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1 January 1900: Source: Own work, using following data and information: for the German Empire as whole: gemeindeverzeichnis.de with this excellent 1900 map, Das-Deutsches-Kaiserreich.de; for Anhalt: 1747-1793 map; for Baden: 1890 map; for Braunschweig: 1932-1945 map; for Bremen: 1900 map; for Hamburg: 1900 map; for Hessen: 1900 map; for Lippe ...
Percentage of linguistic minorities of the German Empire in 1900 by Kreis. About 92% of the population spoke German as their first language. The only minority language with a significant number of speakers (5.4%) was Polish (a figure that rises to over 6% when including the related Kashubian and Masurian languages).
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The Reichstag (German: [ˈʁaɪçstaːk] ⓘ) of the German Empire was Germany's lower House of Parliament from 1871 to 1918. Within the governmental structure of the Reich, it represented the national and democratic element alongside the federalism of the Bundesrat and the monarchic and bureaucratic element of the executive, embodied in the Reich chancellor. [1]
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