In terms of both area and population size it is – apart from the city-states of Berlin, Bremen and Hamburg – Germany's smallest federal state.

The Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (, ) is the smallest of Germany's 16 states.

With 5, 200 students — around 1, 000 of whom come from Poland — and some 160 teaching staff, the Viadrina is one of Germany's smallest universities ( only the University of Erfurt and Jacobs University Bremen have fewer students ).

There are roughly 3, 500 students studying at the Zittau / Görlitz University of Applied Sciences and at the independent International Graduate School, Germany's smallest university catering to students from nearby Poland and the Czech Republic.

In 2007 the University joined the national Exzellenzinitiative competition and succeeded in becoming Germany's smallest and youngest University of Excellence.

With just under 5, 000 inhabitants, Cochem falls just behind Kusel, in the like-named district, as Germany's second smallest district seat.

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 ).

Germany's largest oil refinery is located in Karlsruhe, at the western edge of the city, directly on the river Rhine.

The DENIC, Germany's Network Information Centre, has since moved to Frankfurt, though, where DE-CIX is located.

It is also located near Germany's two largest islands, Rügen and Usedom as well as near three of the country's 14 national parks.

Greifswald is located in the northeast of Germany, approximately equidistant from Germany's two largest islands, Rügen and Usedom.

Germany's capital city, Berlin, is located about 230 kilometers East of Wolfsburg.

Today Germany's largest solar power plant is located in the city.

The Federal Constitutional Court has its seat in Karlsruhe, which as a consequence is sometimes called Germany's " judicial capital "; none of Germany's highest judicial organs are located in Berlin.

More than half of Germany's territory-almost 19 million hectares – is used for farming, and are located in the rural areas.

The Rykestrasse Synagogue, Germany's largest synagogue, is located in the Prenzlauer Berg locality.

On the night of 3 August 1914, the cable ship Alert located and cut Germany's five trans-Atlantic cables, which ran down the English Channel.

Germany's proposed stadium for this event was to be located in Charlottenburg, in the Grunewald Forest, to the west of Berlin — thus the stadium was also known as Grunewaldstadion.

Wittmund is a town of 21, 000 inhabitants located in Germany's historic coastal district of East Frisia, between the towns of Aurich and Jever.

Zentatsu Richard Baker ( born March 30, 1936 ), born Richard Dudley Baker, is an American Soto Zen master ( or roshi ), the founder and guiding teacher of Dharma Sangha — which consists of Crestone Mountain Zen Center located in Crestone, Colorado and the Buddhistisches Studienzentrum ( Johanneshof ) in Germany's Black Forest.

* As Stuttgart is located relatively close to Germany's southern neighbors Switzerland, it has hosted a total of seven international football matches versus the Swiss since 1911.