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- West_Germany abstract "West Germany (German: Westdeutschland) is the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG (German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland or BRD) in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990. This period is often referred to as the Bonn Republic by academic historians.During this period NATO-aligned West Germany and Warsaw Pact-aligned East Germany were divided by the Inner German border. After 1961, West Berlin was physically separated from East Berlin as well as from East Germany by the Berlin Wall. This situation ended when East Germany was dissolved and its five states joined the ten states of the Federal Republic of Germany along with the reunified city-state of Berlin. With the reunification of West and East Germany the Federal Republic of Germany, enlarged now to sixteen states, became known simply as "Germany".The Federal Republic of Germany was established from eleven states formed in the three Allied Zones of occupation held by the United States, the United Kingdom and France (the "Western Zones"). Its population grew from roughly 51 million in 1950 to more than 63 million in 1990. The city of Bonn was its de facto capital city (Berlin was symbolically named the de jure capital city in the West German Basic Law). The fourth Allied occupation zone (the East Zone, or Ostzone) was held by the Soviet Union. The parts of this zone lying east of the Oder-Neisse were in fact annexed by the Soviet Union and communist Poland; the remaining central part around Berlin became the communist German Democratic Republic (abbreviated GDR; in German Deutsche Demokratische Republik or DDR) with its de facto capital in East Berlin. As a result, West Germany had a territory about half the size of the interwar democratic Weimar Republic.At the onset of the Cold War, Germany (and, indeed, Europe) was divided among the Western and Eastern blocs. Germany was de facto divided into two countries and two special territories, the Saarland and divided Berlin. The Federal Republic of Germany claimed an exclusive mandate for all of Germany, considering itself to be the democratically reorganised continuation of the German Reich. It took the line that the GDR was an illegally constituted state. Though the GDR did hold regular elections, these were not free and fair. For all practical purposes the GDR was a puppet state of the Soviets. From the West German perspective the GDR was therefore illegitimate.Three southwestern states of West Germany merged to form Baden-Württemberg in 1952, and the Saarland joined the Federal Republic of Germany in 1957. In addition to the resulting ten states, West Berlin was considered an unofficial de facto 11th state. While legally not part of the Federal Republic of Germany, as Berlin was under the control of the Allied Control Council, West Berlin aligned itself politically with West Germany and was directly or indirectly represented in its federal institutions.Relations with the Soviet bloc improved during the era of ‘Neue Ostpolitik’ around 1970, and West Germany began taking the line of "two German states within one German nation", but formally maintained the exclusive mandate. It recognised the GDR as a de facto government within a single German nation that in turn was represented de jure by the West German state alone. East Germany, as before, recognised the existence of two German countries de jure, and the West as both de facto and de jure foreign country. The Federal Republic and the GDR agreed that neither of them could speak in the name of the other one.The foundation for the influential position held by Germany today was laid during the Wirtschaftswunder (economic miracle) of the 1950s when West Germany rose from the enormous destruction wrought by World War II to become the world's third largest economy. The first chancellor Konrad Adenauer, who remained in office until 1963, had worked for a full alignment with the West rather than neutrality. He not only secured a membership in NATO but was also a proponent of agreements that developed into the present-day European Union. When the G6/G8 was established in 1975, there was no question whether the Federal Republic of Germany would be a member as well.With the collapse of communism in Central and Eastern Europe in 1989, symbolised by the opening of the Berlin Wall, there was a rapid move towards German reunification. East Germany voted to dissolve itself and accede to the Federal Republic in 1990. Its five post-war states (Länder) were reconstituted along with the reunited Berlin, which ended its special status and formed an additional Land. They formally joined the Federal Republic on 3 October 1990, raising the number of states from 10 to 16, ending the division of Germany. The expanded Federal Republic retained West Germany's political culture and continued its existing memberships in international organisations, as well as its Western foreign policy alignment and affiliation to Western alliances like NATO and the European Union.".
- West_Germany capital Bonn.
- West_Germany currency Deutsche_Mark.
- West_Germany dissolutionDate "1990-10-03".
- West_Germany dissolutionYear "1990".
- West_Germany foundingDate "1949-05-23".
- West_Germany foundingYear "1949".
- West_Germany governmentType Federal_republic.
- West_Germany largestCity Hamburg.
- West_Germany motto "("Unity and Justice and Freedom")".
- West_Germany thumbnail Flag_of_Germany_(1946-1949).svg?width=300.
- West_Germany wikiPageID "33166".
- West_Germany wikiPageRevisionID "606062850".
- West_Germany Noautocat "yes".
- West_Germany callingCode "49".
- West_Germany capital "Bonn".
- West_Germany cctld .de.
- West_Germany commonLanguages German_language.
- West_Germany commonName "West Germany".
- West_Germany continent "Europe".
- West_Germany conventionalLongName "Federal Republic of Germany".
- West_Germany country "Germany".
- West_Germany currency "Deutsche Marke".
- West_Germany currencyCode "DEM".
- West_Germany dateEnd "--10-03".
- West_Germany dateStart "--05-23".
- West_Germany deputy "Helmut Kohlc".
- West_Germany deputy "Helmut Schmidt".
- West_Germany deputy "Konrad Adenauer".
- West_Germany deputy "Kurt Georg Kiesinger".
- West_Germany deputy "Ludwig Erhard".
- West_Germany deputy "Willy Brandt".
- West_Germany era "Cold War".
- West_Germany eventEnd German_reunification.
- West_Germany eventStart History_of_Germany_(1945–90).
- West_Germany flagP "Flag of Germany .svg".
- West_Germany flagP "Flag of Saar.svg".
- West_Germany flagS "Flag of Germany.svg".
- West_Germany footnoteA "From 1952 to 1991, the official national anthem of Germany was Deutschlandlied in its entirety, but only the third stanza was to be sung in official events.".
- West_Germany footnoteB "Continued as President of the reunified Germany until 1994.".
- West_Germany footnoteC "Continued as Chancellor of the reunified Germany until 1998.".
- West_Germany footnoteD "Population statistics according to Statistisches Bundesamt.".
- West_Germany footnoteE "In Saarland, between January 1957 and July 1959, the French franc and Saar franc.".
- West_Germany gdp "9.46E11".
- West_Germany gdpPppYear "1990".
- West_Germany gdpRank "4".
- West_Germany governmentType Federal_republic.
- West_Germany governmentType Parliamentary_Republic.
- West_Germany hasPhotoCollection West_Germany.
- West_Germany imageCoat "Coat of Arms of Germany.svg".
- West_Germany imageFlag "Flag of Germany.svg".
- West_Germany imageMap "West Germany 1956-1990.svg".
- West_Germany largestCity Hamburg.
- West_Germany latd "50".
- West_Germany latm "44".
- West_Germany latns "N".
- West_Germany leader "Gustav Heinemann".
- West_Germany leader "Heinrich Lübke".
- West_Germany leader "Karl Carstens".
- West_Germany leader "Richard von Weizsäckerb".
- West_Germany leader "Theodor Heuss".
- West_Germany leader "Walter Scheel".
- West_Germany legislature "Bundestag".
- West_Germany longd "7".
- West_Germany longew "E".
- West_Germany longm "6".
- West_Germany nationalAnthem "(The Song of the Germans)".
- West_Germany nationalAnthem "a".
- West_Germany nationalMotto "("Unity and Justice and Freedom")".
- West_Germany p "Allied-occupied Germany".
- West_Germany p "Saar".
- West_Germany region "Germany".
- West_Germany s "Germany".
- West_Germany statArea "248577".
- West_Germany statPop "4.4027712E12".
- West_Germany statPop "61001000".
- West_Germany statPop "63254000".
- West_Germany statYear "1950".
- West_Germany statYear "1970".
- West_Germany statYear "1990".
- West_Germany states "10".
- West_Germany timeZone Central_European_Time.
- West_Germany timeZoneDst Central_European_Time.
- West_Germany title "Articles related to West Germany".
- West_Germany titleDeputy Federal_Chancellor_of_the_Federal_Republic_of_Germany.
- West_Germany utcOffset "+1".
- West_Germany utcOffsetDst "+2".
- West_Germany yearDeputy "1949".
- West_Germany yearDeputy "1963".
- West_Germany yearDeputy "1966".
- West_Germany yearDeputy "1969".
- West_Germany yearDeputy "1974".
- West_Germany yearDeputy "1982".
- West_Germany yearEnd "1990".
- West_Germany yearLeader "1949".
- West_Germany yearLeader "1959".
- West_Germany yearLeader "1969".
- West_Germany yearLeader "1974".
- West_Germany yearLeader "1979".
- West_Germany yearLeader "1984".