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  Germany. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Germany is a federal republic whose 16 states have their own constitutions, legislatures, and governments, which can pass laws on all matters except those that are the exclusive right of the federal government such as defense, foreign affairs, and finance.
The chief theater of the war, Germany was reduced to misery and starvation, lost a large part of its population, and became, as a result of the Peace of Westphalia (1648; see Westphalia, Peace of), a loose confederation of petty principalities under the nominal suzerainty of the emperor.
In Mar., 1936, Germany remilitarized the Rhineland in violation of the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact.
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 Deputy Prime Minister - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A Deputy Prime Minister is the deputy of a Prime Minister, and a member of a nation's cabinet.
Deputy Prime Ministers traditionally serve as acting Prime Minister when the real Prime Minister is temporarily absent or incapable of exercising his/her power.
Deputy Prime Minister is often a job that is held simultaneously with another ministry, and is usually given to one of the most senior, experienced ministers of the cabinet.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Deputy_Prime_Minister   (198 words)

  
 Germany   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Chancellor Helmut Kohl (CDU) is the longest ser-ving political leader in Europe and in Germany since 1945.
Antisemitism in Germany before the First World War involved a rejection of liberalism, modernism and Jewish emancipation, and was closely connected to the growth of German nationalism and racism.
Elsewhere in Germany, racially motivated violence included an attack on a Turkish-German friendship society in Hannover in August and the severe injury of an Italian worker and several attacks on Turks in Potsdam in October.
www.axt.org.uk /antisem/archive/archive1/germany/germany.htm   (7970 words)

  
 Reports: Parties Agree on Chancellor Merkel | Germany | Deutsche Welle | 10.10.2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Germany's next foreign minister is set to be Peter Struck, who is currently at the defence ministry, according to sources close to the Social Democrats.
German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder denied that he was making a swan song foreign trip as head of Germany's government after meeting with Russia's President Vladimir Putin in Saint Petersburg.
Chancellor Gerhard Schröder said on Monday that he would be prepared to step aside in the interest of forming a stable coalition with the conservatives.
www.dw-world.de /dw/article/0,1564,1736033,00.html   (918 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Europe | Profile: Angela Merkel
But as the crisis deepened and the full scale of former chancellor Helmut Kohl's role in it became apparent, she was the first former Kohl ally to publicly break with the man who brought her into the cabinet.
Yet she was not popular enough to be selected as the party's candidate for chancellor in 2002, and was beaten by Edmund Stoiber, leader of the CDU's Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU).
She joined the CDU two months before the reunification of Germany and within three months she was in the Kohl cabinet as minister for women and youth.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/4572387.stm   (685 words)

  
 CNN.com - U.S. cool to Schroeder's victory - Sep. 23, 2002
The Bush administration reacted coolly Monday to the re-election of German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder after a campaign in which Schroeder staged a major comeback by pointedly and repeatedly criticizing the tough U.S. posture toward Iraq.
In Germany, Schroeder said he hoped to speak to Bush on the telephone soon, but White House officials said there were no plans for such a call.
In Germany, Schroeder said Monday that the rift caused by remarks attributed to Daeubler-Gmelin, along with his own opposition to a U.S.-Iraq war, would not cause permanent damage.
archives.cnn.com /2002/ALLPOLITICS/09/23/wh.germany   (583 words)

  
 Germany
Italy with the clenched fist and the sheath of corn, and Germany with the swastika, goosestep and straight-armed salute.
Germany needed to expand her lands to achieve self-sufficiency, so she had suitable lands for the mining and production of products.
Germany had been rearming since 1934, but with the outbreak of war conscription and output from munitions (arms) factories increased.
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 The Cold War Museum - Willy Brandt, "Peace Chancellor"
Born Herbert Ernst Frahm on December 16, 1913, in Luebeck, Germany, the later Willy Brandt was the son of Martha Frahm, a young, single shopgirl.
It was the beginning of the later-to-be-famous "Ostpolitik," which sought to overcome the effects of the division of Germany and Europe on the basis of the recognition of its reality.
Brandt was the SPD candidate for chancellor in 1961 and 1965.
www.coldwar.org /articles/50s/willy_brandt.asp   (593 words)

  
 The Raw Story | Germany plans 2,400 naval troops to patrol Lebanon coast
Berlin- German Chancellor Angela Merkel's cabinet Wednesday approved sending up to 2,400 navy troops to patrol Lebanon's coast as part of a United Nations peacekeeping force for the country, officials said.
But Germany's deputy chancellor, Franz Muentefering, stressed the naval force soldiers could not be defined as "combat troops."
Germany is already providing a small number of border police and customs officials to be stationed at Beirut International Airport to supervise incoming cargo.
rawstory.com /news/2006/Germany_plans_2_400_naval_troops_to_09132006.html   (289 words)

  
 NBC: A woman chancellor for Germany? Maybe - Europe - MSNBC.com
And not only is 51-year-old Angela Merkel the first female candidate for German chancellor, but she is also a conservative politician and grew up in Germany's former communist East.
Merkel herself has repeatedly stressed that she does not want to be singled out as a representative of Germany's eastern states and says she cares for voters and their problems in all parts of the country.
But her gender — as well as her upbringing as a priest's daughter in eastern Germany, the region that feels Germany's economic woes to the greatest extent — could play an important role in the election race.
msnbc.msn.com /id/9352965   (641 words)

  
 [FREE IRAN Project] In The Spirit Of Cyrus The Great :: View topic - Germany "Confronts" Ahmadinejad
Germany is today by far the most important supplier of goods to Iran and its exports are increasing at a steady 20% per year.
On 11 December, Germany’s new deputy Chancellor, Franz Müntefering of the SPD, indicated the way out of this dilemma: “Berlin Demands a ‘Reaction’ to Ahmadinejad” ran the headline in the following day’s edition of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (12 December 2005).
Rather this has to be frankly discussed in the framework of the European Community and it must in the clearest possible terms be discussed in the framework of the United Nations”.
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 Germany’s Chancellor Schröder on visit to Kingdom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Chancellor Schröder, who left today after his two-day visit to the Kingdom, opened an exhibit yesterday with Governor of Riyadh Province Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz depicting 75 years of Saudi-German relations.
Speaking on the occasion, RCCI Chairman Abdulrahman Al-Jeraisey referred to Crown Prince Abdullah’s visit to Germany in 2001 as greatly enhancing bilateral relations, which were reinforced by Chancellor Schröder’s 2003 visit to the Kingdom.
Chancellor Schröder also attended the signing of three economic agreements between a number of Saudi and German companies with investments exceeding SR6.0 billion [$1.6 billion] in the sectors of industry, telecommunications, technology, health, petrochemicals and transport.
www.saudiembassy.net /2005News/News/RelDetail.asp?cIndex=5092   (283 words)

  
 Selling Out Human Rights: The Big Business Chancellor - 2 - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News
Although Schroeder's confidantes claim that the chancellor spends "entire nights" discussing the civil war in Chechnya, there is no evidence of that in the impression he gives to the public.
In two meetings, Weisskirchen and a number of his SPD colleagues were at least able to convince the chancellor to "accept the addition of a critical note to his governmental strategy." But that was about the extent of it.
The chancellor's advance team was worried that the picture might offend voters in the eastern part of Germany.
www.spiegel.de /international/spiegel/0,1518,333248-2,00.html   (1514 words)

  
 CNN.com - Germany poised for election battle - May 23, 2005
BERLIN, Germany -- German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder plans to hold a parliamentary confidence vote by the beginning of July, the chairman of his Social Democratic Party says, a move that would mean new elections must be held by September 18.
The result of the vote strengthens the hand of CDU leader Angela Merkel, who observers say stands a good chance of running against Schroeder in a bid to become Germany's first woman chancellor.
Federal elections are held every four years for Germany's lower house, the Bundestag, with the next one due at the end of 2006.
www.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/europe/05/23/germany/index.html   (690 words)

  
 Turks.US Daily News - Anti-Israel German Politician Did Not Kill Himself
BERLIN, June 6 — Friends of Germany’s former deputy chancellor Juergen Moellemann, who died Thursday, June 5, in a parachute jump, refuted media reports he committed suicide to escape state prosecution over his pro-Arabs and Muslims and anti-Israel stances.
Reinicke put three possibilities for the death of Moellemann, a former economy minister and deputy chancellor from 1991 to 1993 when the Free Democratic Party (FDP) was junior partner in a coalition with the conservatives under Helmut Kohl.
Although he gained the largest number of votes in the last free elections, the prominent politician was ostracized from the FDP in March allegedly because his popularity slump on his anti-Israel stance.
www.turks.us /article.php?story=20030606141724655   (701 words)

  
 How Hitler Became a Dictator
On June 1, 1932, Hindenberg appointed Franz von Papen as chancellor of Germany, whom Shirer described as an “unexpected and ludicrous figure.” Papen immediately dissolved the Reichstag (the national congress) and called for new elections, the third legislative election in five months.
It has been ascertained that today was to have seen throughout Germany terrorist acts against individual persons, against private property, and against the life and limb of the peaceful population, and also the beginning of general civil war.
Denouncing opponents to his request, Hitler shouted, “Germany will be free, but not through you!” When the vote was taken, the result was 441 for and 84 against, giving Hitler the two-thirds majority he needed to suspend the German constitution.
www.fff.org /freedom/fd0403a.asp   (1888 words)

  
 Ludwig Erhard (1897 - 1977) - Chancellor of West Germany - Creator of the Wirtschaftswunder
May 1977) was a German politician (CDU) and Chancellor of Germany from 1963 until 1966.
Born in Fürth, Germany, from 1913 to 1916 Erhard was a commercial apprentice.
After the resignation of Adenauer in 1963, Erhard was elected Chancellor with 279 against 180 votes on 16.
www.germannotes.com /hist_ludwig_erhard.shtml   (536 words)

  
 Scoop: Is Bush About to be ‘Stiffed’?
BACKGROUND - During Germany’s election campaign last year, an embattled Gerhard Schröder, fighting off criticisms of a pressured economy, immigration woes, and a foreign policy in danger of being dominated by the USA’s Bush Administration, promised Germany would not endorse a war against Iraq even if such an operation was backed by the UN.
Then followed Germany’s softening on Bush demands that USA citizens be exempt from ever being tried at the European-based International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
On January 1 Germany became a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council for a period of two years and, its new Ambassador to the UN, Gunter Pleuger, will assume the Security Council Presidency for the month of February, a rotating function sequenced in alphabetical order in English.
www.scoop.co.nz /stories/HL0301/S00022.htm   (1919 words)

  
 Vice-Chancellor of Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Vice-Chancellor of Germany (Vizekanzler) in Germany is the second highest position in the cabinet.
In case of the Chancellor's absence, the Vice-Chancellor acts in his place, for instance heading cabinet meetings.
Unlike the US Vice President, the Vice-Chancellor will not automatically become Chancellor for the rest of the term if the Chancellor dies or becomes unable to fulfill his duties in any other way.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vice-Chancellor_of_Germany   (675 words)

  
 Angela Merkel: Germany's new chancellor
Angela Merkel was born in Hamburg, Germany on July 17, 1954 and is chairwoman of the Christian Democratic Union, the conservative sister to Gerhardt's liberal Socialist Party.
She graduated with a Ph.D in physics and worked in quantum chemistry, which is a branch of theoretical chemistry and also applies to quantum mechanics and quantum field theory to address issues and problems in chemistry.
In the 1998 general election, Helmut Kohl was defeated and Angela became the Secretary General of the Christian Democratic Union where she over saw a string of Christian Democratic victories in six out of seven provincial elections in 1999 alone.
www.renewamerica.us /columns/boggess/060428   (723 words)

  
 CONTINUING GENERAL DEBATE, ASSEMBLY SPEAKERS FOCUS ON MIDEAST, AFRICA, WOMEN IN PEACEKEEPING, CLIMATE CHANGE
The Assembly was expected to hear from the heads of State of Nauru and Kenya, the Deputy Chancellor of Germany and the Deputy Prime Minister of Belize, among others.
RENE HARRIS, President and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Nauru:  Much of the work at the United Nations since the 11 September attack has understandably focused on terrorism.  While the Security Council resolution obligates countries to implement anti-terrorist measures, regional anti-terror initiatives should also be supported.
Both the Israeli and Palestinian peoples have a right to live free of fear, in dignity and peace.  This is indivisible not only from Israel's right of Statehood, as recognized in Madrid, but also from its security.  Germany bears Israel a special responsibility stemming from its past.
www.un.org /News/Press/docs/2001/ga9961.doc.htm   (991 words)

  
 FT.com / Home UK / UK - Germany to tighten disclosure on shares   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The German government is to tighten the rules governing the disclosure of shareholdings, in a bid to protect companies from aggressive hedge funds and avoid a repeat of last year's shock investor rebellion at Deutsche Börse, the stock exchange group.
Under legislation being drafted by Germany's new CDU-SPD coalition government, investors would have to report stakes as soon as they exceeded 3 per cent of voting rights, down from the existing 5 per cent, officials said.
The change would put Germany out of step with much of continental Europe, where a 5 per cent disclosure threshold is the norm.
www.ft.com /cms/s/108a5b88-817e-11da-8b55-0000779e2340.html   (421 words)

  
 FOXNews.com - Angela Merkel to Become German Chancellor - U.S. & World
BERLIN — Conservative Angela Merkel (search) struck a power-sharing deal Monday that will make her the first woman and politician from the ex-communist east to serve as Germany's chancellor, forging a coalition with ousted leader Gerhard Schroeder's (search) party to reform the faltering economy.
With Merkel as chancellor and her chief of staff also a Cabinet-level post, the two sides would have equal representation at the Cabinet table.
The two sides agreed that Germany's complex income tax system should be simplified and loopholes reduced, but agreed to scrap plans by Merkel to cut tax breaks for Sunday and night shifts.
www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,171726,00.html   (839 words)

  
 Secretary-General's visit to Germany (January 20-22, 2004)
In Baden-Baden, Germany, he received the German Media Prize, which is based on a poll of the editors of the most important media outlets in Germany.
Secretary-General Kofi Annan (left) and Joschka Fischer, Deputy Chancellor and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Germany, hold a joint press briefing after their meeting in Baden-Baden, Germany.
Nane Annan (right of the Secretary-General) and Joschka Fischer (left of the Secretary-General), Deputy Chancellor and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Germany, are also present.
www.un.org /av/photo/sgtrips/sggermany04.htm   (410 words)

  
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Deutschland, officially Federal Republic of Germany, republic (2005 est.
Photo Scandal Raises Doubts in Germany About Deployments
In 1963, a New Economic System, calling for more efficient and decentralized economic planning, was adopted.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/world/countries/germany.html?nav=el   (7565 words)

  
 Islam Online- News Section   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Moellemann had urged the German government to recognize Islam as an official religion
BERLIN, June 6 (IslamOnline.net) – Friends of Germany’s former deputy chancellor Juergen Moellemann, who died Thursday, June 5, in a parachute jump, refuted media reports he committed suicide to escape state prosecution over his pro-Arabs and Muslims and anti-Israel stances.
A Reality Check: Our Youth, How Safe Are They on the Internet?
www.islamonline.net /English/News/2003-06/06/article09.shtml   (626 words)

  
 CP
Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs and Deputy Federal Chancellor of Germany
Minister of State, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Germany
COUNCIL Conclusions on sporting contacts with the FRY
ue.eu.int /ueDocs/cms_Data/docs/pressData/en/gena/08657En.html   (5866 words)

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