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Reichstag and building
Soviet soldiers raise the Victory Banner over the Reichstag building.
The Reichstag building is the traditional seat of the German Parliament, renovated in the 1950s after severe World War II damage.
The Reichstag ( building ) | Reichstag is the seat of the German parliament.
Facing the Chancellery is the Bundestag, the German Parliament, housed in the renovated Reichstag building since the government moved back to Berlin in 1998.
The former Reichstag building housed a history exhibition ( Fragen an die deutsche Geschichte ) and served occasionally as a conference center.
However the Soviets harshly protested against the use of the Reichstag building by institutions of the Federal Republic of Germany and tried to disturb the sittings by flying supersonic jets close to the building.
Since 1999, the German parliament has again assembled in Berlin in its original Reichstag building, which dates from the 1890s and underwent a significant renovation under the lead of British architect Sir Norman Foster.
Parliamentary committees and subcommittees, public hearings and faction meetings take place in three auxiliary buildings, which surround the Reichstag building: the Jakob-Kaiser-Haus, Paul-Löbe-Haus and Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Haus.
* 1933 – Reichstag fire: Germany's parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, is set on fire.
The Reichstag building, seat of the Bundestag
On the evening of 27 February 1933, a fire was set in the Reichstag building.
The Reichstag ( building ) | Reichstag in Berlin – old and new seat of the German parliament
Less than a month later, the Reichstag building was set on fire.
The building plan had to be approved by the Reichstag, which controlled the allocation of funds, although one-quarter of the money came from French war reparations.
* 1945 – World War II: Fall of Berlin: The Soviet Union announces the capture of Berlin and Soviet soldiers hoist their red flag over the Reichstag building.
The restored Reichstag ( building ) | Reichstag in Berlin, housing the German parliament.
has thus not been used in official terminology since 1945, though it is still found in the name of the Reichstag building, which since 1999 has housed the German federal parliament, the Bundestag.
The decision not to rename the Reichstag building was taken only after long debate in the Bundestag ; even then, it is described officially as ( Reichstag, seat of the Bundestag ).

Reichstag and was
* 1999 – The German Bundestag returns to Berlin, the first German parliamentary body to meet there since the Reichstag was dissolved in 1945.
This monument, built to commemorate Prussia's victories, was relocated 1938 – 39 from its previous position in front of the Reichstag.
The Bundestag was established by the German Basic Law of 1949, as the successor to the earlier Reichstag.
With the dissolution of the German Confederation in 1866 and the founding of the German Empire ( Deutsches Reich ) in 1871, the Reichstag was established as the German parliament in Berlin.
A debate took place in the Reichstag on 15 January 1916, where the incident was described as a " cowardly murder " and Grey's note as being " full of insolence and arrogance ".
The Golden Bull of 1356 was a decree issued by a Reichstag in Nuremberg headed by Emperor Charles IV that fixed, for a period of more than four hundred years, an important aspect of the constitutional structure of the Holy Roman Empire.
On Europe Day 2008, the flag was flown for the first time above the German Reichstag.
The 1871 German Constitution was adopted by the Reichstag on 14 April 1871 and proclaimed by the Emperor on 16 April, which was substantially based upon Bismarck's North German Constitution.
The new empire had a parliament called the Reichstag, which was elected by universal male suffrage.
Radbruch was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany ( SPD ), and held a seat in the Reichstag from 1920 to 1924.
Diels was best known as the primary interrogator of Marinus van der Lubbe after the Reichstag fire.
In the spring of 1945 Germany itself was invaded from the east by the Soviet Union and from the west by the other Allies respectively ; After Red Army conquered the Reichstag in Berlin, Hitler committed suicide and Germany surrendered in early May ending the war in Europe.
An Imperial supreme court ( Reichskammergericht ) was established, imperial taxes were levied, and the power of the Imperial Diet ( Reichstag ) was increased.
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.
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 ).
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.
Initially, the President was merely a symbolic figure with the Reichstag dominant ; however, persistent political instability, in which governments often lasted only a few months, led to a change in the power structure of the republic, with the president's emergency powers called increasingly into use to prop up governments challenged by critical or even hostile Reichstag votes.
By 1932, power had shifted to such an extent that the German President, Paul von Hindenburg, was able to dismiss a chancellor and select his own person for the job, even though the outgoing chancellor possessed the confidence of the Reichstag while the new chancellor did not.

Reichstag and also
In addition to voting by colleges or councils, the Reichstag also voted on religious lines, as provided for by the Peace of Westphalia.
The term " Reichstag " also remains in use in the German language as the term for the parliaments of some foreign monarchies, such as Sweden's Riksdag and Japan's pre-war Imperial Diet.
* Scandinavian parliamentary bodies are also called Reichstag when referred to in the German Language.
However it was also necessary for the cabinet to enjoy the confidence of the Reichstag ( parliament ) because it could be removed by a vote of no confidence.
The president also had authority to dissolve the Reichstag, conduct foreign affairs, and command the armed forces.
Hindenburg was also able to use his power of dissolution to by-pass the Reichstag.
From 1912 to 1918, he also belonged to the Reichstag, where he represented Württemberg.
The word is also used by Swedish speakers for the parliaments of Finland ( it is the official term used by the Swedish-speaking minority there ) and Estonia, and for the old Reichstag of Germany as well as the parliament building in Berlin ( reciprocally, " Reichstag " is the standard German translation of " riksdag ").
In early March 1933, three men were arrested who were to play pivotal roles during the Leipzig Trial, known also as the " Reichstag Fire Trial ": Bulgarians Georgi Dimitrov, Vasil Tanev and Blagoi Popov.
With Communist electoral participation also suppressed ( the Communists previously polled 17 % of the vote ), the Nazis were able to increase their share of the vote in the March 5, 1933, Reichstag elections from 33 % to 44 %.
Particularly its early reports and serials in regards to the Reichstag fire authored by former SS officers Paul Carell ( who had also served as chief press spokesman for Nazi Germany's Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop ) and Fritz Tobias have since about the year 2000 been considered influential in historiography due to the fact that since the 1960s the Spiegel reports written by these two authors had made accredited historian Hans Mommsen a lifelong champion for the guilt blame of Marinus van der Lubbe, the man the Nazis themselves had presented as perpetrator of the Reichstag fire in 1933.
It could also, together with the Emperor, dissolve the Reichstag.
The subsequent Enabling Act, passed by the Reichstag on March 23, 1933, stated that, in addition to the traditional method of the Reichstag passing legislation, the Reich government could also pass legislation.
Three months later, early in 1871, the Catholic representatives to the new national parliament, the Reichstag, also formed a " Centre " faction.
In 1932, Brill was also a member of the federal German parliament ( Reichstag ).
After the passing of the Socialist Law he continued to show great activity in the debates of the Reichstag, and was also elected a member of the Saxon parliament ; when the state of siege was proclaimed in Leipzig he was expelled from the city, and in 1886 condemned to nine months ' imprisonment for taking part in a secret society.
Thyssen also persuaded the Association of German Industrialists to donate 3 million Reichsmarks to the Nazi Party for the March, 1933 Reichstag election.
He joined the NSDAP in October 1921, as the Party's business manager After 1922, he also led the Nazis ' publishing house, Eher Verlag, which, among other things, published the SS magazine Das Schwarze Korps. In 1924 he was elected as a NSDAP candidate to the Munich city council and in 1933 became a Nazi member of the Reichstag for the electoral district of Upper Bavaria / Swabia.
He also served as a member of the Reichstag representing the Nazi Party from 1937 to 1945 and as president of the German Red Cross from 1933 to 1945.
For that reason, and also to take the wind out of the USPD's sails, the SPD in the Reichstag joined the " Interfractional Committee " with the Catholic Centre Party and the Progressive People's Party.
The association with dies is reflected in the German language use of Tagung ( meeting ) and-tag ( not only meaning " day ", as in Montag — i. e. Monday — but also " parliament ", " council ", or other law-deliberating chamber, as in Bundestag or Reichstag ).

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