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The new German Government

Since the 27th of October Germany has got a new government. After 16 years of a CDU/CSU and FDP government under chancellor Helmut Kohl now a SPD and Grüne government under chancellor Gerhard Schröder rules Germany. I am very curious about what will change.
 

German Government

The Federal Republic of Germany is a democratic country. The Basic Law was adopted in 1949. Its authors intended it as a "temporary" framework for a new democratic system and not as a definitive constitution. The Basic Law called upon the people "to achieve in free self-determination the unity and freedom of Germany".

The Basic Rights:

Executive Organ- the Government

Site of the German Government
President: Roman Herzog (former presidents: Theodor Heuss, Heinrich Lübke, Gustav W. Heinemann, Walter Scheel, Karl Carstens, Richard von Weizsäcker)
President of Parliament (Bundestag): Rita Süssmuth
Chancellor: Gerhard Schröder (former chancellors: Konrad Adenauer, Ludwig Erhart, Georg Kiesinger, Willy Brandt, Helmut Schmidt, Helmut Kohl )

Government Departments (Ministeries) - some of the English names are my own creations
 


Legislative Organs

Organ the Bundesverfassungsgericht (the Federal Constitutional Court)

Germany's federal structure
 

The Main German Partys


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German Unification

You should read a very interesting text with lots of pictures about Five Years After the Unification by Adolph N. Hofmann.

1989:

1990:

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