Portal:Germany/Tomorrow
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Germany is one of the world's leading industrialised countries, located in the heart of Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea, to the south by Austria and Switzerland, to the west by France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, and to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic.
Germany is a democratic federal parliamentary state, made up of 16 federal states (Bundesländer), which in certain spheres act independently of the Federation.
The Federal Republic of Germany is a member state of the United Nations, NATO, the G8 nations, and a founding member of what is now the European Union.
Max Weber (April 21, 1864 – June 14, 1920) was a German political economist and sociologist who is considered one of the founders of the modern study of sociology and public administration. He began his career at the University of Berlin, and later worked at Freiburg University, University of Heidelberg, University of Vienna and University of Munich. He was influential in contemporary German politics, being one of Germany's negotiators at the Treaty of Versailles and the member of the commission charged with drafting the Weimar Constitution.
His major works deal with rationalisation in sociology of religion and government, but he also contributed much in the field of economics. His most famous work is his essay The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, which began his work in the sociology of religion. More...
- In Frankfurt an der Oder, neo-Nazis attacked a memorial service to commemorated the aniversary of the anti-Jewish violence in 1938 known as Reichspogromnacht shouting Sieg Heil and destroying wreaths. (CNN) – 2006-11-09
- According to reports by the Federal Statistical Office of Germany, the population of Germany will drop by up to 12 million by 2050. 2006-11-07 – (DW)
- German energy giant e.on has assumed responsibility for a recent power outage that spread over most of Western Europe. 2006-11-06 – (BBC)
- The Bundesverfassungsgericht rejects civilian war damages claims related to the NATO bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. 2006-11-02 – (DW)
- The surfacing of more images of German ISAF soldiers playing with skulls in Afghanistan further increases this scandal. 2006-10-27 – (Der Spiegel)
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- ...that the Pariser Platz in Berlin is named after the French capital in memory of Napoleon's defeat at the Battle of Leipzig in 1813?
- ...that the village of Mödlareuth was called "Little Berlin" because it too was divided by a wall during the Cold War?
- ...that the President of the Bundestag is ranked ahead of the Chancellor of Germany according to the German order of precedence?
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- 1839 – Birth of physicist August Kundt
- 1906 – Birth of writer Klaus Mann
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