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The German head of state is the federal president. As in Germany's parliamentary system of government, the federal chancellor runs the government and day-to-day politics, while the role of the federal president is mostly ceremonial. The federal president, by their actions and public appearances, represents the state itself, its existence, its ...
Download as PDF; Printable version ... This is a list of the successive governments of the Federal Republic of Germany from the time of the introduction ...
The Federal Government [1] [2] (German: Bundesregierung, pronounced [ˈbʊndəsʁeˌɡiːʁʊŋ] ⓘ; abbr. BReg) [3] is the chief executive body of the Federal Republic of Germany and exercises executive power at the federal level.
Germany's federal system comprises 16 state parliaments (the German terms are Landtag in large states, Bürgerschaft in Bremen and Hamburg, and Abgeordnetenhaus in Berlin), each including directly elected representatives.
Alfred Josef Ferdinand Jodl (German: ⓘ; born Alfred Josef Baumgärtler; [3] 10 May 1890 – 16 October 1946) was a German Army Generaloberst (the rank was equal to a four-star full general) who served as the Chief of the Operations Staff of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht – the German Armed Forces High Command – throughout World War II.
Germany’s governing coalition has collapsed after disagreements over the country’s weak economy led Chancellor Olaf Scholz to sack his finance minister. Germany’s normally stable government ...
Accordingly, the idea of a strong, centralized government has very negative connotations in German politics, although the progressive political movements in Germany (Liberals, Social Democrats) were advocating at the time of the Second German Empire (1871–1918) to abolish (or to reshape) the majority of German federated states of that era, as ...
As of January 2024, only one of 16 German states, Saarland, has a single-party government, consisting solely of the SPD. There are two two-party coalitions usually preferred for reasons of ideological proximity; the center-right black/yellow coalition (CDU/CSU and FDP) and the center-left red/green coalition (SPD and Alliance 90/The Greens).