In accordance with Germany's parliamentary system of government, the presidency has been limited by a mixture of law and convention to being a ceremonial position.

The wizard who fashioned West Germany's astonishing industrial rebirth is the soul of free enterprise.

It is organised since 1977 by the Junge Union, the youth branch of Germany's two main conservative political parties, the CDU and CSU, and attracts all age groups from Abensberg and surrounding areas.

RWTH Aachen University, one of Germany's Universities of Excellence, is located in the city.

RWTH Aachen University, established as Polytechnicum in 1870, is one of the Germany's Universities of Excellence with strong emphasis on technological research, especially for electrical and mechanical engineering, computer sciences, physics, and chemistry.

After this, he was especially known for acting as a mediator between conflicting parties ( In Cologne he is not only known for being the founder of Germany's oldest university there, but also for " the big verdict " ( der Große Schied ) of 1258, which brought an end to the conflict between the citizens of Cologne and the archbishop.

The city is home to the University of Bonn, one of Germany's most reputable institutions of higher learning.

The Beethoven Monument stands on the Münsterplatz, which is flanked by the Bonn Minster, one of Germany's oldest churches.

With a population of 3. 5 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city and is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union.

The city's appearance today is predominantly shaped by the key role it played in Germany's history in the 20th century.

This is in part due to Germany's electoral system.

This level of dominance is unique among Germany's 16 states.

Only the third verse is currently the Federal Republic of Germany's national anthem.

The 08 / 15 film trilogy of 1954 – 55 concerns a sensitive young German soldier who rather be playing the piano who fights on the Eastern Front without understanding why, and no mention is made of genocidal aspects of Germany's war in East.

The only exception is the Jewish American officer, who is shown as both hyper-intelligent and very unscrupulous, which Bartov noted seems to imply that the real tragedy of World War II was the Nazis did not get a chance to exterminate all of the Jews, who have now returned with Germany's defeat to once more exploit the German people.

The other five players were from West Germany's squad of 1966 – 1974, and this record is closely followed by a select group of players who have won two of the awards ( either Gold and Silver or Gold and Bronze, or Silver and Bronze ).

* 1933 – Reichstag fire: Germany's parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, is set on fire.

Germany's population is characterized by zero or declining growth, with an aging population and smaller cohort of youths.

Frankfurt International Airport is Germany's largest airport and a major transportation hub in Europe.

Germany's second most important international airport is Munich.

Germany's largest airline is former national carrier Lufthansa that was privatised in the 1990s.

" Bindung " is the German word for fixation or bond ; " Westbindung " is Germany's implant into Western Europe and the Western World.

Executive power is vested in the Federal Cabinet ( Bundesregierung ), and federal legislative power is vested in the Bundestag ( the parliament of Germany ) and the Bundesrat ( the representative body of the Länder, Germany's regional states ).

The Imperial Navy was largely destroyed at Scapa Flow in 1919 by its own officers, after Germany's defeat.

Hans Werner Henze largely dissociated himself from the Darmstadt school in favour of a more lyrical approach, and remains perhaps Germany's most lauded living composer.

There are still unresolved feelings on the sides of both Poles and Germans, largely because of Nazi Germany's war crimes on Poles and the forced expulsion and ethnic cleansing of native Germans from former German soil that was transferred to Poland in the wake of the Potsdam Agreement.

In December 1938, during the visit of the German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop to Paris to sign the largely meaningless Declaration of Franco-German Friendship, Ribbentrop had conversations with Bonney that he later claimed included a promise to him that France would recognize all of Eastern Europe as Germany's exclusive sphere of influence.

The historians Ronald Smelser and Edward J. Davies II in The Myth of the Eastern Front ( Cambridge University Press, 2008 ) argue that, after 1945, Halder played a key role in creating a false and mythic view of the Nazi-Soviet war in which the Wehrmacht was largely blameless for both Germany's military defeat and its war crimes.

Röpke and co .' s economic influence therefore is widely considered largely responsible for promoting Germany's post-World War II Economic " Miracle ", so called.

Lichnowsky's viewpoint was largely followed by the controversial historian Fritz Fischer in his 1961 book Germany's Aims in the First World War.

As part of his critique of Fischer, Ritter contended that Germany's principal goal in 1914 was to maintain Austria-Hungary as a great power, and thus German foreign policy was largely defensive as opposed to Fischer's claim that it was mostly aggressive.

At the ceremonial launching of Germany's " National Electric Mobility Platform " ( NEMP ) in Berlin, Volkswagen presented the Golf blue-e-motion electric car concept to German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Columbushaus was a ten-storey ultra-modern office building, years ahead of its time, containing Germany's first artificial ventilation system, and whose elegance and clean lines won it much praise.

* Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse, elected as King of Finland on 7 October 1918 but never took office and renounced the throne on 4 December after Germany's defeat in World War Ihe had not time enough to arrive in Finland before the political climate changed following the end of the war.

A large-scale statistical analysis of the health effects of aircraft noise was undertaken in the late 2000s by Bernhard Greiser for the Umweltbundesamt, Germany's central environmental office.

Also on the same day he took office, Krenz received a top secret report from planning chief Gerhard Schürer that showed the depths of East Germany's economic crisis.

Because of the high esteem in which he is held by Germany's political establishment and in the population, Weizsäcker is so far the only candidate to have stood for elections for the office of President uncontested ; he was elected in such a way to a second term of office on 23 May 1989.

This attracted more workers who blocked further streets in the newspaper quarter-including the office of Germany's Social Democrat SPD organ " Forward " ( Vorwärts ).

Gerhard Stoltenberg looked destined for West Germany's highest office as he made a brilliant start to his political career.

Himmler gained authority as all of Germany's uniformed law enforcement agencies were amalgamated into the new Ordnungspolizei, whose main office became populated by officers of the SS.

They were the first direct elections to the office of President of the Reich ( Reichspräsident ), Germany's head of state during the 1919-1933 Weimar Republic.

They were the second and final direct elections to the office of President of the Reich ( Reichspräsident ), Germany's head of state under the Weimar Republic.

After the War he managed Germany's central monetary office, where his first job was to organize the Amsterdam branch of the famous, 125-year-old Mendelssohn & Co.

Germany's defence minister, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg also was stripped of his academic title for extensive plagiarism and in 2011, after protestations of innocence, resigned from political office.

In 2010, he was candidate for the office of prime minister for Germany's largest state North Rhine-Westphalia for the satirical political party Die Partei.