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A federal republic is a federation of states with a republican form of government. At its core, the literal meaning of the word republic when used to reference a form of government means a country that is governed by elected representatives and by an elected leader, such as a president, rather than by a monarch.
- Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a...
- Germany
- History
- Naming Difficulties Over Berlin and East Germany
- Similar Naming Difficulties
Background
The official name was and is Bundesrepublik Deutschland ("Federal Republic of Germany"). The name, even though in the beginning referring only to the republic established in the Trizone, was to reflect a name for all of Germany, therefore it was particularly to include the term Deutschland ("Germany"). This corresponded to the spirit of the then West German constitution, the Basic Law, allowing all states or Länder, then under Allied control, to join the new Federal Republic. In 1949 the orig...
Use in East Germany
This changed in 1968 with the new constitution of the German Democratic Republic. The communists no longer strove for German reunification, and the name BRD was introduced as a propaganda counter-term to the term DDR, trying to express the equality of the states. The West would speak of the sogenannte DDR or "so-called 'DDR'"when intending to belittle East German statehood. At that time, the initialism BRD had been adopted by Neues Deutschland, the ruling Socialist Unity Party's daily newspap...
Opposition to use in West Germany
To distance themselves from the term BRD, until German reunification, the government of the Federal Republic of Germany and media sometimes used the abbreviations BR Deutschland, BR-Dt., BRDt., BR Dtld. or simply Dtld. After the newly established states of the German Democratic Republic acceded to the Federal Republic, Deutschland("Germany") has always been used as the official short name. West Germany had always claimed to be the Germany, and did not like the comparison to DDR, or two separa...
A similar ideological question was the question whether to use "Berlin (West)" (the officially preferred name) or "West Berlin", and even whether to write "West Berlin" in German as two hyphenated words - West-Berlin - or as one word - Westberlin. Most Westerners called the Western sectors "Berlin", unless further distinction was necessary. The Wes...
In 1995, a disagreement arose between reunified Germany and newly independent Slovakia, as Germany objected to the use of the Slovak language name Nemecká spolková republika (literally "German Federal Republic") owing to its Cold War connotations, instead of Spolková republika Nemecko. This was almost identical to the equivalent Spolková republika ...
Germany (German: Deutschland, pronounced [ˈdɔʏtʃlant] ), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a country in the western region of Central Europe. The country's full name is sometimes shortened to the FRG (or the BRD , in German).
Vor 2 Tagen · flag of Germany. Audio File: Anthem of Germany ( see article) Officially: Federal Republic of Germany. German: Deutschland or Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Head Of Government: Chancellor: Olaf Scholz. Capital: Berlin 3. Population: (2024 est.) 86,303,000. Currency Exchange Rate: 1 USD equals 0.932 euro. Head Of State:
Since 1949, voters in the Federal Republic have elected the German Bundestag for four-year terms by secret ballot in general, direct and free elections based on the principle of equal voting rights.
22. Feb. 2023 · 22.02.2023. The German Parliament: the Bundestag in Berlin. © dpa. Form of government and population. The Federal Republic of Germany is a parliamentary democracy; Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has been head of state since 2017, and Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz head of government since 2021.
