Bismarck had first made this famous comment to the Reichstag in December 1876, when the Balkan revolts against the Ottoman Empire threatened to extend to a war between Austria and Russia.

Wilhelm was again due to be away from Germany at the time of the Reichstag debate, this time on a trip to Austria, and received much criticism for not staying at home.

On November 28, German Foreign Secretary Gottlieb von Jagow told the Reichstag ( the German parliament ), that " If Austria is forced, for whatever reason, to fight for its position as a Great Power, then we must stand by her.

** The Diet of the Empire ( In German: Reichstag ), legislative assembly of the German Empire 1871 – 1917

# When the newly elected Reichstag first convened on March 23, 1933, ( not including the Communist delegates, since their party had already been banned by that time ) it passed the Enabling Act ( Ermächtigungsgesetz ), transferring all legislative powers to the Nazi government and, in effect, abolishing the remainder of the Weimar constitution as a whole.

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

With the protestation of the Lutheran princes at the Reichstag of Speyer ( 1529 ) and rejection of the Lutheran " Augsburg Confession " at Augsburg ( 1530 ), a separate Lutheran church emerged.

There was little or no violence, but the new Catholic Center Party won a fourth of the seats in the Reichstag ( Imperial Parliament ), and its middle position on most issues allowed it to play a decisive role in the formation of majorities.

Construction and maintenance of ships and obtaining supplies was the responsibility of the State Secretary of the Imperial Navy Office ( Reichsmarineamt ), responsible to the chancellor and advising the Reichstag on naval matters.

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Potsdamer Platz (, literally Potsdam Square ) is an important public square and traffic intersection in the centre of Berlin, Germany, lying about one kilometre south of the Brandenburg Gate and the Reichstag ( German Parliament Building ), and close to the southeast corner of the Tiergarten park.

Founded by German merchant Georg Wertheim ( 1857 – 1939 ), designed by architect Alfred Messel ( 1853 – 1909 ), opened in 1897 and extended several times over the following 40 years, it ultimately possessed a floor area double that of the Reichstag, a 330-metre-long granite and plate glass facade along Leipziger Straße, 83 elevators, three escalators, 1, 000 telephones, 10, 000 lamps, five kilometres of pneumatic tubing for moving items from the various departments to the packing area, and a separate entrance directly from the nearby U-Bahn station.

* Reichstag ( building ), the building in Berlin where German Parliaments met from 1894 to 1933 and again since 1999

* Reichstag ( Holy Roman Empire ), the Imperial Diets ( 754-1806 )

* Reichstag ( North German Confederation ), the first parliament of Germany ( 1860 – 1871 )

* Reichstag ( German Empire ), parliament of the German Empire ( 1871 – 1918 )

* Reichstag ( Weimar Republic ), parliament of the Weimar Republic ( 1918 – 1933 )

* Reichstag ( Nazi Germany ), pseudo-parliament of the Third Reich ( 1933 – 1945 )

* Synod of Worms ( 1076 ), a Reichstag convened by Emperor Henry IV which sought to depose Pope Gregory VII

* Reichstag Peace Resolution ( 1917 ), an unsuccessful attempt by the Reichstag to end WWI

* Reichstag fire ( 1933 ), which provided a pretext for the Nazis to seize power

* Reichstag Fire Decree ( 1933 ), an order issued by German President Paul von Hindenburg in direct response to the Reichstag fire.

* 1999 – The German Bundestag returns to Berlin, the first German parliamentary body to meet there since the Reichstag was dissolved in 1945.

Barth traces the first documented use to a centrist political meeting in the Munich Löwenbräu-Keller on November 2, 1918, in which Ernst Müller-Meiningen, a member of the Progressive coalition in the Reichstag, used the term to exhort his listeners to keep fighting:

On Europe Day 2008, the flag was flown for the first time above the German Reichstag.

The addition Nationis Germanicæ ( of German Nation ) to the emperor's title appeared first in the 15th century: in a 1486 law decreed by Friedrich III and in 1512 in reference to the Reichstag in Cologne by Maximilian I.

For the first time, the assembly of the electors and other dukes was now called the Imperial Diet ( German Reichstag ) ( to be joined by the Imperial Free Cities later ).

On 10 April 1898 the first Navy Bill was passed by the Reichstag.

* Otto von Bismarck pushes the first social security law through the Reichstag.

He thus became the first English language historian and indeed the first historian after Hans Mommsen to accept the conclusions of the book, that the Nazis had not set the Reichstag on fire in 1933 and that Marinus van der Lubbe had acted alone.

There was something in these complaints, and as a consequence the date of the general election for the first republican Reichstag was hastened and was fixed for the following June, while all attempts to change the method of election for the presidency of the Republic were abandoned.

In the Reichstag Treitschke had originally been a member of the National Liberal Party, but in 1879 he was the first to accept the new commercial policy of Bismarck, and in his later years he joined the Moderate Conservatives, though his deafness prevented him from taking a prominent part in debate.

Only after a heated 1991 debate did the Bundestag conclude on moving itself and most of the government to Berlin as well, a process that took until 1999 to complete, when the Bundestag held its first session at the reconstructed Reichstag building.

After the Reichstag and the High Command forced the resignation of Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg on July 14, 1917, Michaelis became Chancellor of Germany as well as Minister President of Prussia -- the first non-titled person to hold either office.

Votes endorsing the treaty in the Foreign Committee of the Reichstag had been unanimous — a first for the Weimar Republic.

The National Assembly was regarded as the Reichstag until the first Reichstag was elected and convened, and the Reich president elected by the National Assembly was to serve until June 30, 1925.

The first act of the new government was to dissolve the Reichstag in accordance with Schleicher ′ s " gentlemen ′ s agreement " with Hitler on June 4, 1932.

His report did much to determine the attitude of the German Social Democrats in voting in the Reichstag for the first war credit.

In September he ended all speculations by dissolving the Reichstag again, almost immediately after its first meeting.

* Private Mikhail Minin was awarded the Order of the red Banner for being the first to enter the Reichstag building on April 30, 1945 during the Battle of Berlin, and the first soldier to mount the red flag on its roof at 10: 40 pm.

The Reichstag delegates were elected by direct and equal male suffrage ( and not the three-class electoral system prevailing in Prussia until 1918 ).

The new empire had a parliament called the Reichstag, which was elected by universal male suffrage.

The Reichstag, an elected parliament, had only a limited role in the imperial government.

Weimar Germany, for example, in its constitution provided for a popularly elected president with theoretically dominant executive powers that were intended to be exercised only in emergencies, and a cabinet appointed by him from the Reichstag, which was expected, in normal circumstances, to be answerable to the Reichstag.

At this election Goebbels was one of the 10 Nazis elected to the Reichstag, which brought him a salary of 750 Reichsmarks a month and immunity from prosecution.

He was soon elected as a National Liberal to the Reichstag for Bennigsen's old and supposedly safe Hamburg seat, but was embarrassed by being forced to a second ballot by a Social Democrat rival, and never actually took up his seat.

Deputies of Polish nationality were elected to the Prussian Landtag from 1848, and then to the German Empire's Reichstag from 1871.

Needing to put his affairs in order prior to his descent into Italy, Otto I summoned the Reichstag at Worms and had Otto II elected, at the age of six, co-regent in May, 961.

government of Hermann Müller into approving spending for the " pocket battleships despite the fact that the SPD had elected in the May 1928 Reichstag elections on a platform of stopping the " pocket battleship " project.

* Henry the Fowler is elected King of the Germans at the Reichstag of Fritzlar, and quickly fortifies Magdeburg against the Magyars and Slavs.

In Germany, Member of Parliament refers to the elected members of the federal Bundestag Parliament at the Reichstag building in Berlin.

Frank was elected to the Reichstag in 1930, and in 1933 he was made Minister of Justice for Bavaria.

In Germany, a Nationalversammlung was elected following the revolutions of 1848 – 1849 and 1918 – 1919, to be replaced by a permanent parliament ( Reichstag ) later.

He was elected a member of the Reichstag, where he joined the National Liberal Party, for, like many other exiles, he was willing to accept the results of Otto von Bismarck ’ s work.

The chief grievances which Kapp and his followers had against the government were ( a ) that the national assembly, which had been elected to serve temporarily, was beginning to act as a permanent Reichstag ; ( b ) that it seemed this assembly might revise the constitution with respect to the election of the President of the Republic so that the Reichstag, rather than the electorate of the country, was responsible for the President's election.

Frick was elected to the Reichstag in May 1924 and associated himself with the radical Gregor Strasser ; he climbed to posts of leadership in the NSDAP, becoming Fraktionsführer ( parliamentary leader ) in 1928.

Partially because of his interest in economic policy, he was elected a Reichstag deputy in July 1932, and within the party, he was made chairman of the Committee on Economic Policy in December 1932, a post that he did not hold for long.

In 1907, he was elected to the Reichstag, where he soon became a close associate of party chairman Ernst Bassermann.

The original Bundesrat was very powerful: every bill needed its consent, making it equal to the popularly elected Reichstag.

Brüning joined the Centre Party and in 1924 was elected to the Reichstag, representing Breslau.

In the general election of July 1932 Schroeder was a candidate for the constituency of the NSDAP 29 ( Leipzig ) in the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic elected.