Sentences with phrase «german federal republic»

The law had secured privileges for the two main public owners of the car manufacturer Volkswagen, the German Federal Republic and the Land Lower Saxony, which each held 20 % of the shares.

In Berlin, the exhibition coincided with two significant celebrations, the founding of the German Federal Republic sixty years ago, and the fall of the Berlin Wall twenty years ago.

Grassroots movements have led to the formation of new political parties as witness the «Greens» in the German Federal Republic and the Ecology Party in Britain.

One of the very greatest acts of statesmanship in the postwar world was when the founding chancellor of the German Federal Republic (West Germany), Konrad Adenauer, declined Stalin's offer of reunification in exchange for German neutrality in the Cold War.

Not exact matches

There was plenty of precedent for this, as Helmut Kohl had paid one Deutschmark for every worthless East German Ostmark at reunification, and it caused a serious inflationary burden in the Federal Republic, though it was generally assimilated by the force and the executive and engineering quality of the German manufacturing industries.

However, in 1951, German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, who viewed Jewish reparations as part of the burden Germans needed to confront frankly in order to wipe out the Nazi past, offered reparations amounting to DM 3.45 billion to the survivors of the Holocaust, and a second agreement in 1953 committed the Federal Republic to still further reparations payments.

Stressing that «We greatly value your humanity and concern for refugees,» the Nigerian leader, on behalf of the Government and people of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, wished his German counterpart and her new Cabinet, «a successful new term of office.»

Federal President Frank - Walter Steinmeier and Andrzej Duda, President of the Republic of Poland, will officially open the German stand on 19 May.

But the Goethe Institute is the cultural institute of the Federal Republic of Germany, so you can be absolutely certain you are learning proper German.

The Cultural Circle of the German Economy in the Federal Association of German Industry awards the «ars viva» art prize in conjunction with an exhibition series since 1953 that has established itself as one of the most important art prizes in the Federal Republic of Germany.

Support for this exhibition and its programming has been provided by the Smart Museum's Pamela and R. Christopher Hoehn - Saric Exhibition Fund, Nuveen Investments, the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany, the University of Chicago's Arts Council, the Franke Institute for the Humanities, and the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on German Literature and Culture.

In the Memorandum she documented the Federal Republic's responsibility for rainforest destruction and called for an end to German funding of destructive activities in primary forests.

From 1992 to 1996, he was Director General of the Office of the Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, and he has served on the three Commissions of the German Parliament.

The question arises whether German courts have international jurisdiction to an action for an injunction on the grounds of violation of personal rights against the reporting on the website of a foreign broadcasting company limited to the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany.

For over six decades, the German National Tourism Board has been working to promote internationally travel opportunities in the the Federal Republic.