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  Germany Encyclopedia Article @ Helluva.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The Federal Republic of Germany is a member state of the United Nations, NATO, the G8 and the G4 nations, and is a founding member of the European Union.
The ethnogenesis of the Germanic tribes is assumed to have occurred during the Nordic Bronze Age, or at the latest, during the Pre-Roman Iron Age.
Federal legislative power is vested in both the government and the two chambers of parliament, Bundestag and Bundesrat.
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 Election Resources on the Internet: Elections to the German Bundestag
As a result, for the 1953 election the five percent threshold was set at the federal level, and the number of parties represented in the legislature dropped to seven.
The Parliament of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) consists of a lower house, the Bundestag, whose members are directly elected by universal adult suffrage, and an upper house, the Bundesrat, composed of representatives appointed by the Länder.
Prior to the German reunification of 1990 (in which the Länder of the German Democratic Republic were incorporated into the FRG), there were 496 seats in the chamber: for the post-reunification legislative elections held in 1990, 160 seats were added to represent the new Länder and Berlin, for a total of 656 seats.
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 Münsterland: A Land of Moated Castles. Visit the watery splendor of centuries past . By John Dornberg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
It was a German army outpost in the last weeks of World War II and was 70 percent destroyed by Allied air and artillery bombardment in 1945.
Reparations vs. a viable German economy, Socialism vs. capitalism and free enterprise, one-party state vs. a multi-party democracy: it is easy to claim with hindsight that the leaders in Washington should have known that those principles were incompatible.
The German population came to acknowledge the military's presence as an immutable evil.
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 Special Edition 96
The result was a polarization of the German population relative to the nuclear issue, pitting conservative against socialist, commu nist against capitalist, and academic against layman.
As a result, the Germans were also forced to accept the reality of decreased NATO conventional forces and thus the reality of an increased potential for implementing the nuclear option in case of war.
Consequently, German soldiers were trained in the use of "multipurpose weaponry" in preparing for the likelihood of nuclear war but were denied actual control of nuclear warheads.
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 Preamble
The scrutiny of elections is the responsibility of the Bundestag.
The Federation may grant the Lander financial assistance for particularly important investments by the Lander or communes or associations of communes, provided that such investments are necessary to avert a disturbance of the overall economic equilibrium or to equalize differences of economic capacities within the federal territory or to promote economic growth.
Federal statutes enacted pursuant to paragraph 1 or subparagraph 1 of paragraph 2 of this Article may, for the purpose of preparing for their enforcement, be applied even prior to the occurrence of a state of Defence.
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 The Chancellor of Germany - German Government and Politics
The federal government consists of the chancellor and his or her cabinet ministers.
For that reason, some observers refer to the German political system as a "chancellor democracy." The chancellor's authority emanates from the provisions of the Basic Law and from his or her status as leader of the party or coalition of parties holding a majority of seats in the Bundestag.
Every four years, after national elections and the seating of the newly elected Bundestag members, the federal president nominates a chancellor candidate to that parliamentary body; the chancellor is elected by majority vote in the Bundestag.
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 GERMANY
The ethnogenesis of the Germanic tribes is assumed to have occurred during the Pre-Roman Iron Age in southern Scandinavia and northern Germany, from the first century BC expanding south, east and west, coming into contact with Celtic tribes of Gaul and Iranian, Baltic and Slavic tribes in Eastern Europe.
The federal structure has kept the population oriented towards a number of large cities, and has precluded the growth of any single city that would rival such European capitals as London, Paris or Moscow for size.
Still today, Ludwig Erhard, minister of economics in the Adenauer administration (1949-1963) and later federal chancellor (1963-1966), is widely recognised as having been the "father" of this profound rise in the country's economic and social wealth.
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 German federal election, 2005 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
German federal elections took place on September 18, 2005 to elect the members of the 16th German Bundestag, the federal parliament of Germany.
The Federal Constitutional Court ruled in a similar situation in 1983 that Chancellors may not ask the President for the Bundestag's dissolution merely for the sake of their desire for an early election; they have to have a real problem getting a majority for his legislation.
Early election polls during summer 2005 from 6 organizations showed a solid lead for the CDU/CSU with a share of the vote ranging between 41% and 43%, and the SPD trailing at between 32% and 34%.
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 Antisemitism And Racism
On 11 July 2003 the German Bundesrat ratified a treaty (Staatsvertrag) on cultural and social cooperation, signed on 27 January 2003 (the 58th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz) by the Federal Republic and the Central Council of Jews in Germany.
Möllemann was forced to resign from the FDP on 2 December 2002, after being accused of reviving antisemitism as a weapon in the campaign for the federal election in September.
German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer assured the international community and in particular the Jewish community in Germany that his nation would stand as a leader in the fight against rising global antisemitism, while continuing its “wholehearted commitment” to the security and permanence of the State of Israel.
www.tau.ac.il /Anti-Semitism/asw2002-3/germany.htm   (4816 words)

  
 Post-War German History (Chronology)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
FRG/BRD is invited to join NATO permitting West German rearmament (Protocol to the North Atlantic Treaty on the Accession of the Federal Republic of Germany), and Italy and the FRG/BRD accede to the Western European Union (WEU).
The first all-German election of the head of state is held and Roman Herzog, president of the Federal Constitutional Court at the time, is elected federal president by the Federal Convention in Berlin.
The Association for the German Language in Wiesbaden said that their choice was based on the fact that this date had been at the center of world-wide discussions.
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 German American Corner: EISENHOWER, Dwight David (1890-1969)
Never-the-less, in his farewell address, he returned to his concern about the dangers of big government with a strong warning against the "military-industrial complex." During his administration, critics pointed out his failure to oppose Senator Joseph McCarthy's smear tactics against alleged subversives in government and his lack of support for the emerging civil rights movement.
As was natural for a man of his background, Eisenhower took particular interest in military and diplomatic affairs.
This led him to invigorate the National Security Council, bring a quick end (July 27, 1953) to the stalemated war in Korea, and reduce the strength of the conventional forces.
www.germanheritage.com /biographies/atol/eisenhower.html   (1190 words)

  
 German federal election, 1953 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 2nd German federal election, 1953, was conducted on September 6, 1953, to elect members to the Bundestag (lower house) of Germany.
A number of members (6 CDU, 11 SPD, 5 FDP) indirectly elected by the Berlin legislature are not included in the totals below.
It is also noted that Saarland did not participate in this election.
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 Qwika - similar:Angela_Merkel
The emblem of the Free German Youth The revived FDJ uses a modified version of the emblem Fdjlogo.jpg The Free German Youth (Freie Deutsche Jugend or FDJ) was the official youth movement of the German Democratic Republic.
The Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) and the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) German reunification (Deutsche Wiedervereinigung) took place on October 3, 1990, when the areas of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR, in English commonly called "East Germany") were incorporated into the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG, in English commonly called "West Germany").
It means that the Bundeskanzler (Federal Chancellor, head of government) may only be removed from office by majority vote of Parliament (the Bundestag) if a successor is elected into office at the same time.
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