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Deutsche Bundespost

Deutsche Bundespost (German Federal Post) was the postal and telecommunications administration of West Germany, established on 1 April 1950 and dissolved on 1 January 1995, when it became three stock corporations.

Deutsche Eishockey Liga

Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL, PENNY DEL), Germany's top professional ice hockey league, founded 1993, first game 15 September 1994, first private sports league in Germany; second in European attendance at 7,563 per game in 2025/26.

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Chronometrie

The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Chronometrie (DGC) is a German learned society for the research and history of timekeeping, founded in 1949 and based in Nuremberg.

Deutsche Grammophon

Deutsche Grammophon (Yellow Label), classical record label founded 1898 in Hanover by Emil and Joseph Berliner; oldest active label, now in Universal Music Group, Berlin; firsts in orchestral, tape, CD recording.

Deutsche Mark

The Deutsche Mark, also known as the Deutschmark, was the currency of West Germany from 1948 until the euro replaced it in 2002, becoming Europe's anchor currency.

Oct 10, 2026

Deutsche Pfandbriefbank

Deutsche Pfandbriefbank AG, known as pbb, is a Munich/Garching-based German specialist bank for commercial real estate finance in Europe and the USA, refinanced through Pfandbriefe and retail deposits.

Deutsche Physik

Deutsche Physik ("Aryan Physics") was a Nazi-era German movement led by Nobel laureates Philipp Lenard and Johannes Stark that denounced relativity and quantum mechanics as "Jewish physics" and sought racially purged science, remaining marginal and isolated by 1940.

Deutsche Reichsbahn (East Germany)

The Deutsche Reichsbahn (DR) was the state-owned railway of East Germany from 1949 to 1994, operating the Berlin S-Bahn until 1984 and merged with the Bundesbahn into Deutsche Bahn on 1 January 1994.

Deutsche Reichspartei

Deutsche Reichspartei (DRP, German Reich Party), West German right-wing extremist party founded January 1950 from the DKP-DRP and Hessian NDP, absorbed banned SRP members, led by Adolf von Thadden and Werner Naumann; dissolved 1965 into the NPD.

Deutsche Rundschau

Deutsche Rundschau was a German literary and political monthly review published in Berlin from 1874 to 1964, founded by Julius Rodenberg and known for first publishing Theodor Fontane's Der Schimmelretier

Deutsche Schillerstiftung

The Deutsche Schillerstiftung is a German literary foundation seated in Weimar, founded in Dresden in 1859 to support distinguished German-language writers with annual honoraria and promotion prizes.

Sep 19, 2026

Deutsche Schlager-Festspiele

The Deutsche Schlager-Festspiele were an annual competition for German-language schlager songs, staged by Südwestfunk in Baden-Baden from 1961 to 1966 and revived in 1994 and from 1997 to 1999.

Deutsche Telekom

Deutsche Telekom AG is a German telecommunications company headquartered in Bonn, formed in 1995 from the state-owned Deutsche Bundespost Telekom, with over 273 million mobile customers worldwide.

Deutsche Telekom's pre-privatization predecessors

Deutsche Telekom's pre-privatization predecessors were Germany's state telecom administrations, from the 1877 telephone monopoly through Deutsche Bundespost Telekom, converted into Deutsche Telekom AG in 1995.

Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters

Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters (DTM), also known historically as Deutsche Tourenwagen-Meisterschaft, a German racing series founded 1984 as the DPM, revived 2000, and running FIA GT3 cars in sprint format since 2021.

Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte

The Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte (DVjs) is a German quarterly journal for literary studies and intellectual history, first published in 1923 and regarded as the leading journal of German-language Germanistik.

Deutsche Welle

Deutsche Welle (DW), Germany's international public broadcaster founded 3 May 1953, delivers TV, radio, and digital news in 32 languages from Bonn and Berlin, funded by the federal budget under the Deutsche Welle Act with guaranteed editorial independence.

Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie

Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie (DZfPh), German-language bimonthly philosophy journal founded 1953 by Ernst Bloch and Wolfgang Harich; DDR Marxist-Leninist organ, now published by De Gruyter under Subscribe to Open.

Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis

The Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis (German Youth Literature Award) is a state-funded German prize for children's and young adult literature, awarded annually since 1956 with a total endowment of 72,000 euros.

Deutscher Werkbund

The Deutscher Werkbund is a German association of artists, architects, designers, and industrialists, founded in Munich in 1907 to unite art with industry and improve German products.

Deutscher Wetterdienst

The Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD) is Germany's national meteorological service, founded in 1952 and based in Offenbach am Main, issuing official severe-weather warnings for the country.

Deutsches Derby

The Deutsches Derby, first run in 1869 as the Norddeutsches Derby, is a Group 1 German flat horse race for three-year-old thoroughbreds over 2,400 meters at Hamburg-Horn in July.

Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron

Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) is a German national research center in Hamburg for accelerator science, particle physics, and photon science, founded in 1959, now operating PETRA III and FLASH.

Deutsches Institut für Normung

Deutsches Institut für Normung (DIN), or German Institute for Standardization, is Germany's privately organized national standards body, publishing about 35,000 voluntary DIN standards since its landmark DIN 476 in 1922.

Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum

The Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum (German Climate Computing Center, DKRZ), founded in 1987, is a non-profit center in Hamburg providing supercomputing and data services for German climate research.

Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach

The Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach (German Literature Archive Marbach, DLA) is a German literary archive in Marbach am Neckar, founded in 1955, holding some 1,600 author estates.

Deutsches Museum

The Deutsches Museum, formally the German Museum, is a science and technology museum in Munich founded by Oskar von Miller in 1903, the world's largest.

Deutsches Schifffahrtsmuseum

The Deutsches Schifffahrtsmuseum, or German Maritime Museum, is a Leibniz research museum in Bremerhaven, Germany, opened in 1975, whose centerpiece is the medieval Bremer cog of about 1380.

Deutschland (song)

"Deutschland" is a 2019 song by German band Rammstein, lead single of its untitled seventh album, opening at number 1 in Germany and charting in 27 countries.