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German passport
The German passport (deutscher Reisepass) is the travel document issued to German citizens, a biometric electronic passport produced by the Bundesdruckerei in Berlin since 2005.
German Peasants' War
German Peasants' War (Deutscher Bauernkrieg), also Revolution of 1525: the 1524-1526 rural insurrection of the Holy Roman Empire's lower classes against serfdom and feudal burdens, crushed by princely armies with roughly 100,000 peasant dead.
German People's Party
Deutsche Volkspartei (DVP), German People's Party, right-liberal Weimar party founded 1918 from the National Liberals' right wing under Gustav Stresemann; peaked at 13.9% in 1920, sat in most Reich governments 1920–1931, dissolved 27 June 1933.
Germán Pezzella
Germán Alejo Pezzella (born 1991, Bahía Blanca) is an Argentine centre-back, River Plate academy product, 2022 World Cup winner with Argentina, and Copa del Rey winner with Real Betis in 2022; later Fiorentina, River Plate return, Peñarol.
German philosophy
German philosophy: the German-language philosophical tradition from Meister Eckhart and the Enlightenment through Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel's idealism to neo-Kantianism, shaping politics, science, and aesthetics worldwide.
German Physical Society
The German Physical Society (Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft, DPG), founded in Berlin in 1845 and renamed in 1899, is the world's oldest and largest physical society, with more than 50,000 members.
German Pinscher
German Pinscher (Deutscher Pinscher), FCI standard 184, Group 2: a medium German farm, guard, and ratter dog, 45-50 cm, 14-20 kg, prototype of the Doberman and Miniature Pinscher, nearly extinct after the World Wars and revived from the 1950s.
German political foundations
The German political foundations are six publicly funded, non-profit organizations, each politically close to a German party, conducting civic education at home and democracy assistance abroad.
German prisoners of war in the Soviet Union
German prisoners of war in the Soviet Union: nearly 1.5 million Wehrmacht soldiers held in GUPVI camps after World War II, used as forced labor for reconstruction and released in phases through 1956, seven years longer than any other Allied nation's prisoners.
German prisoners of war in the United States
German prisoners of war in the United States: captured Wehrmacht soldiers, about 371,000-425,000, held in over 500 American camps from 1943 to 1946 under the 1929 Geneva Convention, working farms and projects, notably in Texas.
German Quarter
The German Quarter (Немецкая слобода) was a settlement of foreign officers, merchants, and craftsmen on the Yauza river outside Moscow, founded by decree in 1652.
German Reich
The German Reich (Deutsches Reich) was a federal state proclaimed in 1871 that united German states under Prussian leadership. It was known as the German Empire or Kaiserreich.
German Research Foundation
The German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) is Germany's largest research funder and central self-governing science organization, founded 2 August 1951 from the 1920 Notgemeinschaft; it funds basic research via voluntary peer review with a roughly €3.9 billion budget.
German resistance to Nazism
German resistance to Nazism (Widerstand): opposition inside Germany and in exile to Hitler's dictatorship, 1933-1945, from SPD and KPD networks, church protest, the White Rose, and the 20 July 1944 Stauffenberg plot to its contested historiography and memory.
German reunification
German reunification (Deutsche Wiedervereinigung): the GDR acceded to the Federal Republic on 3 October 1990 via the Unification Treaty and Two Plus Four Treaty, restoring German sovereignty.
Germán Riesco
Germán Riesco Errázuriz (1854–1916) was a Chilean lawyer, judge, and politician who served as President of Chile from 1901 to 1906, known for peace treaties with Argentina and Bolivia and major legal codifications.
German Road Traffic Regulations
The German Road Traffic Regulations (Straßenverkehrs-Ordnung, StVO) is the German federal ordinance setting rules of behavior for all public road users, including speed limits, right of way, and traffic signs.
German Romanticism
German Romanticism (German: Romantik) was a cultural and literary epoch in German-speaking lands from about 1795 to the 1830s, emphasizing feeling, nature, and the Middle Ages.
German Samoa
German Samoa was the western portion of the Samoan archipelago, a German colony from 1900 until a New Zealand force captured it in August 1914, early in World War I.
German school of fencing
German school of fencing (Deutsche Fechtkunst), Liechtenauer tradition: medieval German fight-book system of longsword combat built on the Zettel verse, five Meisterhau, and vor/nach/indes principles, from MS I.33 and Hs. 3227a to Joachim Meyer.
German Segal
German Segal (Герман Сегал), born 1995 in Izhevsk, is a Russian actor in London trained at the Moscow Art Theatre School, known as hacker Vadim Trusov in Channel 4's The Undeclared War and as Olisleger in Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light.
German Shepherd
German Shepherd Dog (Deutscher Schäferhund), German working breed founded 1899 by Max von Stephanitz with Horand von Grafrath as SZ 1; FCI Group 1 herder, police, military, and detection dog, briefly renamed Alsatian in Britain until 1977.
German Shorthaired Pointer
German Shorthaired Pointer (Deutsch Kurzhaar), German versatile hunting dog that points, tracks, and retrieves on land and water; AKC Stud Book 1930, FCI Group 7, dogs 62-66 cm, AKC popularity No. 9 in 2025.
German Sign Language
German Sign Language (Deutsche Gebärdensprache, DGS) is the visual language of Germany's deaf community, used by at least 200,000 people, legally recognized since 2002, with its own spatial grammar, regional dialects, and the Hamburg DGS Corpus.
German Socio-Economic Panel
The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP; German: Sozio-oekonomisches Panel) is a representative longitudinal household survey run at DIW Berlin that has interviewed the same households every year since 1984, tracking income, employment, education, and health.
German South West Africa
German South West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika), Germany's African colony 1884–1915, now Namibia: Lüderitz's 1883 purchases, Leutwein's rule, the 1904–1908 Herero and Nama wars, 1908 diamond boom, South African conquest 1915 and League mandate.
German Space Operations Center
The German Space Operations Center (GSOC), Germany's national spacecraft control center at DLR's Oberpfaffenhofen site near Munich, has operated satellites and crewed missions, including the ISS Columbus laboratory, since 1969.
German Spitz
German Spitz (Deutscher Spitz), FCI Standard No. 97, a German breed with five size varieties from Wolfsspitz/Keeshond (49 cm) to Toy Spitz/Pomeranian (21 cm), oldest Central European dog breed, watch and companion dog.
German spring offensive
German spring offensive (Frühjahrsoffensive 1918, Kaiserschlacht): German Western Front attacks, March–July 1918, using Eastern Front troops after Brest-Litovsk; Operation Michael gained up to 64 km but failed strategically, costing about 800,000 German casualties.
German State Party
German State Party (Deutsche Staatspartei, DStP), left-liberal Weimar party formed 1930 from the DDP and Young German Order; in government until 1932, 2.8% in July 1932, voted for the Enabling Act, dissolved June 1933.