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Hamburg (/ ˈ h æ m b ɜːr ɡ /; [7] German: [ˈhambʊʁk] ⓘ, [8] locally also [ˈhambʊɪ̯ç] ⓘ; Low Saxon: Hamborg [ˈhambɔːç] ⓘ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, [9] [a] is the second-largest city in Germany after Berlin and 6th-largest in the European Union with a population of over 1.9 million.
The city was a member of the medieval Hanseatic trading league and a free imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire. From 1815 until 1866 Hamburg was an independent and sovereign state of the German Confederation , then the North German Confederation (1866–71), the German Empire (1871–1918) and during the period of the Weimar Republic (1918–33).
First Mayor Johann Heinrich Burchard. The relationship between the Hanseatic and noble families varied depending on the city. The most republican city was Hamburg, where the nobility was banned, from the 13th century to the 19th century, from owning property, participating in the political life of the city republic, and even from living within its walls.
The President of the Hamburg Parliament is the highest official person of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. [1] This is a traditional difference to the other German states. The president is not allowed to exert any occupation of the executive. Prior to 1871, Hamburg was a fully sovereign country
Hamburg, in German officially called Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg (Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg), is a city-state in northern Germany and the country's second largest city. The port city is located on the southern end of the Jutland Peninsula , directly between continental Central Europe to her south, Scandinavia to her north, the North ...
The work of the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg is subject to continuous control by the "Parliamentary Control Committee" of the Hamburg Parliament. The G 10 Commission of the Parliament decides on the admissibility and necessity of measures to restrict the secrecy of letters, mail ...
The Bach Prize of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (German: Bach-Preis der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg) has been awarded since 1951, since 1975 every four years.On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the death of Johann Sebastian Bach, the prize was founded in 1950 by the Senate and the Hamburg Parliament. [1]
This is a list of churches in the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. There are many famous local churches in and around Hamburg. The St. Michaelis church is a famous Hamburg landmark, St. Nikolai church was the tallest building in the world in the 1870s and remains the second tallest structure in Hamburg.