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unusual facts about federal republic


Eyo Ita

The major politicians of the time resorted to work within their ethnic and regional base as a foundation to gain political power, this led to regional politics and concentration of power in regional and federal ministers, who were largely nominated by the party and the regional House of Assemblies.


Archchancellor

The title is continued by the present-day Chancellors of Germany and Austria.

Brauweiler Abbey

Prisoners included Konrad Adenauer, the former mayor of Cologne and first Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Deutsche Oper Berlin

Critics of the decision include German Ministers and the German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Die Zeit

She became publisher of Die Zeit from 1972 until her death in 2002, together from 1983 onwards with former German chancellor Helmut Schmidt, later joined by Josef Joffe and former German federal secretary of culture Michael Naumann.

German Church School

In the year 2004, the school was visited by the former German Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and Eva Köhler, the wife of the former German President Horst Köhler, who praised the German Church School and the

Ion Mihai Pacepa

Pacepa defected during July 1978 by walking into the American Embassy in Bonn while in Germany, where he had been sent by Ceauşescu with a message to Chancellor Helmut Schmidt.

Manfred Schüler

After the change of government in 1969, he became head of the German Chancellery from 1974 to 1980 under Chancellor Helmut Schmidt.

Politics of Germany

The Bundeskanzler (federal chancellor) heads the Bundesregierung (federal government) and thus the executive branch of the federal government.

Prussian Trust

The former German chancellor Gerhard Schröder stated on August 1, 2004 that the German government will not support these claims.

Reichstag building

The official German reunification ceremony on 3 October 1990, was held at the Reichstag building, including Chancellor Helmut Kohl, President Richard von Weizsäcker, former Chancellor Willy Brandt and many others.

Robert Zollitsch

His election was welcomed by many German figures and groups, including Chancellor Angela Merkel, Lutherans, Social Democrats, and Christian Democrats.

Strasbourg-Ortenau Eurodistrict

The idea of a eurodistrict Strasbourg-Kehl (as it was called then) was officially launched on 22 January 2003, by then-French President Jacques Chirac and then-German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder during a meeting in the Élysée Palace; it was point 24 of the common declaration made on the 40th anniversary of the cooperation treaty between Germany and France.

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).

The Miracle of Bern

Among those attending the première were Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, Peer Steinbrück, Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia and Otto Schily, Federal Minister of the Interior (a position whose holder is also informally known as Minister for Sports).

Transatlantic Economic Council

It was established by an agreement signed on 30 April 2007 at the White House by U.S. President George W. Bush, President of the European Council Angela Merkel (also German Chancellor) and EU Commission President José Manuel Barroso.


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2003 Enyimba International F.C. season

The President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo honored the golden boys of Enyimba with a state banquet.

Butcher of the Balkans

Slobodan Milošević (1941–2006), the former president of Serbia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

BWK

Bund Westdeutscher Kommunisten, see League of West German Communists, was a Maoist communist political organization in the Federal Republic of Germany, active between 1980 and 1995

Charles A. Adeogun-Phillips

He is a grandson of Phillip Bamgbose and Theresa Fatola Adeogun of Ajale Compound Igbajo, Osun State, Federal Republic of Nigeria, and of Henry Isaac Kobina-Badu Williams, of Cape Coast, Republic of Ghana and Joanna Olasumbo Williams of Itesi, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Christian Pauls

Pauls joined the Foreign Service in 1975 and then served at the German Foreign Office in Bonn and at the embassies of the Federal Republic of Germany in Greece, India, Italy and the USA, where he coincidentally had gone to middle school (Hardy Middle School, Georgetown, Washington DC) when his father, Rolf Friedemann Pauls, was the Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United States.

Damascus University

Gerhard Schröder - former chancellor of Federal Republic of Germany, Awarded an Honorary Doctorate

Erhard Eppler

From 1976 he represented the constituency of Rottweil in the Landtag of Baden-Württemberg, the parliament of one of the states of which the Federal Republic consists.

Fight Against the Right

In early 2011, German Federal Minister of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth Kristina Schröder (CDU) introduced a new bill, according to which government-funded anti-right-wing programs have to prove that they recognize the Liberal Democratic Basic Order of the German Federal Republic.

Flag of Mars

In his science-fiction novel Moving Mars, Greg Bear describes the flag of the fictional Federal Republic of Mars as follows: "red Mars and two moons in blue field above a diagonal, white below".

Ghriba synagogue bombing

Horst-Wolfram Kerll (de), the Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Tunisia and Mr. Boris Boillon Ambassador of the French Republic to Tunisia, marched silently in homage to the victims.

Hallstein Doctrine

The Federal Republic of Germany did not recognize the German Democratic Republic and maintained diplomatic relations with neither the German Democratic Republic nor the other Communist states of Eastern Europe.

Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office, Berlin

In recognition of the special status of Hong Kong as a Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, and HKETO Berlin, an ordinance was passed in February 2009 by the Bundesrat of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Ike Nwachukwu

Nwachukwu's national decorations and service medals include: the Nigerian Independence Medal, the Forces Service Star, the Defence Service Star, the Nigeria Republic Medal, the National Service Medal, and the order of Commander, Federal Republic of Nigeria (CFR).

International Radio of Serbia

During the 1999 NATO bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the main building of Stubline transmission center was destroyed, along with all transmitters.

InWEnt

InWEnt was a non-profit organisation (gGmbH) owned by the Federal Republic of Germany, the Carl Duisberg Gesellschaft e.

Jurong Hill

H.E.Hans Koschnick - Prime Minister of the state of Bremen, Federal Republic of Germany (29 January 1971)

Lucia Apicella

Mamma Lucia received in August 1951 from Theodor Heuss, President of the Western Germany, the "Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany – Grand Cross".

Mercedes-Benz Type 300

The four-door 300, 300b, 300c (chassis code 186), and successor 300d (chassis code 189) models were often referred to as Adenauers after Konrad Adenauer, the first Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Michael Freytag

For some time he worked in overseas offices of the Federal Republic of Germany in Chicago and at the German Business Association of Hong Kong.

National anthem of Yugoslavia

Hey, Slavs, in use in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1943-1991) and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1992-2003)

Rapacki Plan

The proposal provided for the establishment of a nuclear-free zone, which should include the People's Republic of Poland, the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic.

Reparations for slavery

A paper Presented to the First Pan-African Congress on Reparations, Abuja, Federal Republic of Nigeria, 27-29 April 1993.

SRJ

Serbia and Montenegro, known as Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1992 to 2003 (Saverza Republika Jugoslavija)

Swiss Republic

Switzerland, a country in central Europe, being a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons

Tortosa Pact

When the First Spanish Republic was established (1873), there were different attempts in Barcelona to proclaim a Catalan State within a Spanish Federal Republic.

UCK

Ushtria Çlirimtare e Kosovës, the Albanian name for Kosovo Liberation Army, a Kosovar Albanian nationalist liberation organization which sought the separation of Kosovo from Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in the 1990s

Vehicle registration plates of Nigeria

The state name and slogan is displayed a the top of the plate, and "Federal Republic of Nigeria" is displayed at the bottom.

Western Allies

In 1949 the American, British and French sectors in Germany became the Federal Republic of Germany, or West Germany, while the Soviet sector became the German Democratic Republic, or East Germany.