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The German Empire (German: Deutsches Kaiserreich), also referred to as Imperial Germany, the Second Reich (German: Zweites Reich) or simply Germany, was the period of the German Reich from the unification of Germany in 1871 until the November Revolution in 1918, when the German Reich changed its form of government from a monarchy to ...
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The Reichstag (German: [ˈʁaɪçstaːk] ⓘ) of the German Empire...
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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 ...
An East African Askari soldier holding Germany's colonial flag. The German colonial empire ( German: Deutsches Kolonialreich) constituted the overseas colonies, dependencies, and territories of the German Empire. Unified in 1871, the chancellor of this time period was Otto von Bismarck. Short-lived attempts at colonization by individual German ...
- 31,025,468 km² (11,979,000 sq mi)
- Colonial empire
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- The Difference Between "Reich" and "Empire"
- Reich as "National People" Versus Reich as "State Territory"
- Nazi Perspective on The Weimar Republic
- Fall of The Third Reich
- Divided Germany
- Reunified Germany
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In referring to the entire period between 1871 and 1945, the partially translated English phrase "German Reich" (/-ˈraɪk/) is applied by historians in formal contexts; although in common English usage this state was and is known simply as Germany, the English term "German Empire" is reserved to denote the German state between 1871 and 1918. The his...
The German word Reich translates to the English word "empire"; it also translates to such words as "realm" or "domain." However, this translation was not used throughout the full existence of the German Reich. Historically, only Germany from 1871 to 1918—when Germany was under the rule of an emperor (Kaiser)—is known in English as the "German Empir...
At the 1871 Unification of Germany (aside from Austria), the Reich was established constitutionally as a federation of monarchies, each having entered the federation with a defined territory; and consequently the unitary nationalism of the 'German Reich' was initially specified (at Article 1 of the 1871 constitution) in territorial terms, as the la...
The 1918–1933 republic, which was also called the German Reich, was ignored and denounced by the Nazis as a historical aberration. The name "Weimar Republic" was first used in 1929 after Hitler referred to the period as the "Republik von Weimar" (Republic of Weimar, after the city (Weimar) which held its constitutional assembly) at a rally in Munic...
On 8 May 1945, with the capitulation of the German armed forces, the supreme command of the Wehrmacht was handed over to the Allies. The Allies refused to recognise Karl Dönitz as Reichspräsident or to recognise the legitimacy of his Flensburg Government (so-called because it was based at Flensburg and controlled only a small area around the town) ...
In 1973, in a review of the previous year's Basic Treaty between East and West Germany, the German Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht) ruled that according to the Basic Law of the Federal Republic of Germany the German Reich had outlasted the collapse in 1945, and hence had continued to exist as an “overall state”, albeit one no...
When the Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany between Germany and the wartime Allies was signed on 12 September 1990, there was no mention of the term Deutsches Reich, however the Allies paraphrased the international legal personality of Germany as "Germany as a whole" in the English version of the text. Instead the states of the ...
German Reich map of states 1913 (300 dpi) on Internet ArchiveDeutsches Kaiserreich ist die nachträgliche Bezeichnung des Deutschen Reiches für die Epoche von seiner Gründung 1871 bis zum Ende der Monarchie in der Novemberrevolution von 1918. Der erste deutsche Nationalstaat war eine föderale, konstitutionelle Monarchie [1] und nach seiner Verfassung ein „ewiger Bund“ der deutschen Fürsten.
Deutsches Reich. Deutsche Kolonien. Die deutschen Kolonien (offiziell Schutzgebiete genannt) wurden vom Deutschen Reich seit den 1880er Jahren angeeignet und nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg gemäß dem Versailler Vertrag von 1919 abgetreten. Die deutschen Kolonien waren 1914 das an Fläche drittgrößte Kolonialreich nach dem britischen und französischen.
The German Revolution of 1918–1919 ended the German Empire with the abdication of Wilhelm II in 1918 and established the Weimar Republic, an ultimately unstable parliamentary democracy.