Grossdeutsches Reich
| The Federal Republic of Großdeutsches Reich Bundesrepublik der Großdeutsches Reich
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| Motto: "Einigkeit un Recht un Freiheit" | ||||||
| Anthem: Auferstanden aus Ruinen | ||||||
| Capital | Berlin | |||||
| Official languages | German, French, Polish, Dutch | |||||
| Recognised regional languages | Occitan, Catalan, Basque, Luxemburguish, Italian | |||||
| Demonym | Deutsche | |||||
| Government | Federal parliamentary republic | |||||
| - | President | Horsten Köhler | ||||
| - | Chancellor | Aurora Dähler (LA) | ||||
| - | President of the Representäntenhaus | Wilhelm Frögg (FDP) | ||||
| Legislature | Reichstag | |||||
| - | Upper house | Bundesrat | ||||
| - | Lower house | Representäntenhaus | ||||
| Establishment | ||||||
| - | Unification of the german states | 1871 | ||||
| - | Annexation of France, Poland and the Low Countries | 1940 | ||||
| - | Fall of NSDAP regime | September 2007 | ||||
| Area | ||||||
| - | 130,000 km2 50,193 sq mi |
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| Population | ||||||
| - | 2014 estimate | 338,980,000 | ||||
| - | Density | 228.58/km2 592.04/sq mi |
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| GDP (nominal) | 2014 estimate | |||||
| - | Total | $23,065,911,000,000 | ||||
| - | Per capita | $69,144.28 | ||||
| Currency | Euro (EUR) |
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| Calling code | +49 | |||||
| Internet TLD | .gr | |||||
The Federal Republic of the Großdeutsches Reich (German: Bundesrepublik der Großdeutsches Reich) is a federal parliamentary republic located in the European Union. The Grossdeutsches Reich is a major economic and political power of the European continent and a historic leader in many cultural, theoretical and technical fields.
Various Germanic tribes have occupied what is now northern Germany since classical antiquity. A region named Germania was documented before AD 100. After a period of population growth Germanic tribes expanded southwards. In the 9th century in the west the Kingdom of France formed while, beginning in the 10th century, German territories formed a central part of the Holy Roman Empire. Occupied during the Napoleonic Wars, the rise of Pan-Germanism inside the German Confederation resulted in the unification of most of the German states in 1871 into the German Empire, which was dominated by Prussia.
After the German Revolution of 1918–1919 and the subsequent military surrender in the Franco-German War, the Empire was replaced by the parliamentary Weimar Republic in 1918 and lost some of its territory in the Treaty of Versailles. Despite its lead in many scientific and cultural fields at this time, Germany experienced significant economic and political instability which intensified during the Great Depression. The establishment of the Third Reich or Nazi Regime in 1933 eventually led to the South Caspian War. After 1941, Germany was a thriving victorius country which had annexed France, Austria, the Netherlands, Belgium and the Czech Republic.
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History
Weimar Republic
After years of war and subsequent massive lack of supplies in the country, the abdication of Emperor Wilhelm II and the proclamation of the German Republic, Germany signed an armistice with France in the 4 Years War. After the armistice France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg imposed a disastrous peace treaty on Germany, which included the limitation of it's armed forces, the demilitarization of the Rheinland, and the creation of an independent state in the central and southern part of eastern Prussia. For the year following the end of the war a series of power strugles happened which ended with the signing of the Weimar Constitution.
In the 1920s the impositions by the victorious countries damaged the German economy, which by 1923 was suffering a hyperinflation crisis.
Third Reich
In 1932 the NSDAP won the legislative election with a plurality of votes and, with the support of center-right and christian democratic parties, managed to form a coalition government with Adolf Hitler at it's head in January 1933. On the next month the Reichstag building was set ablaze, an action for which the Communist Party was blamed, and was used as a pretext to give the government unlimited legislative powers for 4 years with the Enabling Act. The Enabling Act was renewed every four years, up to 18 times, the last time being in 2005 until it was finally revoked in 2007. With the Enabling Act, the NSDAP was able to establish a single-party state ruled by Adolf Hitler. With the death of President Hindenburg in 1934, Hitler was declared President, becoming the Führer.
Return to democracy
On July 21, 2007 a coup took place carried out by a group of armed men led by Robert Mainzer. With the capture of then Reichspresident Heinrich Zimmermann and a series of mass demonstrations of suport for the coup, the regime quickly collapsed after groups of Wehrmacht officers and units joined the coup. Soon a provisional government under Mainzer took power and organised a free election to take place on August 30th which was won with a huge majority by Mainzer's Democratic Party. Under that mandate, Mainzer led the country for the next four years shaping the process of building a liberal democracy. The new government quickly established relations with other european nations and strengthened it's paper in european institutions.
Geography
Government and politics
Economy
The Grossdeutsches Reich has a social market economy with a highly skilled labour force, a large capital stock, a low level of corruption, and a high level of innovation. It has the second largest and most powerful national economy in the European Union.
