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The German Empire, or the Imperial State of Germany, also referred to as Imperial Germany or the Second Reich, was a federal sovereign state in Central Europe. The German Empire was formed in 1871 by Otto von Bismarck after Prussia united all the German states in Central Europe by winning wars against Denmark, Austria, and France respectively. In The Pig War, Germany negotiated a dispute ...
The German Empire is a federal parliamentary semi-constitutional monarchy established in 1871 after the Prussian-dominated North German Confederation's victory in the Franco-Prussian War. The Empire encompasses only the geographical term of "Lesser Germany", as Austria and Bohemia were not included after the Austro-Prussian War. It is made up of 27 constituent states (Bundesstaaten ...
Flag of the North German Confederation (1866–1871) and the German Empire (1871–1918) Imperial Germany 1871–1918. Chancellor Otto von Bismarck determined the political course of the German Empire until 1890. He fostered alliances in Europe to contain France on the one hand and aspired to consolidate Germany's influence in Europe on the ...
The German Empire consisted of 25 constituent states and an imperial territory, the largest of which was Prussia.These states, or Staaten (or Bundesstaaten, i.e. federal states, a name derived from the previous North German Confederation; they became known as Länder during the Weimar Republic) each had votes in the Bundesrat, which gave them representation at a federal level.
The English word Germany derives from the Latin Germania, which came into use after Julius Caesar adopted it for the peoples east of the Rhine. The German term Deutschland, originally diutisciu land ('the German lands') is derived from deutsch (cf. Dutch), descended from Old High German diutisc 'of the people' (from diot or diota 'people'), originally used to distinguish the language of the ...
Deutsches Reich ist der Name des deutschen Nationalstaates zwischen 1871 und 1945. Anfangs nicht deckungsgleich, wurde der Name zugleich auch die staatsrechtliche Bezeichnung Deutschlands. Nach dem „Anschluss“ Österreichs im März 1938 kam die Bezeichnung „ Großdeutsches Reich “ in den propagandistischen und amtlichen Gebrauch.
Contents. Coat of arms of Germany. The coat of arms of Germany displays a black eagle with a red beak, a red tongue and red feet on a golden field, which is blazoned: Or, an eagle displayed sable beaked langued and membered gules. This is the Bundesadler ( German for "Federal Eagle"), formerly known as Reichsadler ( German ...
