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German nationality law. German nationality law details the conditions by which an individual is a national of Germany. The primary law governing these requirements is the Nationality Act, which came into force on 1 January 1914. Germany is a member state of the European Union (EU) and all German nationals are EU citizens.
In 2010, 815 applicants from the United States requested restoration of citizenship. [9] Specifically, the law reads: Former German citizens who, between 30 January 1933 and 8 May 1945, were deprived of their citizenship on political, racial or religious grounds and their descendants shall, on application, have their citizenship restored. They ...
The government established after WWI, the Weimar republic, established a law of nationality that was based on pre-unification notions of the German volk as an ethno-racial group defined more by heredity than modern notions of citizenship; the laws were intended to include Germans who had immigrated and to exclude immigrant groups. These laws ...
German lawmakers on Friday approved legislation easing the rules on gaining citizenship and ending restrictions on holding dual citizenship. Parliament voted 382-234 for the plan put forward by ...
BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany shortened foreigners' paths to citizenship and ended a ban on dual nationality on Friday by passing a naturalisation law designed to reflect the reality of a society that ...
Under Article 116 par. 2 of the Basic Law (Grundgesetz), former German citizens who between 30 January 1933, and 8 May 1945, were deprived of their German citizenship on political, racial, or religious grounds may re-invoke their citizenship and the same applies to their descendants, and are permitted to hold dual (or multiple) citizenship. [144]
A Beibehaltungsgenehmigung (Permission to Retain Citizenship) was a certificate issued by the German Federal Government in accordance with Section 25(2) of the Nationality Law, now repealed. [ 1 ] A Beibehaltungsgenehmigung (or BBG) allowed a German citizen to acquire the citizenship of a specific foreign country without losing their German ...
Under German law, he lost his German citizenship. In January 1940, he returned to Guatemala on a Liechtenstein passport and informed the local government of his change of nationality. Although originally neutral, Guatemala soon sided with the Allies and formally declared war on Germany on December 11, 1941.