The town of Abensberg marks the start of the Deutsche Hopfenstraße ( German Hops Road ), a nickname given to the Bundesstraße 301, a German federal highway which runs through the heartland of Germany's hops-growing industry, ending in Freising.

Three Bundesstraße ( German federal highways ) cross south of Abensberg: B 16, B 299 and B 301.

Bonn is connected to three autobahns ( federal motorways ) and the German rail network.

The most recent election, the German federal election, 2009, was held on September 27, 2009.

Individual Sudeten German claims for restitution of property confiscated in connection with their expulsion after World War II ; agreement with Slovakia signed 24 November 1998 resolves issues of redistribution of former Czechoslovak federal land.

** The Federal Diet ( In German: Deutscher Bundestag ), federal parliament of Germany

Recently, German federal legislation confirmed the standardisation of qualifications, as required for conformation to EU legislation.

During the run-up to the German general election in 2005, which was held ahead of schedule, Stoiber created controversy through a campaign speech held in the beginning of August 2005 in the federal state of Baden-Württemberg.

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

The FDP is led by Philipp Rösler and currently serves as the junior coalition partner to the Union ( Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union ) in the German federal government.

The FDP espouses the most economic liberal ideas of the parties represented in the German federal parliament.

After some success at state-level elections, the party won 27 seats with 5. 7 % of the vote in the Bundestag, the lower house of the German parliament, in the 1983 federal election.

Partly due to the impact of the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, and to growing awareness of the threat of air pollution and acid rain to German forests (" Waldsterben "), the Greens increased their share of the vote to 8. 3 % in the 1987 federal election.

A bicycle-taxi ( velotaxi ) in front of the German Bundestag in Berlin with the Alliance ' 90 / The Greens livery for the German federal election, 2005 | 2005 federal election.

The only party convention in 2003 was planned for November 2003, but about 20 % of the local organisations forced the federal party to hold a special party convention in Cottbus early to discuss the party position regarding Agenda 2010, a major reform of the German welfare programmes planned by Chancellor Schröder.

Map showing Alliance 90 / The Greens vote in each of the German constituencies at the German federal election, 2005

Map showing Alliance 90 / The Greens vote in each of the German constituencies at the German federal election, 2009

The German Empire () is the common name given to the state officially named the ( literally: " German Realm "), designating Germany from the unification of Germany and proclamation of Wilhelm I as German Emperor on 18 January 1871, to 1918, when it became a federal republic after defeat in World War I and the abdication of the Emperor, Wilhelm II.

* ASEAG ( public bus transport ) ( in German )

The dandy horse, also called Draisienne or laufmaschine, was the first human means of transport to use only two wheels in tandem and was invented by the German Baron Karl von Drais.

Many German cities have rapid transit systems and Public transport is available in most areas.

The German government has had issues with upkeep of the roads in the country, having had to revamp the eastern portions transport system since the unification of Germany between the German Democratic Republic ( East Germany ) and the Federal Republic of Germany ( West Germany ).

The authorities feigned agreement to the Cairo demand, ( although Egyptian Prime Minister Aziz Sedki had already told the German authorities that the Egyptians did not wish to become involved in the hostage crisis ), and at 10: 10 p. m. a bus carried the hostages and terrorists from 31 Connollystraße to two Bell UH-1 military helicopters, which were to transport them to nearby Fürstenfeldbruck, a NATO airbase.

Rail transport in Switzerland also include car and truck transportation service ( German: Autoverlad ).

from Low German schmuggeln or Dutch smokkelen (=" to transport ( goods ) illegally "), apparently a frequentative formation of a word meaning " to sneak " most likely entered the English Language during the 1600-1700s < sup ></ sup >

The tempo of these operations was intended add to German difficulties in replacing tired divisions through the transport bottlenecks behind the German front.

North Rhine-Westphalia is one of the prime German industrial areas, containing significant mineral deposits, ( coal, lead, lignite, magnesium, oil and uranium ) and water transport.

* USS Covington ( ID-1409 ), a troop transport ship sunk by German U86 in 1918

Helicopters can transport light armored vehicles such as the German Wiesel AWC, LAV-25 and British CVR ( T ) series.

* A-0, a variant of the German Siebel Si 204 transport and trainer aircraft

After Austria had to request assistance from the United States Army, Swiss Air Force, French Air Force, and German Bundeswehr to evacuate survivors after the 1999 Galtür Avalanche a decision was taken to equip the Austrian Air Force with medium sized transport helicopters.

The German film actress and cabaret singer Dora Gerson was interned at Westerbork with her family before being sent on a transport to Auschwitz.

Production and transport came to a standstill and the financial consequences contributed to German hyperinflation and ruined public finances in Germany.

On February 2, 1915, Lt. Werner Horn, a German army reservist, bombed the international railway bridge crossing the St. Croix River from Vanceboro into Canada in an unsuccessful attempt to sabotage the CPR line across Maine ; it was alleged that the railway was being used to transport war material across the then-neutral United States territory.

The first modern cruise, which defined the journey not just as transport but as the actual reward, commenced on 22 January 1891, when the SS Auguste Victoria ( named after the German empress ) set sail to cruise the Mediterranean for six weeks.

Louis Zistel, a German immigrant, built two boats to transport the prisoners.

By May, the Greek forces consisted of approximately 9, 000 troops: three battalions of the 5th Division of the Hellenic Army, which had been left behind when the rest of the unit had been transferred to the mainland to oppose the German invasion ; the Cretan Gendarmerie ( a battalion-sized force ); the Heraklion Garrison Battalion, a defence battalion made up mostly of transport and logistics personnel ; and remnants of the 12th and 20th Hellenic Army divisions, which had escaped to Crete and were organised under British command.

From 1940 to 1945 Coastal Command sank 366 German transport vessels and damaged 134.

Early airplanes with closed cockpits include the 1924 Fokker tri-motor, the 1926 German Junkers W. 34 transport, the 1926 Ford Tri-Motor, the 1927 Lockheed Vega, the Spirit of St. Louis and the passenger aircraft manufactured by the Douglas and Boeing companies during the mid-1930s.

Beginning the war as a medium bomber it supported the German campaigns in the field until 1943 when, owing to Western Allied and Soviet air superiority, it reverted to a transport aircraft role.

* 1893 – Joachim von Ribbentrop, German Nazi foreign minister ( d. 1946 )

" One of his great supporters in Berlin was Walther Rathenau, later the German foreign minister, who greatly contributed to his success.

Under the guise of idealism giving way to realism, German nationalism rapidly shifted from its liberal and democratic character in 1848 to Prussian prime minister Otto von Bismarck's authoritarian Realpolitik.

According to Lang, propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels called Lang to his offices to inform him that The Testament of Dr Mabuse was being banned but that he was nevertheless so impressed by Lang's abilities as a filmmaker ( especially Metropolis ), he was offering Lang a position as the head of German film studio UFA.

Beginning with the replacement of the Reichsmark with the Deutsche Mark as legal tender, a lasting period of low inflation and rapid industrial growth was overseen by the government led by German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and his minister of economics, Ludwig Erhard, raising West Germany from total wartime devastation to one of the most developed nations in modern Europe.

German nationalism rapidly shifted from its liberal and democratic character in 1848, called Pan-Germanism, to Prussian prime minister Otto von Bismarck's pragmatic Realpolitik.

He retained his posts as foreign minister and vice chancellor through German reunification and until 1992, when he stepped down for health reasons.

After a failed attempt to sign an anti-German military alliance with France and Britain and talks with Germany regarding a potential political deal, on 23 August 1939, the Soviet Union entered into a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany, negotiated by Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov and German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop.

" In his diaries, he expressed the belief that German diplomacy should find a way to exploit the emerging tensions between Stalin and the West, but he proclaimed foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, whom Hitler would not abandon, incapable of such a feat.

* 1727 – August Hermann Francke, German minister ( b. 1663 )

Johann Heinrich Alsted ( March 1588 – November 9, 1638 ) was a German Calvinist minister and academic, known for his varied interests: in Ramism and Lullism, pedagogy and encyclopedias, theology and millennarianism.

Shortly afterwards, false reports spread in mid-March 1939 by the Romanian minister in London, Virgil Tilea, that his country was on the verge of an immediate German attack, led to a dramatic U-turn in British policy of resisting commitments in Eastern Europe.

An area where Ribbentrop enjoyed more success arose in September 1940, when he had the Far Eastern agent of the Dienststelle Ribbentrop, Dr. Heinrich Georg Stahmer, start negotiations with the Japanese foreign minister, Yōsuke Matsuoka, for an anti-American alliance ( the German Ambassador to Japan, General Eugen Ott, was excluded from the talks on Ribbentrop's orders ).

He opposed both the leftist German Revolution of 1918 – 1919 and the ratification of the Treaty of Versailles, a principled position that defied the political alignments in Germany at that time and which may have prevented Friedrich Ebert, the new social-democratic President of Germany, from appointing Weber as minister or ambassador.

* 1663 – August Hermann Francke, German Protestant minister ( d. 1727 )

The Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the Soviet Union, also known as the Nazi – Soviet Pact and the Molotov – Ribbentrop Pact ( after its chief architects, Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov and German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop ) was a non-aggression pact, signed in Moscow in the late hours of 23 August 1939, at the height of the Nomonhan fighting in the far east between the Soviet Union and the Empire of Japan.

According to the same program, the crisis committee delegated to make decisions on how to deal with the incident consisted of Bruno Merk ( the Bavarian interior minister ), Hans-Dietrich Genscher ( the West German interior minister ) and Manfred Schreiber ( Munich's Chief of Police ); in other words, two politicians and one tactician.

* 1944 – Otto Wiesheu, German minister

Pacelli ( seated, center ) at the signing of the Reichskonkordat on 20 July 1933 in Rome with ( from left to right ): German prelate Ludwig Kaas, German Vice-Chancellor Franz von Papen, Secretary of Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs Giuseppe Pizzardo, Alfredo Ottaviani, and Reich minister Rudolf Buttmann

* 5-Jürgen Möllemann, 57, former German minister.

* 2-Ignaz Kiechle, 73, German politician and minister for agriculture ( 1983 – 93 ).