup> </p><p>In 1935, the regime withdrew from the Treaty of Versailles and introduced the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Laws" title="Nuremberg Laws">Nuremberg Laws</a> which targeted <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews" title="Jews">Jews</a> and other minorities.<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80">&#91;74&#93;</a></sup> Germany also reacquired control of the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territory_of_the_Saar_Basin" title="Territory of the Saar Basin">Saarland</a> in 1935,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFulbrook1991188–189_81-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFulbrook1991188–189-81">&#91;75&#93;</a></sup> <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remilitarization_of_the_Rhineland" title="Remilitarization of the Rhineland">remilitarised the Rhineland</a> in 1936, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anschluss" title="Anschluss">annexed</a> Austria in 1938, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudetenland#Sudetenland_as_part_of_Nazi_Germany" title="Sudetenland">annexed</a> the Sudetenland in 1938 with the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_Agreement" title="Munich Agreement">Munich Agreement</a>, and in violation of the agreement <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_occupation_of_Czechoslovakia" class="mw-redirect" title="German occupation of Czechoslovakia">occupied Czechoslovakia</a> in March 1939.<sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82">&#91;76&#93;</a></sup> <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristallnacht" title="Kristallnacht">Kristallnacht</a></i></span> (Night of Broken Glass) saw the burning of synagogues, the destruction of Jewish businesses, and mass arrests of Jewish people.<sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83">&#91;77&#93;</a></sup> </p> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:302px;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Europe_under_Nazi_domination.png" class="image"><img src="//web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Europe_under_Nazi_domination.png/300px-Europe_under_Nazi_domination.png" decoding="async" width="300" height="275" class="thumbimage" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Europe_under_Nazi_domination.png/450px-Europe_under_Nazi_domination.png 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Europe_under_Nazi_domination.png/600px-Europe_under_Nazi_domination.png 2x" data-file-width="1088" data-file-height="998"/></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Europe_under_Nazi_domination.png" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German-occupied_Europe" title="German-occupied Europe">German-occupied Europe</a> in 1942 during <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>; Germany (Reich) is shown in bold black.</div></div></div> <p>In August 1939, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_Nazi_Germany" title="Government of Nazi Germany">Hitler's government</a> negotiated the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pact" title="Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact">Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact</a> that divided Eastern Europe into German and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet</a> spheres of influence.<sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84">&#91;78&#93;</a></sup> On 1 September 1939, Germany <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Poland" title="Invasion of Poland">invaded Poland</a>, beginning <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> in Europe;<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFulbrook1991190–195_85-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFulbrook1991190–195-85">&#91;79&#93;</a></sup> Britain and France declared war on Germany on 3 September.<sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86">&#91;80&#93;</a></sup> In the spring of 1940, Germany <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Weser%C3%BCbung" title="Operation Weserübung">conquered Denmark and Norway</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_invasion_of_the_Netherlands" title="German invasion of the Netherlands">the Netherlands</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_invasion_of_Belgium_(1940)" title="German invasion of Belgium (1940)">Belgium</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_invasion_of_Luxembourg" title="German invasion of Luxembourg">Luxembourg</a>, and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_France" title="Battle of France">France</a>, forcing the French government to sign an <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armistice" title="Armistice">armistice</a>. The British repelled German air attacks in the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Britain" title="Battle of Britain">Battle of Britain</a> in the same year. In 1941, German troops <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Yugoslavia" title="Invasion of Yugoslavia">invaded Yugoslavia</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Greece" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Greece">Greece</a> and the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Barbarossa" title="Operation Barbarossa">Soviet Union</a>. By 1942, Germany and its allies controlled most of <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German-occupied_Europe" title="German-occupied Europe">continental Europe</a> and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Africa" title="North Africa">North Africa</a>, but following the Soviet victory at the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stalingrad" title="Battle of Stalingrad">Battle of Stalingrad</a>, the Allied <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_African_Campaign" class="mw-redirect" title="North African Campaign">reconquest of North Africa</a> and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Campaign_(World_War_II)" class="mw-redirect" title="Italian Campaign (World War II)">invasion of Italy</a> in 1943, German forces suffered repeated military defeats. In 1944, the Soviets <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Front_(World_War_II)#Summer_1944" title="Eastern Front (World War II)">pushed into Eastern Europe</a>; the Western allies <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Overlord" title="Operation Overlord">landed in France</a> and entered Germany despite a <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Bulge" title="Battle of the Bulge">final German counteroffensive</a>. Following <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Adolf_Hitler" title="Death of Adolf Hitler">Hitler's suicide</a> during the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Berlin" title="Battle of Berlin">Battle of Berlin</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Instrument_of_Surrender" title="German Instrument of Surrender">Germany signed the surrender document</a> on 8 May 1945, ending World War II in Europe<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFulbrook1991190–195_85-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFulbrook1991190–195-85">&#91;79&#93;</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87">&#91;81&#93;</a></sup> and Nazi Germany. Following the end of the war, surviving Nazi officials were tried for <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crimes_of_the_Wehrmacht" title="War crimes of the Wehrmacht">war crimes</a> at the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_trials" title="Nuremberg trials">Nuremberg trials</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-books.google.com_88-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-books.google.com-88">&#91;82&#93;</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89">&#91;83&#93;</a></sup> </p><p>In what later became known as <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust" title="The Holocaust">the Holocaust</a>, the German government persecuted minorities, including interning them in concentration and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extermination_camp" title="Extermination camp">death camps</a> across Europe. In total <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_victims" title="Holocaust victims">17 million people were systematically murdered</a>, including 6&#160;million Jews, at least 130,000 <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porajmos" class="mw-redirect" title="Porajmos">Romani</a>, 275,000 <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aktion_T4" title="Aktion T4">disabled people</a>, thousands of <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehovah%27s_Witnesses" title="Jehovah's Witnesses">Jehovah's Witnesses</a>, thousands of <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_homosexuals_in_Nazi_Germany" title="Persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany">homosexuals</a>, and hundreds of thousands of <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nacht_und_Nebel" title="Nacht und Nebel">political and religious opponents</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-90" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-90">&#91;84&#93;</a></sup> <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalplan_Ost" title="Generalplan Ost">Nazi policies</a> in German-occupied countries resulted in the deaths of an estimated 2.7&#160;million <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_people" title="Polish people">Poles</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-91">&#91;85&#93;</a></sup> 1.3&#160;million <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainians" title="Ukrainians">Ukrainians</a>, 1&#160;million <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarusians" title="Belarusians">Belarusians</a> and 3.5&#160;million <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_mistreatment_of_Soviet_prisoners_of_war" class="mw-redirect" title="German mistreatment of Soviet prisoners of war">Soviet prisoners of war</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-92">&#91;86&#93;</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-books.google.com_88-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-books.google.com-88">&#91;82&#93;</a></sup> German military <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_casualties_in_World_War_II" title="German casualties in World War II">casualties</a> have been estimated at 5.3&#160;million,<sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93">&#91;87&#93;</a></sup> and around 900,000 German civilians died.<sup id="cite_ref-94" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-94">&#91;88&#93;</a></sup> Around <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_and_expulsion_of_Germans_(1944%E2%80%931950)" title="Flight and expulsion of Germans (1944–1950)">12&#160;million ethnic Germans were expelled</a> from across Eastern Europe, and Germany lost roughly <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Former_eastern_territories_of_Germany" title="Former eastern territories of Germany">one-quarter</a> of its pre-war territory.<sup id="cite_ref-95" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-95">&#91;89&#93;</a></sup> </p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="East_and_West_Germany">East and West Germany</span></h3> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1033289096"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Germany_(1945%E2%80%931990)" title="History of Germany (1945–1990)">History of Germany (1945–1990)</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied-occupied_Germany" title="Allied-occupied Germany">Allied-occupied Germany</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Germany" title="West Germany">West Germany</a>, and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Germany" title="East Germany">East Germany</a></div> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:222px;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Map-Germany-1945.svg" class="image"><img src="//web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Map-Germany-1945.svg/220px-Map-Germany-1945.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="187" class="thumbimage" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Map-Germany-1945.svg/330px-Map-Germany-1945.svg.png 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Map-Germany-1945.svg/440px-Map-Germany-1945.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="3492" data-file-height="2966"/></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Map-Germany-1945.svg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>1947 Germany with the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied-occupied_Germany" title="Allied-occupied Germany">American, Soviet, British, and French occupation zones</a> as well as <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_French_Republic" class="mw-redirect" title="Fourth French Republic">French</a>-controlled <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saar_Protectorate" title="Saar Protectorate">Saarland</a>. <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Former_eastern_territories_of_Germany" title="Former eastern territories of Germany">Territories</a> east of the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oder-Neisse_line" class="mw-redirect" title="Oder-Neisse line">Oder-Neisse line</a> were transferred to <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provisional_Government_of_National_Unity" title="Provisional Government of National Unity">Poland</a> and the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a> under the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potsdam_Agreement" title="Potsdam Agreement">terms</a> of the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potsdam_Conference" title="Potsdam Conference">Potsdam Conference</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-96" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-96">&#91;90&#93;</a></sup></div></div></div> <p>After <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Germany" title="Nazi Germany">Nazi Germany</a> surrendered, the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allies_of_World_War_II" title="Allies of World War II">Allies</a> partitioned Berlin and Germany's remaining territory into four occupation zones. The western sectors, controlled by France, the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a>, and the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>, were merged on 23 May 1949 to form the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Germany" title="West Germany">Federal Republic of Germany</a> (<a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_language" title="German language">German</a>: <i lang="de">Bundesrepublik Deutschland</i>); on 7 October 1949, the Soviet Zone became the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Germany" title="East Germany">German Democratic Republic</a> (GDR) (<a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_language" title="German language">German</a>: <i lang="de">Deutsche Demokratische Republik</i>; DDR). They were informally known as West Germany and East Germany.<sup id="cite_ref-97" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-97">&#91;91&#93;</a></sup> East Germany selected <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Berlin" title="East Berlin">East Berlin</a> as its capital, while West Germany chose <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonn" title="Bonn">Bonn</a> as a provisional capital, to emphasise its stance that the two-state solution was temporary.<sup id="cite_ref-98" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-98">&#91;92&#93;</a></sup> </p><p>West Germany was established as a federal parliamentary republic with a "<a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_market_economy" title="Social market economy">social market economy</a>". Starting in 1948 West Germany became a major recipient of reconstruction aid under the American <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan" title="Marshall Plan">Marshall Plan</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-99" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-99">&#91;93&#93;</a></sup> <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Adenauer" title="Konrad Adenauer">Konrad Adenauer</a> was elected the first <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Chancellor_of_the_Federal_Republic_of_Germany" class="mw-redirect" title="Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany">federal chancellor</a> of Germany in 1949. The country enjoyed prolonged economic growth (<span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirtschaftswunder" title="Wirtschaftswunder">Wirtschaftswunder</a></i></span>) beginning in the early 1950s.<sup id="cite_ref-100" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-100">&#91;94&#93;</a></sup> West Germany joined <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO" title="NATO">NATO</a> in 1955 and was a founding member of the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Economic_Community" title="European Economic Community">European Economic Community</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-101" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-101">&#91;95&#93;</a></sup> On 1 January 1957, the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saar_Protectorate" title="Saar Protectorate">Saarland</a> joined West Germany.<sup id="cite_ref-CS_102-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CS-102">&#91;96&#93;</a></sup> </p><p>East Germany was an <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Bloc" title="Eastern Bloc">Eastern Bloc</a> state under political and military control by the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a> via occupation forces and the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Pact" title="Warsaw Pact">Warsaw Pact</a>. Although East Germany claimed to be a democracy, political power was exercised solely by leading members (<span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politburo" title="Politburo">Politbüro</a></i></span>) of the communist-controlled <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Unity_Party_of_Germany" title="Socialist Unity Party of Germany">Socialist Unity Party of Germany</a>, supported by the <span title="German-language text"><span lang="de" style="font-style: normal;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi" title="Stasi">Stasi</a></span></span>, an immense secret service.<sup id="cite_ref-103" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-103">&#91;97&#93;</a></sup> While <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_propaganda" title="Communist propaganda">East German propaganda</a> was based on the benefits of the GDR's social programmes and the alleged threat of a West German invasion, many of its citizens looked to the West for freedom and prosperity.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT_19890822_104-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT_19890822-104">&#91;98&#93;</a></sup> The <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Wall" title="Berlin Wall">Berlin Wall</a>, built in 1961, prevented East German citizens from escaping to West Germany, becoming a symbol of the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War" title="Cold War">Cold War</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-105" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-105">&#91;99&#93;</a></sup> </p><p>Tensions between East and West Germany were reduced in the late 1960s by Chancellor <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy_Brandt" title="Willy Brandt">Willy Brandt</a>'s <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostpolitik" title="Ostpolitik">Ostpolitik</a></i></span>.<sup id="cite_ref-106" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-106">&#91;100&#93;</a></sup> In 1989, Hungary decided to dismantle the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Curtain" title="Iron Curtain">Iron Curtain</a> and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Removal_of_Hungary%27s_border_fence_with_Austria" title="Removal of Hungary's border fence with Austria">open its border with Austria</a>, causing the emigration of thousands of East Germans to West Germany via Hungary and Austria. This had devastating effects on the GDR, where regular <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monday_demonstrations_in_East_Germany" title="Monday demonstrations in East Germany">mass demonstrations</a> received increasing support. In an effort to help retain East Germany as a state, the East German authorities eased border restrictions, but this actually led to an acceleration of the <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">Wende</i></span> reform process culminating in the <i><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_the_Final_Settlement_with_Respect_to_Germany" title="Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany">Two Plus Four Treaty</a></i> under which Germany regained full sovereignty. This permitted <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_reunification" title="German reunification">German reunification</a> on 3 October 1990, with the accession of the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_states_of_Germany" title="New states of Germany">five re-established states</a> of the former GDR.<sup id="cite_ref-107" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-107">&#91;101&#93;</a></sup> The fall of the Wall in 1989 became a symbol of the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Communism" class="mw-redirect" title="Fall of Communism">Fall of Communism</a>, the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Dissolution of the Soviet Union">Dissolution of the Soviet Union</a>, German reunification and <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Wende" class="mw-redirect" title="Die Wende">Die Wende</a></i></span>.<sup id="cite_ref-108" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-108">&#91;102&#93;</a></sup> </p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Reunified_Germany_and_the_European_Union">Reunified Germany and the European Union</span></h3> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1033289096"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_reunification" title="German reunification">German reunification</a> and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Germany_since_1990" class="mw-redirect" title="History of Germany since 1990">History of Germany since 1990</a></div> <div class="thumb tleft"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:222px;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:West_and_East_Germans_at_the_Brandenburg_Gate_in_1989.jpg" class="image"><img src="//web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/West_and_East_Germans_at_the_Brandenburg_Gate_in_1989.jpg/220px-West_and_East_Germans_at_the_Brandenburg_Gate_in_1989.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="166" class="thumbimage" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/West_and_East_Germans_at_the_Brandenburg_Gate_in_1989.jpg/330px-West_and_East_Germans_at_the_Brandenburg_Gate_in_1989.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/West_and_East_Germans_at_the_Brandenburg_Gate_in_1989.jpg/440px-West_and_East_Germans_at_the_Brandenburg_Gate_in_1989.jpg 2x" data-file-width="661" data-file-height="498"/></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:West_and_East_Germans_at_the_Brandenburg_Gate_in_1989.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>The <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Wall" title="Berlin Wall">Berlin Wall</a> during <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_the_Berlin_Wall" title="Fall of the Berlin Wall">its fall</a> in 1989, with the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg_Gate" title="Brandenburg Gate">Brandenburg Gate</a> in the background</div></div></div> <p>United Germany was considered the enlarged continuation of West Germany so it retained its memberships in international organisations.<sup id="cite_ref-109" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-109">&#91;103&#93;</a></sup> Based on the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin/Bonn_Act" class="mw-redirect" title="Berlin/Bonn Act">Berlin/Bonn Act</a> (1994), Berlin again became the capital of Germany, while Bonn obtained the unique status of a <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">Bundesstadt</i></span> (federal city) retaining some federal ministries.<sup id="cite_ref-110" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-110">&#91;104&#93;</a></sup> The relocation of the government was completed in 1999, and modernisation of the East German economy was scheduled to last until 2019.<sup id="cite_ref-111" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-111">&#91;105&#93;</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-112" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-112">&#91;106&#93;</a></sup> </p><p>Since reunification, Germany has taken a more active role in the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union">European Union</a>, signing the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maastricht_Treaty" title="Maastricht Treaty">Maastricht Treaty</a> in 1992 and the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisbon_Treaty" class="mw-redirect" title="Lisbon Treaty">Lisbon Treaty</a> in 2007,<sup id="cite_ref-113" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-113">&#91;107&#93;</a></sup> and co-founding the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurozone" title="Eurozone">Eurozone</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-114" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-114">&#91;108&#93;</a></sup> Germany sent a peacekeeping force to secure stability in the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_NATO_bombing_in_Yugoslavia" class="mw-redirect" title="1999 NATO bombing in Yugoslavia">Balkans</a> and sent <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundeswehr" title="Bundeswehr">German troops</a> to <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a> as part of a NATO effort to provide <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80%93present)" class="mw-redirect" title="War in Afghanistan (2001–present)">security in that country</a> after the ousting of the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban" title="Taliban">Taliban</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-115" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-115">&#91;109&#93;</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-116" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-116">&#91;110&#93;</a></sup> </p><p>In the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_German_federal_election" title="2005 German federal election">2005 elections</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Merkel" title="Angela Merkel">Angela Merkel</a> became the first female chancellor. In 2009 the German government approved a €50&#160;billion stimulus plan.<sup id="cite_ref-117" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-117">&#91;111&#93;</a></sup> Among the major German political projects of the early 21st century are the advancement of <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_integration" title="European integration">European integration</a>, the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_transition_in_Germany" class="mw-redirect" title="Energy transition in Germany">energy transition</a> (<span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">Energiewende</i></span>) for a <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_energy" title="Sustainable energy">sustainable energy</a> supply, the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt_brake_(Germany)" title="Debt brake (Germany)">debt brake</a> for balanced budgets, measures to increase the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ageing_of_Europe#Germany" title="Ageing of Europe">fertility rate</a> (<a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalistic_politics" class="mw-redirect" title="Natalistic politics">pronatalism</a>), and high-tech strategies for the transition of the German economy, summarised as <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industry_4.0" class="mw-redirect" title="Industry 4.0">Industry 4.0</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-118" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-118">&#91;112&#93;</a></sup> During the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_European_migrant_crisis" title="2015 European migrant crisis">2015 European migrant crisis</a>, the country took in over a million refugees and migrants.<sup id="cite_ref-119" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-119">&#91;113&#93;</a></sup> </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Geography">Geography</span></h2> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1033289096"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Germany" title="Geography of Germany">Geography of Germany</a></div> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:172px;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Deutschland_topo.jpg" class="image"><img src="//web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Deutschland_topo.jpg/170px-Deutschland_topo.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="224" class="thumbimage" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Deutschland_topo.jpg/255px-Deutschland_topo.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Deutschland_topo.jpg/340px-Deutschland_topo.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2011" data-file-height="2654"/></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Deutschland_topo.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>Physical map of Germany</div></div></div> <p>Germany is the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_countries_by_area" title="List of European countries by area">seventh-largest country</a> in Europe;<sup id="cite_ref-CIA_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CIA-7">&#91;4&#93;</a></sup> bordering <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denmark" title="Denmark">Denmark</a> to the north, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poland" title="Poland">Poland</a> and the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_Republic" title="Czech Republic">Czech Republic</a> to the east, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria" title="Austria">Austria</a> to the southeast, and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland" title="Switzerland">Switzerland</a> to the south-southwest. <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France" title="France">France</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxembourg" title="Luxembourg">Luxembourg</a> and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgium" title="Belgium">Belgium</a> are situated to the west, with the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands" title="Netherlands">Netherlands</a> to the northwest. Germany is also bordered by the North Sea and, at the north-northeast, by the Baltic Sea. German territory covers 357,022&#160;km<sup>2</sup> (137,847&#160;sq&#160;mi), consisting of 348,672&#160;km<sup>2</sup> (134,623&#160;sq&#160;mi) of land and 8,350&#160;km<sup>2</sup> (3,224&#160;sq&#160;mi) of water. </p><p>Elevation ranges from the mountains of the Alps (highest point: the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zugspitze" title="Zugspitze">Zugspitze</a> at 2,963 metres or 9,721 feet) in the south to the shores of the North Sea (<span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">Nordsee</i></span>) in the northwest and the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_Sea" title="Baltic Sea">Baltic Sea</a> (<span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">Ostsee</i></span>) in the northeast. The forested uplands of central Germany and the lowlands of northern Germany (lowest point: in the municipality <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuendorf-Sachsenbande" title="Neuendorf-Sachsenbande">Neuendorf-Sachsenbande</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilstermarsch" title="Wilstermarsch">Wilstermarsch</a> at 3.54 metres or 11.6 feet below sea level<sup id="cite_ref-120" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-120">&#91;114&#93;</a></sup>) are traversed by such major rivers as the Rhine, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danube" title="Danube">Danube</a> and Elbe. Significant natural resources include iron ore, coal, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potash" title="Potash">potash</a>, timber, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lignite" title="Lignite">lignite</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium" title="Uranium">uranium</a>, copper, natural gas, salt, and nickel.<sup id="cite_ref-CIA_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CIA-7">&#91;4&#93;</a></sup> </p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Climate">Climate</span></h3> <p>Most of Germany has a <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperate" class="mw-redirect" title="Temperate">temperate</a> climate, ranging from <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceanic_climate" title="Oceanic climate">oceanic</a> in the north and west to <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_climate" title="Continental climate">continental</a> in the east and southeast. Winters range from the cold in the Southern Alps to cool and are generally overcast with limited precipitation, while summers can vary from hot and dry to cool and rainy. The northern regions have prevailing westerly winds that bring in moist air from the North Sea, moderating the temperature and increasing precipitation. Conversely, the southeast regions have more extreme temperatures.<sup id="cite_ref-121" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-121">&#91;115&#93;</a></sup> </p><p>From February 2019–2020, average monthly temperatures in Germany ranged from a low of 3.3&#160;°C (37.9&#160;°F) in January 2020 to a high of 19.8&#160;°C (67.6&#160;°F) in June 2019.<sup id="cite_ref-122" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-122">&#91;116&#93;</a></sup> Average monthly precipitation ranged from 30 litres per square metre in February and April 2019 to 125 litres per square metre in February 2020.<sup id="cite_ref-123" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-123">&#91;117&#93;</a></sup> Average monthly hours of sunshine ranged from 45 in November 2019 to 300 in June 2019.<sup id="cite_ref-124" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-124">&#91;118&#93;</a></sup> </p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Biodiversity">Biodiversity</span></h3> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:222px;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Herbst_am_Watzmann.jpg" class="image"><img src="//web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Herbst_am_Watzmann.jpg/220px-Herbst_am_Watzmann.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="thumbimage" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Herbst_am_Watzmann.jpg/330px-Herbst_am_Watzmann.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Herbst_am_Watzmann.jpg/440px-Herbst_am_Watzmann.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4729" data-file-height="3547"/></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Herbst_am_Watzmann.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berchtesgaden_National_Park" title="Berchtesgaden National Park">Berchtesgaden National Park</a></div></div></div> <p>The territory of Germany can be divided into five terrestrial <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecoregion" title="Ecoregion">ecoregions</a>: <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_mixed_forests" title="Atlantic mixed forests">Atlantic mixed forests</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_mixed_forests" title="Baltic mixed forests">Baltic mixed forests</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_European_mixed_forests" title="Central European mixed forests">Central European mixed forests</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_European_broadleaf_forests" title="Western European broadleaf forests">Western European broadleaf forests</a>, and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alps_conifer_and_mixed_forests" title="Alps conifer and mixed forests">Alps conifer and mixed forests</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-DinersteinOlson2017_125-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DinersteinOlson2017-125">&#91;119&#93;</a></sup> As of 2016<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Germany&amp;action=edit">&#91;update&#93;</a></sup> 51% of Germany's land area is devoted to agriculture, while 30% is forested and 14% is covered by settlements or infrastructure.<sup id="cite_ref-126" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-126">&#91;120&#93;</a></sup> </p><p>Plants and animals include those generally common to Central Europe. According to the National Forest Inventory, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beeches" class="mw-redirect" title="Beeches">beeches</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak" title="Oak">oaks</a>, and other <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deciduous" title="Deciduous">deciduous</a> trees constitute just over 40% of the forests; roughly 60% are <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conifers" class="mw-redirect" title="Conifers">conifers</a>, particularly <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spruce" title="Spruce">spruce</a> and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine" title="Pine">pine</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-127" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-127">&#91;121&#93;</a></sup> There are many species of <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fern" title="Fern">ferns</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowers" class="mw-redirect" title="Flowers">flowers</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungi" class="mw-redirect" title="Fungi">fungi</a>, and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosses" class="mw-redirect" title="Mosses">mosses</a>. Wild animals include <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_European_red_deer" title="Central European red deer">roe deer</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_European_boar" title="Central European boar">wild boar</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouflon" title="Mouflon">mouflon</a> (a subspecies of wild sheep), <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_fox" title="Red fox">fox</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_badger" title="European badger">badger</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_hare" title="European hare">hare</a>, and small numbers of the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_beaver" title="Eurasian beaver">Eurasian beaver</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-128" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-128">&#91;122&#93;</a></sup> The blue <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornflower" class="mw-redirect" title="Cornflower">cornflower</a> was once a German <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floral_emblem" title="Floral emblem">national symbol</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-129" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-129">&#91;123&#93;</a></sup> </p><p>The 16 <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_parks_of_Germany" title="List of national parks of Germany">national parks in Germany</a> include the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasmund_National_Park" title="Jasmund National Park">Jasmund National Park</a>, the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorpommern_Lagoon_Area_National_Park" class="mw-redirect" title="Vorpommern Lagoon Area National Park">Vorpommern Lagoon Area National Park</a>, the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCritz_National_Park" title="Müritz National Park">Müritz National Park</a>, the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wadden_Sea_National_Parks" title="Wadden Sea National Parks">Wadden Sea National Parks</a>, the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harz_National_Park" title="Harz National Park">Harz National Park</a>, the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hainich_National_Park" title="Hainich National Park">Hainich National Park</a>, the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Forest_National_Park" title="Black Forest National Park">Black Forest National Park</a>, the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saxon_Switzerland_National_Park" title="Saxon Switzerland National Park">Saxon Switzerland National Park</a>, the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bavarian_Forest_National_Park" title="Bavarian Forest National Park">Bavarian Forest National Park</a> and the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berchtesgaden_National_Park" title="Berchtesgaden National Park">Berchtesgaden National Park</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-130" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-130">&#91;124&#93;</a></sup> In addition, there are 17 <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosphere_Reserves_in_Germany" class="mw-redirect" title="Biosphere Reserves in Germany">Biosphere Reserves</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-131" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-131">&#91;125&#93;</a></sup> and 105 <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_parks_(Germany)" class="mw-redirect" title="Nature parks (Germany)">nature parks</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-132" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-132">&#91;126&#93;</a></sup> More than <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_zoos_in_Germany" title="List of zoos in Germany">400 zoos and animal parks</a> operate in Germany.<sup id="cite_ref-133" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-133">&#91;127&#93;</a></sup> The <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Zoological_Garden" class="mw-redirect" title="Berlin Zoological Garden">Berlin Zoo</a>, which opened in 1844, is the oldest in Germany, and claims the most comprehensive collection of species in the world.<sup id="cite_ref-134" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-134">&#91;128&#93;</a></sup> </p> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Politics">Politics</span></h2> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1033289096"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Germany" title="Politics of Germany">Politics of Germany</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_Germany" title="Taxation in Germany">Taxation in Germany</a>, and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_budget_of_Germany" title="Federal budget of Germany">Federal budget of Germany</a></div> <table class="wikitable floatright"> <tbody><tr> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:German_Federal_President_Frank-Walter_Steinmeier_in_Helsinki_8.4.2022_(51990863165).jpg" class="image"><img alt="German Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier in Helsinki 8.4.2022 (51990863165).jpg" src="//web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/German_Federal_President_Frank-Walter_Steinmeier_in_Helsinki_8.4.2022_%2851990863165%29.jpg/155px-German_Federal_President_Frank-Walter_Steinmeier_in_Helsinki_8.4.2022_%2851990863165%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="155" height="205" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/German_Federal_President_Frank-Walter_Steinmeier_in_Helsinki_8.4.2022_%2851990863165%29.jpg/233px-German_Federal_President_Frank-Walter_Steinmeier_in_Helsinki_8.4.2022_%2851990863165%29.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/German_Federal_President_Frank-Walter_Steinmeier_in_Helsinki_8.4.2022_%2851990863165%29.jpg/310px-German_Federal_President_Frank-Walter_Steinmeier_in_Helsinki_8.4.2022_%2851990863165%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="625" data-file-height="827"/></a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Olaf_Scholz_3.5.2022_(3).jpg" class="image"><img alt="Olaf Scholz 3.5.2022 (3).jpg" src="//web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Olaf_Scholz_3.5.2022_%283%29.jpg/168px-Olaf_Scholz_3.5.2022_%283%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="168" height="208" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Olaf_Scholz_3.5.2022_%283%29.jpg/252px-Olaf_Scholz_3.5.2022_%283%29.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Olaf_Scholz_3.5.2022_%283%29.jpg/336px-Olaf_Scholz_3.5.2022_%283%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1015" data-file-height="1257"/></a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:center;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank-Walter_Steinmeier" title="Frank-Walter Steinmeier">Frank-Walter Steinmeier</a><br/><small><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Germany" title="President of Germany">President</a><br/>(representative head of state)</small> </td> <td style="text-align:center;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olaf_Scholz" title="Olaf Scholz">Olaf Scholz</a><br/><small><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chancellor_of_Germany" title="Chancellor of Germany">Chancellor</a><br/>(head of government)</small> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Germany is a <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_republic" title="Federal republic">federal</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary_democratic" class="mw-redirect" title="Parliamentary democratic">parliamentary</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representative_democracy" title="Representative democracy">representative democratic</a> republic. Federal <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legislative_power" class="mw-redirect" title="Legislative power">legislative power</a> is vested in the parliament consisting of the <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundestag" title="Bundestag">Bundestag</a></i></span> (Federal Diet) and <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundesrat_of_Germany" class="mw-redirect" title="Bundesrat of Germany">Bundesrat</a></i></span> (Federal Council), which together form the legislative body. The <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">Bundestag</i></span> is elected through <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_election" title="Direct election">direct elections</a> using the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed-member_proportional_representation" title="Mixed-member proportional representation">mixed-member proportional representation</a> system. The members of the <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">Bundesrat</i></span> represent and are appointed by the governments of the sixteen federated states.<sup id="cite_ref-CIA_7-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CIA-7">&#91;4&#93;</a></sup> The German political system operates under a framework laid out in the 1949 constitution known as the <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Law_for_the_Federal_Republic_of_Germany" title="Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany">Grundgesetz</a></i></span> (Basic Law). Amendments generally require a two-thirds majority of both the <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">Bundestag</i></span> and the <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">Bundesrat</i></span>; the fundamental principles of the constitution, as expressed in the articles guaranteeing human dignity, the separation of powers, the federal structure, and the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_law" title="Rule of law">rule of law</a>, are valid in perpetuity.<sup id="cite_ref-135" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-135">&#91;129&#93;</a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Germany" title="President of Germany">president</a>, currently <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank-Walter_Steinmeier" title="Frank-Walter Steinmeier">Frank-Walter Steinmeier</a>, is the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_of_state" title="Head of state">head of state</a> and invested primarily with representative responsibilities and powers. He is elected by the <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundesversammlung_(Germany)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bundesversammlung (Germany)">Bundesversammlung</a></i></span> (federal convention), an institution consisting of the members of the <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">Bundestag</i></span> and an equal number of state delegates.<sup id="cite_ref-CIA_7-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CIA-7">&#91;4&#93;</a></sup> The second-highest official in the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_order_of_precedence" title="German order of precedence">German order of precedence</a> is the <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">Bundestagspräsident</i></span> (<a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_Bundestag" title="President of the Bundestag">President of the Bundestag</a>), who is elected by the <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">Bundestag</i></span> and responsible for overseeing the daily sessions of the body.<sup id="cite_ref-136" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-136">&#91;130&#93;</a></sup> The third-highest official and the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_of_government" title="Head of government">head of government</a> is the chancellor, who is appointed by the <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">Bundespräsident</i></span> after being elected by the party or coalition with the most seats in the <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">Bundestag</i></span>.<sup id="cite_ref-CIA_7-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CIA-7">&#91;4&#93;</a></sup> The chancellor, currently <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olaf_Scholz" title="Olaf Scholz">Olaf Scholz</a>, is the head of government and exercises <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_(government)" title="Executive (government)">executive power</a> through his <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet_of_Germany" title="Cabinet of Germany">Cabinet</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-CIA_7-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CIA-7">&#91;4&#93;</a></sup> </p><p>Since 1949, the party system has been dominated by the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Democratic_Union_(Germany)" class="mw-redirect" title="Christian Democratic Union (Germany)">Christian Democratic Union</a> and the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Democratic_Party_of_Germany" title="Social Democratic Party of Germany">Social Democratic Party of Germany</a>. So far every chancellor has been a member of one of these parties. However, the smaller liberal <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Democratic_Party_(Germany)" title="Free Democratic Party (Germany)">Free Democratic Party</a> and the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_90/The_Greens" title="Alliance 90/The Greens">Alliance 90/The Greens</a> have also been junior partners in <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalition_government" title="Coalition government">coalition governments</a>. Since 2007, the democratic socialist party <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Left_(Germany)" title="The Left (Germany)">The Left</a> has been a staple in the German <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">Bundestag</i></span>, though they have never been part of the federal government. In the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_German_federal_election" title="2017 German federal election">2017 German federal election</a>, the right-wing populist <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_for_Germany" title="Alternative for Germany">Alternative for Germany</a> gained enough votes to attain representation in the parliament for the first time.<sup id="cite_ref-137" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-137">&#91;131&#93;</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-138" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-138">&#91;132&#93;</a></sup> </p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Constituent_states">Constituent states</span></h3> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1033289096"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States_of_Germany" title="States of Germany">States of Germany</a>, <a 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href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_German_states_by_GRP_per_capita" title="List of German states by GRP per capita">Nominal GDP per capita</a> EUR (2015)<sup id="cite_ref-auto_144-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-144">&#91;138&#93;</a></sup> </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baden-W%C3%BCrttemberg" title="Baden-Württemberg">Baden-Württemberg</a></td> <td><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuttgart" title="Stuttgart">Stuttgart</a></td> <td style="text-align:right">35,751</td> <td style="text-align:right">11,069,533</td> <td style="text-align:right">461</td> <td style="text-align:right">42,800 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bavaria" title="Bavaria">Bavaria</a></td> <td><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich" title="Munich">Munich</a></td> <td style="text-align:right">70,550</td> <td style="text-align:right">13,076,721</td> <td style="text-align:right">550</td> <td style="text-align:right">43,100 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin" title="Berlin">Berlin</a></td> <td><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin" title="Berlin">Berlin</a></td> <td style="text-align:right">892</td> <td style="text-align:right">3,644,826</td> <td style="text-align:right">125</td> <td style="text-align:right">35,700 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg" title="Brandenburg">Brandenburg</a></td> <td><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potsdam" title="Potsdam">Potsdam</a></td> <td style="text-align:right">29,654</td> <td style="text-align:right">2,511,917</td> <td style="text-align:right">66</td> <td style="text-align:right">26,500 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremen_(state)" title="Bremen (state)">Bremen</a></td> <td><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremen" title="Bremen">Bremen</a></td> <td style="text-align:right">420</td> <td style="text-align:right">682,986</td> <td style="text-align:right">32</td> <td style="text-align:right">47,600 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburg" title="Hamburg">Hamburg</a></td> <td><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburg" title="Hamburg">Hamburg</a></td> <td style="text-align:right">755</td> <td style="text-align:right">1,841,179</td> <td style="text-align:right">110</td> <td style="text-align:right">61,800 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesse" title="Hesse">Hesse</a></td> <td><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiesbaden" title="Wiesbaden">Wiesbaden</a></td> <td style="text-align:right">21,115</td> <td style="text-align:right">6,265,809</td> <td style="text-align:right">264</td> <td style="text-align:right">43,100 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecklenburg-Vorpommern" title="Mecklenburg-Vorpommern">Mecklenburg-Vorpommern</a></td> <td><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwerin" title="Schwerin">Schwerin</a></td> <td style="text-align:right">23,214</td> <td style="text-align:right">1,609,675</td> <td style="text-align:right">40</td> <td style="text-align:right">25,000 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_Saxony" title="Lower Saxony">Lower Saxony</a></td> <td><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanover" title="Hanover">Hanover</a></td> <td style="text-align:right">47,593</td> <td style="text-align:right">7,982,448</td> <td style="text-align:right">259</td> <td style="text-align:right">32,900 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a 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(legal system)">civil law system</a> based on <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_law" title="Roman law">Roman law</a> with some references to <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_law" title="Germanic law">Germanic law</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-145" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-145">&#91;139&#93;</a></sup> The <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Constitutional_Court_of_Germany" class="mw-redirect" title="Federal Constitutional Court of Germany">Bundesverfassungsgericht</a></i></span> (Federal Constitutional Court) is the German Supreme Court responsible for constitutional matters, with power of <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_review" title="Judicial review">judicial review</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-146" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-146">&#91;140&#93;</a></sup> Germany's supreme court system is specialised: for civil and criminal cases, the highest court of appeal is the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inquisitorial_system" title="Inquisitorial system">inquisitorial</a> <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Court_of_Justice" title="Federal Court of Justice">Federal Court of Justice</a>, and for other affairs the courts are the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Labour_Court" title="Federal Labour Court">Federal Labour Court</a>, the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Social_Court" title="Federal Social Court">Federal Social Court</a>, the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Fiscal_Court" title="Federal Fiscal Court">Federal Fiscal Court</a> and the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Administrative_Court_(Germany)" title="Federal Administrative Court (Germany)">Federal Administrative Court</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-147" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-147">&#91;141&#93;</a></sup> </p><p>Criminal and private laws are codified on the national level in the <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strafgesetzbuch" title="Strafgesetzbuch">Strafgesetzbuch</a></i></span> and the <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%BCrgerliches_Gesetzbuch" title="Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch">Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch</a></i></span> respectively. The German penal system seeks the rehabilitation of the criminal and the protection of the public.<sup id="cite_ref-148" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-148">&#91;142&#93;</a></sup> Except for petty crimes, which are tried before a single professional judge, and serious <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_crime" title="Political crime">political crimes</a>, all charges are tried before mixed tribunals on which <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lay_judge" title="Lay judge">lay judges</a> (<span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sch%C3%B6ffe" class="mw-redirect" title="Schöffe">Schöffen</a></i></span>) sit side by side with professional judges.<sup id="cite_ref-149" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-149">&#91;143&#93;</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-150" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-150">&#91;144&#93;</a></sup> </p><p>Germany has a low murder rate with 1.18 murders per 100,000 as of 2016<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Germany&amp;action=edit">&#91;update&#93;</a></sup>.<sup id="cite_ref-151" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-151">&#91;145&#93;</a></sup> In 2018, the overall crime rate fell to its lowest since 1992.<sup id="cite_ref-152" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-152">&#91;146&#93;</a></sup> </p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Foreign_relations">Foreign relations</span></h3> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1033289096"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_relations_of_Germany" title="Foreign relations of Germany">Foreign relations of Germany</a></div> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:222px;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Group_photo_of_the_G7_members_at_the_Scholss_Elmau_summit_(2).jpg" class="image"><img src="//web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Group_photo_of_the_G7_members_at_the_Scholss_Elmau_summit_%282%29.jpg/220px-Group_photo_of_the_G7_members_at_the_Scholss_Elmau_summit_%282%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="121" class="thumbimage" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Group_photo_of_the_G7_members_at_the_Scholss_Elmau_summit_%282%29.jpg/330px-Group_photo_of_the_G7_members_at_the_Scholss_Elmau_summit_%282%29.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Group_photo_of_the_G7_members_at_the_Scholss_Elmau_summit_%282%29.jpg/440px-Group_photo_of_the_G7_members_at_the_Scholss_Elmau_summit_%282%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2600" data-file-height="1429"/></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Group_photo_of_the_G7_members_at_the_Scholss_Elmau_summit_(2).jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>Germany hosted the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_G7_summit" class="mw-redirect" title="2022 G7 summit">2022 G7 summit</a> at <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schloss_Elmau" title="Schloss Elmau">Schloss Elmau</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bavaria" title="Bavaria">Bavaria</a>.</div></div></div> <p>Germany has a network of 227 diplomatic missions abroad<sup id="cite_ref-153" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-153">&#91;147&#93;</a></sup> and maintains relations with more than 190 countries.<sup id="cite_ref-154" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-154">&#91;148&#93;</a></sup> Germany is a member of <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO" title="NATO">NATO</a>, the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organisation_for_Economic_Co-operation_and_Development" class="mw-redirect" title="Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development">OECD</a>, the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G7" title="G7">G7</a>, the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G20" title="G20">G20</a>, the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Bank" title="World Bank">World Bank</a> and the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Monetary_Fund" title="International Monetary Fund">IMF</a>. It has played an influential role in the European Union since its inception and has maintained a <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco-German_cooperation" class="mw-redirect" title="Franco-German cooperation">strong alliance with France</a> and all neighbouring countries since 1990. Germany promotes the creation of a more unified European political, economic and security apparatus.<sup id="cite_ref-155" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-155">&#91;149&#93;</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-156" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-156">&#91;150&#93;</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-157" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-157">&#91;151&#93;</a></sup> The governments of Germany and the United States <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany%E2%80%93United_States_relations" title="Germany–United States relations">are close political allies</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-158" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-158">&#91;152&#93;</a></sup> Cultural ties and economic interests have crafted a bond between the two countries resulting in <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanticism" title="Atlanticism">Atlanticism</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-159" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-159">&#91;153&#93;</a></sup> After 1990, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany%E2%80%93Russia_relations" title="Germany–Russia relations">Germany and Russia</a> worked together to establish a "strategic partnership" in which <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_development" title="Energy development">energy development</a> became one of the most important factors. As a result of the cooperation, Germany imported most of its natural gas and crude oil from Russia.<sup id="cite_ref-160" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-160">&#91;154&#93;</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-161" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-161">&#91;155&#93;</a></sup> </p><p>The development policy of Germany is an independent area of foreign policy. It is formulated by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development and carried out by the implementing organisations. The German government sees development policy as a joint responsibility of the international community.<sup id="cite_ref-162" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-162">&#91;156&#93;</a></sup> It was the world's <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_development_aid_sovereign_state_donors" title="List of development aid sovereign state donors">second-biggest aid donor</a> in 2019 after the United States.<sup id="cite_ref-163" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-163">&#91;157&#93;</a></sup> </p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Military">Military</span></h3> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1033289096"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundeswehr" title="Bundeswehr">Bundeswehr</a></div> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:222px;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sp%C3%BCrpanzer_Fuchs.jpg" class="image"><img src="//web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Sp%C3%BCrpanzer_Fuchs.jpg/220px-Sp%C3%BCrpanzer_Fuchs.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="121" class="thumbimage" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Sp%C3%BCrpanzer_Fuchs.jpg/330px-Sp%C3%BCrpanzer_Fuchs.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Sp%C3%BCrpanzer_Fuchs.jpg/440px-Sp%C3%BCrpanzer_Fuchs.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1069" data-file-height="586"/></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sp%C3%BCrpanzer_Fuchs.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>German <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TPz_Fuchs" title="TPz Fuchs">TPz Fuchs</a> armoured personnel carrier</div></div></div> <p>Germany's military, the <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">Bundeswehr</i></span> (Federal Defence), is organised into the <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Army" title="German Army">Heer</a></i></span> (Army and special forces <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kommando_Spezialkr%C3%A4fte" title="Kommando Spezialkräfte"><abbr title="Kommando Spezialkräfte">KSK</abbr></a>), <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Navy" title="German Navy">Marine</a></i></span> (Navy), <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Air_Force" title="German Air Force">Luftwaffe</a></i></span> (Air Force), <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Medical_Service_(Germany)" title="Joint Medical Service (Germany)">Zentraler Sanitätsdienst der Bundeswehr</a></i></span> (Joint Medical Service), <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streitkr%C3%A4ftebasis" class="mw-redirect" title="Streitkräftebasis">Streitkräftebasis</a></i></span> (Joint Support Service) and <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber_and_Information_Domain_Service" title="Cyber and Information Domain Service">Cyber- und Informationsraum</a></i></span> (Cyber and Information Domain Service) branches. In absolute terms, German military expenditure is the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_expenditures" title="List of countries by military expenditures">eighth-highest in the world</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-164" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-164">&#91;158&#93;</a></sup> In 2018, military spending was at $49.5&#160;billion, about 1.2% of the country's GDP, well below the NATO target of 2%.<sup id="cite_ref-165" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-165">&#91;159&#93;</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-166" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-166">&#91;160&#93;</a></sup> However, in response to the 2022 <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Ukrainian_War" title="Russo-Ukrainian War">Russian invasion of Ukraine</a>, Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced that German military expenditure would be increased past the NATO target of 2%, along with a one-time 2022 infusion of 100 billion euros, representing almost double the 53 billion euro military budget for 2021.<sup id="cite_ref-167" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-167">&#91;161&#93;</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-168" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-168">&#91;162&#93;</a></sup> </p><p>As of January&#160;2020<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Germany&amp;action=edit">&#91;update&#93;</a></sup>, the <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">Bundeswehr</i></span> has a strength of 184,001 active soldiers and 80,947 civilians.<sup id="cite_ref-bundeswehr_169-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bundeswehr-169">&#91;163&#93;</a></sup> Reservists are available to the armed forces and participate in defence exercises and deployments abroad.<sup id="cite_ref-bwzukunft_170-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bwzukunft-170">&#91;164&#93;</a></sup> Until 2011, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_Germany" title="Conscription in Germany">military service</a> was compulsory for men at age 18, but this has been officially suspended and replaced with a voluntary service.<sup id="cite_ref-171" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-171">&#91;165&#93;</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-172" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-172">&#91;166&#93;</a></sup> Since 2001 women may serve in all functions of service without restriction.<sup id="cite_ref-173" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-173">&#91;167&#93;</a></sup> According to the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_International_Peace_Research_Institute" title="Stockholm International Peace Research Institute">Stockholm International Peace Research Institute</a>, Germany was the fourth-largest exporter of major arms in the world from 2014 to 2018.<sup id="cite_ref-174" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-174">&#91;168&#93;</a></sup> </p><p>In peacetime, the <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">Bundeswehr</i></span> is commanded by the Minister of Defence. In <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Defence_(Germany)" class="mw-redirect" title="State of Defence (Germany)">state of defence</a>, the Chancellor would become commander-in-chief of the <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">Bundeswehr</i></span>.<sup id="cite_ref-175" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-175">&#91;169&#93;</a></sup> The role of the <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">Bundeswehr</i></span> is described in the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Germany" class="mw-redirect" title="Constitution of Germany">Constitution of Germany</a> as defensive only. But after a ruling of the Federal Constitutional Court in 1994, the term "defence" has been defined to not only include protection of the borders of Germany, but also crisis reaction and conflict prevention, or more broadly as guarding the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security" title="Security">security</a> of Germany anywhere in the world. As of 2017,<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Germany&amp;action=edit">&#91;update&#93;</a></sup> the German military has about 3,600 troops stationed in foreign countries as part of international peacekeeping forces, including about 1,200 supporting operations against <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daesh" class="mw-redirect" title="Daesh">Daesh</a>, 980 in the NATO-led <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolute_Support_Mission" title="Resolute Support Mission">Resolute Support Mission</a> in Afghanistan, and 800 in <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovo" title="Kosovo">Kosovo</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-176" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-176">&#91;170&#93;</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-177" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-177">&#91;171&#93;</a></sup> </p> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Economy">Economy</span></h2> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1033289096"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Germany" title="Economy of Germany">Economy of Germany</a> and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_and_technology_in_Germany" title="Science and technology in Germany">Science and technology in Germany</a></div> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:222px;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Frankfurter_Altstadt_mit_Skyline_2019_(100MP).jpg" class="image"><img src="//web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Frankfurter_Altstadt_mit_Skyline_2019_%28100MP%29.jpg/220px-Frankfurter_Altstadt_mit_Skyline_2019_%28100MP%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="130" class="thumbimage" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Frankfurter_Altstadt_mit_Skyline_2019_%28100MP%29.jpg/330px-Frankfurter_Altstadt_mit_Skyline_2019_%28100MP%29.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Frankfurter_Altstadt_mit_Skyline_2019_%28100MP%29.jpg/440px-Frankfurter_Altstadt_mit_Skyline_2019_%28100MP%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="13024" data-file-height="7678"/></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Frankfurter_Altstadt_mit_Skyline_2019_(100MP).jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt" title="Frankfurt">Frankfurt</a> is a leading business centre in Europe and the seat of the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Central_Bank" title="European Central Bank">European Central Bank</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-frankfurt_178-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-frankfurt-178">&#91;172&#93;</a></sup></div></div></div> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:222px;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DSCI0115_Blockupy_2014_Transparent_EZB.jpg" class="image"><img src="//web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/DSCI0115_Blockupy_2014_Transparent_EZB.jpg/220px-DSCI0115_Blockupy_2014_Transparent_EZB.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="thumbimage" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/DSCI0115_Blockupy_2014_Transparent_EZB.jpg/330px-DSCI0115_Blockupy_2014_Transparent_EZB.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/DSCI0115_Blockupy_2014_Transparent_EZB.jpg/440px-DSCI0115_Blockupy_2014_Transparent_EZB.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3240" data-file-height="4320"/></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DSCI0115_Blockupy_2014_Transparent_EZB.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>Demonstration of the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockupy_movement" title="Blockupy movement">Blockupy movement</a> in front of the European Central Bank (2014)</div></div></div> <p>Germany has a <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_market_economy" title="Social market economy">social market economy</a> with a highly skilled <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_force" class="mw-redirect" title="Labour force">labour force</a>, a low level of <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_in_Germany" title="Corruption in Germany">corruption</a>, and a high level of <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innovation" title="Innovation">innovation</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-CIA_7-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CIA-7">&#91;4&#93;</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-179" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-179">&#91;173&#93;</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-180" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-180">&#91;174&#93;</a></sup> It is the world's <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_exports" title="List of countries by exports">third-largest exporter</a> and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_imports" title="List of countries by imports">third-largest importer</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-CIA_7-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CIA-7">&#91;4&#93;</a></sup> and has the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_in_Europe_by_GDP_(nominal)" title="List of sovereign states in Europe by GDP (nominal)">largest economy in Europe</a>, which is also the world's <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)" title="List of countries by GDP (nominal)">fourth-largest economy by nominal GDP</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-wbpdf_181-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wbpdf-181">&#91;175&#93;</a></sup> and the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)" title="List of countries by GDP (PPP)">fifth-largest by PPP</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-182" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-182">&#91;176&#93;</a></sup> Its GDP per capita measured in purchasing power standards amounts to 121% of the EU27 average.<sup id="cite_ref-183" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-183">&#91;177&#93;</a></sup> The <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tertiary_sector_of_industry" class="mw-redirect" title="Tertiary sector of industry">service sector</a> contributes approximately 69% of the total GDP, industry 31%, and agriculture 1% as of 2017<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Germany&amp;action=edit">&#91;update&#93;</a></sup>.<sup id="cite_ref-CIA_7-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CIA-7">&#91;4&#93;</a></sup> The unemployment rate published by <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurostat" title="Eurostat">Eurostat</a> amounts to 3.2% as of January&#160;2020<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Germany&amp;action=edit">&#91;update&#93;</a></sup>, which is the fourth-lowest in the EU.<sup id="cite_ref-Eurostat_184-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Eurostat-184">&#91;178&#93;</a></sup> </p><p>Germany is part of the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_market" class="mw-redirect" title="Internal market">European single market</a> which represents more than 450 million consumers.<sup id="cite_ref-185" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-185">&#91;179&#93;</a></sup> In 2017, the country accounted for 28% of the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurozone" title="Eurozone">Eurozone</a> economy according to the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Monetary_Fund" title="International Monetary Fund">International Monetary Fund</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-imf.org_186-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-imf.org-186">&#91;180&#93;</a></sup> Germany introduced the common European currency, the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro" title="Euro">euro</a>, in 2002.<sup id="cite_ref-euroc_187-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-euroc-187">&#91;181&#93;</a></sup> Its monetary policy is set by the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Central_Bank" title="European Central Bank">European Central Bank</a>, which is headquartered in <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt" title="Frankfurt">Frankfurt</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-188" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-188">&#91;182&#93;</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-frankfurt_178-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-frankfurt-178">&#91;172&#93;</a></sup> </p><p>Being home to the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_automobile#19th_century" title="History of the automobile">modern car</a>, the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automotive_industry_in_Germany" title="Automotive industry in Germany">automotive industry in Germany</a> is regarded as one of the most competitive and innovative in the world,<sup id="cite_ref-189" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-189">&#91;183&#93;</a></sup> and is the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_motor_vehicle_production" title="List of countries by motor vehicle production">sixth-largest by production</a> as of 2021. The top ten exports of Germany are vehicles, machinery, chemical goods, electronic products, electrical equipments, pharmaceuticals, transport equipments, basic metals, food products, and rubber and plastics.<sup id="cite_ref-Destatis_190-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Destatis-190">&#91;184&#93;</a></sup> </p><p>Of the world's 500 largest stock-market-listed companies measured by revenue in 2019, the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_Global_500" title="Fortune Global 500">Fortune Global 500</a>, 29 are headquartered in Germany.<sup id="cite_ref-191" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-191">&#91;185&#93;</a></sup> 30 major Germany-based companies are included in the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DAX" title="DAX">DAX</a>, the German stock market index which is operated by <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_Stock_Exchange" title="Frankfurt Stock Exchange">Frankfurt Stock Exchange</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-192" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-192">&#91;186&#93;</a></sup> Well-known international brands include <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz" title="Mercedes-Benz">Mercedes-Benz</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW" title="BMW">BMW</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen" title="Volkswagen">Volkswagen</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audi" title="Audi">Audi</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siemens" title="Siemens">Siemens</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allianz" title="Allianz">Allianz</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adidas" title="Adidas">Adidas</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche" title="Porsche">Porsche</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bosch_GmbH" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert Bosch GmbH">Bosch</a> and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Telekom" title="Deutsche Telekom">Deutsche Telekom</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-193" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-193">&#91;187&#93;</a></sup> <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin" title="Berlin">Berlin</a> is a <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Startup_ecosystem" title="Startup ecosystem">hub</a> for <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Startup_company" title="Startup company">startup companies</a> and has become the leading location for venture capital funded firms in the European Union.<sup id="cite_ref-194" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-194">&#91;188&#93;</a></sup> Germany is recognised for its large portion of specialised <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_and_medium_enterprises" class="mw-redirect" title="Small and medium enterprises">small and medium enterprises</a>, known as the <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mittelstand" title="Mittelstand">Mittelstand</a></i></span> model.<sup id="cite_ref-195" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-195">&#91;189&#93;</a></sup> These companies represent 48% of the global market leaders in their segments, labelled <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_champions" title="Hidden champions">hidden champions</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-196" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-196">&#91;190&#93;</a></sup> </p><p><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_and_development" title="Research and development">Research and development</a> efforts form an integral part of the German economy.<sup id="cite_ref-197" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-197">&#91;191&#93;</a></sup> In 2018 Germany <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_scientific_and_technical_journal_articles" title="List of countries by number of scientific and technical journal articles">ranked fourth</a> globally in terms of number of science and engineering research papers published.<sup id="cite_ref-198" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-198">&#91;192&#93;</a></sup> Research institutions in Germany include the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Planck_Society" title="Max Planck Society">Max Planck Society</a>, the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmholtz_Association_of_German_Research_Centres" class="mw-redirect" title="Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres">Helmholtz Association</a>, and the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraunhofer_Society" title="Fraunhofer Society">Fraunhofer Society</a> and the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibniz_Association" title="Leibniz Association">Leibniz Association</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-199" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-199">&#91;193&#93;</a></sup> Germany is the largest contributor to the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Space_Agency" title="European Space Agency">European Space Agency</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-200" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-200">&#91;194&#93;</a></sup> </p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Infrastructure">Infrastructure</span></h3> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1033289096"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_in_Germany" title="Transport in Germany">Transport in Germany</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Germany" title="Energy in Germany">Energy in Germany</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Germany" title="Telecommunications in Germany">Telecommunications in Germany</a>, and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_supply_and_sanitation_in_Germany" title="Water supply and sanitation in Germany">Water supply and sanitation in Germany</a></div> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:222px;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ICE_3_Oberhaider-Wald-Tunnel.jpg" class="image"><img src="//web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/ICE_3_Oberhaider-Wald-Tunnel.jpg/220px-ICE_3_Oberhaider-Wald-Tunnel.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="thumbimage" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/ICE_3_Oberhaider-Wald-Tunnel.jpg/330px-ICE_3_Oberhaider-Wald-Tunnel.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/ICE_3_Oberhaider-Wald-Tunnel.jpg/440px-ICE_3_Oberhaider-Wald-Tunnel.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3456" data-file-height="2304"/></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ICE_3_Oberhaider-Wald-Tunnel.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>An <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICE_3" title="ICE 3">ICE 3</a> on the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cologne%E2%80%93Frankfurt_high-speed_rail_line" title="Cologne–Frankfurt high-speed rail line">Cologne–Frankfurt high-speed rail line</a></div></div></div> <p>With its central position in Europe, Germany is a transport hub for the continent.<sup id="cite_ref-201" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-201">&#91;195&#93;</a></sup> Its road network is among the densest in Europe.<sup id="cite_ref-202" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-202">&#91;196&#93;</a></sup> The motorway (<a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autobahn" title="Autobahn">Autobahn</a>) is widely known for having no general federally mandated <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_limits_in_Germany" title="Speed limits in Germany">speed limit</a> for some classes of vehicles.<sup id="cite_ref-wa_16-09-2013_203-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wa_16-09-2013-203">&#91;197&#93;</a></sup> The <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercity_Express" title="Intercity Express">Intercity Express</a> or <i>ICE</i> train network serves major German cities as well as destinations in neighbouring countries with speeds up to 300&#160;km/h (190&#160;mph).<sup id="cite_ref-204" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-204">&#91;198&#93;</a></sup> The largest German airports are <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_Airport" title="Frankfurt Airport">Frankfurt Airport</a> and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_Airport" title="Munich Airport">Munich Airport</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-205" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-205">&#91;199&#93;</a></sup> The <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_of_Hamburg" title="Port of Hamburg">Port of Hamburg</a> is one of the top twenty <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_world%27s_busiest_container_ports" class="mw-redirect" title="List of world's busiest container ports">largest container ports in the world</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-206" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-206">&#91;200&#93;</a></sup> </p><p>In 2015<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Germany&amp;action=edit">&#91;update&#93;</a></sup>, Germany was the world's seventh-largest consumer of energy.<sup id="cite_ref-207" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-207">&#91;201&#93;</a></sup> All <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_plant" title="Nuclear power plant">nuclear power plants</a> were phased out in 2023.<sup id="cite_ref-208" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-208">&#91;202&#93;</a></sup> It meets the country's power demands using 40% <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy" title="Renewable energy">renewable sources</a>, and it has been called an "early leader" in <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_panel" title="Solar panel">solar</a> and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offshore_wind_power" title="Offshore wind power">offshore wind</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-209" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-209">&#91;203&#93;</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-International_Energy_Agency-2021_210-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-International_Energy_Agency-2021-210">&#91;204&#93;</a></sup> Germany is committed to the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Agreement" title="Paris Agreement">Paris Agreement</a> and several other treaties promoting biodiversity, low emission standards, and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_management" class="mw-redirect" title="Water management">water management</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-211" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-211">&#91;205&#93;</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-212" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-212">&#91;206&#93;</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-213" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-213">&#91;207&#93;</a></sup> The country's household recycling rate is among the highest in the world—at around 65%.<sup id="cite_ref-214" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-214">&#91;208&#93;</a></sup> The country's <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_greenhouse_gas_emissions_per_person" class="mw-redirect" title="List of countries by greenhouse gas emissions per person">greenhouse gas emissions per capita</a> were the ninth-highest in the EU in 2018<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Germany&amp;action=edit">&#91;update&#93;</a></sup>, but these numbers have been trending downward.<sup id="cite_ref-215" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-215">&#91;209&#93;</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-216" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-216">&#91;210&#93;</a></sup> The <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_transition_in_Germany" class="mw-redirect" title="Energy transition in Germany">German energy transition</a> (<span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">Energiewende</i></span>) is the recognised move to a sustainable economy by means of energy efficiency and renewable energy.<sup id="cite_ref-217" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-217">&#91;211&#93;</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-International_Energy_Agency-2021_210-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-International_Energy_Agency-2021-210">&#91;204&#93;</a></sup> </p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Tourism">Tourism</span></h3> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1033289096"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourism_in_Germany" title="Tourism in Germany">Tourism in Germany</a></div> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:222px;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Castle_Neuschwanstein.jpg" class="image"><img src="//web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Castle_Neuschwanstein.jpg/220px-Castle_Neuschwanstein.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="144" class="thumbimage" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Castle_Neuschwanstein.jpg/330px-Castle_Neuschwanstein.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Castle_Neuschwanstein.jpg/440px-Castle_Neuschwanstein.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2970" data-file-height="1944"/></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Castle_Neuschwanstein.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuschwanstein_Castle" title="Neuschwanstein Castle">Neuschwanstein Castle</a> in Bavaria</div></div></div> <p>Germany is the ninth-most visited country in the world as of 2017<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Germany&amp;action=edit">&#91;update&#93;</a></sup>, with 37.4 million visits.<sup id="cite_ref-218" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-218">&#91;212&#93;</a></sup> Domestic and international travel and tourism combined directly contribute over €105.3&#160;billion to German GDP. Including indirect and induced impacts, the industry supports 4.2 million jobs.<sup id="cite_ref-219" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-219">&#91;213&#93;</a></sup> </p><p>Germany's most visited and popular landmarks include <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cologne_Cathedral" title="Cologne Cathedral">Cologne Cathedral</a>, the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg_Gate" title="Brandenburg Gate">Brandenburg Gate</a>, the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_building" title="Reichstag building">Reichstag</a>, the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dresden_Frauenkirche" class="mw-redirect" title="Dresden Frauenkirche">Dresden Frauenkirche</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuschwanstein_Castle" title="Neuschwanstein Castle">Neuschwanstein Castle</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidelberg_Castle" title="Heidelberg Castle">Heidelberg Castle</a>, the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wartburg" title="Wartburg">Wartburg</a>, and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanssouci_Palace" class="mw-redirect" title="Sanssouci Palace">Sanssouci Palace</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-220" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-220">&#91;214&#93;</a></sup> The <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa-Park" title="Europa-Park">Europa-Park</a> near <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freiburg_im_Breisgau" title="Freiburg im Breisgau">Freiburg</a> is Europe's second-most popular theme park resort.<sup id="cite_ref-221" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-221">&#91;215&#93;</a></sup> </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Demographics">Demographics</span></h2> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1033289096"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Germany" title="Demographics of Germany">Demographics of Germany</a> and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germans" title="Germans">Germans</a></div> <p>With a population of 80.2&#160;million according to the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_German_Census" class="mw-redirect" title="2011 German Census">2011 German Census</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-File_2013_222-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-File_2013-222">&#91;216&#93;</a></sup> rising to 83.7&#160;million as of 2022<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Germany&amp;action=edit">&#91;update&#93;</a></sup>,<sup id="cite_ref-2022pop_223-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2022pop-223">&#91;217&#93;</a></sup> Germany is the most populous country in the European Union, the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_countries_by_population" title="List of European countries by population">second-most populous country</a> in Europe after <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a>, and the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population" class="mw-redirect" title="List of countries by population">nineteenth-most populous country</a> in the world. Its <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_dependent_territories_by_population_density" class="mw-redirect" title="List of sovereign states and dependent territories by population density">population density</a> stands at 227 inhabitants per square kilometre (588 per square mile). The <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_fertility_rate" title="Total fertility rate">fertility rate</a> of 1.57 children born per woman (2022 estimates) is below the replacement rate of 2.1 and is one of the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_dependent_territories_by_fertility_rate" class="mw-redirect" title="List of sovereign states and dependent territories by fertility rate">lowest fertility rates in the world</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-CIA_7-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CIA-7">&#91;4&#93;</a></sup> Since the 1970s, Germany's <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_rate" class="mw-redirect" title="Death rate">death rate</a> has exceeded its <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_rate" title="Birth rate">birth rate</a>. However, Germany is witnessing increased birth rates and migration rates since the beginning of the 2010s. Germany has the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_median_age" title="List of countries by median age">third oldest population in the world</a>, with an average age of 47.4 years.<sup id="cite_ref-CIA_7-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CIA-7">&#91;4&#93;</a></sup> </p> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:222px;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bilinguale_Stra%C3%9Fenbeschilderung_Cottbus.jpg" class="image"><img src="//web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Bilinguale_Stra%C3%9Fenbeschilderung_Cottbus.jpg/220px-Bilinguale_Stra%C3%9Fenbeschilderung_Cottbus.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="thumbimage" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Bilinguale_Stra%C3%9Fenbeschilderung_Cottbus.jpg/330px-Bilinguale_Stra%C3%9Fenbeschilderung_Cottbus.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Bilinguale_Stra%C3%9Fenbeschilderung_Cottbus.jpg/440px-Bilinguale_Stra%C3%9Fenbeschilderung_Cottbus.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3052" data-file-height="2289"/></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bilinguale_Stra%C3%9Fenbeschilderung_Cottbus.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>A bilingual street sign in both German and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_Sorbian_language" title="Lower Sorbian language">Lower Sorbian</a> languages in the city of <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottbus" title="Cottbus">Cottbus</a> (<i>Chóśebuz</i>), <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg" title="Brandenburg">Brandenburg</a></div></div></div> <p>Four sizeable groups of people are referred to as "national minorities" because their ancestors have lived in their respective regions for centuries:<sup id="cite_ref-BMI_2010_224-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BMI_2010-224">&#91;218&#93;</a></sup> There is a <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danes" title="Danes">Danish</a> minority in the northernmost state of <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schleswig-Holstein" title="Schleswig-Holstein">Schleswig-Holstein</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-BMI_2010_224-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BMI_2010-224">&#91;218&#93;</a></sup> the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorbs" title="Sorbs">Sorbs</a>, a <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavic_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Slavic people">Slavic population</a>, are in the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lusatia" title="Lusatia">Lusatia</a> region of <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_State_of_Saxony" class="mw-redirect" title="Free State of Saxony">Saxony</a> and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg" title="Brandenburg">Brandenburg</a>; the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_people" title="Romani people">Roma</a> and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinti" title="Sinti">Sinti</a> live throughout the country; and the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frisians" title="Frisians">Frisians</a> are concentrated in <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schleswig-Holstein" title="Schleswig-Holstein">Schleswig-Holstein</a>'s western coast and in the north-western part of <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_Saxony" title="Lower Saxony">Lower Saxony</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-BMI_2010_224-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BMI_2010-224">&#91;218&#93;</a></sup> </p><p>After the United States, Germany is the second-most popular <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Germany" title="Immigration to Germany">immigration destination</a> in the world. The majority of migrants live in western Germany, in particular in urban areas. Of the country's residents, 18.6&#160;million people (22.5%) were of immigrant or partially immigrant descent in 2016 (including persons descending or partially descending from <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_German" class="mw-redirect" title="Ethnic German">ethnic German</a> repatriates).<sup id="cite_ref-Destatis1_225-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Destatis1-225">&#91;219&#93;</a></sup> In 2015, the Population Division of the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Department_of_Economic_and_Social_Affairs" title="United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs">United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs</a> listed Germany as host to the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_dependent_territories_by_immigrant_population" title="List of sovereign states and dependent territories by immigrant population">second-highest number of international migrants worldwide</a>, about 5% or 12&#160;million of all 244&#160;million migrants.<sup id="cite_ref-226" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-226">&#91;220&#93;</a></sup> As of 2019<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Germany&amp;action=edit">&#91;update&#93;</a></sup>, Germany ranks seventh amongst EU countries in terms of the percentage of migrants in the country's population, at 13.1%.<sup id="cite_ref-227" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-227">&#91;221&#93;</a></sup> </p><p>Germany has a number of large <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_and_towns_in_Germany" title="List of cities and towns in Germany">cities</a>. There are 11 officially recognised <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_regions_in_Germany" title="Metropolitan regions in Germany">metropolitan regions</a>. 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Germany</span><br/><div style="display:inline;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_statistical_offices_in_Germany" title="List of statistical offices in Germany">Statistical offices in Germany</a> (31 December 2018)</div></div> </th></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Germany_by_population" title="List of cities in Germany by population">Rank</a> </th> <th><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Germany" class="mw-redirect" title="List of cities in Germany">Name</a> </th> <th><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States_of_Germany" title="States of Germany">State</a> </th> <th><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Germany_by_population" title="List of cities in Germany by population"> Pop.</a> </th> <th><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Germany_by_population" title="List of cities in Germany by population">Rank</a> </th> <th><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Germany" class="mw-redirect" title="List of cities in Germany">Name</a> </th> <th><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States_of_Germany" title="States of Germany">State</a> </th> <th><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Germany_by_population" title="List of cities in Germany by population"> Pop.</a> </th></tr> <tr> <td class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">1</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin" title="Berlin">Berlin</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin" title="Berlin">Berlin</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">3,644,826</td> <td class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">11</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremen" title="Bremen">Bremen</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremen_(state)" title="Bremen (state)">Bremen</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">569,352 </td></tr> <tr> <td class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">2</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburg" title="Hamburg">Hamburg</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburg" title="Hamburg">Hamburg</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">1,841,179</td> <td class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">12</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dresden" title="Dresden">Dresden</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saxony" title="Saxony">Saxony</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">554,649 </td></tr> <tr> <td class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">3</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich" title="Munich">Munich</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bavaria" title="Bavaria">Bavaria</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">1,471,508</td> <td class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">13</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanover" title="Hanover">Hanover</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_Saxony" title="Lower Saxony">Lower Saxony</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">538,068 </td></tr> <tr> <td class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">4</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cologne" title="Cologne">Cologne</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Rhine-Westphalia" title="North Rhine-Westphalia">North Rhine-Westphalia</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">1,085,664</td> <td class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">14</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg" title="Nuremberg">Nuremberg</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bavaria" title="Bavaria">Bavaria</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">518,365 </td></tr> <tr> <td class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">5</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt" title="Frankfurt">Frankfurt</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesse" title="Hesse">Hesse</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">753,056</td> <td class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">15</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duisburg" title="Duisburg">Duisburg</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Rhine-Westphalia" title="North Rhine-Westphalia">North Rhine-Westphalia</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">498,590 </td></tr> <tr> <td class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">6</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuttgart" title="Stuttgart">Stuttgart</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baden-W%C3%BCrttemberg" title="Baden-Württemberg">Baden-Württemberg</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">634,830</td> <td class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">16</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bochum" title="Bochum">Bochum</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Rhine-Westphalia" title="North Rhine-Westphalia">North Rhine-Westphalia</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">364,628 </td></tr> <tr> <td class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">7</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%BCsseldorf" title="Düsseldorf">Düsseldorf</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Rhine-Westphalia" title="North Rhine-Westphalia">North Rhine-Westphalia</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">619,294</td> <td class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">17</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuppertal" title="Wuppertal">Wuppertal</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Rhine-Westphalia" title="North Rhine-Westphalia">North Rhine-Westphalia</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">354,382 </td></tr> <tr> <td class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">8</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leipzig" title="Leipzig">Leipzig</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saxony" title="Saxony">Saxony</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">587,857</td> <td class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">18</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bielefeld" title="Bielefeld">Bielefeld</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Rhine-Westphalia" title="North Rhine-Westphalia">North Rhine-Westphalia</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">333,786 </td></tr> <tr> <td class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">9</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dortmund" title="Dortmund">Dortmund</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Rhine-Westphalia" title="North Rhine-Westphalia">North Rhine-Westphalia</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">587,010</td> <td class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">19</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonn" title="Bonn">Bonn</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Rhine-Westphalia" title="North Rhine-Westphalia">North Rhine-Westphalia</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">327,258 </td></tr> <tr> <td class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">10</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essen" title="Essen">Essen</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Rhine-Westphalia" title="North Rhine-Westphalia">North Rhine-Westphalia</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">583,109</td> <td class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">20</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCnster" title="Münster">Münster</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Rhine-Westphalia" title="North Rhine-Westphalia">North Rhine-Westphalia</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">314,319 </td></tr> </tbody></table></div> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Religion">Religion</span></h3> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1033289096"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Germany" title="Religion in Germany">Religion in Germany</a></div> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:222px;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:500px_photo_(70560973).jpeg" class="image"><img src="//web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/500px_photo_%2870560973%29.jpeg/220px-500px_photo_%2870560973%29.jpeg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="thumbimage" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/500px_photo_%2870560973%29.jpeg/330px-500px_photo_%2870560973%29.jpeg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/500px_photo_%2870560973%29.jpeg/440px-500px_photo_%2870560973%29.jpeg 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1364"/></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:500px_photo_(70560973).jpeg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cologne_Cathedral" title="Cologne Cathedral">Cologne Cathedral</a> is a <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNESCO_World_Heritage_Site" class="mw-redirect" title="UNESCO World Heritage Site">UNESCO World Heritage Site</a>.</div></div></div> <p>Christianity was introduced to the area of modern Germany by 300 AD and became fully <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianization_of_Germany" class="mw-redirect" title="Christianization of Germany">Christianized</a> by the time of <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlemagne" title="Charlemagne">Charlemagne</a> in the eighth and ninth century. After the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reformation" title="Reformation">Reformation</a> started by <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther" title="Martin Luther">Martin Luther</a> in the early 16th century, many people left the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic Church</a> and became <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant" class="mw-redirect" title="Protestant">Protestant</a>, mainly <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutheranism" title="Lutheranism">Lutheran</a> and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvinism" title="Calvinism">Calvinist</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-229" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-229">&#91;223&#93;</a></sup> </p><p>According to the 2011 census, Christianity was the largest religion in Germany, with 66.8% of respondents identifying as Christian, of which 3.8% were not church members.<sup id="cite_ref-Egeler_230-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Egeler-230">&#91;224&#93;</a></sup> 31.7% declared themselves as <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestants" class="mw-redirect" title="Protestants">Protestants</a>, including members of the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelical_Church_in_Germany" title="Evangelical Church in Germany">Evangelical Church in Germany</a> (which encompasses <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutheran" class="mw-redirect" title="Lutheran">Lutheran</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reformed_tradition" class="mw-redirect" title="Reformed tradition">Reformed</a>, and administrative or confessional <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_and_uniting_churches" title="United and uniting churches">unions of both traditions</a>) and the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_churches" class="mw-redirect" title="Free churches">free churches</a> (<span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">Evangelische Freikirchen</i></span>); 31.2% declared themselves as <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholicism_in_Germany" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholicism in Germany">Roman Catholics</a>, and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox" class="mw-redirect" title="Eastern Orthodox">Orthodox</a> believers constituted 1.3%. According to data from 2016, the Catholic Church and the Evangelical Church claimed 28.5% and 27.5%, respectively, of the population.<sup id="cite_ref-Eck16_231-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Eck16-231">&#91;225&#93;</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-EKD2017_232-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EKD2017-232">&#91;226&#93;</a></sup> <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_Germany" title="Islam in Germany">Islam</a> is the second-largest religion in the country.<sup id="cite_ref-Zensus_2011_233-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Zensus_2011-233">&#91;227&#93;</a></sup> </p><p>In the 2011 census, 1.9% of respondents (1.52&#160;million people) gave their religion as Islam, but this figure is deemed unreliable because a disproportionate number of adherents of this faith (and other religions, such as Judaism) are likely to have made use of their right not to answer the question.<sup id="cite_ref-234" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-234">&#91;228&#93;</a></sup> Most of the Muslims are <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunni_Islam" title="Sunni Islam">Sunnis</a> and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alevites" class="mw-redirect" title="Alevites">Alevites</a> from Turkey, but there are a small number of <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shia_Islam" title="Shia Islam">Shi'ites</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmadiyya" title="Ahmadiyya">Ahmadiyyas</a> and other denominations. Other religions comprise less than one percent of Germany's population.<sup id="cite_ref-Zensus_2011_233-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Zensus_2011-233">&#91;227&#93;</a></sup> </p><p>A study in 2018 estimated that 38% of the population are not members of any religious organization or <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_denomination" title="Religious denomination">denomination</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-FOWID_235-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOWID-235">&#91;229&#93;</a></sup> though up to a third may still consider themselves religious. <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irreligion_in_Germany" title="Irreligion in Germany">Irreligion in Germany</a> is strongest in the former East Germany, which used to be predominantly Protestant before the enforcement of state atheism, and in major metropolitan areas.<sup id="cite_ref-236" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-236">&#91;230&#93;</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-georgetown1_237-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-georgetown1-237">&#91;231&#93;</a></sup> </p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Languages">Languages</span></h3> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1033289096"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_language" title="German language">German language</a> and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Germany" title="Languages of Germany">Languages of Germany</a></div> <p>German is the official and predominant spoken language in Germany.<sup id="cite_ref-Eurobarometer_Languages_238-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Eurobarometer_Languages-238">&#91;232&#93;</a></sup> It is one of 24 official and working languages of the European Union, and one of the three procedural languages of the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Commission" title="European Commission">European Commission</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-239" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-239">&#91;233&#93;</a></sup> German is the most widely spoken first language in the European Union, with around 100 million native speakers.<sup id="cite_ref-240" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-240">&#91;234&#93;</a></sup> </p><p>Recognised native minority languages in Germany are <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_language" title="Danish language">Danish</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_German" title="Low German">Low German</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Rhenish" class="mw-redirect" title="Low Rhenish">Low Rhenish</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorbian_languages" title="Sorbian languages">Sorbian</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_language" title="Romani language">Romani</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Frisian_language" title="North Frisian language">North Frisian</a> and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saterland_Frisian_language" title="Saterland Frisian language">Saterland Frisian</a>; they are officially protected by the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Charter_for_Regional_or_Minority_Languages" title="European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages">European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages</a>. The most used immigrant languages are <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_language" title="Turkish language">Turkish</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic" title="Arabic">Arabic</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdish_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Kurdish language">Kurdish</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_language" title="Polish language">Polish</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language">Greek</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbo-Croatian" title="Serbo-Croatian">Serbo-Croatian</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgarian_language" title="Bulgarian language">Bulgarian</a> and other <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balkan_languages" class="mw-redirect" title="Balkan languages">Balkan languages</a>, as well as <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_language" title="Russian language">Russian</a>. Germans are typically multilingual: 67% of German citizens claim to be able to communicate in at least one foreign language and 27% in at least two.<sup id="cite_ref-Eurobarometer_Languages_238-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Eurobarometer_Languages-238">&#91;232&#93;</a></sup> </p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Education">Education</span></h3> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1033289096"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_Germany" title="Education in Germany">Education in Germany</a></div> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:222px;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Heidelberg_Universit%C3%A4tsbibliothek_2003.jpg" class="image"><img src="//web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Heidelberg_Universit%C3%A4tsbibliothek_2003.jpg/220px-Heidelberg_Universit%C3%A4tsbibliothek_2003.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="179" class="thumbimage" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Heidelberg_Universit%C3%A4tsbibliothek_2003.jpg/330px-Heidelberg_Universit%C3%A4tsbibliothek_2003.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Heidelberg_Universit%C3%A4tsbibliothek_2003.jpg/440px-Heidelberg_Universit%C3%A4tsbibliothek_2003.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2068" data-file-height="1680"/></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Heidelberg_Universit%C3%A4tsbibliothek_2003.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidelberg_University" title="Heidelberg University">Heidelberg University</a> is Germany's oldest institution of higher learning and generally counted among its most renowned.</div></div></div> <p>Responsibility for educational supervision in Germany is primarily organised within the individual <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States_of_Germany" title="States of Germany">states</a>. Optional <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kindergarten" title="Kindergarten">kindergarten</a> education is provided for all children between three and six years old, after which <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schulpflicht" title="Schulpflicht">school attendance is compulsory</a> for at least nine years depending on the state. Primary education usually lasts for four to six years.<sup id="cite_ref-ED_241-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ED-241">&#91;235&#93;</a></sup> Secondary schooling is divided into tracks based on whether students pursue <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College-preparatory_school" title="College-preparatory school">academic</a> or <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocational_education" title="Vocational education">vocational education</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-242" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-242">&#91;236&#93;</a></sup> A system of apprenticeship called <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_education_system" title="Dual education system">Duale Ausbildung</a></i></span> leads to a skilled qualification which is almost comparable to an academic degree. It allows students in <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocational_training" class="mw-redirect" title="Vocational training">vocational training</a> to learn in a company as well as in a state-run trade school.<sup id="cite_ref-ED_241-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ED-241">&#91;235&#93;</a></sup> This model is well regarded and reproduced all around the world.<sup id="cite_ref-243" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-243">&#91;237&#93;</a></sup> </p><p>Most of the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_universities_in_Germany" title="List of universities in Germany">German universities</a> are public institutions, and students traditionally study without fee payment.<sup id="cite_ref-244" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-244">&#91;238&#93;</a></sup> The general requirement for attending university is the <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abitur" title="Abitur">Abitur</a></i></span>. According to an OECD report in 2014, Germany is the world's third leading destination for international study.<sup id="cite_ref-245" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-245">&#91;239&#93;</a></sup> The established universities in Germany include some of the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_universities_in_continuous_operation" title="List of oldest universities in continuous operation">oldest in the world</a>, with <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidelberg_University" title="Heidelberg University">Heidelberg University</a> (established in 1386), <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leipzig_University" title="Leipzig University">Leipzig University</a> (established in 1409) and the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Rostock" title="University of Rostock">University of Rostock</a> (established in 1419) being the oldest.<sup id="cite_ref-246" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-246">&#91;240&#93;</a></sup> The <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humboldt_University_of_Berlin" title="Humboldt University of Berlin">Humboldt University of Berlin</a>, founded in 1810 by the liberal educational reformer <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_von_Humboldt" title="Wilhelm von Humboldt">Wilhelm von Humboldt</a>, became the academic <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humboldtian_model_of_higher_education" title="Humboldtian model of higher education">model for many Western universities</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-247" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-247">&#91;241&#93;</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-248" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-248">&#91;242&#93;</a></sup> In the contemporary era Germany has developed eleven <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Universities_Excellence_Initiative" title="German Universities Excellence Initiative">Universities of Excellence</a>. </p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Health">Health</span></h3> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1033289096"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Germany" title="Healthcare in Germany">Healthcare in Germany</a></div> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:222px;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Heiligen-Geist-Hospital_in_L%C3%BCbeck.JPG" class="image"><img src="//web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Heiligen-Geist-Hospital_in_L%C3%BCbeck.JPG/220px-Heiligen-Geist-Hospital_in_L%C3%BCbeck.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="thumbimage" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Heiligen-Geist-Hospital_in_L%C3%BCbeck.JPG/330px-Heiligen-Geist-Hospital_in_L%C3%BCbeck.JPG 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Heiligen-Geist-Hospital_in_L%C3%BCbeck.JPG/440px-Heiligen-Geist-Hospital_in_L%C3%BCbeck.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3648" data-file-height="2432"/></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Heiligen-Geist-Hospital_in_L%C3%BCbeck.JPG" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>The Hospital of the Holy Spirit in <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%BCbeck" title="Lübeck">Lübeck</a>, established in 1286, is a precursor to modern hospitals.<sup id="cite_ref-249" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-249">&#91;243&#93;</a></sup></div></div></div> <p>Germany's system of hospitals, called <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">Krankenhäuser</i></span>, dates from medieval times, and today, Germany has the world's oldest <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_health_care" title="Universal health care">universal health care</a> system, dating from <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_von_Bismarck#Social_legislation" title="Otto von Bismarck">Bismarck's social legislation</a> of the 1880s.<sup id="cite_ref-250" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-250">&#91;244&#93;</a></sup> Since the 1880s, reforms and provisions have ensured a balanced health care system. The population is covered by a health insurance plan provided by statute, with criteria allowing some groups to opt for a private health insurance contract. According to the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Health_Organization" title="World Health Organization">World Health Organization</a> (WHO), Germany's <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_system" class="mw-redirect" title="Health care system">health care system</a> was 77% government-funded and 23% privately funded as of 2013<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Germany&amp;action=edit">&#91;update&#93;</a></sup>.<sup id="cite_ref-health_251-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-health-251">&#91;245&#93;</a></sup> In 2014, Germany spent 11.3% of its GDP on health care.<sup id="cite_ref-252" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-252">&#91;246&#93;</a></sup> </p><p>Germany ranked 21st in the world in 2019 in life expectancy with <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy" title="List of countries by life expectancy">78.7 years for men and 84.8 years for women</a> according to the WHO, and it had a very low <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infant_mortality_rate" class="mw-redirect" title="Infant mortality rate">infant mortality rate</a> (4 per 1,000 <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_birth_(human)" title="Live birth (human)">live births</a>). In 2019<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Germany&amp;action=edit">&#91;update&#93;</a></sup>, the principal cause of death was cardiovascular disease, at 37%.<sup id="cite_ref-253" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-253">&#91;247&#93;</a></sup> <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_Germany" title="Obesity in Germany">Obesity in Germany</a> has been increasingly cited as a major health issue. A 2014 study showed that 52 percent of the adult German population was overweight or obese.<sup id="cite_ref-254" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-254">&#91;248&#93;</a></sup> </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Culture">Culture</span></h2> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1033289096"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_Germany" title="Culture of Germany">Culture of Germany</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1033289096"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_and_technology_in_Germany" title="Science and technology in Germany">Science and technology in Germany</a></div> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:222px;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Striezelmarkt_2009_00950.jpg" class="image"><img src="//web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Striezelmarkt_2009_00950.jpg/220px-Striezelmarkt_2009_00950.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="thumbimage" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Striezelmarkt_2009_00950.jpg/330px-Striezelmarkt_2009_00950.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Striezelmarkt_2009_00950.jpg/440px-Striezelmarkt_2009_00950.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2362" data-file-height="1575"/></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Striezelmarkt_2009_00950.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>A typical German <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">Weihnachtsmarkt</i></span> (<a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_market" title="Christmas market">Christmas market</a>) in <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dresden" title="Dresden">Dresden</a></div></div></div> <p>Culture in German states has been shaped by major intellectual and popular currents in Europe, both religious and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secularism" title="Secularism">secular</a>. Historically, Germany has been called <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">Das Land der Dichter und Denker</i></span> ('the land of poets and thinkers'),<sup id="cite_ref-255" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-255">&#91;249&#93;</a></sup> because of the major role its <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_and_technology_in_Germany" title="Science and technology in Germany">scientists</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_literature" title="German literature">writers</a> and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_philosophy" title="German philosophy">philosophers</a> have played in the development of Western thought.<sup id="cite_ref-256" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-256">&#91;250&#93;</a></sup> A global opinion poll for the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a> revealed that Germany is recognised for having the most positive influence in the world in 2013 and 2014.<sup id="cite_ref-257" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-257">&#91;251&#93;</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-258" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-258">&#91;252&#93;</a></sup> </p><p>Germany is well known for such folk festival traditions as the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oktoberfest" title="Oktoberfest">Oktoberfest</a> and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weihnachten" title="Weihnachten">Christmas customs</a>, which include <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advent_wreath" title="Advent wreath">Advent wreaths</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nativity_play" title="Nativity play">Christmas pageants</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_tree" title="Christmas tree">Christmas trees</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stollen" title="Stollen">Stollen</a> cakes, and other practices.<sup id="cite_ref-259" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-259">&#91;253&#93;</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-260" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-260">&#91;254&#93;</a></sup> As of 2016<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Germany&amp;action=edit">&#91;update&#93;</a></sup> <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNESCO" title="UNESCO">UNESCO</a> inscribed <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Heritage_Sites_in_Germany" class="mw-redirect" title="World Heritage Sites in Germany">41 properties in Germany on the World Heritage List</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-261" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-261">&#91;255&#93;</a></sup> There are a number of <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_holidays_in_Germany" title="Public holidays in Germany">public holidays in Germany</a> determined by each state; 3 October has been a <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_day" title="National day">national day</a> of Germany since 1990, celebrated as the <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">Tag der Deutschen Einheit</i></span> (<a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Unity_Day" title="German Unity Day">German Unity Day</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-262" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-262">&#91;256&#93;</a></sup> </p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Music">Music</span></h3> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1033289096"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Germany" title="Music of Germany">Music of Germany</a></div> <div class="thumb tleft"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:172px;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Beethoven.jpg" class="image"><img src="//web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Beethoven.jpg/170px-Beethoven.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="204" class="thumbimage" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Beethoven.jpg/255px-Beethoven.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Beethoven.jpg/340px-Beethoven.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="1443"/></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Beethoven.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_van_Beethoven" title="Ludwig van Beethoven">Ludwig van Beethoven</a> (1770–1827), composer</div></div></div> <p>German <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_music_era" class="mw-redirect" title="Classical music era">classical music</a> includes works by some of the world's most well-known composers. <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieterich_Buxtehude" title="Dieterich Buxtehude">Dieterich Buxtehude</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Sebastian_Bach" title="Johann Sebastian Bach">Johann Sebastian Bach</a> and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Frideric_Handel" title="George Frideric Handel">Georg Friedrich Händel</a> were influential composers of the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baroque_music" title="Baroque music">Baroque period</a>. <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_van_Beethoven" title="Ludwig van Beethoven">Ludwig van Beethoven</a> was a crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romantic_music" title="Romantic music">Romantic</a> eras. <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Maria_von_Weber" title="Carl Maria von Weber">Carl Maria von Weber</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Mendelssohn" title="Felix Mendelssohn">Felix Mendelssohn</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Schumann" title="Robert Schumann">Robert Schumann</a> and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Brahms" title="Johannes Brahms">Johannes Brahms</a> were significant Romantic composers. <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Wagner" title="Richard Wagner">Richard Wagner</a> was known for his operas. <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Strauss" title="Richard Strauss">Richard Strauss</a> was a leading composer of the late Romantic and early <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th-century_classical_music" title="20th-century classical music">modern</a> eras. <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karlheinz_Stockhausen" title="Karlheinz Stockhausen">Karlheinz Stockhausen</a> and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Rihm" title="Wolfgang Rihm">Wolfgang Rihm</a> are important composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries.<sup id="cite_ref-263" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-263">&#91;257&#93;</a></sup> </p><p>As of 2013, Germany was the second-largest music market in Europe, and fourth-largest in the world.<sup id="cite_ref-264" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-264">&#91;258&#93;</a></sup> German popular music of the 20th and 21st centuries includes the movements of <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neue_Deutsche_Welle" title="Neue Deutsche Welle">Neue Deutsche Welle</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_music" title="Pop music">pop</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostrock" class="mw-redirect" title="Ostrock">Ostrock</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_metal_music" title="Heavy metal music">heavy metal</a>/<a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_rock" class="mw-redirect" title="German rock">rock</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_punk" title="German punk">punk</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_rock" title="Pop rock">pop rock</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indie_rock" title="Indie rock">indie</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volksmusik" class="mw-redirect" title="Volksmusik">Volksmusik</a> (folk music), <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlager_music" title="Schlager music">schlager pop</a> and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_hip_hop" title="German hip hop">German hip hop</a>. German <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_music" title="Electronic music">electronic music</a> gained global influence, with <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraftwerk" title="Kraftwerk">Kraftwerk</a> and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangerine_Dream" title="Tangerine Dream">Tangerine Dream</a> pioneering in this genre.<sup id="cite_ref-265" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-265">&#91;259&#93;</a></sup> DJs and artists of the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Techno" title="Techno">techno</a> and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_music" title="House music">house music</a> scenes of Germany have become well known (e.g. <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_van_Dyk" title="Paul van Dyk">Paul van Dyk</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Jaehn" title="Felix Jaehn">Felix Jaehn</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Kalkbrenner" title="Paul Kalkbrenner">Paul Kalkbrenner</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Schulz" title="Robin Schulz">Robin Schulz</a> and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scooter_(band)" title="Scooter (band)">Scooter</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-266" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-266">&#91;260&#93;</a></sup> </p> <h3><span id="Art.2C_design_and_architecture"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Art,_design_and_architecture">Art, design and architecture</span></h3> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1033289096"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_art" title="German art">German art</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_of_Germany" title="Architecture of Germany">Architecture of Germany</a>, and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_fashion" title="German fashion">German fashion</a></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1096954695/mw-parser-output/.tmulti">.mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner{display:flex;flex-direction:column}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{display:flex;flex-direction:row;clear:left;flex-wrap:wrap;width:100%;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle{margin:1px;float:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .theader{clear:both;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;align-self:center;background-color:transparent;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .thumbcaption{background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-left{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-right{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-center{text-align:center}@media all and (max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .tmulti .thumbinner{width:100%!important;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:none!important;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{justify-content:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle{float:none!important;max-width:100%!important;box-sizing:border-box;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle .thumbcaption{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow>.thumbcaption{text-align:center}}</style><div class="thumb tmulti tright"><div class="thumbinner multiimageinner" style="width:295px;max-width:295px"><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:134px;max-width:134px"><div class="thumbimage"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Caspar_David_Friedrich_-_Wanderer_above_the_sea_of_fog.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="//web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Caspar_David_Friedrich_-_Wanderer_above_the_sea_of_fog.jpg/132px-Caspar_David_Friedrich_-_Wanderer_above_the_sea_of_fog.jpg" decoding="async" width="132" height="169" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Caspar_David_Friedrich_-_Wanderer_above_the_sea_of_fog.jpg/198px-Caspar_David_Friedrich_-_Wanderer_above_the_sea_of_fog.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Caspar_David_Friedrich_-_Wanderer_above_the_sea_of_fog.jpg/264px-Caspar_David_Friedrich_-_Wanderer_above_the_sea_of_fog.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2327" data-file-height="2980"/></a></div><div class="thumbcaption"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspar_David_Friedrich" title="Caspar David Friedrich">C.D. Friedrich</a>, <i><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanderer_above_the_Sea_of_Fog" title="Wanderer above the Sea of Fog">Wanderer above the Sea of Fog</a></i> (1818)</div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:157px;max-width:157px"><div class="thumbimage"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Franz_Marc_020.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="//web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Franz_Marc_020.jpg/155px-Franz_Marc_020.jpg" decoding="async" width="155" height="168" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Franz_Marc_020.jpg/233px-Franz_Marc_020.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Franz_Marc_020.jpg/310px-Franz_Marc_020.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2024" data-file-height="2199"/></a></div><div class="thumbcaption"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Marc" title="Franz Marc">Franz Marc</a>, <i>Roe Deer in the Forest</i> (1914)</div></div></div></div></div> <p>German painters have influenced <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_of_Europe" title="Art of Europe">Western art</a>. <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer" title="Albrecht Dürer">Albrecht Dürer</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Holbein_the_Younger" title="Hans Holbein the Younger">Hans Holbein the Younger</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias_Gr%C3%BCnewald" title="Matthias Grünewald">Matthias Grünewald</a> and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucas_Cranach_the_Elder" title="Lucas Cranach the Elder">Lucas Cranach the Elder</a> were important German artists of the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance" title="Renaissance">Renaissance</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Baptist_Zimmermann" title="Johann Baptist Zimmermann">Johann Baptist Zimmermann</a> of the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baroque" title="Baroque">Baroque</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspar_David_Friedrich" title="Caspar David Friedrich">Caspar David Friedrich</a> and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Spitzweg" title="Carl Spitzweg">Carl Spitzweg</a> of <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanticism" title="Romanticism">Romanticism</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Liebermann" title="Max Liebermann">Max Liebermann</a> of <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impressionism" title="Impressionism">Impressionism</a> and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Ernst" title="Max Ernst">Max Ernst</a> of <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrealism" title="Surrealism">Surrealism</a>. Several German art groups formed in the 20th century; <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Br%C3%BCcke" title="Die Brücke">Die Brücke</a></i></span> (The Bridge) and <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Blaue_Reiter" title="Der Blaue Reiter">Der Blaue Reiter</a></i></span> (The Blue Rider) influenced the development of <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Expressionism" title="German Expressionism">expressionism</a> in Munich and Berlin. The <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Objectivity" title="New Objectivity">New Objectivity</a> arose in response to expressionism during the Weimar Republic. After World War II, broad trends in German art include <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-expressionism" title="Neo-expressionism">neo-expressionism</a> and the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Leipzig_School" title="New Leipzig School">New Leipzig School</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-groveart_267-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-groveart-267">&#91;261&#93;</a></sup> </p><p>German designers became early leaders of modern <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_design" title="Product design">product design</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-268" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-268">&#91;262&#93;</a></sup> The <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Fashion_Week" title="Berlin Fashion Week">Berlin Fashion Week</a> and the fashion trade fair <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_Butter_tradeshow" title="Bread and Butter tradeshow">Bread &amp; Butter</a> are held twice a year.<sup id="cite_ref-269" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-269">&#91;263&#93;</a></sup> </p><p>Architectural contributions from Germany include the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolingian_architecture" title="Carolingian architecture">Carolingian</a> and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottonian_architecture" title="Ottonian architecture">Ottonian styles</a>, which were precursors of <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanesque_architecture" title="Romanesque architecture">Romanesque</a>. <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brick_Gothic" title="Brick Gothic">Brick Gothic</a> is a distinctive medieval style that evolved in Germany. Also in <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_architecture" title="Renaissance architecture">Renaissance</a> and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baroque_architecture" title="Baroque architecture">Baroque</a> art, regional and typically German elements evolved (e.g. <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weser_Renaissance" title="Weser Renaissance">Weser Renaissance</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-groveart_267-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-groveart-267">&#91;261&#93;</a></sup> <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernacular_architecture" title="Vernacular architecture">Vernacular architecture</a> in Germany is often identified by its <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fachwerkhaus" class="mw-redirect" title="Fachwerkhaus">timber framing</a> (<span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">Fachwerk</i></span>) traditions and varies across regions, and among carpentry styles.<sup id="cite_ref-Heinrich_Stiewe_2007_270-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Heinrich_Stiewe_2007-270">&#91;264&#93;</a></sup> When industrialisation spread across Europe, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classicism" title="Classicism">classicism</a> and a distinctive style of <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicism_(art)" title="Historicism (art)">historicism</a> developed in Germany, sometimes referred to as <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr%C3%BCnderzeit" title="Gründerzeit">Gründerzeit</a></i></span> <i>style</i>. <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expressionist_architecture" title="Expressionist architecture">Expressionist architecture</a> developed in the 1910s in Germany and influenced <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Deco" title="Art Deco">Art Deco</a> and other modern styles. Germany was particularly important in the early <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_architecture" title="Modern architecture">modernist movement</a>: it is the home of <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutscher_Werkbund" title="Deutscher Werkbund">Werkbund</a> initiated by <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Muthesius" title="Hermann Muthesius">Hermann Muthesius</a> (<a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Objectivity_(architecture)" title="New Objectivity (architecture)">New Objectivity</a>), and of the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bauhaus" title="Bauhaus">Bauhaus</a> movement founded by <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Gropius" title="Walter Gropius">Walter Gropius</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-groveart_267-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-groveart-267">&#91;261&#93;</a></sup> <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Mies_van_der_Rohe" title="Ludwig Mies van der Rohe">Ludwig Mies van der Rohe</a> became one of the world's most renowned architects in the second half of the 20th century; he conceived of the glass façade <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyscraper" title="Skyscraper">skyscraper</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-271" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-271">&#91;265&#93;</a></sup> Renowned contemporary <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_German_architects" title="List of German architects">architects</a> and offices include <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pritzker_Prize" class="mw-redirect" title="Pritzker Prize">Pritzker Prize</a> winners <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottfried_B%C3%B6hm" title="Gottfried Böhm">Gottfried Böhm</a> and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frei_Otto" title="Frei Otto">Frei Otto</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-272" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-272">&#91;266&#93;</a></sup> </p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Literature_and_philosophy">Literature and philosophy</span></h3> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1033289096"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_literature" title="German literature">German literature</a> and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_philosophy" title="German philosophy">German philosophy</a></div> <div class="thumb tleft"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:172px;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Grimm.jpg" class="image"><img src="//web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Grimm.jpg/170px-Grimm.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="196" class="thumbimage" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Grimm.jpg/255px-Grimm.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Grimm.jpg/340px-Grimm.jpg 2x" data-file-width="694" data-file-height="799"/></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Grimm.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>The <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brothers_Grimm" title="Brothers Grimm">Brothers Grimm</a> collected and published popular German <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimms%27_Fairy_Tales" title="Grimms' Fairy Tales">folk tales</a>.</div></div></div> <p>German literature can be traced back to the Middle Ages and the works of writers such as <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walther_von_der_Vogelweide" title="Walther von der Vogelweide">Walther von der Vogelweide</a> and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfram_von_Eschenbach" title="Wolfram von Eschenbach">Wolfram von Eschenbach</a>. Well-known German authors include <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe" title="Johann Wolfgang von Goethe">Johann Wolfgang von Goethe</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Schiller" title="Friedrich Schiller">Friedrich Schiller</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotthold_Ephraim_Lessing" title="Gotthold Ephraim Lessing">Gotthold Ephraim Lessing</a> and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Fontane" title="Theodor Fontane">Theodor Fontane</a>. The collections of folk tales published by the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brothers_Grimm" title="Brothers Grimm">Brothers Grimm</a> popularised <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_folklore" title="German folklore">German folklore</a> on an international level.<sup id="cite_ref-D99ff_273-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-D99ff-273">&#91;267&#93;</a></sup> The Grimms also gathered and codified regional variants of the German language, grounding their work in historical principles; their <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsches_W%C3%B6rterbuch" title="Deutsches Wörterbuch">Deutsches Wörterbuch</a></i></span>, or German Dictionary, sometimes called the Grimm dictionary, was begun in 1838 and the first volumes published in 1854.<sup id="cite_ref-DWBhistory_274-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DWBhistory-274">&#91;268&#93;</a></sup> </p><p>Influential authors of the 20th century include <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhart_Hauptmann" title="Gerhart Hauptmann">Gerhart Hauptmann</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Mann" title="Thomas Mann">Thomas Mann</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Hesse" title="Hermann Hesse">Hermann Hesse</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_B%C3%B6ll" title="Heinrich Böll">Heinrich Böll</a> and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BCnter_Grass" title="Günter Grass">Günter Grass</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-275" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-275">&#91;269&#93;</a></sup> The German book market is the third-largest in the world, after the United States and China.<sup id="cite_ref-276" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-276">&#91;270&#93;</a></sup> The <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_Book_Fair" title="Frankfurt Book Fair">Frankfurt Book Fair</a> is the most important in the world for international deals and trading, with a tradition spanning over 500 years.<sup id="cite_ref-277" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-277">&#91;271&#93;</a></sup> The <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leipzig_Book_Fair" title="Leipzig Book Fair">Leipzig Book Fair</a> also retains a major position in Europe.<sup id="cite_ref-278" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-278">&#91;272&#93;</a></sup> </p><p>German philosophy is historically significant: <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottfried_Leibniz" class="mw-redirect" title="Gottfried Leibniz">Gottfried Leibniz</a>'s contributions to <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationalism" title="Rationalism">rationalism</a>; the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Enlightenment" title="Age of Enlightenment">enlightenment</a> philosophy by <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanuel_Kant" title="Immanuel Kant">Immanuel Kant</a>; the establishment of classical <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_idealism" title="German idealism">German idealism</a> by <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Gottlieb_Fichte" title="Johann Gottlieb Fichte">Johann Gottlieb Fichte</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Wilhelm_Friedrich_Hegel" title="Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel">Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel</a> and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Wilhelm_Joseph_Schelling" title="Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling">Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling</a>; <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Schopenhauer" title="Arthur Schopenhauer">Arthur Schopenhauer</a>'s composition of metaphysical pessimism; the formulation of <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_theory" class="mw-redirect" title="Communist theory">communist theory</a> by <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx" title="Karl Marx">Karl Marx</a> and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Engels" title="Friedrich Engels">Friedrich Engels</a>; <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche" title="Friedrich Nietzsche">Friedrich Nietzsche</a>'s development of <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perspectivism" title="Perspectivism">perspectivism</a>; <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Frege" title="Gottlob Frege">Gottlob Frege</a>'s contributions to the dawn of <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytic_philosophy" title="Analytic philosophy">analytic philosophy</a>; <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Heidegger" title="Martin Heidegger">Martin Heidegger</a>'s works on Being; <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Spengler" title="Oswald Spengler">Oswald Spengler</a>'s historical philosophy; and the development of the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School" title="Frankfurt School">Frankfurt School</a> have all been very influential.<sup id="cite_ref-279" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-279">&#91;273&#93;</a></sup> </p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Media">Media</span></h3> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1033289096"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_of_Germany" class="mw-redirect" title="Media of Germany">Media of Germany</a> and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_of_Germany" title="Cinema of Germany">Cinema of Germany</a></div> <p>The largest internationally operating <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_media" title="Mass media">media</a> companies in Germany are the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertelsmann" title="Bertelsmann">Bertelsmann</a> enterprise, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axel_Springer_AG" class="mw-redirect" title="Axel Springer AG">Axel Springer SE</a> and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProSiebenSat.1_Media" title="ProSiebenSat.1 Media">ProSiebenSat.1 Media</a>. <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_in_Germany" title="Television in Germany">Germany's television market</a> is the largest in Europe, with some 38&#160;million TV households.<sup id="cite_ref-280" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-280">&#91;274&#93;</a></sup> Around 90% of German households have cable or satellite TV, with a variety of <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_broadcasting#Germany" title="Public broadcasting">free-to-view public</a> and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_broadcasting" title="Commercial broadcasting">commercial</a> channels.<sup id="cite_ref-media_281-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-media-281">&#91;275&#93;</a></sup> There are more than 300 public and private <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_radio_stations_in_Germany" title="List of radio stations in Germany">radio stations in Germany</a>; Germany's national radio network is the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutschlandradio" title="Deutschlandradio">Deutschlandradio</a> and the public <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Welle" title="Deutsche Welle">Deutsche Welle</a> is the main German radio and television broadcaster in foreign languages.<sup id="cite_ref-media_281-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-media-281">&#91;275&#93;</a></sup> Germany's print market of <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_Germany" title="List of newspapers in Germany">newspapers</a> and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_magazines_in_Germany" title="List of magazines in Germany">magazines</a> is the largest in Europe.<sup id="cite_ref-media_281-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-media-281">&#91;275&#93;</a></sup> The papers with the highest circulation are <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild" title="Bild">Bild</a></i></span>, <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%BCddeutsche_Zeitung" title="Süddeutsche Zeitung">Süddeutsche Zeitung</a></i></span>, <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurter_Allgemeine_Zeitung" title="Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung">Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung</a></i></span> and <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Welt" title="Die Welt">Die Welt</a></i></span>.<sup id="cite_ref-media_281-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-media-281">&#91;275&#93;</a></sup> The largest magazines include <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADAC_Motorwelt" title="ADAC Motorwelt">ADAC Motorwelt</a></i></span> and <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Spiegel" title="Der Spiegel">Der Spiegel</a></i></span>.<sup id="cite_ref-media_281-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-media-281">&#91;275&#93;</a></sup> Germany has <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_gaming_in_Germany" class="mw-redirect" title="Video gaming in Germany">a large video gaming market</a>, with over 34 million players nationwide.<sup id="cite_ref-282" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-282">&#91;276&#93;</a></sup> </p> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:222px;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Filmstudio_Babelsberg_Eingang.jpg" class="image"><img src="//web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Filmstudio_Babelsberg_Eingang.jpg/220px-Filmstudio_Babelsberg_Eingang.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="thumbimage" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Filmstudio_Babelsberg_Eingang.jpg/330px-Filmstudio_Babelsberg_Eingang.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Filmstudio_Babelsberg_Eingang.jpg/440px-Filmstudio_Babelsberg_Eingang.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="768"/></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Filmstudio_Babelsberg_Eingang.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babelsberg_Studio" title="Babelsberg Studio">Babelsberg Studio</a> in <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potsdam" title="Potsdam">Potsdam</a> near Berlin, the world's first large-scale film studio</div></div></div> <p>German cinema has made major technical and artistic contributions to film. The first works of the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Skladanowsky" title="Max Skladanowsky">Skladanowsky Brothers</a> were shown to an audience in 1895. The renowned <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babelsberg_Studio" title="Babelsberg Studio">Babelsberg Studio</a> in <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potsdam" title="Potsdam">Potsdam</a> was established in 1912, thus being the first large-scale film studio in the world. Early German cinema was particularly influential with <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_expressionism" class="mw-redirect" title="German expressionism">German expressionists</a> such as <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Wiene" title="Robert Wiene">Robert Wiene</a> and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Wilhelm_Murnau" class="mw-redirect" title="Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau">Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau</a>. Director <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Lang" title="Fritz Lang">Fritz Lang</a>'s <i><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis_(1927_film)" title="Metropolis (1927 film)">Metropolis</a></i> (1927) is referred to as the first major science-fiction film. After 1945, many of the films of the immediate post-war period can be characterised as <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubble_film" class="mw-redirect" title="Rubble film">Trümmerfilm</a></i></span> (rubble film). East German film was dominated by state-owned film studio <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEFA_(film_studio)" class="mw-redirect" title="DEFA (film studio)">DEFA</a>, while the dominant genre in West Germany was the <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heimatfilm" title="Heimatfilm">Heimatfilm</a></i></span> ("homeland film").<sup id="cite_ref-283" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-283">&#91;277&#93;</a></sup> During the 1970s and 1980s, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_German_Cinema" title="New German Cinema">New German Cinema</a> directors such as <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volker_Schl%C3%B6ndorff" title="Volker Schlöndorff">Volker Schlöndorff</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Herzog" title="Werner Herzog">Werner Herzog</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wim_Wenders" title="Wim Wenders">Wim Wenders</a>, and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainer_Werner_Fassbinder" title="Rainer Werner Fassbinder">Rainer Werner Fassbinder</a> brought West German auteur cinema to critical acclaim. </p><p>The <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Foreign_Language_Film" class="mw-redirect" title="Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film">Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film</a> ("Oscar") went to the German production <i><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tin_Drum_(film)" title="The Tin Drum (film)">The Tin Drum</a></i> (<span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">Die Blechtrommel</i></span>) in 1979, to <i><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nowhere_in_Africa" title="Nowhere in Africa">Nowhere in Africa</a></i> (<span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">Nirgendwo in Afrika</i></span>) in 2002, and to <i><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lives_of_Others" title="The Lives of Others">The Lives of Others</a></i> (<span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">Das Leben der Anderen</i></span>) in 2007. <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_German-speaking_Academy_Award_winners_and_nominees" class="mw-redirect" title="List of German-speaking Academy Award winners and nominees">Various Germans</a> won an Oscar for their performances in other films. The annual <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Film_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="European Film Award">European Film Awards</a> ceremony is held every other year in Berlin, home of the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Film_Academy" title="European Film Academy">European Film Academy</a>. The <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_International_Film_Festival" title="Berlin International Film Festival">Berlin International Film Festival</a>, known as "Berlinale", awarding the "<a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Bear" title="Golden Bear">Golden Bear</a>" and held annually since 1951, is one of the world's leading <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_festival" title="Film festival">film festivals</a>. The "Lolas" are annually awarded in Berlin, at the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutscher_Filmpreis" class="mw-redirect" title="Deutscher Filmpreis">German Film Awards</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-284" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-284">&#91;278&#93;</a></sup> </p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Cuisine">Cuisine</span></h3> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1033289096"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_cuisine" title="German cuisine">German cuisine</a></div> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:172px;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:BavarianLunch.jpg" class="image"><img src="//web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/BavarianLunch.jpg/170px-BavarianLunch.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="227" class="thumbimage" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/BavarianLunch.jpg/255px-BavarianLunch.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/BavarianLunch.jpg/340px-BavarianLunch.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1361" data-file-height="1815"/></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:BavarianLunch.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>Bavarian <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bratwurst" title="Bratwurst">Bratwurst</a> with mustard, a <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretzel" title="Pretzel">pretzel</a> and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_in_Germany" title="Beer in Germany">beer</a></div></div></div> <p>German cuisine varies from region to region and often neighbouring regions share some culinary similarities (e.g. the southern regions of <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bavarian_cuisine" title="Bavarian cuisine">Bavaria</a> and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swabian_cuisine" title="Swabian cuisine">Swabia</a> share some traditions with Switzerland and Austria). International varieties such as <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza" title="Pizza">pizza</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sushi" title="Sushi">sushi</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_food" class="mw-redirect" title="Chinese food">Chinese food</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_cuisine" title="Greek cuisine">Greek food</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_cuisine" title="Indian cuisine">Indian cuisine</a> and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doner_kebab" title="Doner kebab">doner kebab</a> are also popular. </p><p><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_cuisine#Bread" title="German cuisine">Bread</a> is a significant part of German cuisine and German bakeries produce about 600 main types of bread and 1,200 types of pastries and rolls (<span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">Brötchen</i></span>).<sup id="cite_ref-285" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-285">&#91;279&#93;</a></sup> German <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_German_cheeses" title="List of German cheeses">cheeses</a> account for about 22% of all cheese produced in Europe.<sup id="cite_ref-286" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-286">&#91;280&#93;</a></sup> In 2012 over 99% of all meat produced in Germany was either pork, chicken or beef. Germans produce their ubiquitous sausages in almost 1,500 varieties, including <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bratwurst" title="Bratwurst">Bratwursts</a> and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weisswurst" title="Weisswurst">Weisswursts</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-287" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-287">&#91;281&#93;</a></sup> The national alcoholic drink is <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_in_Germany" title="Beer in Germany">beer</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-288" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-288">&#91;282&#93;</a></sup> German beer consumption per person stands at 110 litres (24&#160;imp&#160;gal; 29&#160;US&#160;gal) in 2013 and remains among the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_beer_consumption_per_capita" title="List of countries by beer consumption per capita">highest in the world</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-289" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-289">&#91;283&#93;</a></sup> <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinheitsgebot" title="Reinheitsgebot">German beer purity regulations</a> date back to the 16th century.<sup id="cite_ref-290" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-290">&#91;284&#93;</a></sup> <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_wine" title="German wine">Wine</a> has become popular in many parts of the country, especially close to <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_German_wine_regions" title="List of German wine regions">German wine regions</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-291" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-291">&#91;285&#93;</a></sup> In 2019, Germany was the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wine_production" class="mw-redirect" title="List of countries by wine production">ninth-largest wine producer</a> in the world.<sup id="cite_ref-292" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-292">&#91;286&#93;</a></sup> </p><p>The 2018 <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelin_Guide" title="Michelin Guide">Michelin Guide</a> awarded eleven restaurants in Germany <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Michelin_starred_restaurants#Germany" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Michelin starred restaurants">three stars</a>, giving the country a cumulative total of 300 stars.<sup id="cite_ref-293" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-293">&#91;287&#93;</a></sup> </p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Sports">Sports</span></h3> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1033289096"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport_in_Germany" title="Sport in Germany">Sport in Germany</a></div> <div class="thumb tleft"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:222px;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Germany_champions_2014_FIFA_World_Cup.jpg" class="image"><img src="//web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Germany_champions_2014_FIFA_World_Cup.jpg/220px-Germany_champions_2014_FIFA_World_Cup.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="114" class="thumbimage" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Germany_champions_2014_FIFA_World_Cup.jpg/330px-Germany_champions_2014_FIFA_World_Cup.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Germany_champions_2014_FIFA_World_Cup.jpg/440px-Germany_champions_2014_FIFA_World_Cup.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3101" data-file-height="1611"/></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Germany_champions_2014_FIFA_World_Cup.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>The <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany_national_football_team" title="Germany national football team">German national football team</a> after winning the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_FIFA_World_Cup" title="2014 FIFA World Cup">FIFA World Cup</a> for the fourth time in 2014</div></div></div> <p><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_in_Germany" title="Football in Germany">Football</a> is the most popular sport in Germany. With more than 7&#160;million official members, the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Football_Association" title="German Football Association">German Football Association</a> (<i>Deutscher Fußball-Bund</i>) is the largest single-sport organisation worldwide,<sup id="cite_ref-294" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-294">&#91;288&#93;</a></sup> and the German top league, the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundesliga" title="Bundesliga">Bundesliga</a>, attracts the second-highest <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_attendance_figures_at_domestic_professional_sports_leagues" title="List of attendance figures at domestic professional sports leagues">average attendance</a> of all professional sports leagues in the world.<sup id="cite_ref-295" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-295">&#91;289&#93;</a></sup> The <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany_national_football_team" title="Germany national football team">German men's national football team</a> won the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA_World_Cup" title="FIFA World Cup">FIFA World Cup</a> in 1954, 1974, 1990, and 2014,<sup id="cite_ref-296" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-296">&#91;290&#93;</a></sup> the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA_European_Championship" title="UEFA European Championship">UEFA European Championship</a> in 1972, 1980 and 1996,<sup id="cite_ref-297" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-297">&#91;291&#93;</a></sup> and the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA_Confederations_Cup" title="FIFA Confederations Cup">FIFA Confederations Cup</a> in 2017.<sup id="cite_ref-298" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-298">&#91;292&#93;</a></sup> </p><p>Germany is one of the leading <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport_in_Germany#Motorsport" title="Sport in Germany">motor sports</a> countries in the world. Constructors like <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW" title="BMW">BMW</a> and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz" title="Mercedes-Benz">Mercedes</a> are prominent manufacturers in motor sport. <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche" title="Porsche">Porsche</a> has won the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24_Hours_of_Le_Mans" title="24 Hours of Le Mans">24 Hours of Le Mans</a> race 19 times, and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audi" title="Audi">Audi</a> 13 times (as of 2017<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Germany&amp;action=edit">&#91;update&#93;</a></sup>).<sup id="cite_ref-299" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-299">&#91;293&#93;</a></sup> The driver <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Schumacher" title="Michael Schumacher">Michael Schumacher</a> has set many motor sport records during his career, having won seven <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Formula_One_World_Drivers%27_Champions" title="List of Formula One World Drivers' Champions">Formula One World Drivers' Championships</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-300" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-300">&#91;294&#93;</a></sup> <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastian_Vettel" title="Sebastian Vettel">Sebastian Vettel</a> is also among the most successful <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formula_One" title="Formula One">Formula One</a> drivers of all time.<sup id="cite_ref-301" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-301">&#91;295&#93;</a></sup> </p><p>Historically, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany_at_the_Olympics" title="Germany at the Olympics">German athletes</a> have been successful contenders in the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_Games" title="Olympic Games">Olympic Games</a>, ranking third in an <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-time_Olympic_Games_medal_count" class="mw-redirect" title="All-time Olympic Games medal count">all-time Olympic Games medal count</a> (when combining East and West German medals).<sup id="cite_ref-302" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-302">&#91;296&#93;</a></sup> In 1936 Berlin hosted the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_Summer_Olympics" title="1936 Summer Olympics">Summer Games</a> and the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_Winter_Olympics" title="1936 Winter Olympics">Winter Games</a> in <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garmisch-Partenkirchen" title="Garmisch-Partenkirchen">Garmisch-Partenkirchen</a>. <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich" title="Munich">Munich</a> hosted the Summer Games of <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_Summer_Olympics" title="1972 Summer Olympics">1972</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-303" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-303">&#91;297&#93;</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELarge2007337_304-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELarge2007337-304">&#91;298&#93;</a></sup> </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="See_also">See also</span></h2> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1132942124">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 0;display:table;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:175px;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .portalborder{border:solid #aaa 1px;padding:0.1em;background:#f9f9f9}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-entry{display:table-row;font-size:85%;line-height:110%;height:1.9em;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output 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class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">From 1952 to 1990, the entire "Deutschlandlied" was the national anthem, but only the third verse was sung on official occasions. Since 1991, the third verse alone has been the national anthem.<sup id="cite_ref-PresidentsOffice_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PresidentsOffice-1">&#91;1&#93;</a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Berlin is the sole constitutional capital and <i>de jure</i> seat of government, but the former provisional capital of the Federal Republic of Germany, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonn" title="Bonn">Bonn</a>, has the special title of "federal city" (<span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">Bundesstadt</i></span>) and is the primary seat of six ministries.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3">&#91;2&#93;</a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_language" title="Danish language">Danish</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_German" title="Low German">Low German</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorbian_languages" title="Sorbian languages">Sorbian</a>, <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_language" title="Romani language">Romani</a>, and <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frisian_languages" title="Frisian languages">Frisian</a> are recognised by the <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Charter_for_Regional_or_Minority_Languages" title="European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages">European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5">&#91;3&#93;</a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The Bundesrat is sometimes referred to as an upper chamber of the German legislature. This is technically incorrect, since the German Constitution defines the Bundestag and Bundesrat as two separate legislative institutions. Hence, the federal legislature of Germany consists of two unicameral legislative institutions, not one bicameral parliament.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_language" title="German language">German</a>: <i lang="de">Deutschland</i>, <small>pronounced&#32;</small><span title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)" class="IPA" lang="de-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Standard_German" title="Help:IPA/Standard German">[ˈdɔʏtʃlant]</a></span>&#32;<span class="nowrap" style="font-size:85%">(<span class="unicode haudio"><span class="fn"><span style="white-space:nowrap;margin-right:.25em;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:De-Deutschland.ogg" title="About this sound"><img alt="" src="//web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Loudspeaker.svg/11px-Loudspeaker.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Loudspeaker.svg/17px-Loudspeaker.svg.png 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Loudspeaker.svg/22px-Loudspeaker.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20"/></a></span><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/De-Deutschland.ogg" class="internal" title="De-Deutschland.ogg">listen</a></span></span>)</span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_language" title="German language">German</a>: <i lang="de">Bundesrepublik Deutschland</i>, <small>pronounced&#32;</small><span title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)" class="IPA" lang="de-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Standard_German" title="Help:IPA/Standard German">[ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant]</a></span>&#32;<span class="nowrap" style="font-size:85%">(<span class="unicode haudio"><span class="fn"><span style="white-space:nowrap;margin-right:.25em;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:De-Bundesrepublik_Deutschland.ogg" title="About this sound"><img alt="" src="//web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Loudspeaker.svg/11px-Loudspeaker.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Loudspeaker.svg/17px-Loudspeaker.svg.png 1.5x, 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University of Kansas. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://web.archive.org/web/20110429072010/http://www.vlib.us/medieval/lectures/black_death.html">Archived</a> from the original on 29 April 2011<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Cambridge University Press. pp.&#160;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://archive.org/details/printingpressasa00eise_181/page/n24">3</a>–43. <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-521-29955-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-521-29955-8"><bdi>978-0-521-29955-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+printing+press+as+an+agent+of+change&amp;rft.pages=3-43&amp;rft.pub=Cambridge+University+Press&amp;rft.date=1980&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-521-29955-8&amp;rft.aulast=Eisenstein&amp;rft.aufirst=Elizabeth&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fprintingpressasa00eise_181&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGermany" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-44"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-44">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1133582631"><cite id="CITEREFCantoni2011" class="citation journal cs1">Cantoni, Davide (2011). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://www.barcelonagse.eu/sites/default/files/working_paper_pdfs/540.pdf">"Adopting a New Religion: The Case of Protestantism in 16th Century Germany"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <i>Barcelona GSE Working Paper Series</i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://web.archive.org/web/20170809160613/http://www.barcelonagse.eu/sites/default/files/working_paper_pdfs/540.pdf">Archived</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span> from the original on 9 August 2017<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">17 March</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=Barcelona+GSE+Working+Paper+Series&amp;rft.atitle=Adopting+a+New+Religion%3A+The+Case+of+Protestantism+in+16th+Century+Germany&amp;rft.date=2011&amp;rft.aulast=Cantoni&amp;rft.aufirst=Davide&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.barcelonagse.eu%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Fworking_paper_pdfs%2F540.pdf&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGermany" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Philpott-45"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Philpott_45-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Philpott_45-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1133582631"><cite id="CITEREFPhilpott2000" class="citation journal cs1">Philpott, Daniel (January 2000). "The Religious Roots of Modern International Relations". <i>World Politics</i>. <b>52</b> (2): 206–245. <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://doi.org/10.1017%2FS0043887100002604">10.1017/S0043887100002604</a>. <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a>&#160;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:40773221">40773221</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=World+Politics&amp;rft.atitle=The+Religious+Roots+of+Modern+International+Relations&amp;rft.volume=52&amp;rft.issue=2&amp;rft.pages=206-245&amp;rft.date=2000-01&amp;rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1017%2FS0043887100002604&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A40773221%23id-name%3DS2CID&amp;rft.aulast=Philpott&amp;rft.aufirst=Daniel&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGermany" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-46"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-46">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1133582631"><cite id="CITEREFMacfarlane1997" class="citation book cs1">Macfarlane, Alan (1997). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://archive.org/details/savagewarsofpeac0000macf/page/51"><i>The Savage Wars of Peace: England, Japan and the Malthusian Trap</i></a>. Blackwell. p.&#160;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://archive.org/details/savagewarsofpeac0000macf/page/51">51</a>. <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-631-18117-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-631-18117-0"><bdi>978-0-631-18117-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Savage+Wars+of+Peace%3A+England%2C+Japan+and+the+Malthusian+Trap&amp;rft.pages=51&amp;rft.pub=Blackwell&amp;rft.date=1997&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-631-18117-0&amp;rft.aulast=Macfarlane&amp;rft.aufirst=Alan&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fsavagewarsofpeac0000macf%2Fpage%2F51&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGermany" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-47"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-47">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">For a general discussion of the impact of the Reformation on the Holy Roman Empire, see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1133582631"><cite id="CITEREFHolborn1959" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hajo_Holborn" title="Hajo Holborn">Holborn, Hajo</a> (1959). <i>A History of Modern Germany, The Reformation</i>. Princeton University Press. pp.&#160;123–248.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=A+History+of+Modern+Germany%2C+The+Reformation&amp;rft.pages=123-248&amp;rft.pub=Princeton+University+Press&amp;rft.date=1959&amp;rft.aulast=Holborn&amp;rft.aufirst=Hajo&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGermany" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-48"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-48">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1133582631"><cite id="CITEREFJeroen_DuindamJill_Diana_HarriesCaroline_HumfressHurvitz_Nimrod2013" class="citation book cs1">Jeroen Duindam; Jill Diana Harries; Caroline Humfress; Hurvitz Nimrod, eds. (2013). <i>Law and Empire: Ideas, Practices, Actors</i>. Brill. p.&#160;113. <a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-90-04-24951-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-90-04-24951-6"><bdi>978-90-04-24951-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Law+and+Empire%3A+Ideas%2C+Practices%2C+Actors&amp;rft.pages=113&amp;rft.pub=Brill&amp;rft.date=2013&amp;rft.isbn=978-90-04-24951-6&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGermany" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-49"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-49">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1133582631"><cite id="CITEREFHamish_ScottBrendan_Simms2007" class="citation book cs1">Hamish Scott; Brendan Simms, eds. (2007). <span class="cs1-lock-limited" title="Free access subject to limited trial, subscription normally required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://archive.org/details/culturespowereur00scot_130"><i>Cultures of Power in Europe during the Long Eighteenth Century</i></a></span>. 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Routledge. p.&#160;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://archive.org/details/historyeasterneu00bide_296/page/n171">156</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=A+History+of+Eastern+Europe%3A+Crisis+and+Change&amp;rft.pages=156&amp;rft.pub=Routledge&amp;rft.date=1998&amp;rft.aulast=Bideleux&amp;rft.aufirst=Robert&amp;rft.au=Jeffries%2C+Ian&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fhistoryeasterneu00bide_296&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGermany" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-52"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-52">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1133582631"><cite id="CITEREFBattWolczuk2002" class="citation book cs1">Batt, Judy; Wolczuk, Kataryna (2002). <i>Region, State and Identity in Central and Eastern Europe</i>. 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/german-election-results-exit-poll-2017-live-latest-afd-mps-merkel-alternative-a7964796.html">"German elections: Far-right wins MPs for first time in half a century"</a>. <i>The Independent</i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230605152707/https://web.archive.org/web/20200227224650/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/german-election-results-exit-poll-2017-live-latest-afd-mps-merkel-alternative-a7964796.html">Archived</a> from the original on 27 February 2020.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=The+Independent&amp;rft.atitle=German+elections%3A+Far-right+wins+MPs+for+first+time+in+half+a+century&amp;rft.date=2017-09-24&amp;rft.aulast=Stone&amp;rft.aufirst=Jon&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.independent.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fworld%2Fpolitics%2Fgerman-election-results-exit-poll-2017-live-latest-afd-mps-merkel-alternative-a7964796.html&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGermany" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Britannica-139"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Britannica_139-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Britannica_139-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1133582631"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" 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href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ancient_Germanic_peoples" class="mw-redirect" title="List of ancient Germanic peoples">List of ancient Germanic peoples</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goths" title="Goths">Goths</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teutons" title="Teutons">Teutons</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visigoths" title="Visigoths">Visigoths</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Huns" title="History of the Huns">History of the Huns</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_warfare_between_the_Romans_and_Germanic_tribes" class="mw-redirect" title="Chronology of warfare between the Romans and Germanic tribes">Chronology of warfare between the Romans and Germanic tribes</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cimbrian_War" title="Cimbrian War">Cimbrian War</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_campaigns_in_Germania_(12_BC_%E2%80%93_AD_16)" title="Roman campaigns in Germania (12 BC – AD 16)">Roman campaigns in Germania (12 BC – AD 16)</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcomannic_Wars" title="Marcomannic Wars">Marcomannic Wars</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_Wars" title="Gothic Wars">Gothic Wars</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_of_Rome_(410)" title="Sack of Rome (410)">Sack of Rome (410)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;">Middle Ages</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francia" title="Francia">Frankish Empire</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Verdun" title="Treaty of Verdun">Treaty of Verdun</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Francia" title="East Francia">East Francia</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolingian_Empire" title="Carolingian Empire">Carolingian Empire</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolingian_dynasty" title="Carolingian dynasty">Carolingian dynasty</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Roman_Empire" title="Holy Roman Empire">Holy Roman Empire</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostsiedlung" title="Ostsiedlung">Ostsiedlung (East Colonisation)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;">Modern</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany_in_the_early_modern_period" title="Germany in the early modern period">Early modern period, 1500–1800</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/18th-century_history_of_Germany" title="18th-century history of Germany">18th-century</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederation_of_the_Rhine" title="Confederation of the Rhine">Confederation of the Rhine</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_revolutions_of_1848%E2%80%931849" title="German revolutions of 1848–1849">German revolutions of 1848–1849</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Confederation" title="German Confederation">German Confederation</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_Constitution" title="Frankfurt Constitution">Frankfurt Constitution</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_German_Confederation" title="North German Confederation">North German Confederation</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unification_of_Germany" title="Unification of Germany">Unification of Germany</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Empire" title="German Empire">German Empire</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Germany_during_World_War_I" title="History of Germany during World War I">World War I</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_guilt_question" title="War guilt question">War guilt question</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Revolution_of_1918%E2%80%931919" title="German Revolution of 1918–1919">Revolution of 1918</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weimar_Republic" title="Weimar Republic">Weimar Republic</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Germany" title="Nazi Germany">Nazi Germany</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Germany#World_War_II" title="Nazi Germany">World War II</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied-occupied_Germany" title="Allied-occupied Germany">Allied occupation</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_and_expulsion_of_Germans_(1944%E2%80%931950)" title="Flight and expulsion of Germans (1944–1950)">Flight and expulsions</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denazification" title="Denazification">Denazification</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Germany_(1945%E2%80%931990)" title="History of Germany (1945–1990)">Divided Germany</a> <ul><li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Germany" title="East Germany">East Germany</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Germany" title="West Germany">West Germany</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;">Contemporary</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_reunification" title="German reunification">Reunification</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Germany_since_1990" class="mw-redirect" title="History of Germany since 1990">History of Germany since 1990</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;">Regions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Prussia" class="mw-redirect" title="History of Prussia">History of Prussia</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Brandenburg" class="mw-redirect" title="History of Brandenburg">History of Brandenburg</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cologne_War" title="Cologne War">Cologne War</a>, 1583-1588</li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baden_Revolution" title="Baden Revolution">Baden Revolution</a>, 1848</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Germany" title="Geography of Germany">Geography</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_Germany" class="mw-redirect" title="Administrative divisions of Germany">Administrative divisions</a> <ul><li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States_of_Germany" title="States of Germany">States</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Districts_of_Germany" title="Districts of Germany">Districts</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_and_towns_in_Germany" title="List of cities and towns in Germany">Cities and towns</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_Germany" title="List of earthquakes in Germany">Earthquakes</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geology_of_Germany" title="Geology of Germany">Geology</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_islands_of_Germany" title="List of islands of Germany">Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lakes_of_Germany" title="List of lakes of Germany">Lakes</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Mountains_of_Germany" title="Category:Mountains of Germany">Mountains</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Rivers_of_Germany" title="Category:Rivers of Germany">Rivers</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Germany" title="Politics of Germany">Politics</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundestag" title="Bundestag">Bundestag</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundesrat_of_Germany" class="mw-redirect" title="Bundesrat of Germany">Bundesrat</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundeswehr" title="Bundeswehr"><i>Bundeswehr</i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(military)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet_of_Germany" title="Cabinet of Germany">Cabinet</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chancellor_of_Germany_(1949%E2%80%93)" class="mw-redirect" title="Chancellor of Germany (1949–)">Chancellor</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Law_for_the_Federal_Republic_of_Germany" title="Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany">Constitution</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judiciary_of_Germany" title="Judiciary of Germany">Court system</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_Germany" title="Elections in Germany">Elections</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_relations_of_Germany" title="Foreign relations of Germany">Foreign relations</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Germany" title="Human rights in Germany">Human rights</a> <ul><li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex_rights_in_Germany" title="Intersex rights in Germany">Intersex</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Germany" title="LGBT rights in Germany">LGBT</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_rights_in_Germany" title="Transgender rights in Germany">Transgender</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Germany" title="Law of Germany">Law</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_enforcement_in_Germany" title="Law enforcement in Germany">Law enforcement</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobbying_in_Germany" title="Lobbying in Germany">Lobbying</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservatism_in_Germany" title="Conservatism in Germany">Conservatism</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_nationalism" title="German nationalism">Nationalism</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_Germany" title="List of political parties in Germany">Political parties</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Germany" title="President of Germany">President</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Germany" title="Economy of Germany">Economy</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture_in_Germany" title="Agriculture in Germany">Agriculture</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automotive_industry_in_Germany" title="Automotive industry in Germany">Automobile industry</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banking_in_Germany" title="Banking in Germany">Banking</a> <ul><li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Bundesbank" title="Deutsche Bundesbank">Central bank</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_German_Chemical_Triangle" title="Middle German Chemical Triangle">Chemical Triangle</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_history_of_Germany" title="Economic history of Germany">Economic history</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Germany" title="Energy in Germany">Energy</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_exports_of_Germany" title="List of exports of Germany">Exports</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_model" title="German model">German model</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_German_states_by_GDP" class="mw-redirect" title="List of German states by GDP">German states by GDP</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mittelstand" title="Mittelstand"><i>Mittelstand</i> companies</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_and_technology_in_Germany" title="Science and technology in Germany">Science and technology</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_Stock_Exchange" title="Frankfurt Stock Exchange">Stock exchange</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_Germany" title="Taxation in Germany">Taxation</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Germany" title="Telecommunications in Germany">Telecommunications</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourism_in_Germany" title="Tourism in Germany">Tourism</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_unions_in_Germany" title="Trade unions in Germany">Trade unions</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_in_Germany" title="Transport in Germany">Transport</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_in_Germany" class="mw-redirect" title="Welfare in Germany">Welfare</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Society_of_Germany" title="Category:Society of Germany">Society</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Germany" title="Crime in Germany">Crime</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_in_Germany" title="Corruption in Germany">Corruption</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Germany" title="Demographics of Germany">Demographics</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_policy_of_Germany" title="Drug policy of Germany">Drug policy</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_Germany" title="Education in Germany">Education</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germans" title="Germans">Germans</a> <ul><li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Ethnic_groups_in_Germany" title="Category:Ethnic groups in Germany">Ethnic groups</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Germany" title="Healthcare in Germany">Healthcare</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Germany" title="Immigration to Germany">Immigration</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pensions_in_Germany" title="Pensions in Germany">Pensions</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_Germany" title="Racism in Germany">Racism</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Germany" title="Religion in Germany">Religion</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_issues_in_Germany" class="mw-redirect" title="Social issues in Germany">Social issues</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_Germany" title="Culture of Germany">Culture</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutschlandlied" title="Deutschlandlied">Anthem</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_of_Germany" title="Architecture of Germany">Architecture</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_art" title="German art">Art</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Arts_in_Germany" title="Category:Arts in Germany">Arts</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_of_Germany" title="Cinema of Germany">Cinema</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Germany" title="Coat of arms of Germany">Coat of arms</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_cuisine" title="German cuisine">Cuisine</a></li> <li>Cultural icons</li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Dance_in_Germany" title="Category:Dance in Germany">Dance</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_fashion" title="German fashion">Fashion</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Festivals_in_Germany" title="Category:Festivals in Germany">Festivals</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_folklore" title="German folklore">Folklore</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Germany" title="Flag of Germany">Flag</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_language" title="German language">Language</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_libraries_in_Germany" title="List of libraries in Germany">Libraries</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_literature" title="German literature">Literature</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_Germany" title="Internet in Germany">Internet</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_of_Germany" class="mw-redirect" title="Media of Germany">Media</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Germany" title="Music of Germany">Music</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_Germany" title="Names of Germany">Names</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_philosophy" title="German philosophy">Philosophy</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussian_virtues" title="Prussian virtues">Prussian virtues</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport_in_Germany" title="Sport in Germany">Sport</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_in_Germany" title="Television in Germany">Television</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_Heritage_Sites_in_Germany" title="List of World Heritage Sites in Germany">World Heritage Sites</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td 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title="Spain">Spain</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><img alt="" src="//web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4c/Flag_of_Sweden.svg/23px-Flag_of_Sweden.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="thumbborder" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4c/Flag_of_Sweden.svg/35px-Flag_of_Sweden.svg.png 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20230605152707im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4c/Flag_of_Sweden.svg/46px-Flag_of_Sweden.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1000"/>&#160;</span><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden" title="Sweden">Sweden</a></li></ul> </div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="1" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:European_Union_main_map.svg" class="image"><img alt="European Union main map.svg" 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href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withdrawal_from_the_European_Union" title="Withdrawal from the European Union">Former members</a></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1061467846"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Group_of_Eight_(G8)_and_Group_of_Eight_+_Five_(G8+5)" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1063604349"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a 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<li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China" title="China">China</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India" title="India">India</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico" title="Mexico">Mexico</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa" title="South Africa">South Africa</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">See also</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_of_Seven#History" class="mw-redirect" title="Group of Seven">G6</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_of_Seven" class="mw-redirect" title="Group of Seven">G7</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_of_Eight#History" class="mw-redirect" title="Group of Eight">G7+1</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Four_(Western_Europe)" title="Big Four (Western Europe)">G4 (Europe)</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G4_nations" title="G4 nations">G4 (UN)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1061467846"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Council_of_Europe" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" 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title="Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe">Parliamentary Assembly</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_the_Council_of_Europe" class="mw-redirect" title="Congress of the Council of Europe">Congress</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Court_of_Human_Rights" title="European Court of Human Rights">Court of Human Rights</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commissioner_for_Human_Rights" title="Commissioner for Human Rights">Commissioner for Human Rights</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Commission_for_the_Efficiency_of_Justice" title="European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice">Commission for the Efficiency of Justice</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20230605152707/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Commission_against_Racism_and_Intolerance" title="European Commission against Racism and 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