{"id":3569,"date":"2017-05-23T16:39:38","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T16:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/?p=3569"},"modified":"2017-05-23T16:39:38","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T16:39:38","slug":"on-this-day-in-1949-the-federal-republic-of-germany-is-established","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/2017\/05\/23\/on-this-day-in-1949-the-federal-republic-of-germany-is-established\/","title":{"rendered":"On this day in 1949 the Federal Republic of Germany is established"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Documents on the creation of the German Federal Constitution.
Published: [Berlin] : Prepared by Civil Administration Division, Office of Military Government for Germany ; 1949. (From the H. Warner Waid Collection)<\/figcaption><\/figure>The NATO-aligned Federal Republic of Germany (popularly known as West Germany) was formally established as a separate and independent nation on May 23, 1949. It would remain so, divided from the Warsaw-pact aligned East Germany, until German reunification on October 9, 1990.<\/p>\n

The Federal Republic of Germany, with the city of\u00a0Bonn\u00a0as its\u00a0de facto<\/i>\u00a0capital city,\u00a0was established from eleven\u00a0states\u00a0formed in the three\u00a0Allied Zones of occupation\u00a0held by the US, the UK and France. \u00a0The\u00a0German Democratic Republic\u00a0(East Germany) was established in October 1949 from the territory occupied by the\u00a0Soviet Union. The city of Berlin was also divided as\u00a0West Berlin\u00a0was later physically separated from\u00a0East Berlin\u00a0as well as from East Germany by the\u00a0Berlin Wall.<\/p>\n

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Konrad Adenauer (1876\u20131967), German statesman, first chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany 1949\u201363, at the German Bundestag, February 1955.
Image: Deutsches Bundesarchiv (German Federal Archive)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Konrad Adenauer\u00a0became the first Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany). Adenauer held power for the next fourteen years and during that time refused to recognize the legal existence of the\u00a0German Democratic Republic.<\/p>\n

This divisive arrangement was supposed to be temporary, but as Cold War animosities began to harden, it became increasingly evident that the division between the communist and non-communist controlled sections of Germany and Berlin would become permanent.\u00a0For the next forty-one years, East and West Germany served as symbols of the divided world, and of the Cold War animosities between the Soviet Union and the United States.<\/p>\n

In 1990, with the collapse of communism, East and West Germany were finally reunited as one nation.<\/p>\n

The H. Warner Waid Collection -located in\u00a0Special Collections<\/a>\u00a0– consists of over 700 German books, periodicals and government documents such as\u00a0Documents on the creation of the German Federal Constitution\u00a0<\/em>(seen above). Included are German publications from the Weimar era, propaganda from the Nazi era and also U.S. government and military documents from the post-World War II reconstruction era.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The NATO-aligned Federal Republic of Germany (popularly known as West Germany) was formally established as a separate and independent nation on May 23, 1949. It would remain so, divided from the Warsaw-pact aligned East Germany, until German reunification on October 9, 1990. The Federal Republic of Germany, with the city of\u00a0Bonn\u00a0as its\u00a0de facto\u00a0capital city,\u00a0was established […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3569","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-books"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}