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13 unusual facts about States of Germany|


Bizonal Economic Council

In principle, the Economic Council consisted of three organs concentrated in Frankfurt am Main: the Exekutivrat (Executive Committee) as a second chamber with representatives of the eight Länder in the Bizone, the Direktoren der Verwaltung (Executive Directors) as quasi-ministers presiding over the five already existing administrations, and, finally, the actual Wirtschaftsrat as first post-war parliament.

Christian Erbach

Erbach was born in Gau-Algesheim, Mainz-Bingen, now in the Rhineland-Palatinate Bundesland, and began to study musical composition at a considerably young age.

Comprehensive school

The percentage of students attending a Gesamtschule varies by Bundesland.

Deutscher Hockey-Bund

The body is built by the club which are organised in subdivisions on the level of the Bundesländer.

Deutsches Institut für Bautechnik

Accreditation of testing laboratories, inspection bodies, and certification bodies according to the Bauproduktengesetz ("Construction Products Law") (European relevance) or according to the Landesbauordnungen ("Building codes of the Bundesländer") (national relevance).

Granting of allgemeine bauaufsichtliche Zulassungen ('national technical approvals') for construction products and types of construction on the basis of the building laws of the Laender of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Education in Hamburg

The German states are primarily responsible for the educational system in Germany, and therefore the Behörde für Schule und Berufsbildung (State Ministry of Schools and Vocational training) is the administrative agency in Hamburg.

Yet at the Programme for International Student Assessment the students did very poorly and were outperformed by 14 other States of Germany.

First day of school

The first day of school in Germany varies in a coordinated fashion between the individual states to avoid excessive traffic volume due to vacation traveling.

German Commission for UNESCO

It is a chartered non-profit voluntary association with up to 114 members: Its members represent the German Federal government and the governments of the Laender, representatives of important German institutions working within UNESCO's fields of competence as well as individual experts.

German Warmblood

Each of the States of Germany has its own local warmblood breeding society, or sometimes more than one.

Milk Queen

In Germany and Austria several Milk Queens (Milchkönigin) are elected by state dairy associations.

Vladimir Sitta

Sitta won the state of Berlin's Peter Joseph Lenné Prize in 1981 and 1986, and won the President's Award of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects in 2002.


Akvavit

An exception, however, is Northern Germany, and in particular the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, which was controlled by the kings of Denmark until the 19th century (see: History of Schleswig-Holstein) and still has a notable Danish minority.

Archbishopric of Magdeburg

The 1994-founded modern Diocese of Magdeburg is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic church located in the German states of Saxony-Anhalt (bulk), Brandenburg and Saxony (smaller fringes each).

Bavarian Ludwig Railway

The Königlich privilegirte Ludwigs-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft ("Royal Privileged Ludwig Railway Company", later called the Ludwigs-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft) received a concession to build a railway from Nuremberg to Fürth in the state of Bavaria on 19 February 1834.

Bezirk

In the German states of Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate any municipality is authorized to implement Ortsbezirke with own advisory councils and local administrators.

Capital of Germany

After the Congress of Vienna created the formal German Confederation in 1815, a Federal Assembly convened at the Free City of Frankfurt, representing not the people of the individual German Lands but their sovereigns.

Christina Rau

On 9 August 1982, she married Johannes Rau, 25 years her senior, who was at that time the Prime Minister of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Full Metal Village

Full Metal Village is a 2007 documentary film about the lives of the residents of a small village in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, Wacken, in a series of interviews and visual tableaux as it prepares for the annual Wacken Open Air Festival.

Georg Groscurth

Georg Groscurth was born a farmer's son in the village of Unterhaun in the Province of Hesse-Nassau, now part of Hauneck in the Bundesland of Hesse.

Kollegstufe

The regulations for the Kollegstufe and also for the Abitur are different in the different "Länder" (federal states) of Germany.

Landesbank Baden-Württemberg

Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (LBBW) is a parent company of three commercial banks and the Landesbank for some Federal States of Germany.

Leubingen

The Leubingen Tumulus is an early bronze age royal grave of the Leubingen culture, (which, after further finds at Auntjetitz became known as Auntjetitz or Unetice culture), dating to about 1940 BC, located near the hills of Kyffhäuser in the Leubingen district in the eastern German state of Thuringia.

Neuleiningen Castle

Neuleiningen Castle is a castle ruin on the eastern outskirts of the Palatinate Forest in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany in the municipality of Neuleiningen in the Bad Dürkheim district.

Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

Most of the German federal states (Länder) have each their own order of merit as well, with the exception of the Free and Hanseatic Cities of Bremen and Hamburg, which reject any orders (by old tradition their citizens, particularly former or present senators, will refuse any decoration in the form of an order.

Power Grid

This edition was published in 2007 as a promotional tie-in with EnBW, a power company in the German state of Baden-Württemberg.

Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française

In an attempt to counter the spread in Alsace of the viewing of programmes from regional television in the neighbouring German Land of Baden-Württemberg – the inhabitants of Strasbourg had, for example, been able to watch the coronation in June 1953 of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom only on West German television – Télé-Strasbourg began broadcasting on 15 October 1953.

Recognition of same-sex unions in Germany

In June 2011, the Senate of Hamburg, following CDU losses in state elections around the country, also announced its intention to introduce a same-sex marriage bill in the Bundesrat, the federal representation of the German states.

Taxation in Germany

Taxes in Germany—as it is a federal republic—are levied by the federal government (Bund), the states (Länder) as well as the municipalities (Städte/Gemeinden).

Torsten Albig

In the Schleswig-Holstein state election 2012 Albig became the Minister-President of state Schleswig-Holstein in Northern Germany.

Upper house

The German Bundesrat is composed of members of the cabinets of the German states, in most cases the state premier and several ministers; they are delegated and can be recalled anytime.

Verbandsliga Südwest

After the war, these regions were incorporated into the new state of Rheinland-Pfalz.

Water supply and sanitation in Germany

(For more details on the role of the Länder and municipalities see States of Germany)

Wilhelm Hensel

Wilhelm Hensel was born on 6 July 1794 in the German town of Trebbin, in the present-day state of Brandenburg, to a Protestant preacher.

Wilhelm Leuschner

The Bundesland Hesse awards a medal named "Wilhelm-Leuschner-Medaille".

Wirtschaftsgymnasium

In Germany, education is the responsibility of the federal state (Land); so the requirements and classes differ from state to state.