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The German Bundesrat (German: [ˈbʊndəsˌʁaːt] ⓘ, lit. ' Federal Council ') is a legislative body [a] that represents the sixteen Länder (federated states) of Germany at the federal level (German: Bundesebene). The Bundesrat meets at the former Prussian House of Lords in Berlin. Its second seat is located in the former West German ...
The predecessor of the German Empire, the North German Confederation (1867–1870), had a Bundesrat that was carried over to the newly united Germany with little change. Emperor Wilhelm I (r. 1871–1888) wished to rename the Bundesrat to the "Reichsrat", but his chancellor, Otto von Bismarck , convinced him that the federal character of the ...
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Upon German unification in 1871, the neighbouring building on Leipziger Straße No. 4 was rebuilt as the seat of the Reichstag of the German Empire, before it moved into the new Reichstag building in 1894. Both the Leipziger Str. No. 3 and 4 buildings were demolished in 1898 to make space for a new building for the House of Lords.
Germany is a member of the European Union and the Eurozone. Germany maintains a network of 229 diplomatic missions abroad and holds relations with more than 190 countries. [30] It is the largest contributor to the budget of the European Union (providing 27%) and third largest contributor to the United Nations (providing 8%).
The Bundeshaus in 1961 Plenary chamber of the German Bundestag in Bonn, architect Günter Behnisch. The Bundeshaus (Federal House) is a building complex in Bonn, Germany, which served as the Provisional Parliament House of West Germany, and thus the seat of the German Bundestag and Bundesrat, from 1949 until 1999.
This diagram shows the current composition of the German Bundesrat. Layout: it combines both the Representative-style ("horse-shoe" layout of the German Bundesrat and seating order) and Arch-style ("width" representing seats/votes) for election apportionment diagrams.