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| Federal Republic of Germany Bundesrepublik Deutschland | |||||
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| Motto "Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit" "Unity and Justice and Freedom" | |||||
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| Capital | Bonnf | ||||
| Language(s) | German | ||||
| Government | Federal parliamentary constitutional republic | ||||
| President | |||||
| - 1949–1959 | Theodor Heuss | ||||
| - 1959–1969 | Heinrich Lübke | ||||
| - 1969–1974 | Gustav Heinemann | ||||
| - 1974–1979 | Walter Scheel | ||||
| - 1979–1984 | Karl Carstens | ||||
| - 1984–1990 | Richard von Weizsäckerb | ||||
| Chancellor | |||||
| - 1949–1963 | Konrad Adenauer | ||||
| - 1963–1966 | Ludwig Erhard | ||||
| - 1966–1969 | Kurt Georg Kiesinger | ||||
| - 1969–1974 | Willy Brandt | ||||
| - 1974–1982 | Helmut Schmidt | ||||
| - 1982–1990 | Helmut Kohlc | ||||
| Legislature | Bundestag | ||||
| Historical era | Cold War | ||||
| - Formation | 23 May 1949 | ||||
| - Accession of Saar Protectorate | 1 January 1957 | ||||
| - Admitted to the United Nations | 18 September 1973 | ||||
| - Reunification | 3 October 1990 | ||||
| Area | |||||
| - 1990 | 248,577 km2 (95,976 sq mi) | ||||
| Population | |||||
| - 1950 est. | 50,958,000d | ||||
| - 1970 est. | 61,001,000 | ||||
| - 1990 est. | 63,254,000 | ||||
| Density | Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character ",". /km2 (Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character ",". /sq mi) | ||||
| Currency | Deutsche Marke (DM) | ||||
| Internet TLD | .de | ||||
| Calling code | +49 | ||||
| Today part of |  Germany
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| Warning: Value not specified for "continent" | |||||
West Germany is the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG; German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland, BRD; 
listen (info • help)), retrospectively designated the Bonn Republic,[1] was a country in Central Europe. It was created on May 23, 1949. It ended on October 3, 1990 due to German Reunification. During the Cold War, West Germany was part of the Western bloc.
Notes
- ↑ Though all stanzas were official, only the third stanza was sung in practice.
References
- ↑ The Bonn Republic — West German democracy, 1945-1990, Anthony James Nicholls, Longman, 1997
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