West Germany will face the crucial tests that lie ahead, on Berlin and unification, with a coalition government.

After the 2011 state election, there is a coalition of the Social Democratic Party with the Christian Democratic Union, and for the first time ever, the Pirate Party won seats in a state parliament in Germany.

In the 1980 elections he ran against the incumbent Helmut Schmidt of the Social Democratic Party of Germany ( SPD ), but lost thereafter, as the SPD and the Free Democratic Party ( FDP ) managed to secure an absolute majority together, forming a Social-liberal coalition.

Countries which often operate with coalition cabinets include: the Nordic countries, the Benelux countries, Australia, Austria, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Turkey, Israel, New Zealand, Kosovo, Pakistan, Kenya, India, Trinidad and Tobago, Thailand and Ukraine.

In Germany, for instance, coalition government is the norm, as it is rare for either the Christian-Democratic Union of Germany and Christian Social Union in Bavaria ( CDU / CSU ) or the Social Democratic Party of Germany ( SPD ) to win an unqualified majority in a national election.

This was the situation in Germany in 2005 when Angela Merkel became Chancellor: in early elections, the CDU / CSU did not garner enough votes to form a majority coalition with the FDP ; similarly the SPD and Greens did not have enough votes to continue on with their formerly ruling coalition.

One possibility was a partnership between the FDP, the Social Democratic Party of Germany ( SPD ) and the Alliance 90 / The Greens, known as a " traffic light coalition ", named after the colors of the three parties.

The political decisions about the economy of Prussia ( and after 1871 all Germany ) were largely controlled by a coalition of " rye and iron ", that is the Junker landowners of the east and the heavy industry of the west.

In the 1998 federal election, despite a slight fall in their percentage of the vote ( 6. 7 %), the Greens retained 47 seats and joined the federal government for the first time in ' Red-Green ' coalition government with the Social Democratic Party of Germany ( SPD ).

In April 2008, following the 2008 Hamburg state election, the Green-Alternative List ( GAL ) in Hamburg entered into a coalition with the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ), the first such state-level coalition in Germany.

During each of the next two years, he led his 8-legion army into Germany against the coalition of tribes led by Arminius, which had successfully overthrown Roman rule in a rebellion in 9.

On one side were Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria ( the Central Powers / Triple Alliance ), while on the other side stood Serbia and the Triple Entente – the loose coalition of France, Britain and Russia, which were joined by Italy in 1915, Romania in 1916 and by the United States in 1917.

The foreign office argued that: first, a long-term coalition between France and Russia had to fall apart ; secondly, Russia and Britain would never get together ; and, finally, Britain would eventually seek an alliance with Germany.

He was the first chancellor ( top official ) of the FRG, 1949 – 63, and until his death was the founder and leader of the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ), a coalition of conservatives, ordoliberals, and adherents of Protestant and Catholic social teaching that dominated West Germany politics for most of its history.

Hitler led a short-lived coalition government and was appointed chancellor of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg on 30 January 1933.

In 1987, Rau tried to become chancellor of Germany for the SPD, but his refusal to contemplate forming a coalition with the Green Party meant he could not win the elections against Helmut Kohl ’ s Christian Democrats ( CDU ).

When Hitler was appointed Reich Chancellor of Germany on 30 January 1933, Goebbels was initially given no office: the coalition cabinet Hitler headed contained only a minority of Nazis as part of the deal he had negotiated with President Paul von Hindenburg and the conservative parties.

He was the first leader of the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ), a coalition of Catholics and Protestants that under his leadership became and has since remained the most dominant in Germany.

" Given Litvinov's prior attempts to create an anti-fascist coalition, association with the doctrine of collective security with France and Britain, and pro-Western orientation by the standards of the Kremlin, his dismissal indicated the existence of a Soviet option of rapprochement with Germany.

The coalition force consists of ships from Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, Italy, Pakistan, New Zealand, Spain, Turkey and the United Kingdom.

While it achieved minimal support in western Germany, it regularly won 15 % to 25 % of the vote in eastern Germany, entering coalition governments ( with the Social Democratic Party ) in the federal states of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Berlin.

The Christian Social Union of Bavaria () is a Christian democratic and conservative political party in Germany.

A 1924 right-wing German political cartoon showing Philipp Scheidemann, the Social Democratic Party of Germany | German Social Democratic politician who proclaimed the Weimar Republic and was its second Chancellor, and Matthias Erzberger, an anti-war politician from the Centre Party ( Germany ) | Centre Party, who signed the Armistice with Germany ( Compiègne ) | armistice with the Allies ( World War I ) | Allies, as stabbing the German Army in the back

The Erfurt Program was adopted by the Social Democratic Party of Germany during its congress at Erfurt in 1891.

As Elbing became an industrial city, the Social Democratic Party of Germany ( SPD ) frequently received the majority of votes ; in the 1912 Reichstag elections the SPD received 51 % of the vote.

They received considerable support from Minister of Defense Gustav Noske, a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, who used them to crush the German Revolution of 1918 – 1919 and the Marxist Spartacist League and arrest Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, who were killed on 15 January 1919.

There is a multi-party system that, since 1949, has been dominated by the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ) and the Social Democratic Party of Germany ( SPD ).

Radbruch was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany ( SPD ), and held a seat in the Reichstag from 1920 to 1924.

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The ruling Communist party, known as the " Socialist Unity Party " ( SED ), was formed in April 1946 from the merger between the German Communist Party ( KPD ) and the Social Democratic Party of Germany ( SPD ) by mandate of Joseph Stalin.

The rise of the Socialist Workers ' Party ( later known as the Social Democratic Party of Germany, SPD ), declared its aim to establish peacefully a new socialist order through the transformation of existing political and social conditions.

In the judgment of Chief of Staff Scott it was ironic that the draft policy of a Democratic President, aimed at Germany, had to be pushed through the House of Representatives by the ranking minority member of the Military Affairs Committee -- a Republican Jew born in Germany!!

In 1949, the Federal Republic of Germany was founded in West Germany and eventually included all of the American, British, and French zones, excluding those three countries ' zones in Berlin, while the Marxist-Leninist German Democratic Republic was proclaimed in East Germany.

At present, the capital city of N ' Djamena hosts 17 embassies, including those of the United States, Egypt, Algeria, Iraq, Sudan, Germany, the Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, Cameroon, and the European Union.

It operates only in the state of Bavaria, while its larger sister party, the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ), operates in the other 15 states of Germany.

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" People in the new federal states of Germany ( the former German Democratic Republic ) were offended by Stoiber's remarks.

Furthermore, the leader of the German Free Democratic Party ( FDP ), Philipp Rösler, serves as Vice-Chancellor of Germany and the leader of the British Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg, serves as Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

In East Germany after local election losses, a forced merger of political parties in the Socialist Unity Party (" SED "), followed by elections in 1946 where political opponents were oppressed.

During the time of Nazi Germany ( 1933 – 1945 ), the Nazi Party enjoyed particular popularity and support among the town's population.

Dollfuss modeled Austrofascism after Italian fascism juxtaposed to Catholic corporatism and anti-secularism, dropping Austrian pretences of reunification with Germany as long as the Nazi Party remained in power.

He replaced the ambassador to Vienna with Franz von Papen and prevented the conspirators entering Germany, also expelling them from the Austrian Nazi Party.

The Free Democratic Party (), abbreviated to FDP, is a classical liberal political party in Germany.

The FDP was founded in 1948 by members of the former liberal political parties existing in Germany before World War II, the German Democratic Party and the German People's Party.