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  Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The states also started to be shaped by the Industrial Revolution, which was the initial step of the growing industrialisation and contributed to a wave of poverty in Europe, causing social uprisings.
9% of the population is not ethnically German.
Some German states have banned Muslim teachers from wearing headscarves in class and all states have banned crosses from the classroom as well, generally by prohibiting the use of all religious symbols by teachers.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Germany   (6324 words)

  
 german
Whereas most German immigrants of the 18th century came from the Palatine or Württemberg, states along the Rhine River in the southern and western regions of the German lands, those in the second wave of immigration came mainly from the north and east-Prussia, Bavaria, and Saxony.
Germans contributed substantially to its growth: By 1841, 28 percent of the total population was German; 10 years earlier the figure was only 5 percent, By 1850, when Cincinnati was known as the "Queen City of the West," the German community (including those born in America) made up half its population.
German involvement in the labor movement did not sit well with nativists, who, in the last decades of the 19th century, were again seeking support for anti-immigration laws.
www.theseverts.net /German.htm   (13046 words)

  
 Archived: Archived: The Educational System in Germany: Case Study Findings; Chapter 1 - An Overview of the German ...
However, some states require school attendance through the 10th grade, and in one of the southern states all students who do not enroll in the Gymnasium for the 5th grade are sent to the Hauptschule for a minimum of 2 years.
The Christian Democrats, who have held power predominantly in the southern states, strongly identify with the traditional school forms and the fostering of the academic elite, while the Social Democrats have encouraged school reform as a means of increasing equality of educational opportunity.
Throughout Germany, funding for K?13 education derives primarily from state and district funding sources; the federal government's share of the total school budget is relatively small; 11 million DM of a total of 52.7 billion DM in 1990 (BMBW 1993).
www.ed.gov /pubs/GermanCaseStudy/chapter1a.html   (1627 words)

  
 German Migration
Germans are often defined as those individuals from areas where forms of German have traditionally been spoken, including today's Germany, Luxembourg, Austria, Bohemia, and parts of Switzerland, Poland, Hungary, and the former Yugoslavia.
German migration to Minnesota, however, was at its peak during the decades of the 1860s and 1870s.
Another factor that led to German emigration was the the unstable political situation in the German states in 1848.
www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/history/mnstatehistory/german_migration.html   (1235 words)

  
 Federal Foreign Office - Facts about Germany: The federal states
The states that exist today were established after 1945 but have in part retained their old ethnic traditions and characteristics as well as their historical boundaries.
Before German unification in 1990 the Federal Republic consisted initially of ten states, and later, after the reintegration of Saarland as of January 1, 1957, of 11 states, which were established in the zones occupied by the Western Powers (USA, Great Britain, France).
On October 3, 1990, the GDR and hence the states of Brandenburg, Mecklenburg- Western Pomerania, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia acceded to the Federal Republic.
www.tatsachen-ueber-deutschland.de /784.0.html   (264 words)

  
 Germany   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Unity was denied the German people as they emerged from the Middle Ages, and real consolidation did not begin until after the middle of the 19th century.
A record of the rulers of German states is an exceedingly complex undertaking, inasmuch as German feudal theory encouraged rampant subdivision of territories within various branches of governing noble families.
Additionally, the continental practice of assigning to all descendents of one granted a patent of nobility the rank so proferred (as opposed to merely the Salic heirs - eldest surviving male of eldest surviving male, etc.) insured one level or another of corporate rulership based on "committees" of brothers and often cousins.
www.hostkingdom.net /germany.html   (394 words)

  
 German Espionage and Sabotage Against the U.S. in World War II
The latter has stated the German intelligence files had become so out of date during the 1920s and early 1930s that when the period of rearmament began it was necessary to seek information of all types from abroad–much of it by no means secret–in order to compile up-to-date data.
Throughout the war the Germans sought military, political and economic information of any and all types, and the broad assignments given agents may well be one reason for the failure to obtain specific data of high quality.
Beginning in late 1942 or early 1943 the Germans realized that the success of their submarine arm, in which they placed so much hope, was threatened by Allied anti-submarine devices and techniques, and information on these became the priority intelligence requirement and remained so until the end of the war.
www.history.navy.mil /faqs/faq114-1.htm   (5121 words)

  
 Decorations of the States of the German Empire
The German Empire (Deutsches Reich) was founded in 1871 in the wake of the victory over France by the Prussians and their German allies (or satellites, if you will) in the North German Confederation (Norddeutscher Bund), and in southern Germany.
The Empire was a federal state, although Prussia's dominant role was evident almost everywhere, and especially in the Imperial German Army.
Four other states which were on the losing side of the Seven Weeks' War - the Kingdoms of Bavaria and Württemberg and the Grand Duchies of Baden and Hesse-Darmstadt - did not become members of the North German Confederation, but would join the German Empire in 1871.
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 GERMAN
The Bergdolls were a prominent Philadelphia German family who operated the Bergdoll and Sons Brewing Co. The bulk of the collection relates to Grover Cleveland Bergdoll (1893-1966), particularly his youthful experience as a race car driver, his trial and imprisonment for evading the draft during World War I, and the settlement of his estate.
The stated goals of the group from its inception were to uphold German culture, sociability, and charity through a yearly festival in the tradition of the annual harvest festival at Schwabian Spa in Bad Cannstatt, Germany.
Helga Hoeppener Riley was born in Germany and came to the United States in 1972 with her second husband, an American, upon his retirement from the United States Air Force.
www.balchinstitute.org /manuscript_guide/html/german.html   (3940 words)

  
 boys clothing : European royalty -- German states   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Two of her sons married Germans, the 2 others sons had "Danish" and "Russian" wives, who in reality were just as German as the rest, since Germany supplied nearly all of the European royal houses with princes and princesses.
They were the two smallest states of the German Confederation, located nearly in the center of Germany, east of Thuringia, on the western boundaries of the former Kingdom of Saxony.
The German states were in particular affected by the Napoleonic Wars (1800-15), the German Civil War/Austro-Prussian War (1866), Franco-Prussian War (1870-71), and World War I (1914-18).
histclo.hispeed.com /royal/gers/royal-gergen.htm   (4804 words)

  
 GotStamps German States Sale
We have lots of material from the German States, so if there is anything you want or need and do not see it please just send email.
If we have an item that you would like a scan of, or there is an item which you would like to see a higher resolution scan of, please send email and we will be happy to work with you.
Most of the Internet auctions consisting of German States material has large numbers of forged material and most of it is not documented as such.
www.gotstamps.com /states.htm   (1770 words)

  
 German States to 1918 R-Z
German states since 1918; these include the states and provinces of the Weimar Republic, Third Reich, and the modern period.
The provinces of Prussia are listed in a separate section following the entry for Prussia (Prussian provinces to 1946).
Historical map of Germany in 1789; Historical map of Germany in 1803; Map of Germany in 1812;
www.worldstatesmen.org /German_States4.html   (4595 words)

  
 German States since 1918
Note: All state flags and anthems were banned 15 Sep 1935 - 1945.
3 Oct 1990 East and West Berlin are reunited as a state of the
3 Oct 1990 Reconstituted as state of the Federal Republic of Germany.
www.worldstatesmen.org /German_States1918.htm   (4466 words)

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