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CHANCELLOR OF GERMANY FACTS AND INFORMATION (1136 words) |
 | The German head_of_government is known as the Chancellor (German ''Kanzler''). |
| The position was held by the Prussian Minister-President Otto_von_Bismarck, until German unification under the German_Empire in 1871. |
| The new constitution of the 1919 Weimar_Republic said that the Chancellor was appointed by the German President, but that the parliament had the right to dismiss a chancellor or any of the ministers. |
| MSN Encarta - Search View - East Germany (1432 words) |
| It was established officially as the German Democratic Republic (GDR; German Deutsche Demokratische Republik) on October 7, 1949, as one of two successor states—West Germany (officially the Federal Republic of Germany, or the FRG) being the other—to the nation of Germany after its defeat in World War II (1939-1945). |
| He helped found the Socialist Unity Party (German Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands), a Communist organization, in 1946, and was general secretary of the party from 1950 to 1971, first deputy premier of the republic from 1949 to 1950, and chairperson of the Council of State from 1960 to 1973. |
| The Christian Democratic coalition, led by West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, scored a decisive victory in elections for the new German government in December 1990, and Kohl became chancellor of the unified Germany. |
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